Contact details

Email: Rosa dot Fernandez-Martin at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel.: 51159

Room: R3.16 (Ramphal Building)

Office Hours: Term 1: Mondays 15:00-16:00 (face to face or online via MS Teams); Thursdays 11:00-12:00 online via MS Teams) Term 2: Mondays 15:00-16:00 (online via MS Teams); Thursdays 11:00-12:00 (face to face or online via MS Teams) Contact me via email for appointments

Associate Professor. Distance Learning Programmes

Biography

Rosa joined the Department of Global Sustainable Development in October 2021, after seven years at the University of Chester, where she was Programme Leader of Economics, and Deputy Head of Department in Social and Political Science. She previously worked at the University of Birmingham and UNED (Spain), with visiting researcher stances at the universities of Exeter, Bradford and York (Canada).

She also brings experience from work both in the private and the public sectors, particularly in Spain, but always in international settings.

Teaching

• GSD Skills
• Dissertations supervision
• GD914 Critical Perspectives on business and Global Sustainable Development (convenor)
• Carbon Literacy Certificate
• GD309 Debt, Money and Global Sustainable Development (seminars)

Research

Rosa is an applied economist, with an interdisciplinary approach. Her research interests are wide ranging, and cover environment, climate change and energy economics and policies, green economy and green growth, sustainability transitions, health and food poverty, corporate social responsibility and European integration, among others.

Rosa is co-chair of the UACES funded Research Network 'The role of Europe in global challenges: Climate Change and Sustainable Development'. She regularly publishes in peer reviewed journals and edited collections, and is a regular evaluator of projects for COST (European Commission) or the ESRC. She is also reviewer of renowned journals such as Sustainability, Cogent Economics and Finance or the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Publications

Selected peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

• Fernandez, R. (2021) Community Renewable Energy Projects: The Future of the Sustainable Energy Transition?, The International Spectator, 56:3, 87-104, DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2021.1959755
• Fernandez, R., Schoenefeld, J., Hoerber, T. and Oberthuer, S. (2021) Europe's Transition to Sustainability: Actors, Approaches and Policies, The International Spectator, 56:3,1-6,DOI:10.1080/03932729.2021.1966188
• Fernandez, R. (2021) Shifting models of energy companies towards green economy in Europe, in Fairbrass, J. and Vasilakos, N. (eds) Emerging Governance of a Green Economy. Cases of European Implementation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Fernandez, R. (2021) Effects of Trade Barriers on Development and Growth, in Leal Filho, W. (Editor in chief) Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Reduced Inequalities. Springer Nature
• Campos-Martin, J., Crespo, L. and Fernandez, R. (2020) Energy Governance in Spain, in Knodt, M. and Kemmerzell, J. (Eds) Handbook of Energy Governance in Europe, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Nature
• Fernandez, R. (2020) Understanding Affordable Housing in the Context of Sustainable Development, in Leal Filho, W. (Editor in chief) Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. No Poverty. Springer Nature
• Fernandez, R. (2019) Effects of Economic Crimes in Sustainable Development, in Leal Filho, W. (Editor in chief) Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Springer Nature
• Fernandez, R. (2019) Gross Domestic Product and Health, in Leal Filho, W. (Editor in chief) Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Good Health and Well-Being. Springer Nature
• Fernandez, R. (2019) SDG3 Good Health and Well-Being: Integration and connection with other SDGs, in Leal Filho, W. (Editor in chief) Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Good Health and Well-Being. Springer Nature
• Fernandez, R. (2019) From a utilitarian universal health coverage to an inclusive health coverage, in Leal Filho, W. (Editor in Chief) Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Good Health and Well-Being. Springer Nature. DOI: 1007/978-3-319-69627-0_61-1
• Fernandez, R. (2018) The effects of the international economic crisis on Spain’s environmental policy, in Burns, C. and Tobin, P. (eds.) The Impact of the Economic Crisis on European Environmental Policy. Oxford University Press.
• Fernandez, R. (2018) Conflicting energy policy priorities in EU energy governance, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 8 (3): 239-248. DOI: 10.1007/s13412-018-0499-0
• Fernandez, R. (2018) Interactions of regional and national environmental policies: The case of Spain. Cogent Economics and Finance. DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2018.1442092

Research Reports

• Fernandez, R., Dunne, S. and White, H. (2020) Impact Assessment of Holiday Activity and Food Provision in Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Wirral -Summer 2020: Assessment of Provision and Coordination under Covid19. Commissioned by Edsential and Partners
• Francis, M., Dunne, S. and Fernandez, R. (2019) Impact Assessment of Holiday Provision in West Cheshire, 2019. University of Chester - On behalf of Edsential CIC and Partners