She was chosen as the 2014 ENCATC Research Award Winner for her PhD thesis "Meaning and Measures of Urban Cultural Policy: Art, Local Government and Community Wellbeing”

Emma Blomkamp leads social projects in New Zealand. Jointly awarded by the University of Auckland and the University of Melbourne, her PhD won the Robert Chapman Postgraduate Prize for 2013. Emma has taught in universities in Australia, New Zealand, France and Cambodia, and published in journals such as Evidence & Policy and the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

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She 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”

Luisa Fernanda Gutierrez-Navratil is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country (Spain), and currently she is a Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins - Carey Business School (USA). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oviedo (Spain) for which she received the Research Awards 2012 from the Fundación Autor. Her research interests are in cultural economics, industrial organization, antitrust issues and policies.