Dr Lorena Lombardozzi

Professional biography

Her research interests relate to the theoretical debates on political economy, inequality, growth and distribution as well as to applied areas of international development (Central Asia in particular), gender and feminist economics, labour and work, the welfare state and social policy, agro-industrial policy and innovation, food systems, global value chains and research methods in Economics.  

At the OU she has been chairing/teaching on the following modules:

- DD321 Economics for a Changing World 

- DD309 Doing Economics: People, Markets and Policy

- DD126 Economics in Context

- Post-graduate Convenor for Economics 

She has taught at the University of London (SOAS, City) on

Postgraduate:

- Environmental Economics

- Political Economy of Agriculture and Food

- Political Economy of Development

- Gender Economics

- Research Methods

Undergraduate:

-Introduction to Economic Analysis

-Introduction to Macroeconomics

PhD supervised:

Celia Bartlett (DPP) "From Ethical to Political? Consumerism and Gender"

Olga Yan (DPP) "Corporate Social Responsibility of Chinese Enterprises in Europe"

Policy/Working Papers:

Werner N., Cozzolino A., Fiorillo M., Lombardozzi L., Olmos (2019) 'European Economic Democracy A new path out of the crisis' FEPS Study, Brussels https://www.feps-europe.eu/attachments/publications/fepsyan_economicdemocracy_final.pdf 

Pitts H., Lombardozzi L., Werner N., (2017) “Beyond Basic Income: Overcoming the crisis of social Democracy?”, FEPS study, Brussels

Lombardozzi, L. (2016), “Are distortions good for development? Structural transformations and cotton in Uzbekistan”, SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 193, The School of Oriental and African Studies

Lombardozzi L., G. Bottos, T. Havlin, B.Balev, (2016) “From class struggle to struggling with class. Is class still a valid analytical category for understanding inequality in Europe? How can it help shape progressive politics? , FEPS study, Brussels

Lombardozzi L. “Review article: (2020) "Markets Threads: How cotton farmers and traders create a global commodity” Historical Materialism, available at http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-review/commodities-price-formation-and-technologies-power-behind-markets;

Blogs and podcasts:

Lombardozzi, L. (13 May 2021) "IKD PhD Hub on gender and social policy" available at https://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/blog/ikd-phd-hub-gender-and-social-policy 

Lombardozzi, L (2021) with Stevano, S., Mezzadri, A., Bargawi, H.  "Social reproduction and a just post-COVID world" 8 March 2021 SOAS Blog available at https://study.soas.ac.uk/social-reproduction-covid-19/ Also published in Development Economics on 23 March 2021. 

Lombardozzi, L. (2020) "Separated under the Same Roof: The Revived Relationships of State-Market Institutions" 27 July, 2020 Developing Economics. Available at https://developingeconomics.org/2020/07/27/separated-under-the-same-roof-the-revived-relationships-of-state-market-institutions/

Lombardozzi, L. (2020) "Neoliberal Digitalism: The Gig Economy in the Global South" Issue 12 Futures of Work, - Available at https://futuresofwork.co.uk/2020/04/01/neoliberal-digitalism-the-gig-economy-in-the-global-south/

Lombardozzi L. & Huber M. (2020) "COVID-19 shows why we must socialize the food system" in Social scientific research in the time of COVID-19, vlog available at http://fass.open.ac.uk/school-social-sciences-global-studies-economics/news/covid-19-shows-why-we-must-socialize-food

Lombardozzi, L. (2020) "Interdisciplinary research routes on gender and social policy" - Available at http://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/blog/interdisciplinary-research-routes-gender-and-social-policy

Lombardozzi, L. (2020) "World Access to Higher Education Day - The power of education" - Available at http://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/blog/world-access-higher-education-day-power-education

Lombardozzi, L (2019) "Will Universal Basic income set us free?" A Correction Podcast - Available at https://www.acorrectionpodcast.com/phonyeconomy/tnnslb9xbxk8wglcjyd7cxwzf26zdk

Lombardozzi, L. (2019) "Building a BRI Network at The Open University" Available at http://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/blog/building-bri-network-open-university

Lombardozzi, L., Warner, N. (2019) "European economic democracy: a path out of the crisis". Social Europe. Available at  https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-economic-democracy-a-path-out-of-the-crisis 

Lombardozzi, L (2019) "Mind the Gap: Addressing the Class Dimension in Higher Education" Developing Economics - Available at https://developingeconomics.org/2019/07/12/mind-the-gap-addressing-the-class-dimension-in-higher-education/

Lombardozzi, L (2019) "Launch of the Gender and Social Policy Network at the OU"  http://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/blog/launch-gender-and-social-policy-network-ou 

Lombardozzi, L. (2019) "The not-so-secret winners and losers behind the T-shirt value chain- It is time to change the rules of the game" LSE International Development.  Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationaldevelopment/2019/04/02/the-not-so-secret-winners-and-losers-behind-the-t-shirt-value-chain-it-is-time-to-change-the-rules-of-the-game/

Lombardozzi, L. Pitts, FH (2018) "Abstract and concrete universals: basic services, basic infrastructure, basic income". Issue 4 Futures of Work - Available at https://futuresofwork.co.uk/2018/12/18/abstract-and-concrete-universals-basic-services-basic-infrastructure-basic-income/

Pitts, FH, Warner, N & Lombardozzi, L, (2017), ‘Why basic income alone will not be a panacea to social insecurity’. LSE Politics & Policy Blog - Available at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/beyond-basic-income/ 

Lombardozzi, L, (2016) ‘Inside the housing block: Impressions of London and Tashkent’. Retrograd - Available at https://retrograd.org.uk/2015/11/25/inside-the-housing-block-impressions-of-london-and-tashkent/

- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

- Member of FEPS Next Left Research Programme Political Economy Working Group

- Lead of 'Gender and Social Policy' IKD Research Theme

- Affiliated Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Cambridge and researcher at Cambridge Central Asia Forum

- Member of Futures of Work advisory board