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The Department of Economics comprises a group of economists who make a variety of significant contributions to the discipline, including two prestigious ESRC Research Centres (on Innovation and Social Change) located at the University. OU economists are involved in major externally funded pieces of work related to development and health, inequalities within households and the measurement of economic progress and there are also high profile research connections with other leading universities around the world.
We welcome applications from students with interests in development, innovation, health, economic theory and philosophy, behavioural economics, economics of personal finance, economics and gender issues – particularly in household or labour economics using game theory.
Research students work closely with supervisors and have been very successful in obtaining jobs in academia.
Key facts
- Publications in a range of excellent journals (economics, development, innovation, health and social policy).
- Conference and other research expense support.
- Strong connections with other departments and faculties in the OU (includes opportunities for multi-disciplinary supervision e.g. economics and statistics, economics and business, economics and geography).
- Very strong track record of grant funding from international and national sources (e.g. EU, UN, ESRC, AHRC).
- Opportunity to apply for studentships supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Further information
If you have an enquiry specific to this research area please contact:
- Name:
- Ms Jan Smith
- Email:
- economics@open.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1908 654456
For general enquiries please contact the Research Degrees Team via the link under ‘Your questions’ on the right of the page.
Publications
Research publications by Open University staff are available through Open Research Online (ORO), the university's repository of research publications and other research outputs. ORO can be searched or browsed by staff name or subject.
The following list, generated from ORO, provides a flavour of the most recently published work in Economics:
- Himmelweit, Susan and de Henau, Jerome (2013). Unpacking within household gender differences in partners’ subjective benefits from household income. Journal of Marriage and Family (In press).
- Himmelweit, Susan; Santos, Cristina; Sevilla, Almudena and Sofer , Catherine (2013). Sharing of resources within the family and the economics of household decision-making. Journal of Marriage and Family (In Press).
- Himmelweit, Susan (2013). Care: feminist economic theory and policy challenges. Journal of Gender Studies Ochanomizu University, 16 (In press).
- de Henau, Jerome and Himmelweit, Susan (2013). Comparing welfare regimes by their effects on intra-household inequalities. In: Ferri, Mireia and Monsonis-Paya, Irene eds. Sustainability and transformation in European Social Policy. Proceedings of the 9th annual ESPAnet conference. Peter Lang, (In Press).
- Gleadle, Pauline; Parris, Stuart; Simonetti, Roberto and Shipman, Alan (2013). Restructuring and innovation in pharmaceuticals and biotechs: the impact of financialisation. Critical Perspectives on Accounting (In press).
- More publications relating to Economics
Research degrees
Your questions
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