Research projects and contracts

My research projects converge around a central question: how do states design, coordinate, and deliver social protection — and who gets left out. Working across Spain, Europe, and Latin America, I have been involved in sixteen funded projects examining welfare state development, multilevel health governance, and the politics of social policy reform. 

Several projects focus on the Spanish National Health System, tracing how decentralisation shapes patient mobility, interoperability, and long-term care provision. Others address the frontiers of social inclusion — from the non-take up of Spain's Minimum Living Income to child poverty, ALS, and the working conditions of social services professionals. 

At the international level, my work has explored welfare expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean, One Health governance in European higher education, and the comparative politics of social protection in the Global South. 

Across these projects, I combine quantitative and qualitative methods, and move fluidly between academic research and policy-oriented analysis — often working at the interface between both.