Angela García Bernardos is a postdoctoral research assistant on the project COPHAB. She holds a PhD in Public Policies and Social Transformation (2017) from the Institute of Goverment and Public Policy (UAB). Her thesis was titled ‘The Spanish Housing system after the crisis (2007-2016). Change and continuity of a model’. She has an undergraduate degree in Sociology, a diploma in Social Work and a Masters in Sociology of the Territory from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her areas of interest range from urban social movements to housing policies. She is an experienced researcher and has worked both within and outside academia, including in the project Políticas Urbanas en el Escenario 2015 (PI J.Subirats, as part of the Plan Nacional I+D+i 2011-2014), the project El Movimiento de Okupación de Viviendas y Centros Sociales en España y en Europa: contextos, ciclos, identidades e institucionalización (PI M.A. Martínez) and the study Benchmarking, solucions als nous reptes in the area of housing policy, for the Barcelona City Council, in collaboration with the Pi Sunyer Foundation.
Relevant publications
- Martínez, M.A. and García-Bernardos, A. (forthcoming) Converging movements: occupations and squares and buildings, in Benjamín Tejerina and Ignacia Perugorría (eds.) Crisis and Mobilization in Contemporary Spain. The 15M Movement. New York: Routledge.
- Subirats, J. and García-Bernardos, A., 2015. Innovación social y políticas urbanas en España. Experiencias significativas en las grandes ciudades, Icaria, Barcelona.
- Bernardos, Á.G. and Costa, M.I., 2015. La ciudad en disputa: crisis, modelos de ciudad y políticas urbanas en Barcelona. Quid 16. Revista del Área de Estudios Urbanos, (5), pp. 39-68.
- Martínez, Miguel Ángel, and Ángela García. 2015. Ocupar las plazas, liberar edificios. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 14 (1), pp. 157–84.