ESRC PhD Studentship in Economics

Cardiff University - Cardiff Business School
Cardiff - United Kingdom
S: Studentship

Cardiff Business School, supported by the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre for Wales (Wales DTC), invites applications for one fully-funded 4-year '2+2' PhD studentship in Economics to commence late-September 2015.

Cardiff Business School was ranked 4th out of 90 UK business schools in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and 'excellent' for teaching. Lively, elegant, confident and cosmopolitan, the city of Cardiff offers an excellent location in which to study. Students benefit from the combination of a small, friendly, inexpensive city with the cultural and recreational amenities of an ambitious and progressive capital city.

This '2+2' studentship will provide funding for four years, completing the MSc in Economics in the 1st year and the MRes in Advanced Economics in the 2nd year, followed by two years of funding for the PhD research phase.
We are seeking exceptional applicants with a first-class or very good upper second Honours degree, and preferably also a Masters degree with an average mark of at least 65%.

Applications in any of the specialised areas of research within the School's economics section are invited:

Macroeconomics
Finance
Econometrics
Labour
Trade
Growth and development
Research and development (R&D), innovations and productivity
Regional and industrial economics
Economic and business history

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