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As a postgraduate research student in Economics at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø you will be part of a vibrant community, working alongside a thriving group of young and established researchers.

While we welcome research proposals on any economics topic, it is strongly recommended that your proposal lies within the research and supervision interests of one or more staff members.

Economics staff and students in a group photo in front of ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø library

Dr Steve Bosworth

Steven welcomes PhD applications in the field of behavioural and experimental economics, but has a particular interest in supervising proposals that investigate:

  • human cooperation within and between organisations and the institutions which support it
  • the economic determinants and consequences of social identity (e.g. gender, class, ethnicity, ideology

Applicants’ comfort with a range of quantitative methods is considered essential. These may include game theory, panel data econometrics, and survey/experimental design.




Professor Mark Casson

Mark's main interests are in multinational enterprise, small firm growth, and global market competition from a theoretical, empirical or historical perspective.


Dr Andy Chung

Andy is interested in supervising research in the fields of empirical family and labour economics, especially topics related to human capital. Some possible to topics include parenting and risky behaviour. I am also interested in other related research topics in applied microeconomics.





Dr Mark Guzman

Mark is interested in supervising research in the fields of Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Economic Growth, Immigration Theory.


Dr Hussein Hassan

Hussein is interested in supervising students interested in empirical macroeconomic models. More specifically: Time Series Econometric Modelling, Macroeconomics, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy.


Dr Neha Hui

Neha is willing to supervise students who want to do PhDs on the following:

  • issues of gender, intrahousehold bargaining and domestic violence
  • labour markets in developing countries, especially in the informal sector
  • the role of institutions in development
  • economic history of colonialism and development.

Dr Joo Young Jeon

Dr Joo Young Jeon is happy to s