About Us
“Our teaching and research are internationally respected and our students are in demand by employers.”
— Professor Christos Ioannidis
Head of Department
Our Department has an excellent reputation for a high standard of teaching that provides graduates with core economic theory and practical transferable skills.
We are currently ranked 12th in the UK for economics and our staff achieved a national ranking of 5th or higher in their specialist areas in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
We pride ourselves on being a lively and friendly department.
Teaching and industry links
Our flexible degree programmes will provide you with challenging, stimulating and rewarding experiences.
You will experience a variety of teaching methods, combining the traditional lecture with smaller teaching and computer-based practicals.
We maintain strong links with prestigious organisations, including:
- the Bank of England
- HM Treasury
- the Office for National Statistics
- HSBC
- Goldman Sachs
- J.P. Morgan
- KPMG
Research
We have a wide variety of research interests, whilst maintaining a strong macroeconomic, microeconomic and applied economic core.
Areas of specialism
- Macroeconomics
- Monetary economics
- Finance economics
- Environmental economics
- Development economics
- Institutional economics
- Labour economics
Our Staff regularly present at international conferences and publish in high quality journals, some of which include:
- Economic Journal
- Scandinavian Journal of Economics
- Southern Economic Journal
- Journal of Development Economics
- Economic Letters
- Applied Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- Journal of Futures Markets
