From Autonomous University of Madrid --> To University Nova de Lisboa

I am working on different topics around urban studies and planning, such as 'centre-peripheries relations', 'retail gentrification', 'touristification', 'public policies', 'nightlife economies' and 'comparative and ethnographic studies', with a special focus on 'visual-based methodologies'. My host for the YERUN Mobility Program was Dr. Jordi Nofre at the Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais – CICS NOVA, at Universidad Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon). The project title  was `Tourism and Urban Planning in Contemporary Southern Europe: comparisons between Lisbon and Madrid´, and aimed to explore the social impacts on community livability of recent urban tourism in large South European big cities, a topic of recent concern both for the academic studies, policy-makers and the civil society itself (Colomb and Novy, 2017).

From Autonomous University of Barcelona --> To University of Southern Denmark My research visit was carried out at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Sønderborg, and specifically, at the Centre for Border Region Studies (CBRS), for a period of two weeks (May, 2nd-16th 2018), under the supervision of Professor Martin Klatt. The objective of the research visit was two-fold: On the one hand, the mobility stay aimed at disseminating my PhD Project entitled “The Cross-Border Path of Local Endogenous Development. Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Studies in the Pyrenees and in the Alps” (defended in September 2017) to one of the most competent European research groups in the field of Border Studies. On the other hand, the YERUN Researcher Mobility Award represented the opportunity to reinforce and to deepen the collaboration between the RECOT Network (UAB Department of Geography) and the Centre for Border Region Studies. The two research groups have developed a long and complementary trajectory in studying local and regional Cross-Border Cooperation in Europe (CBC).

From University Carlos III Madrid --> To University of Essex

I am currently a CONEX-Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Private Law Department of University Carlos III de Madrid, but I am also very much involved with the Human Rights Institute “Bartolome de las Casas” of the same university, where I am also managing the academic unit “Human Rights, Diversity and Technology.” Thanks to this two-fold capacity my interest in “Human Rights, Big Data and Technology” project was two-fold as well.

From Autonomous University of Madrid --> To Brunel University London During my visit I have analyzed the impact of party contacts during the 2017 electoral campaign. The literature says that campaigns have very little impact on people’s votes. At the most, they reinforce the votes of those already inclined to vote for a party, but uncertain about it. During the last months there has been a lot of talking in the UK about the success of the Labour Party´s campaign in mobilizing young people during the 2017 elections.

University of Konstanz --> University Pompeu Fabra  During the YERUN RMA, Dr. Trotzke visited the Formal Linguistics Research Group (GLiF) at UPF Barcelona. The goal was to address the following research question together: Can humans realize cognitive (in our case: asserting a fact) and emotional behavior (e.g., exclaiming) by means of natural language syntax at the same time? To approach this issue, together with the *GLiF* research group, Trotzke focused on the emotion of surprise, and, in this context, the question is – without exception – negatively answered in the literature.