Latin American Network at Essex (LANX)

Essex Business School (EBS) and Latin America

Over the past few years, Essex Business School (EBS) has also developed expertise on issues of relevance to Latin America, in particular in the areas of the social and solidarity economy, organised crime and issues of social justice in a continent deeply marked by long-standing multidimensional inequalities and the existence of transnational crime organisations.

For more on our research and scholarship in relation to Latin America, see LANX Members

Partnerships

LANX is actively developing teaching and research partnerships for the promotion of student and researcher mobility across partner institutions. More specifically, the Network will promote the development of partnerships that seek to:

• facilitate funded research exchanges between established researchers on issues of relevance to Latin America at EBS and major universities in Latin America and outside of the region;
• promote student mobility through an undergraduate student exchange, a post-graduate two-year exchange programme, a 3+1 Master’s programme
• develop a Latin American Doctoral Training Network, enabling PhD students from Latin America and those working on Latin American issues to acquire specialised training and benefit from research collaboration with the University of Essex.

If you would like to explore those opportunities with us please contact LANX Director Professor Nicolas Forsans or Dr Pablo Baisotti.

LANX Members

• Professor Nicolas Forsans, has written extensively on organised crime in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Haiti. He runs an innovative, interdisciplinary module entitled Business & Social Justice in Latin America (BE444) that promotes the study of Latin America & the Caribbean and brings together the University of Essex’s expertise on Latin America. Hosted within EBS, this module is an elective module open to most UoE students including incoming Essex Abroad/Exchange students. He produces Latin America ¡SinFiltro! while reflecting on the region’s tortuous path to progress and social development.
• Dr Pablo Baisotti’s research focuses on contemporary Latin America from different perspectives and fields, with a multidisciplinary character (particularly in the field of social sciences and the humanities) and has authored or edited more than twenty books, including the Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas series.
• Dr Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory & Organisations, has written extensively on Brazil. He recently published a book on Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.
• Dr Luciana Zorzoli, Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations at EBS, specialises in the application and development of regulations and international labour standards in Latin America.
• Dr Marcia Christina Ferreira is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing & Consumer Research. She joined EBS from Brazil having previously worked for organisations in South America.