Beatriz Losada

Head of Research

She holds a degree in Political Science and Sociology from UC3M and a Master’s degree in Intervention, Emergencies, Disasters and International Cooperation from UCJC. She has over seven years’ experience in conducting studies using mixed-methods approaches, including qualitative techniques. She began her career at GAD3 in 2018 as Head of Qualitative Research, playing a leading role in promoting the use of this methodology at GAD3, and since 2022 has been Director of Research, where she oversees the design of opinion poll and market research projects on a wide variety of topics, at both national and international levels, for organisations in the public, private and third sectors, and coordinates the various research teams involved in the projects.

She previously worked in academia, where she specialised in research on health and education issues. She teaches the module ‘Political and Electoral Analysis Workshops II: Qualitative Analysis’ on the Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Analysis (UC3M) and the module ‘Public Opinion: Audiences, Publics and Communities’ on the Master’s Degree in Political Communication and Marketing (UEM). She is bilingual in English and has an intermediate level of French.