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Agri-Environmental Economics MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Economics subject area.
Outline
The PhD programmes are open to students who have successfully completed a taught Master's programme in economics. Depending on the programme and your level of achievement, you have to take advanced training in the first year of study. If you have a recognised Master's degree, you take modules related to your research topic, otherwise you take up to six modules to reach a suitable level of research training. You must complete the assessment for any of these modules before going on to the second year of research. Further research training in subsequent years includes advanced reading groups, research workshops and (if needed) attending specific courses related to your research.
Key facts
- Subject area: Economics
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of Economics
- Duration: MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: (i) a good honours degree in Economics or other relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas extending over not less than three years in a University or educational institution of equivalent rank. or (ii) MSc/MA degree in Economics or another relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Research areas
Labour economics and applied microeconomics
Staff research includes work on unemployment, trade unions, training and skill acquisition, labour intensification in Britain, risk and uncertainty, consumption and savings, tax policy, public policy evaluation, and social security and household expenditure.
Macroeconomics, money, and growth
Staff research in this area includes: monetary theory, European integration, consumer expenditure and housing, macroeconometrics, growth theory, unemployment dynamics, theory of technical change, primary product price fluctuations and exchange rate systems, financial markets, model selection, DSGE models.
International finance and trade
Research interests cover economics of exchange rates, strategic trade policy, international finance, trade and economic development, and trade in the defence industries.
European economics including migration
Research interests include work on monetary integration, labour market adjustment, migration (especially East-West migration), agricultural policy, direct investment flows, transition, and convergence.
Industrial organisation including defence and energy economics
Staff research interests include work on the arms trade, energy markets and pricing, gambling, efficiency analysis, and applied game theory.
Applied agri-environmental economics
Research interests cover non-market valuation, food safety, information economics applied to environmental problems, design and evaluation of agri-environmental policies, biodiversity, agricultural productivity, European agricultural policy, agricultural trade policy.
Regional and transport economics
Research includes work on regional development in the EU, cross-border regions, accident costs, road pricing, and the finance of infrastructure and its economic impact.
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|Key facts
- Subject area: Economics
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of Economics
- Duration: MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: (i) a good honours degree in Economics or other relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas extending over not less than three years in a University or educational institution of equivalent rank. or (ii) MSc/MA degree in Economics or another relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Staff research
Full details of staff research interests can be found on our website.
Dr Alastair Bailey: Reader in Agricultural Economics
Primary production systems; evaluation of environmental policies.
Dr Sylvain Barde: Lecturer in Economics
Economic geography; information-theoretical modelling.
Professor Alan Carruth: Professor of Economics
Applied econometrics; macroeconomics; labour economics.
Dr Edward Cartwright: Senior Lecturer in Economics
Game theory; behavioural economics; public economics. Recent publications include: Behavioral Economics (2011).
Professor Jagjit Chadha: Professor of Economics
Quantitative business cycle theory; financial economics.
Dr William Collier: Lecturer in Economics
Labour economics; applied microeconometrics.
Professor Sophia Davidova: Professor of European Agricultural Policy
Microeconomic analysis of the impact of agricultural reforms.
Professor Iain Fraser: Professor of Agri-environmental Economics
Environmental economics; agricultural economics; resource economics.
Professor Rob Fraser: Professor of Agricultural Economics
Design and evaluation of agri-environmental policies; invasive species policies; trade policy.
Dr Maria Garcia-Alonso: Senior Lecturer in Economics
Industrial organisation; international trade; defence and peace economics; health economics.
Dr Amanda Gosling: Senior Lecturer in Economics
Labour economics; applied econometrics.
Professor Christopher Heady: Professor of Economics
Tax policy; economics of the public sector; development economics; environmental economics.
Dr Alex Klein: Lecturer in Economics
Applied econometrics; economic history; labour economics; urban economics.
Professor Hans-Martin Krolzig: Professor of Economics
Macroeconometrics; econometric model selection; regime-switching models; business cycle analysis; forecasting and macroeconomic modelling.
Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma: Professor of Economics
Growth economics; international macroeconomics and applied macroeconometrics. Recent publications include: Advanced International Macro and Finance (co-author, forthcoming).
Dr Keisuke Otsu: Lecturer in Economics
Quantitative dynamic macroeconomics; open-economy macroeconomic theory.
Dr John Peirson: Reader in Economics
Economics of uncertainty; transport; gambling markets; energy economics.
Dr Matloob Piracha: Senior Lecturer in Economics
International trade and migration.
Dr Mathan Satchi: Lecturer in Economics
Macroeconomics and theory.
Dr Katsuyuki Shibayama: Lecturer in Economics
Macroeconomics; monetary economics.
Dr Anna Stepanova: Lecturer in Economics
Industrial organisation; game theory.
Professor Tony Thirlwall: Professor of Applied Economics
Development economics and macroeconomic policy. Recent publications include: Great Thinkers in Economics (series editor); Trade Liberalisation And The Poverty Of Nations (co-author, 2008); Economics of Development: Theory and Evidence (2011).
Professor Roger Vickerman: Professor of European Economics
Economics of infrastructure; infrastructure and regional development; labour mobility and migration in the EU. Recent publications include: A Handbook of Transport Economics (co-ed, 2011).
Dr Zaki Wahhaj: Lecturer in Economics
Economic development and applied theory; social norms and household decision making in developing countries.
Dr Yu Zhu: Reader in Economics
Family economics; economics of education; applied microeconometrics.
Further information:
Key facts
- Subject area: Economics
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of Economics
- Duration: MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: (i) a good honours degree in Economics or other relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas extending over not less than three years in a University or educational institution of equivalent rank. or (ii) MSc/MA degree in Economics or another relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Contact details
Admissions enquiries
T: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Director of Graduate Studies,
School of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NP, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 827440
F: +44 (0)1227 827850
E: econ-pg@kent.ac.uk
Key facts
- Subject area: Economics
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of Economics
- Duration: MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: (i) a good honours degree in Economics or other relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas extending over not less than three years in a University or educational institution of equivalent rank. or (ii) MSc/MA degree in Economics or another relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
How to apply
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Key facts
- Subject area: Economics
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of Economics
- Duration: MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: (i) a good honours degree in Economics or other relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas extending over not less than three years in a University or educational institution of equivalent rank. or (ii) MSc/MA degree in Economics or another relevant discipline from a UK university or an equivalent standard obtained overseas. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).