Thales Souza Lima
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thales-lima-23103297/
Research title: National identities and attitudes towards migration: a comparative and longitudinal analysis
Research Summary
Thales Lima is a PhD candidate in Politics, where he holds a College of Social Sciences scholarship. His doctoral research examines national identities and attitudes towards migration using comparative and longitudinal approaches, combining political economy, labour economics, and quantitative political behaviour. He holds an MSc in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), where his research focused on preferences for income redistribution across countries.
Prior to his PhD, Thales worked as a Research Associate at Glasgow Caledonian University on the Horizon 2020 OppAttune project, where he led and co-led work packages on labour transitions, skills development, economic well-being, and the political economy of offshoring and reshoring. His work integrates advanced econometric modelling in R and Python, applied game theory, and large-scale survey data to study labour market vulnerability, technological change, and political radicalisation. Alongside his academic career, he has professional experience as an economist in market intelligence and forecasting across Latin America. His research has been presented at major international conferences, including the Midwest Political Science Association, IPSA World Congress of Political Sciences and the Brazilian Congress of Economics (ANPEC).
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College of Social Sciences PHD Scholarship