Verónica de Miguel Luken
Faculty of Law, office. / Faculty of Economics and Business, office 2203.
Tel.: 952 132 276
vdmiguel@uma.es
Highest Degree Earned: PhD in Geography and Demography (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
Interests: Internal and international migration, family and social network analysis
ORCID 0000-0001-5466-3799
PhD in Geography (Demography) by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2007), five-year degree in Mathematics (Statistics) by the University of Malaga (1996) and member of the research group “Social Networks and Social Structure” (University of Malaga). She completed her academic training with the postgraduate course “Methods and Techniques for the Study of the Population” at the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED-Autonomous University of Barcelona), and the MsC “Social Research Methods and Statistics”, by the University of Manchester (United Kingdom), where she was also a Marie Curie fellow at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR) (2001-2002). Furthermore, she has been a visiting researcher in other renowned university centres: the Department of Sociology at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) of Groningen (The Netherlands). She has published in impact journals such as Social Networks, Social Indicators Research, Social Policy & Administration, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, REIS or Scripta Nova.
At present she is researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Malaga (Spain) and she works on two different competitive research projects, funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Her topics of interest are related to migration processes, both internal and external, and family. She has also carried out various studies on youth. Methodologically, she is mostly focused on social research analysis and its applications to different sociological fields.
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