Caty Ribas moved to Barcelona in 1998 to undertake a degree in English Literature and Language at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Universitat de Barcelona awarded her a scholarship to spend a semester at La Trobe University (Melbourne) as an undergraduate exchange student.
In 2005 she won another scholarship from the Universitat de Barcelona to spend a semester at Southern Cross University (Lismore, New South Wales) as an exchange student. During a third trip to Australia, in 2006, she researched her thesis, 'Hieu Thao: Duty and Obedience in Chinese-Australian and Greek-Australian Literature'. She returned to Mallorca in December 2006.
Source: www.ub.edu/ (Sighted 27/09/2011).