Emma Blomkamp was selected as a finalist of the 2014 ENCATC Research Award for her PhD thesis "Meaning and Measures of Urban Cultural Policy: Art, Local Government and Community Wellbeing”, jointly awarded by the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and the University of Melbourne (Australia).

Emma Blomkamp is a New Zealand-born researcher, educator and co-design practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of public policy, design, governance and community wellbeing. She is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne and works independently as a co-design coach, supporting public-purpose organisations to develop more participatory, equitable and people-centred policies, services and programmes.

Emma holds a jointly awarded PhD from the University of Auckland and the University of Melbourne, examining community wellbeing outcomes in urban cultural policy in Australia and New Zealand. Her doctoral research was awarded the Robert Chapman Postgraduate Prize for 2013 for outstanding postgraduate research in New Zealand politics.

She has taught at universities in Australia, New Zealand, France and Cambodia, and has published widely on cultural policy, co-design, public sector innovation and policy design. She co-edited Making Culture Count: The Politics of Cultural Measurement and has contributed influential research on co-design and systemic design for participatory policymaking.

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Luisa Fernanda Gutiérrez Navratil was chosen as the 2014 ENCATC Research Award Winner for her PhD thesis “Competition in the Movie Industry: Releasing Dates and Theatre Allocations as Strategic Variables”, defended at the University of Oviedo, Spain.

Luisa Fernanda Gutiérrez Navratil is a Spanish-Argentine economist and researcher specialising in cultural economics, industrial organisation and the economics of cultural and creative industries. She is currently a Contracted Professor PhD in the Department of Economics at the University of Oviedo, where she is also a member of the EsArt research group, Escenarios para el Arte.

She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oviedo, with a doctoral thesis examining competition in the film industry, particularly the strategic use of movie release dates and theatre allocations. She also holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of the Basque Country and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the National University of Cuyo in Argentina.

Her international academic experience includes a research stay at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in the United States in 2013, followed by a research position at the University of the Basque Country and teaching at the Public University of Navarre.

Her research encompasses cultural economics, industrial organisation, competition and antitrust policy, behavioural economics and gender studies. She has published in international journals including European Economic Review, Marketing Science, Economic Inquiry and the Journal of Cultural Economics.