Associate Professor
Her Story
Angeles Sánchez is married and is the mother of two daughters.
She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Granada (UGR) and the Prize Doctoral Thesis in Social Sciences from the UGR (1999). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the UGR, where she teaches undergraduate lessons at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the Master’s Degree in Public Management, and the Doctoral Program in Economic and Business Sciences.
Angeles’s research interests focus on the study of the public policies of the welfare state, the economics of inequality, and the construction of composite indicators. She is the Director of the SEJ 393 Public Economy and Globalization Research Group. Angeles is the principal investigator in various research projects, she coordinates the International Seminar Series in cooperation with the Department of Economics and Statistics (DEPS) of the University of Siena and the Centre Dagum ASESD (Italy), and she regularly participates in research and teaching international conferences. Some of her most recent articles are published in the following journals: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Cities, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Expert Systems with Applications, Journal of Happiness Studies, and Social Indicators Research. She was awarded the “Prize of the Best Article” at the Progressive Economy Forum, European Parliament (Brussels) in April 2014. She was awarded the “Prize of the Best Papers Editors’ Choice” of the journal Socio-Economic Planning Science (Elsevier) in February 2024. She was awarded the “Prize of Teaching Innovation” for the Asociación Libre de Economía in February 2024. She has two national research complements (CNEAI) and five regional complements (research, teaching, and management).
Angeles has done research stays at different European universities, the most recent being at the University of Siena (Italy), the National University of Ireland (Galway, Ireland), and the Parthenope University of Naples (Italy).
She is Co-Editor of Social Indicators Research and Associate Editor of the journal Studies of Applied Economics. She has been Guest Editor of special issues of Social Indicators Research, Societies, and Studies of Applied Economics. She is a reviewer of scientific articles in various JCR journals and an external reviewer in several PhD Programs at foreign universities.
Latest Activities
Organization of International Seminar Series
Research Group Public Economic and Globalisation (University of Granada), Department of Economics and Statistics (DEPS) of the University of Siena, and Centre Dagum ASESD (Italy).
Since May 2023.
Editor of Special Issue, Social Indicators Research
Editor of special issue “Advanced techniques for constructing indicators and composite indicators”, Social Indicators Research.
2023-2024.
Research Stay and Seminar
Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena (Italy).
March-April 2023.
International Conference
16th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2023), Berlin (Germany).
16-18 December 2024.
Seminar
Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa (Italy).
April 2023.
Coordination of the special session “Financial insecurity and well-being”
2023 International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies Annual Conference, Rotterdam (the Netherlands).
21-25 August 2023.
Seminar
Dipartimento di Studi Aziendali e Quantitativi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope (Italia).
December 2019.
Research Stays
Health Economics and Policy Analysis Centre, NUI Galway (Ireland).
July 2017 and June-July 2018.
Summer Course
"Métodos y Técnicas Instrumentales con Stata" at Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (Baeza-Jaén).
August 2019.
Teaching Innovation Project
TIP 528-19, UGR: Innovative teaching techniques for higher education courses taught in English.
2019 - 2020.
Latest Publications
FEBRUARY, 2024
Measuring child vulnerability to poverty: Material and psychosocial deprivation.
Sánchez, A., D’Agostino, A., Giusti, C., & Potsi, A. (2024). Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 91, 101794.
FEBRUARY, 2023
European Union Cohesion Policy: socio-economic vulnerability of the regions and the COVID-19 shock.
Sánchez, A., & Jiménez-Fernández, E. (2023). Applied Research in Quality of Life, 18, 195-228.
Highlights
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