Mariya Ivancheva (University of Strathclyde) is an anthropologist and sociologist of higher education and labour whose work focuses on the casualisation and digitalisation of academic labour, the re/production of intersectional inequalities at universities and high-skilled labour markets, and the role of academics and students in processes of social change especially in transitions to/from socialism. She is the author of The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela (Stanford UP 2023). @mivanche