Soledad's research focuses on current processes of urban development and regeneration in Europe and across the Global South. She has extensive expertise in sustainable urban planning, with a focus on community-empowerment, participatory and co-creation in processes of production and management of urban areas. Her work has focused on sustainable cities with expertise in working across government, communities and academia towards increasing resilience and adaptation to climate change, through co-production. She leads action research focused on community-led climate change-related risk management in Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala. She is currently working on the design and implementation of co-produced strategies for risk management, including mitigation and adaptation actions in Medellin, incorporating nature-based solutions. In addition, Soledad is leading research with academics from Kyiv and Athens focused on post-crisis urban regeneration https://www.globalurbancollaborative.org. 

Soledad is Programme Director for the MSc Urban Strategies and Design (currently on secondment). She is Co-Chair of the WMO World Weather Research Programme - Urban-PREDICT Project and is UK representative for the International Committee for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) of the International Science Council (ISC).

Soledad has been appointed Earth Champion in Sustainable Cities at the Edinburgh Earth Initiative, through which role she is leading development of cross-university research and innovation in this area.