Dr Marta Estellés is a senior lecturer in Social Sciences Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has previously been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Auckland, a lecturer at the University of Cantabria, Spain, and a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research analyses educational policies, discourses and curricula as sites of broader sociopolitical struggles aimed at shaping particular kinds of citizens – from global/national citizens through to identity-safe individuals and digital consumers – and their implications for critical democratic education. Her work has been published in several high-ranked journals including Review of Education, Discourse, Journal of Teacher Education, Compare and Globalisation, Societies and Education.