Member Profiles

Diana Morales is an early career researcher in the areas of development studies and economic and human geography. She recently finished her PhD at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at Newcastle University, where she studied strategies of regional cooperation as local solutions for improving local and regional development, addressing the gaps created by the predominant focus upon urban, post-industrial and Global-North experiences. She has experience working in HE institutions as researcher, and public institutions implementing public policy related to the Colombian internal conflict. As an ECR, she is building a research agenda that contributes to the debates on breaking of the binary understandings of the world applying geographical research and post-colonial approaches to social phenomena related to local and regional development.