Professor Raquel Ortega-Argile holds the Chair of Regional Economic Development at City REDI Institute at the University of Birmingham where she leads the modelling and quantitative analysis team. She is an economic researcher and policy adviser specialising in issues of regional development, firm performance, innovation and competitiveness, entrepreneurship and Brexit. Raquel has experience of building very large datasets and undertaking advanced econometric modelling. Her scientific work has been published in many different international academic journals and academic research books, and ranges in approach from advanced econometric and statistical modelling to case study techniques. The quality and impact of her work granted her recently the appointment as editor of Regional Studies (leading international journal in Social Sciences, with an impact factor of 3.147 in 2017). Professor Ortega-Argiles has extensive experience as policy advisor, from projects with the European Commission, the European Parliament, OECD, European Investment Bank, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission as well as government ministries in Spain, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Italy and Greece.
Research Alumni
Raquel Ortega-Argile
Chair of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Anne Green
Professor of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Paul Moore
Director of Future Screens NI (a part of AHRC's Creative Industries Clusters Programme) and a Co-Dir…
Rebecca Riley
Business Development Director of City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Caitriona Noonan
Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff Unive…
Juan Mateos-Garcia
Director of Innovation Mapping at Nesta
John Davies
Principal Data Scientist at Nesta
Cath Sleeman
Quantitative Research Fellow, Creative Economy & Data Analytics at Nesta
Eva Nieto McAvoy
Research Associate at the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Tasos Kitsos
Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Diana Gutierrez Posada
Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Melanie Wilkes
Policy Advisor at the Work Foundation
Rebecca Florisson
Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation
Martha Bloom
Researcher at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Olivia Gable
Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation
Wessel Vermeulen
Lecturer in Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School
Ula Furgal
Research Associate at CREATe, University of Glasgow
Jorge Velez-Ospina
Research Fellow in Innovation and Creative Industries
Richard Sambrook
Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University
Oliver Cox
Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University of Oxford
Raphael Leung
Data Science Fellow at Nesta
Victoria Barker
Research Associate in Creative Economy, University of Manchester
Matt Lyons
Research Fellow at City REDI, University of Birmingham
Ania Ostrowska
Research Officer (Screen), Creative Scotland
James Davies
Research Fellow, City-REDI, University of Birmingham
Tom Chivers
Research Associate
Claudia Burger
Policy Insights Manager
Xiaoren Wang
Postdoc research associate at CREATe
Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra
Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School
