Doctoral Candidates

For more information, please see the PhD programme page.

See the research of our current PhD candidates below:

Fernando Fernandez-Monge

Fernando's research studies the conceptual, political, and capacity underpinnings of alternative data governance models at the city level, with a particular focus on the case of Barcelona.

Iacopo Gronchi

Iacopo is a doctoral candidate in the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Daniel Santamaria Ots

Daniel is a PhD candidate in Economic Policy and Political Economy at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).

Katie Kedward

Katie is a doctoral candidate in the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Julie McLaren

Julie is a doctoral candidate in the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Tamsin Murray Leach

Tamsin's research focuses on the intellectual history of productivity as an economic metric and the changing narratives of economic theory.

Patricia Pino Argumedo

Patricia’s research interests focus on inflation, and the development of practical tools to assist policymakers with decision making.

Ruben Douglas

Ruben is a doctoral candidate in the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Naris Sungpairoj

Before joining the Institute, Naris worked for the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), a non-government policy think-tank based in Bangkok, Thailand, as a policy researcher.

Giovanni Tagliani

Giovanni's research explores National Oil Companies (NOCs) not merely as agents of climate change, but also as sources of government revenues, capabilities, infrastructure, and employment.

Lydia Marsden

Lydia is a research fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, focusing on links between financial markets and environmental degradation.

Sion Williams-Eliyesil

Sion Williams-Eliyesil

Sion's work focuses on the coalitions of actors that developed vaccines in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Yilei Liang

Yilei's doctoral research looks at the impact of disruptive innovation on firms within the knowledge monopoly framework, using the EV industry as a case study.

Najma Rajah