The Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance is offering up to two PhD scholarships to start in the academic year 2019-20. The term of the scholarships is three years. The scholarship covers fees and successful candidates will receive an annual maintenance allowance (set at £15,009 for 2019/20) and a research support allowance of £2,250 over the registered period of study. In addition, full-time scholarship holders are normally offered an opportunity to undertake at least 20 hours of paid teaching support each academic year.
Potential supervisors in the area of Economics are listed below under the area in which they are willing to supervise PhDs, plus, in some cases (i) more specific issues/questions they are willing to supervise within those areas, and/or (ii) one or more particular projects on which they would be willing to supervise PhDs.
Dr Claudia Aravena
I am interested in supervising PhD projects mainly in the areas of Energy and Environmental Economics. Also, students with interests in the area of applications of Behavioural Economics into energy and the environment. Some of the topics I would be interested in supervising would be renewable energy, electric vehicles, energy consumption, energy efficiency, smart grids, policy instruments, conservation of biodiversity, ecosystem services, environmental policy and other topics that include the use of environmental valuation (stated preference techniques such as contingent valuation, choice experiments, contingent behaviour among others) and field experiments.
Professor Arnab Bhattacharjee
Spatial economics and/or econometrics; economics/econometrics of networks; identification of structural models; urban and housing economics; and regional economics. Specific application areas include the following, but is not exclusive to these: (a) growth and convergence; (b) spatial and sectoral disaggregation and inequality; (c) spatial structure of health and healthcare; (d) urban structure and its endogenous evolution; (e) financial networks; and (f) monetary policy committees.
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