Research Associate - Economics and Finance of the Built Environment

UCL - University College London
London - United Kingdom
S: £33,353-£40,313

Duties and Responsibilities

The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management is part of the Faculty of the Built Environment. It is currently looking to appoint a Research Associate to support the School's research in economics and finance. We welcome applications from candidates with a strong background in economics and/or finance who is keen to apply their expertise to built environment research. The School is developing its strengths in the application of behavioural economics to a range of built environment themes and applications from candidates with specific interests in the real world application of behavioural economics principles will be particularly welcomed.

The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting existing research projects within the School, and developing new ones in a range of themes connected to the built environment. This includes a wide range of themes, including (but not confined to) construction sector forecasting and analysis, infrastructure investment and finance, microeconomic/behavioural analysis of infrastructure and construction supply chains; housing and property market instability; construction labour markets, and innovation in the built environment, including digital technology adoption, e.g. building information modelling (BIM).

The research associate will work closely with the School's Economics and Finance team - led by Professor Michelle Baddeley and Professor Jim Meikle. They will also have opportunities to collaborate with the AECOM Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) team, which has recently won a 3 year £256K grant from Innovate-UK to support AECOM's development of innovative forecasting tools.

Key Requirements

The appointee will have a PhD in economics, finance, statistics or computing with experience of econometric analysis, structural modelling and/or computational modelling e.g. in PhD dissertation research, who is keen to apply their knowledge and skills to themes linked to the built environment, in developed and/or developing countries. They will also need to have a strong interest in real-world applications of economics theory (standard and behavioural) together with demonstrable experience of statistical software packages (including STATA, EViews and/or similar programs) and/or programming packages (e.g. R, Matlab, C++).

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