Dr Carolin Ioramashvili

I am Assistant Professor in Innovation Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex. From March 2026, I will work with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to study economic impacts of Horizon Europe funding in the cultural and creative sector, as part of UKRI's policy fellowship scheme. In 2024-25, I was the recipient of a British Academy Innovation Fellowship. For this project, I worked with the Evaluation Task Force in the UK Cabinet Office to improve evaluation for local growth policies. From 2021 to 2023,  I was a research fellow at City-REDI and WM-REDI at the University of Birmingham. I got my PhD from the department of geography and environment at the London School of Economics, where I'm also a visiting fellow.  My research interests are innovation and its role for regional development, labour markets and inequality. I am on the editorial board of Spatial Economic Analysis as early career editor. 

If you are a journal edior and would like to invite me to review a paper, please use my email address at the London School of Economics, c.a.ioramashvili@lse.ac.uk, as emails to my Sussex email address may not come through!

News

A new paper on the importance of evaluation for local industrial policy, and how to make it better, is out now at Contemporary Social Science. I have summarised the core argument, that evaluation can be considered as a public good, for the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth blog. 

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