Newcastle University

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The Economics Group within Newcastle University Business School has over 35 full-time research and teaching staff. We are a collegiate and generalist Group with expertise in all areas of economics. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality and attract high qualified students to our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Group members have active funded projects in a range of different areas including the Creative Industries, Education, Development, Energy, Environmental, and Rural Economics. The Group has a long tradition in informing public sector policy formation and hosts a state-of-the-art Behavioural Research Laboratory.

The Group is expanding at pace and has recently appointed several lecturers, a reader and a named chair. We now have a further lecturer position, and we invite applications from strong candidates, committed to collegiality, with expertise in macroeconomics.

You will hold, or be close to obtaining, a relevant PhD and will be able to demonstrate a capacity to publish in journals of international standing. You will have: (i) A clear and viable strategy for sustained future research that has the potential to result in world-leading publications; and (ii) the ability to teach economics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Newcastle University is a world class research-intensive university. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Formal applications should include a curriculum vitae and a job market paper. Questions about the Economics Group or the hiring process can be addressed to Professor John Sessions, Head of Economics (john.sessions@newcastle.ac.uk) or Professor Nils Braakmann, Deputy Head of Economics (nils.braakmann@newcastle.ac.uk).