Dr. Roberto Suárez Candel

Roberto Suárez Candel (born 1978) holds a PhD in Social Communication (2009) from the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona – Spain). In his doctoral dissertation, he analysed the public policies addressing the implementation of Digital Terrestrial Television within the European Union and compared the cases of Sweden and Spain. In 2006, Roberto Suárez’s PhD project was awarded with the “International Prize for PhD Projects” from the Fundación Autor-SGAE.

He has also a Master’s degree in Social Communication Research (2005) and a Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Communication (2001), both from the Pompeu Fabra University.

From 2002 until January 2010, Roberto Suárez has worked as a researcher and associated lecturer at the Department of Communication of the Pompeu Fabra University. Within that period, from 2002 to 2005, he enjoyed a research scholarship from the Catalan Government.

In order to carry out fieldwork for his PhD, in 2004 he visited the Institutionen för Journalistik, Medier och Kommunikation (JMK) at the Stockholms University for half a year.

Roberto Suárez’s research interests are: Communication Public Policy & Law, Public Service Media, Digital and Hybrid Television, Media structure and economics. He has also experience in the Audiovisual Production market (Cinema, TV & Advertising), where he worked as a production assistant from 1999 to 2001.

In 2009, Roberto Suárez was awarded with a two years Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development from the European Commission in order to carry out a post-doctoral research project at the Hans Bredow Institut for Media Research in Hamburg. From February 2010, the project "Redefining and repositioning Public Service Broadcasting in the Digital and Multiplatform Scenario: Agents and Strategies – An international comparative analysis within the European Union" will analyse how Public Service Media adapt to the multiplatform scenario. An international comparison (Germany, Spain and Poland) will be carried out.

• more about the project: psb-digital.eu
• personal website