Lorenzo Vidal IGOP 2026Lorenzo Vidal is a researcher in political economy and public policy, with a focus on urban and housing issues. He holds a PhD in Politics, Policies and International Relations from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Department of Political Science and Public Law, where he has returned as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow. His previous positions include a María Zambrano Fellowship in the Department of Sociology III at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University (Sweden), and research and project management roles at CIDOB–Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, among others. His work spans both basic and applied research on housing and welfare regimes, property structures and relations, and alternative socio-economic practices and policies.

 

CONTACT

Email: lorenzo.vidalfolch@uab.cat
Twitter: https://twitter.com/buenaventura_v
Web: Academia Edu Lorenzo Vidal
UAB Research Portal: https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/ca/persons/lorenzo-vidal-folch-duch/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3121-8649
Google Scholar: Lorenzo Vidal.
ResearchGate Citations: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura_Roth9

 

AREAS OF INTEREST

Urban political economy and political ecology, housing politics and policies, socio-environmental transitions, democratic planning.

 

MAIN PROJECTS

  • On Demand City: Platform capitalism, digital workers and the technification of everyday life in the contemporary city. Funding Body: Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain). Project of Knowledge Production 2021. Reference: PID2021-122482OB-I0. Dates: 01/09/2022-01/09/2025. Principal Investigator: Jorge Sequera. Role: member of the working team.
  • 02A – From ownership to access: digital and policy tools for building post-homeownership futures. Funding body: European Commission. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. H2020-MSCA-IF-2020. Grant agreement number: 101026179. Dates: 15/08/2020-01/04/2023. Role: Principal investigator.
  • The intersectional and sustainable impacts of housing movements: the Spanish case. Funding body: FORMAS (Swedish Program for Sustainable Spatial Planning). Reference: 2019-00349. Principal Investigator: Miguel A. Martínez. Role: member of the research team.

 

3 HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Vidal, L & García-Duch, M (2024) The limits to working-class property ownership: the case of Spain’s “society of owners”. Economy & Society, 53 (4): 675-700. DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2024.2414586.
  2. Vidal, L., Gil, J., & Martínez, M. (2024). Accommodating “Generation Rent”. Unsettling dominant discourses on rental housing reform in Catalonia and Spain. Urban Studies, 61 (11): 2060-2079. DOI:10.1177/00420980241228438.
  3. Ferreri, M & Vidal, L (2022) Public-cooperative policy mechanisms for housing commons. International Journal of Housing Policy, 22(2): 149-173. DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1877888.