Brenda Andrias holds a MA in Public Policy from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Australia and is currently a PhD candidate of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), funded under the MSCA – Industrial Doctorate programme.
Brenda is from Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is focusing her fieldwork on her home country. Her research will study the participation of women in the informal economy, in PNG, to understand the conditions that are necessary for the success of female-owned enterprises .
RESEARCH PROJECT
Informality and Innovation: Building Post-Pandemic Resilient Communities in Papua New Guinea.
Livelihoods and Informality Amongst Women Entrepreneurs in Papua New Guinea.
I study women entrepreneurs in the informal economy in Papua New Guinea. A study of the post-pandemic economic resilience strategies and determinants of success for women entrepreneurs.
PUBLICATIONS
Molina, J. L., Pulgar Corrotea, M., Polese, A., Fradejas-García, I., Ianole-Călin, R., Isaev, A., Mengato, S., Nguyen, M., Carracedo, D., De Lombaerde, G., Avesani, M., Sasikornwong, N., Gambardella, M., Andrias, B., Massera, M., Lima, J. P., Cisagara, B., Rahman, A., Kabaghe, W., & D'Urso, D. (2024). PRESILIENT Horizon Scanning Dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14285318