Professor Catia Montagna

Biography

A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Catia held appointments in Glasgow and Dundee where she was awarded a Personal Chair. She joined the University of Aberdeen in 2013 as a Professor of Economics and was then awarded the Jaffrey Chair of Political Economy which she held until her early retirement in August 2024. 

Funding and Grants

2015-18: “Globalisation, Labour Markets, and the Welfare State – GlobLabWS”, NORFACE Welfare State Futures, Project PI, with H. Görg and F. Sjöholm, (Euro 850,000). 

2011-14:  “Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe” – EU Cooperation Programme / Theme 8 / Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (Call ID “FP7-SSH-2011-1”), Consortium total: € 8.5 million. 

2010:       NHS Tayside, Substance Misuse Information – NHS Tayside:  “SUMIT”, with D. Petrie, B. Kidd, et al.  (£300,000)

2008:        Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP KTP00681), Funding body: TSB and Scottish Government, Role: Lead Academic and Principal Investigator, with S. Mohan (£127,383)

2019-20: “The Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire Economy”, Scottish Trade Unions Congress (£12,000).

2019:       “Insecure Employment and Mental Health: One Pathway in the Productivity Puzzle” Productivity Insights Network, ESRC (£9,643), with Daniel Kopasker (HERU).

2016-17: “Strengthen Workflows at the Cabinet of Statistics and International Relations (GERI) at the Angolan Ministry of Finance”, with E. Phimister (£15,502).

2014-16:  “Management Practices in Determining Firms’ Performance and Internationalisation”, Pool Engagement in European Research (PEER), Scottish Funding Council/SIRE, (£14,000).

2014-17:  ESRC/Scottish Government +3 Collaborative Scholarship – student Pietropaolo Vanin, “Skill Mismatches and Competitiveness: Workers, Firms and Industries”, PI, with K. Bender.

2010:        ESRC 1+3 Studentship – student Daniel Kopasker, “The Effects of Economic Insecurity on Health and Wellbeing”.

2010:       Scoping study of the economic impact on the alcohol industry of pricing and non-price policies to regulate the affordability and availability of alcohol in Scotland, NHS, with D. Petrie, A. Ludbrook, J. Dewhurst, H. Molana (£19,926).

2007:        Scottish Funding Council funding for the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics – SIRE (£952,272).

2001:       British Academy Research Grant, with H. Molana (£4,195)