She completed her doctoral thesis at UCM entitled Determinant Factors in the Transfer of the Workforce Diversity Policy: An Analysis of Foreign Subsidiaries in Spain. Her research is focused on human resource management practices in multinational companies. She is particularly interested in policies for managing workforce diversity as well as immigration issues. During the four months (in two visits) that she spent at CRIMT, Lourdes developed a research project on diversity management practices in multinational companies in Canada and Spain.