Each term, the Cañada-Blanch Centre at LSE organises a Fellows' Workshop, where the visiting LSE-Miguel Dols Fellows and the winner of the Cañada Blanch-Universitat de València prize present their research projects that they have worked on during their stay at the School.
Meet our fellows
Raj Kharel, PhD candidate at the University of Stavanger (Norway). His research focuses on how R&D investment and connectivity shape regional innovation across Europe, using advanced quantitative methods.
Ruoxuan Li, PhD candidate in Development Economics at King's College London. Her research investigates how financialisation influences the implementation of carbon offsetting initiatives by major Chinese SOEs and considers the broader implications for corporate sustainability practices.
Prof. Mita Marra, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research focuses on the evaluation of innovation policies, with an emphasis on universities' role in regional innovation ecosystems and the assessment of public governance reforms.
Santiago Quintero Suárez, PhD candidate in Political Economy at King's College London. His research focuses on the political economy of environmental governance, combining computational and advanced quantitative methods with qualitative case studies, centering on Latin America.
Dr. Jonna Rickardsson, postdoctoral researcher in Economics at Jönköping International Business School and at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE; Sweden). Her research adopts a regional perspective to investigate how demographic dynamics, such as migration patterns and rural decline, influence political landscapes, labour markets, and spatial divides.
Juan Pablo Rodríguez Paredes, PhD. candidate at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. His research project is in spatial econometrics and impact evaluation techniques to assess the ability of the traditional U.S. retail sector to withstand digital disruptions arising from the rapid growth of e-commerce.
Meet our chair
Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is the Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He is the Director of the LSE Cañada Blanch Centre. He was formerly the Head of the Department of Geography and Environment between 2006 and 2009. He was formerly the President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (2015-2017) and served as Vice-President of the RSAI in 2014. He was also Vice-President (2012-2013) and Secretary (2001-2005) of the European Regional Science Association.
More about this event
The Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE sets out to achieve the Fundación Cañada Blanch's goal of developing and reinforcing links between the United Kingdom and Spain. This is done by fostering cutting-edge knowledge generation and undertaking joint research projects between researchers in the United Kingdom and the LSE on the one hand, and Spain on the other hand.
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