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Academic degree:
Doutoramento
Professional category:
Investigador (com bolsa)
Research group(s):
Teoria Política
E-mail: bgrafic@gmail.com
Phone: +34 697 508 640
Website(s):
ub.academia.edu/BruLa%C3%ADnEscandell
Institutional address:
Universidade do Minho. Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas. Centro de Ética, Política & Sociedade. Campus de Gualtar 4710-057 Braga Portugal
Short bionote:
Bru Laín (Barcelona, 1982) holds a Bachelor Degree in Sociology (2010), a Ma in Political Sciences (2011) and a Postgraduate in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2012). He has been a invited pre-doc researcher at the 'Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy' of the Concordia University (Montreal, 2014), at the 'Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics of the University of Brighton' (Brighton, 2015), and a post-doc at the 'Chair Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale' of the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2017). He has been invited professor at the Universidad Nacional de Ecuador (2017), the University of Leeds (2018) and the McGill University (2018). He is affiliate professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the ELISAVA - Pompeu Fabra University teaching Introduction to Economics, and Sociology at the University of Barcelona, where he obtained his PhD in 2016 supervised by professor Peter Wagner as a Junior European Researcher. His work deals with the interrelations of political economy, political philosophy and public policies. He is particularly interested on property rights –public, private and common– and their historical and normative dimensions. He is also working on the republican thought, inequalities and distributive justice, basic income and minimum income schemes –topics he has published and lectured about both at public and academic events. He is a member of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), the Secretary of the Spanish Basic Income Network (RRB)and Research Fellow at the UBIEXP Research Project conducted by the Centre of Ethics, Politics and Society of the University of Minho, Portugal.
Research interests:
Political and Moral Philosophy, Economic Sociology, Ethics, History of Economic Thought, Political Economy.
Education:
PhD Sociology, University of Barcelona
Postgraduate, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Barcelona
Ma Political Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ba Sociology, UNiversity of Barcelona
Professional experience:
Senior researcher, Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona (2017-2019)
Affiliate professor of Sociology, University of Barcelona (2016-)
post-doc researcher, Chair Hoover d’étique économique et sociale. Université Catholique de Louvain (2016-2017)
pre-doc researcher, University of Barcelona (2012-2016)
