Laura
Morales Diez de Ulzurrun
Redes sociales
Laura Morales is Research Professor at IPP (CSIC) since February 2024. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM, 2004), an MSc in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics, an MA in Social Sciences from the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences of the Juan March Institute, and an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Sociology from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Prior to joining IPP (CSIC), she was a Full Professor of Political Science and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po Paris (France) between 2017 and 2024, Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom) between 2011 and 2017, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Change of the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) between 2007 and 2011, and a lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Murcia (2004-2007), UCM (2004) and UAM (2001-2003).
Since 2023 she is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and she co-directs the research group on Discriminations of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) of Sciences Po. She is a research fellow of the Collaborative Institute on Migrations of France since 2018, and is a member of the Training Committee of IMISCOE. She was the Open Science Ambassador for the field of migration studies and minorities for RDA/EOSC Future (2022-2023). She has undertaken expertise contracts with the European Asylum Support Office, FRA, DG Research and Innovation and the Council of Europe.
Throughout her career, she has taken on a variety of appointments related to the evaluation of research, among which we may highlight her participation in Section 40 of the French National Committee of Scientific Research (CoNRS) between 2020 and 2021, as a member of the SH2 panel of the ERC for the selection of Starting Grants between 2014 and 2018, and as the adjunct to the Coordinator of the Social Sciences Committee and panel coordinator for Political Science of the Spanish National Projects Evaluation Agency in 2011.
Her research career is characterized by international mobility, both regarding the various lecturing and research positions at British and French universities mentioned previously, as well as by various visiting researcher appointments at Harvard University (2009), Columbia University (2006-2007), Huygens scholar at the University of Amsterdam (2000-2001), and postdoctoral visiting researcher at the University of Florence (1998-1999). She co-led the Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization of the ECPR (2015-2017).
Her research focuses on a range of themes at the cross-roads of comparative politics, democratic representation, political behaviour, public opinion, political parties and the inclusion of historically marginalized groups. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed Spanish and international journals (see the section on publications), as well as a range of reports and dissemination publications that aim at making her research more accessible. She has extensive experience in the coordination of projects funded through international (EU Framework Programmes, multinational research programmes, ERC, etc.) and national competitive calls. She has supervised 10 PhD theses to succesful completion as well as numerous MA and undergraduate theses.
IN THE LAST 5 YEARS
Published in peer-reviewed journals and presses
2023 L. Morales, L. Ramiro, M. Jiménez-Buedo, ‘Assessing the Electoral Payoffs of Partisan Mobilization in Adverse Contexts : A Field Experimental Study of the 2011 Spanish Local Elections’, in T. Faas, S. Huber, M. Krewel & S. Rossteutscher (eds.), Informationsflüsse, Wahlen und Demokratie. Festschrift für Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748915553
2022 R. Gava, O. Sabaté & L. Morales. “Financial Regulation Debates in Hard Times: A Comparative Analysis of Insider and Outsider Pressure during the Global Financial Crisis.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis : Research and Practice, vol. 24(2): 159-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2020.1859931.
2021 N. Lasala-Blanco, L. Morales & C. Pamies. ‘Forging Political Identities and Becoming Citizens: The Political Preferences and Engagement of South American Immigrants in the United States and Spain’, American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 65(9): 1265-1282. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0002764221996752
2021 R. Gómez, L. Ramiro, L. Morales & J. Aja, 'Joining the party: Incentives and motivations of members and registered sympathizers in contemporary multi-speed membership parties', Party Politics, 27(4), 779-790, https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068819891047
2019 D. Ruedin & L. Morales, 'Estimating Party Positions on Immigration. Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Different Methods', Party Politics, 25(3): 303-314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354068817713122
2019 A. Espirito-Santo, T. Verge & L. Morales, ‘The diversity gap in the Portuguese and Spanish parliaments’, in J. M. Fernandes & C. Leston-Bandeira (eds.), The Iberian Legislatures in Comparative Perspective, Basingstoke: Routledge.
