Niccolo Durazzi

Niccolo Durazzi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the policies shaping advanced capitalist countries' transition to knowledge-based post-industrial societies, with emphasis on education, skills, and labor market policies. He leads a Leverhulme Trust-funded project titled 'The Political Economy of Knowledge-based Growth,' collaborating with David Hope (King's College London), Hanna Kleider (King's College London), and Sebastian Diessner (Leiden University).

Research interests include comparative political economy, education systems, and the intersection of technological change with labor markets. His work explores how institutional frameworks in liberal democracies adapt to economic transformations driven by knowledge economies.

No specific scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided text. Current research collaborations involve multinational teams addressing structural shifts in global political economies.