RES Conference
RES PhD Presentation Meeting & Job Market
Young Economist of the Year
Junior Fellowship Scheme
RES Training Schools
Student Membership
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RES PhD Presentation Meeting & Job Market
Sixth PhD Presentation Meeting of the Royal Economic Society

The Sixth PhD Presentation Meeting will be held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th January 2011 at City University, London.

The aim of the event is to provide a service both for UK and European university economics departments who wish to recruit lecturers, and for PhD students seeking academic jobs in the UK or elsewhere in Europe. This annual meeting has grown to be an extremely successful event, well supported by both students and potential employers. The event consists of two days of students' presentations and poster sessions. Participating institutions attend these presentations and are also allocated a table at the conference site in order to arrange individual appointments with participating students during the course of the conference.

Institutions wishing to attend the meeting should contact the Royal Economic Society (royaleconsoc@st-andrews.ac.uk) starting October 2010, with names of participating staff members.

PhD students planning to attend should visit Conference Maker (http://editorialexpress.com/conference/) for further information and a website to submit papers and provide contact information. Submissions will open in September 2010.

Details of the conference will also be available at: (http://www.city.ac.uk/economics/conferences.html)

For further information, please contact:
Patricia Cubi-Molla (p.cubi-molla@city.ac.uk)  or
Javier Ortega (Javier.Ortega.1@city.ac.uk)
Or the RES Administrator, Amanda Wilman (royaleconsoc@st-andrews.ac.uk)

PhD Job Market 2010

PhD Job Market 2009

Posted by RES Administrator, at  royaleconsoc@st-andrews.ac.uk on 20 April 2010

Junior Fellowship Scheme

RES ONE-YEAR JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

The Society is able to offer 6 one-year junior fellowships, tenable at Universities in the United Kingdom. The amount of the fellowship is currently set at £8,00O (£11,000 in London). This sum will be paid to the Universities, which will make appropriate arrangements for paying the recipients of the fellowship awards at regular intervals.

Candidates should have completed at least two years' work towards a doctoral thesis when they take up an award. Those who have already completed their doctorates may also be considered upon application to the Secretary-General.

Those awarded Fellowships must undertake a minimum of 60 hours teaching, plus 15 hours preparation time, in the academic year. The maximum amount of teaching (including tutorials/supervisions undertaken for Colleges) is 80 hours, excluding 20 hours preparation time.

Students who already have full financial support for the academic year are not eligible for a fellowship award.

Applications must be submitted by the candidate’s Head of Department and those awarded Fellowships must submit a report to the Secretary-General of the Society at the end of the academic year. Universities will be invited by the Secretary-General of the Society to make application for the awards in the Spring of each year.

For further details contact the RES Administrator at royaleconsoc@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Junior Fellowship Award 2010-2011 Applications closed

Junior Fellowship Award Scheme applications for 2010-2011 have now closed. The successful applicants will be notified by the end of the summer and a list published on this site.

Previous Junior Fellowship Awards

RES Training Schools

Easter & Autumn Schools

The Royal Economic Society has granted funds to the University of Birmingham to provide an Easter School for twenty years.

These schools are intended primarily for advanced postgraduate students doing doctoral research but are also open to members of the teaching and research staff. The purpose is to enable participants to become acquainted with the latest developments in the selected fields of economics, to have the opportunity for study and discussion with two internationally renowned experts in the topics covered, and to meet other young researchers.
Places are usually available for 25 resident participants. Accommodation and meals are provided for the duration of the course.

Nominations are made through the applicant’s Head of Department and should be supported by a short CV, a reference, and a note on the applicant’s research interests.
Application dates are provided on the website, the RES newsletter and emailed to University Heads of Economics Departments via CHUDE.

The RES is delighted that RES financial support combined with success in obtaining funding from the ESRC’s Researcher Development Initiative, will enable the University of Birmingham to now run two schools in 2010, 2011 and 2012. One school will be devoted to some aspect(s) of macroeconomics, and the other to subjects of a microeconomic character.

The 20th RES Easter School was held on 18 and 22 April 2010. For further details please go to the Easter School website.

The first RES Autumn School will start on Monday September 20, and conclude on the late afternoon of Thursday September 23.
The subjects are Game Theory and Energy Markets; the lecturers will be Professor Peyton Young (Oxford) and Professor Richard Green (Birmingham).

Further information can be found here.

Applications should be submitted no later than Friday, 11th June, 2010 by post to the Royal Economic Society Autumn School Secretary, Department of Economics, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT or by email: easterschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk. Successful applicants will be informed in July 2010.

Further information may be obtained from the Easter School web site at: www.economics.bham.ac.uk/events/index.shtml

Student Membership

Student membership is available to new members only who are registered as full-time students. The discounted student rate is available for 3 years. Click here for details.

Other Links and References

• Why Study Economics?
  Website: www.whystudyeconomics.ac.uk
• The Economics Network of the UK's Higher Education Academy
  provides publications, events, funding opportunities and other
  resources.
  Website: www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/
• The following site offers advice, help and information for Economics
  undergraduates
  Website: www.studyingeconomics.ac.uk/
  
• EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's
  largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles
  and software.
  Website: www.econpapers.repec.org/
• The Social Science Research Network -SSRN’s eLibrary.
  Website: www.ssrn.com/