2018 L. Bernardi, L. Morales, M. Lühiste & D. Bischof, 'The Effects of the Fukushima Disaster on Nuclear Energy Debates and Policies: A Two-Step Comparative Examination', Environmental Politics, 27(1): 42-68; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1383007
2018 P. Monforte & L. Morales, 'The participation, mobilization and political representation of migrants in Europe', in A. Weinar, S. Bonjour & L. Zhyznomirska (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of European Migration, London: Routledge.
2018 K. Pilati & L. Morales, 'Participation of migrants in European cities: patterns of civic and political engagement' in T. Caponio, P. Scholten & R. Zapata (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities, London: Routledge.
2018 D. Vintila & L. Morales “La representación política de las personas de origen inmigrante en España e Italia” (The political representation of citizens of immigrant origin in Spain and Italy), Papers, vol. 103 (4): 521-550. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers.2505
Working papers, reports and think-tank documents
Morales, Laura, Méndez Lago, Mónica, Pérez-Nievas, Santiago, Palacios, Irene, Pamies, Carles, & Sánchez-Vítores, Irene. (2022). Las encuestas a población migrante en España 2000-2021. Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8086918
Ami Saji & Laura Morales (2022). Guidelines Document: Metadata Template Version Control. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5784002
Laura Morales, Ami Saji & Meredith Winn. (2022). D9.5 Feasibility report on setting up a collection on questionnaires relating to Ethnic and Migrant Minorities in the European Question Bank (Version 1.0) Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5898536
Ami Saji & Laura Morales. (2020). D9.4 Database with the metadata of surveys to EMMs across Europe (Version v1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4088377
Ron Dekker & Laura Morales (2020). Response from SSHOC on COVID-19. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4071700
Laura Morales, Saji, Ami, Prandner, Dimitri, Bergh, Johannes, Bernat, Anikó, & Méndez Lago, Mónica. (2020, April 30). Surveys to Ethnic and Migrant Minorities across Europe. Identifying Knowledge Strengths and Gaps Using Survey Metadata. (Version 1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3839677
Chrysa Lamprinakou, Laura Morales, Virginia Ros, Rosie Campbell, Maria Sobolewska, and Stuart Wilks-Heeg. (March 2019) “Diversity of Candidates and Elected Officials in Great Britain.” Report for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Available at: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/diversity-candidates-and-elected-officials-great-britain
CURRENTLY ACTIVE
Managed from IPP
Project “Towards a new era of representative democracy. Activating European citizens’ trust in times of crises and polarization (ActEU)”, funded by the Horizon Europe programme of the EC. I am the PI of the CSIC partner team (overall consortium coordinated by the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, with Prof Michael Kaeding as the coordinating team PI). Duration: 1st March 2023-28th February 2026.
Managed from Sciences Po
Project “REPCHANCE – Spain and United Kingdom”, funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation. Budget: €164,040. I am the sole PI of this project. Duration: 1st July 2022 – 30th June 2024.
Project OPENMIN, funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche within the multinational CHIST-ERA. I am the PI of the French project. 1st March 2024 - 28th February 2026.
RECENTLY COMPLETED
Project “Making Ethnic and Migrant Minority Survey Data FAIR (FAIRETHMIGQUANT)”, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. I was the lead PI of this project. Duration: 15th January 2020 – 30th June 2022.
Project “Inclusive Democracy? Conceptualizing and Measuring the Descriptive and Substantive Political Representation of Under-Represented Groups in Democratic Parliaments (INCLUSIVEPARL)”, funded by Sciences Po (SAB projects and LIEPP). I am the PI of this award. Duration: September 2018 – June 2023.
COST Action "International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities' Survey Data Network" (ETHMIGSURVEYDATA), grant CA16111, funded by the COST Association and Horizon 2020. I was the international PI of this network with more than 200 participants from 35 signatory countries. Duration: 21st April 2017- 20th October 2021. Websites: http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA16111 and https://ethmigsurveydatahub.eu/