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Marina Kacar serves as a Graduate Tutor and PhD candidate within Cardiff Business School at Cardiff University, specializing in the nexus of digital technologies and sustainable development policy frameworks in Wales. Her academic trajectory bridges business studies, environmental protection, and digital innovation.
Her educational qualifications include:
- MSc in Social Science Research Methods (2021)
- Master's in Environmental Protection (2019)
Kacar's research interrogates how digital inclusion can advance social justice in public sector transformation, examining tensions between technological progress and equitable societal outcomes. She analyzes digital health initiatives through sustainability lenses while investigating the implementation challenges of Wales' Well-being of Future Generations Act within digital strategy contexts. Her methodological approach emphasizes qualitative analysis of policy-practice gaps.
Her recent publication on digital society architecture reflects an emerging scholarly focus on mitigating technology's negative externalities while maximizing public value—a trend evident across her work connecting Welsh policy experiments to global sustainable development challenges.
Key recognitions include:
- Public Value Award at Welsh Postgraduate Research Conference 2024
- Hodge Foundation Public Value Doctoral Scholarship (2021-2024)
- Erasmus+ mobility grant for Warsaw University of Life Sciences (2018)
Funded by the Hodge Foundation Doctoral Scholarship, Kacar's research operationalizes Wales' unique legislative approach to intergenerational well-being through digital inclusion frameworks. Her Erasmus+ experience further informs comparative analyses of sustainability policy implementation across European contexts, demonstrating strong alignment between grant objectives and her scholarly contributions to public value theory.
