Eoin Edward Phillips
Lecturer and Researcher, La Salle Campus Barcelona – Ramon Llull University
Education
PhD History and Sociology of Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, 2015
MPhil History and Sociology of Science and Technology (Distinction), University of Cambridge, 2010
BA (Hons) 1st Class Economic and Social History, University of Warwick, 2009
Teaching Activity
Eóin Phillips is the Knowledge Area Coordinator for Economics and teaches both introductory and specialisation courses in economics with a particular focus on international economics. His teaching draws on his research in Global Economic History and the Sociology of Technology to analyses the relationships, causes and consequences of digitalisation, globalisation and computational governance.
Research Activity
His research focuses on the entanglements between economics, innovation, and computation, and the technological and political infrastructures upon which they both depend and produce. His research has been published in major academic journals as well as for broader audiences.
He leads the Global Economics and Modern Communications research area, which is part of the broader Smart Society research group. He also co-directs the Observatory of Quantum Technologies.
Since 2010, he has been a member of major research projects at the University of Cambridge (AHRC-UK) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (PID2019-105131GB-I00 and PID2023-147710NB-I00). He has also been awarded several grants for international research seminars and conferences, including the Technology and Capitalism Seminar Series, and he has received grants for visiting research positions and as an invited speaker at the Huntington Library, California and the University of Oxford, amongst others.
He welcomes interest from potential master’s and doctoral researchers.