Gloria Sabrina Martinez Espinosa

Gloria Sabrina Martinez Espinosa is a DPhil (PRS) student of International Development at the Oxford Department of International Development. Sabrina's current research is on the 'social lives' of CCTs in urban Mexico; investigating the ways in which extended kin ties affect -- and are simultaneously affected by -- Mexico's expanding higher education cash transfers, 'Becas Benito Juárez' and 'Jóvenes Escribiendo el Futuro'. She is supervised by Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea.

Her doctoral study looks at how mothers, grandparents and older siblings negotiate care responsibilities around the uses and meanings of the conditional cash transfers in first-generation university students. Her work uses ethnographic methods to map how these caring responsibilities across generations have been influenced by the past thirty years of monetary social policy in Mexico, since Progresa was implemented in 1997. Here, recipient families have joined the CCT programmes in its many shapes and forms, and throughout multiple kinds socioeconomic processes.

She is a qualitative research assistant at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and worked as the Cultural Affairs Officer in the Embassy of Mexico to the United Kingdom. She was heavily involved in the London-based NGO on VAWG, Latin American Women's Aid, leading a workshop on digital literacy for elderly Latin American survivors of domestic violence.

Sabrina holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in International Relations from King's College London.