Nurjk has a BA in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) and an MPhil in Modern Society and Global Transformations from the University of Cambridge (2010). Right before starting the PhD at Cambridge, Nurjk worked as a researcher at the Centre for New Development Thinking (DEV-OUT) at the Faculty of Economics, Universidad de Chile. In parallel, she worked as a researcher in the project “Leveraging buying power for development; ethical consumption and sustainable public procurement in Chile and Brazil”, funded by the UK Economic and Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International development (DFDI). The project was developed by an interdisciplinary research team based in universities in three countries (Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and Royal Holloway University in the United Kingdom). Additionally, Nurjk has participated in numerous public policy oriented research projects, assisting Government agencies in Chile, such as the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior, in project development and evaluation. Nurjk has been a member of the Individual in the Labour Market Research Group from 2009, when she read her MPhil at Cambridge. Since 2013, she has worked with Dr. Brendan Burchell, Dr. Kirsten Sehnbruch and Dr. Agnieszka Piasna in a research project on the measurement of quality of employment and its role in the public policy debate. From that collaboration, two papers have been published to date in peer reviewed journals.
