Support for Research Students
Students who wish to register for the PhD degree are first registered as a MPhil student and are then, conditional on satisfactory progress, transferred to the PhD programme. Both the degrees of MPhil and PhD are awarded on the basis of a written thesis and oral examination.
All research students in the School are assigned a main supervisor and a support supervisor. Initially, you will receive considerable guidance in locating a precise research topic and in developing research techniques. You will then be encouraged to pursue your research with increasing independence. Many research students write joint papers with their supervisors, and this is something we encourage.
Research students are actively encouraged to become integrated into the lively research culture within the School. Research students present their work in the internal workshop, and also attend the weekly faculty seminars in which members of staff and invited external speakers present their research. The Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) and Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) also run regular workshops.
Facilities
In addition to the facilities provided centrally by the University, we aim to provide research students with a good working environment and effective support. To this end, every research student has their own working area in one of the research student offices in the main building.
The School offers a wide variety of software packages for Faculty and research students (such as Scientific Word, STATA and SPSS), and there is good financial support that allows research students to participate in external workshops and conferences and to buy data sets.
Research Training
The School provides advanced training to help our research students acquire appropriate research skills and equip them for the job market.
There are 4 training pathways: Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Economics and Finance, Markets and Regulation and Economics of Public Policy. Besides general modules that focus on development of broad research skills that are relevant to all research students, there are also path specific modules, which aim to further the students' expertise in their chosen research field. While the training pathways below provide a general overview, training can also be tailored to students' own research backgrounds.
| Year | Core Pathway Training | Behavioural & Experimental Economics | Economics and Finance | Markets and Regulation | Economics of Public Policy | ||
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| 1 | Advanced Modelling | Autumn – theory Spring – empirical | |||||
| 1 |
| Experimental Economics I (Autumn term) and Experimental Economics II (Spring term), plus additional subject-specific training, as appropriate | Financial Econometrics and Applied Econometrics, plus additional subject-specific training, as appropriate | Industrial Economics I and II, plus additional subject-specific training, as appropriate. | Training depending on policy context (e.g., Micro/Macro of Development, Environment, Health), possibly from other Schools pathways as appropriate, plus additional subject-specific training, as appropriate | ||
| 1/2/3 | Research seminars, including student presentations years 2 and 3 | ECO Internal: Tuesdays 12.00-12.50, CBESS: Tuesdays 16.10-17.25, ECO External: Thursdays 16.15-17.45, CCP: Fridays 13.00 – 13.50
It has been agreed within the School that 12 seminars per semester are obligatory for each PhD student. This may include seminars from the School of Economics or associated research centres but also from the School of International Development, the Norwich Business School, the Norwich Medical School, the School of Psychology or other Schools as appropriate. | |||||
| Summer 1/2/3 |
| The Summer School involves 2 modules applicable to all four pathways and one more applicable to at least one pathway each. | |||||
| Summer 1/2/3 | Ph.D. workshop on Experimental Development Economics, London (18 May) One day course in experimetrics (14 June) | ||||||
| Summer 1/2/3 | CCC (CBESS-CEDEX-CREED) Ph.D. Meeting, date not known yet | Mini-conference
| CCP Ph.D. Workshop, CCP and CLEEN summer conferences | Mini-conference
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| 2 | Advanced Econometric Topics, it is also covered by Advanced Modelling II. | ||||||
| 3 | Impact: Making Research in Economics Count | ||||||
| 3 | Economics Job Market Workshop | ||||||