Dr Beatriz García (FRSA) is the director of Impacts 08 - The Liverpool Model, a joint research programme involving the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, which will assess the long term cultural, social, economic and environmental impacts of Liverpool becoming European Capital of Culture in 2008. Prior to this post, she was a Research Council UK (RCUK) academic fellow at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow, where she led a major research project looking into the long term cultural legacy of Glasgow becoming the 1990 European City of Culture.

Beatriz is an active researcher in cultural policy and event-led regeneration and is committed to establishing models for the longitudinal assessment of the impact of urban cultural policy interventions. Recent projects assess the legacy of cultural programming within major events such as the European Capital of Culture, the Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games, attracting funding from research councils, government agencies and international NGOs.

Recent publications cover a wide range of journals including the International Journal of Cultural Policy, Local Economy, Urban Studies, Media, Culture and Society, as well as specialist magazines and edited monographs. She is currently writing a monograph about her research on the cultural policy of the Olympic Movement and the development of the Cultural Olympiad.

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