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Agri-Environmental Economics MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Economics subject area.
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: 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).
Outline
The MPhil/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.
Programme structure
For further information see the School site.
Funding
The School of Economics offers a University of Kent postgraduate research studentship, available for three years and covering fees at the home rate and a stipend up to the UK Research Councils' level of £13,590 (2011/12 rate).
Many schools offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate research students receive financial support in return for teaching. The value of awards may vary, but often cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a substantial maintenance grant.
All postgraduate research students are eligible to apply for GTAs. See Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
The School of Economics has a strong track record of attracting Economic and Social Research Council research studentship funding. In addition, the School funds up to four Doctoral Research Scholarships in Economics each year, available to outstanding applicants who are accepted to register for the full-time Mphil/PhD programme in Economics. These cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate plus a maintenance grant (£8,000 in 2010/11) in return for four to six hours teaching per week. The scholarship is subject to review each year.
For further details of postgraduate funding, see Postgraduate funding.
View further information about scholarships available in the School of Economics.
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Resources and facilities
Our research facilities are outstanding. MSc students have a dedicated study room, with meeting space and computing facilities. All research students have personal office space and computers in the School, and access to comprehensive research support.
The School has an active and inclusive research culture involving all postgraduate students, with a regular seminar programme during the year mixing internal workshops with events to which we invite outside speakers. There is also a student Economics Society, which invites its own speakers for discussion of economics topics.
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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.
Staff
Professor Alan Carruth, Dr Edward Cartwright, Dr William Collier, Dr Amanda Gosling, Professor Christopher Heady, Dr Alex Klein, Dr John Peirson, Dr Anna Stepanova, Dr Yu Zhu.
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.
Staff
Professor Alan Carruth, Professor Jagjit Chadha, Professor Hans-Martin Krolzig, Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Dr Keisuke Otsu, Dr Matloob Piracha, Dr Mathan Satchi, Dr Katsuyuki Shibayama, Professor Tony Thirlwall.
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.
Staff
Dr Maria Garcia-Alonso, Professor Miguel Leon- Ledesma, Dr Matloob Piracha, Professor Tony Thirlwall.
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.
Staff
Dr William Collier, Professor Sophia Davidova, Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Dr Matloob Piracha, Professor Roger Vickerman.
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.
Staff
Dr Edward Cartwright, Professor Iain Fraser, Dr Maria Garcia-Alonso, Dr John Peirson, Dr Anna Stepanova.
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.
Staff
Dr Alastair Bailey, Professor Sophia Davidova, Professor Iain Fraser, Professor Rob Fraser.
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.
Staff
Dr Sylvain Barde, Dr William Collier, Dr John Peirson, Professor Roger Vickerman.
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|Staff research
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 and labour economics.
Dr Edward Cartwright: Senior Lecturer in Economics
Game theory; bounded rationality and public economics.
Professor Jagjit Chadha: Professor of Economics
Macroeconomics; monetary economics.
Dr William Collier: Lecturer in Economics
Labour economics; migration and applied microeconometrics.
Professor Sophia Davidova: Professor of European Agricultural Policy
Agricultural policy; agricultural trade.
Professor Iain Fraser: Professor of Agri-environmental Economics
Environmental economics; agricultural economics; productivity analysis; applied econometrics.
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 and international relations.
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.
Dr Keisuke Otsu: Lecturer in Economics
Quantitative dynamic macroeconomics; open-economy macroeconomic theory.
Dr John Peirson: Senior Lecturer in Economics
Energy economics; environmental economics and sustainable development; the economics of uncertainty.
Dr Matloob Piracha: Lecturer in Economics
International trade and migration.
Dr Mathan Satchi: Lecturer in Economics
Macroeconomic policy; financial intermediation and matching models.
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.
Professor Roger Vickerman: Professor of European Economics
Economics of infrastructure; infrastructure and regional development in the EU; labour mobility and migration in the EU.
Dr Yu Zhu: Senior Lecturer in Economics
Family economics; economics of education; applied microeconometrics.
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Contact details
Admissions enquiries
T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: information@kent.ac.uk
Subject enquiries
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: econpg-enq@kent.ac.uk
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