PhD Supervisors
Students who are interested in doing a PhD can approach a potential supervisor from any of the eight participating Universities and, if successful, would then enrol at that University. Any of the teaching staff are also potential PhD supervisors. The PhD coordinators at the respective universities are:
Aberdeen: Ioannis Theodossiou
Dundee: Hassan Molana
Edinburgh: Ed Hopkins
Glasgow: Kostas Angelopoulos
Heriot-Watt: David Cobham
St. Andrews: Paola Manzini
Stirling: Ian Lange
Strathclyde: Julia Darby
Examples of recently active supervisors who are not teaching on the Programme are
Paul Allanson - applied microeconomics; agricultural and development economics
Harminder Battu - labour and regional economics
David Bell - economics of social care, economics of subjective well-being, the Scottish economy, economics of education
Joe Byrne-international macroeconomics, financial economics, applied econometrics
Simon Clark - microeconomics, game theory
Bob Elliot - labour economics
Julian Fennema- transition economics
Norbert Fiess - international finance, development economics, fiscal sustainability, poverty
Richard Harris - industrial/business economics, labour economics, applied econometrics
Alexandros Kontonikas - macroeconomic modelling, financial economics, monetary policy, applied econometrics
Alexander Kovalenkov - game theory, economies with clubs, theory of incentives, social choice, information economics, and general equilibrium, financial markets
Ian Lange - environmental economics, industrial organization, property rights
David MacCausland - macroeconomics, labour economics and Health economics
Ronald MacDonald -International Economics, Macroeconomics, Exchange Rates (Not available for MSc dissertation supervision in 2009)
Jim Malley -business Cycles, Economic Growth, Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Modelling, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Productivity
Paul McNamee - health economics
Robbie Mochrie- transition economics eg. ethical foundations of economic policy
Alberto Montagnoli- monetary policy, financial stability, central banking, credits
Farhad Noorbakhsh - economic development, welfare and human development, economic planning, project planning, macroeconomic adjustments, and regional disparities
Euan Phimister - labour economics, analysis of rural labour markets, and modelling decision making in farm households
Marjon van der Pol - health economics
Rainer Schulz - economics of property
John Skatun - labour economics, labour market contracting, economic role of trade union leaders
Mark Sutton - health economics
Joe Swiezerbinski - natural resource and environmental economics, experimental economics and industrial economics
Jonathan Thomas - microeconomics
Ioannis Theodossiou - wage determination, unemployment, statistical analysis