BIOGRAPHY OF MONTSERRAT PALLARES-BARBERA

Biography

MONTSERRAT PALLARES-BARBERA (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1595-3248) is a Full Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Geography Department. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographical Analysis. Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences February 2011 to January 2012. Her Ph.D. was in Economic Geography and Location Theory at Boston University. Currently, her research focuses in the intersection between Urban Geography, Geographic Information Systems and Social Well Being. Pallares has conducted field work in Spain, specifically in Barcelona and the Pyrenees. She started her research in the automobile industry in Spain; in which she did her Ph. D. Dissertation. Her research then moved to different topics within Economic Geography, such as studying economic clusters and spatial loyalty of economic activity in rural areas, area taxonomy, gender and social capital, and new economy in cities. She is now involved in the study of the relation between urban planning and social well-being, analyzing the provision of services and population in the outstanding classics of urban planning such as Ildefonso Cerdà’s Plan of Urban Expansion of Barcelona. Pallares hold administrative positions in her university; being for some years Vice Rector and Vice Dean at the Universtiat Autònoma de Barcelona. She usually teaches Economic Geography and Spatial Analysis at graduate and undergraduate courses. Her most recent publication is a co-authored critical study on social networks as the backbone of women’s work in the Catalan Pyrenees. This is published in European Urban and Regional Studies, in 2017. Other articles and conference presentations are fully documented at her publication list in this following page, https://scholar.harvard.edu/montserrat-pallares-barbera/publications.

 

 

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