PhD Economics

Find out more about our Economics research degrees at the University of Hull, where we have a strong research culture and an established reputation. The Hull University Business School offers PhD research degrees in a number of research groups, including Economics. Our PhDs require a student to complete the equivalent of 540 credits worth of research, including both research specialist modules and research thesis preparation. PhD students have the opportunity to add to the sum of knowledge in their chosen field by producing an original piece of research. They are closely supported and given opportunities to travel and attend conferences. Economics at Hull has a strong research culture and an established reputation in several fields, notably applied microeconomics, international economics, economic development, macroeconomics, and environmental economics. Our active internal and external seminar programmes foster the overall research effort of staff. We are committed to raising the level and ambition of our research to international, world leading standards of excellence. Our Business School has a dedicated work room with cutting-edge facilities. PhD students have exclusive access to the Postgraduate Lounge in the newly refurbished Brynmor Jones Library, while all our postgraduate students can make use of facilities in the University's Graduate School. HUBS subscribes to a full range of professional business information services including Reuters Datastream, Reuters Thomson One, Bloomberg, Bankscope and FAME. Our experts in the economics research group welcome applications for postgraduate study across a broad range of topics. Please click on the links below for help with being matched up with a potential supervisor. Key research areas include: Analysing impacts of micro and macro economic policies on growth, poverty, redistribution, trade, efficiency and environment in allocation of resources; applied dynamic general equilibrium models; and applied econometric techniques Agricultural economics, environmental economics and development economics Labour economics and applied microeconometrics, including absenteeism from the workplace; duration modelling of labour market states; and the economics of earnings, employment and self-employment International trade and development economics, as well as topics in political economy related to developing countries Financial economics, international and EU economics, macroeconomics, economics for business, monetary policy and economic environment.

You should normally have, or expect to obtain, at least a 2:1 Honours degree, or international equivalent, in a related discipline appropriate to your intended research.