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Raquel Rojas is a Teaching Associate in Gender and Reproduction at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on inequality and intersectionality, labour relations, and the political dimensions of caregiving.  

Before joining Cambridge, Raquel was a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (2021–2023), and a postdoctoral researcher at MECILA – the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre for Conviviality and Inequality in Latin America (2023–2024). In 2024, she held a fellowship at Princeton University (USA), within the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS). 

She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Freie Universität Berlin, an MA in Social Sciences from Humboldt University of Berlin, and a BA in Social Sciences from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay). Since 2018, she has been recognised as a Level I researcher by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT–Paraguay). 

Degrees 

• PhD in Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• MA in Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• Specialist in Social Development, FLACSO Paraguay
• BA in Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay 

Specific Research interests

My research centers on the social dynamics of care and social reproduction, exploring how the organization of care  links structural inequalities with everyday experiences of both caregiving responsibilities and access to care.