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Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo

Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6241-030X

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Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo is Senior Lecturer in Science Policy and Innovation at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester since December 2018. She is the Deputy Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Previously she worked as Research Fellow at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission as part of the Unit of Human Capital and Employment. She has a degree in Statistics and holds a PhD from the Technical University of Valencia and INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) with a particular focus on higher education studies. She has been a Visiting Scholar at CORD (Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA), CHEPS (University of Twente, The Netherlands) and MIoIR (University of Manchester, UK).

Her main research interests are in the economics of education where she looks at the role of universities in regional development and economic growth, with a specific interest in knowledge exchange and university-society collaborations. Her second area of research relates to digital transformation, specifically by looking at the intertwin between the adoption of advanced digital technologies and skills in companies.

Her research has been published in several international journals such as Research Policy, Scientometrics or Science and Public Policy.

 

Research interests

 1) Higher education:

•The ‘re-missioning’ of universities

•Third mission and adaptation to changing societal needs

•The differences in university’s internal organization and capacities to fulfil their missions

•Researchers’ motivations to engage in interactions with socioeconomic environment

•Knowledge Exchange: entrepreneurial outcomes of Universities

 

2) Digital transformation, skills and innovation

•Adoption of advanced digital technologies (including AI) and implications for business and regions

•The relationship between advanced digital technologies and skills

•Employment polarization

•Changing nature of work and its relationship with innovation

 

Areas of expertise

  • H Social Sciences (General)
  • HA Statistics
  • L Education (General)

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Digital Futures
  • Policy@Manchester
  • Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
  • Work and Equalities Institute

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  2. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  3. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  4. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  5. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  6. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  7. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  8. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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