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Postgraduate students in the School of Economics are encouraged to choose their area of study.
The School of Economics is strongly committed to providing each PGR student with dedicated supervision and support throughout the four years of the PhD programme. In the 2019 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES 2019), our PGR students awarded the School excellent scores including 100% for Supervision.
The allocation of individual supervisors to students begins with the research proposal submitted by prospective students in their application process. In principle, applicants can submit research proposals based on any relevant topic in economics, and the School will check, as part of the selection process, the availability of at least two faculty members willing to offer supervision. In some specific areas of economics, the School exhibits highly specialized knowledge and, hence, higher capacity to supervise PhD projects:
Big data methods
Collective decision making and group formation
Competition in digital markets
Development and environmental economics
Economics of networks
Empirical evaluation of competition/competition policy
Experimetrics
Financial economics and econometrics
Heuristics and biases in decision making
Industrial organisation
Strategic reasoning and identity in groups and teams
Moreover, every Academic Year, different Research Groups of the School of Economics can propose project outlines that prospective students can elaborate on while designing their own project proposal – these projects will be given particular attention during the selection process.
2024 Entry
For prospective students applying during the 2024-25 year (starting the PhD program in October 2024) potential project outlines are listed below:
Candidates interested into these themes should present their own proposal mentioning the project title and submitting their application by the same deadline that is relevant for studentships offered by the School of Economics.
A fully-funded project is also available to conduct research on the Sustainability and Resilience of the UK Fishing Fleet in cooperation with CEFAS, full information available here (deadline February 23, 2024).
Besides these field-specific opportunities, all prospective students interested in any field of economics should check the individual pages of the School’s Academic Staff and their publications in order to identify potential supervisors for their projects. Members of faculty are pleased to be approached by prospective PhD candidates about the kinds of research they can supervise.