Mario Waldo Sandoval Manríquez

Mario Sandoval is associate professor at the Universidad de Los Lagos and a doctor in Sociology from the Université catholique de Louvain. His work centres on youth, culture and social work, with publications on school coexistence, youth violence and emerging political practices. He has been a researcher at CEDER and at IESED-Chile, with more than 800 citations on Google Scholar.

Doctor in Sociology from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and graduate in Social Work from the Universidad de Chile.

His research focuses on youth, culture and social work, with an emphasis on school coexistence, youth violence and emerging political practices. He has published in national and international journals on education, social participation and public policy, with more than 800 citations on Google Scholar.

In advanced training, he has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and supervised theses in the sociology of youth, education and social policy. He has taken part in research projects on educational equity and the building of citizenship in school and community settings.