CURRICULUM VITAE
GERAINT
JOHNES
Department of Economics,
Office phone + 44 1524 594215
Office fax +
44 1524 594244
Home phone + 44
1524 770767
Mobile phone + 44 7969 191043
E-mail G.Johnes@lancaster.ac.uk
DATE
OF BIRTH: 26 April 1958
MARITAL
STATUS Married (1987), three
children (b. 1991, 1992 and 1994)
NATIONALITY: BRITISH
(Passport number 103865970)
EMPLOYMENT:
Main employment:
Professor of
Economics, Lancaster University, 2000-date.
Reader in
Economics,
Senior Lecturer
in Economics, Lancaster University, 1992-1999.
Lecturer (B) in Economics, Lancaster
University, 1989-1992.
Lecturer (A) in Economics, Lancaster
University, 1982-1989.
Concurrent appointments:
Visiting
Professor of Economics,
Visiting Professor of
Economics,
Visiting Research
Scientist,
Visiting Fellow, Economics
Program,
Honorary Visiting
Professor, Beijing Normal University, 2004-2009.
Associate Fellow, ESRC
Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational
Performance (SKOPE), Universities of
Associate Fellow,
Advanced Institute of Management (AIM), 2007-date.
QUALIFICATIONS:
BSc: Economics
and Government,
MSc: Regional
Economics,
PhD: 'The occupational mobility
of unemployed labour',
(Registration for this degree was
initially at
University College Cardiff, 1981-82.)
Postgraduate
Certificate of Achievement in Coaching and Mentoring,
AWARDS AND CITATIONS:
Economics LTSN Award for Outstanding
Teaching, 2003
‘One of the world’s pioneering academic podcasters’, Guardian 17
August 2005.
FIELDS:
Economics of education
Spatial labour
markets
TEACHING:
Courses currently taught:
Part 1 Economics
MBA economics
MSc economics
PUBLICATIONS
AUTHORED BOOKS AND
MONOGRAPHS
2005
An exploratory analysis of
the cost structure of higher education in England, Department for Education
and Skills (with J. Johnes, P. Lenton,
2004
Fundamentals
of Labor Economics, Houghton Mifflin (with T.J. Hyclak and R.J.
Thornton), pp. xvii+523. Second edition 2013, pp.xvi+506
1993
The
Economics of Education, Macmillan, pp.xv+247 (subsequently translated into
Spanish and Arabic).
1992
Wage Flexibility and Unemployment Dynamics in
Regional Labor Markets, W.E. Upjohn
Institute for Employment Research, pp. viii+116 (with T.J. Hyclak).
1990
Economics for Managers, Prentice Hall, pp.
xiii+267.
EDITED BOOKS
2004
International
Handbook on the Economics of Education, Camberley:
Edward Elgar (with J. Johnes)
1994
Recent Developments in the Economics of Education, Edward Elgar,
1994, pp.653+xx (with E. Cohn).
JOURNAL EDITORSHIPS
Education Economics, Editor
(founding), 1993-2002.
International Journal of Manpower, Editor,
1988-1992.
ARTICLES IN
JOURNALS
2013
It’s been a long
time: an analysis of job duration in two banks, Evidence Based Human Resource Management (with Vivi Maltezou),
forthcoming.
Trade in the
greenhouse: efficient policy in a global model, International Journal of Sustainable Economy, forthcoming.
Tweet sensations: investigating the potential use of
sentiment analysis in higher education in the UK, Higher Education Review, forthcoming.
Performance
trends in the construction industry worldwide: an overview of the turn of the
century, Journal of Productivity
Analysis, forthcoming (with Isabel Horta, Ana Camanho
and Jill Johnes).
2012
Optimal educational
investment: domestic equity and international competition, ISRN Economics,
2011, 1-4.
Revisiting
the impact of occupational segregation on the gender earnings gap in Malaysia, Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia,
46, 13-25 (with Siew Ching Goy).
2011
Differences in cost structure and the evaluation of efficiency: the case of German universities, Education Economics, 19, 487-500 (with Astrid Schwarzenberger).
Occupational segregation in the Malaysian Labor market: evidence on the L index, Singapore Economic Review, 56, 397-421.
Economics: still
a bastard science, The Eighth Lamp –
Ruskin Studies Today, number 5, available at http://issuu.com/theeighthlamp/docs/l85
2010
Costs and
efficiency of higher education institutions in England: a DEA analysis, Journal of the Operational Research Society,
62, 1282-1297 (with Emmanuel Thanassoulis, Mika Kortelainen
and Jill Johnes).
Heterogeneity and
the evaluation of efficiency: the case of Italian universities, Applied Economics, 42, 1365-1376 (with
Tommaso Agasisti).
It was all gonna trickle down: what has growth in India’s advanced
sectors really done for the rest?, Indian Economic Journal, 57, 146-155.
2009
Higher education institutions' costs and
efficiency: Taking the decomposition a further step, Economics of Education Review, 28, 107-113 (with Jill Johnes).
Changes in the Characteristics and Skills
of British Youth, Economics Bulletin, 29(1),
369-375.
Occupation and
the labour market participation of women: why do some
people trade down jobs when careers are interrupted?, Applied Economics Letters, 16,
1093-1096.
Beyond frontiers:
comparing the efficiency of higher education decision-making units across more
than one country, Education Economics,
17, 59-79 (with Tommaso Agasisti).
2008
Changes in gender
wage discrimination: a tale of three very different economies, Japan and the World Economy, 20, 97-113
(with Yashuhide Tanaka).
Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Efficiency: the
Case of Italian Universities, Applied
Economics, forthcoming (with Tommaso Agasisti).
An analysis of costs in
institutions of higher education in England, Studies in Higher Education, 33, 527-550.
Assessing
efficiency of Portugese universities through
parametric and non-parametric methods, Portugese Journal of
Management Studies, 13, 39-68 (with Ana Camanho
and Maria Portela).
2007
The wage curve
revisited: estimates from a
The determinants
of costs and efficiencies where producers are heterogeneous: the case of
Spanish universities, Economics Bulletin,
4(15), 1-9.
Funding formulae
where costs legitimately differ: the case of higher education in
2006
Pricing
in higher education: implications for English institutions in the wake of the 2004
higher education reform, Education and
Economy, 80, 1-3 (in Chinese).
Didacticism
and educational outcomes, Educational
Research and Reviews, 1, 23-28.
Has Becker put
economics in the electric chair?, The Economist’s Voice, 3(4), article 5.
2005
‘Don’t know much about history...’: Revisiting
the impact of curriculum on subsequent labour market
outcomes, Bulletin of Economic
Research, 57, 249-272.
Chaos and the dancing stars: nonlinearity and entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurship, 14, 1-20 (with Ayana Manasova
and Alexander Kalinoglou).
2004
Never give up on the good times: student attrition in the
A fourth desideratum: the CES cost function and the sustainable
configuration of multiproduct firms, Bulletin
of Economic Research, 56, 329-332.
2003
Optimal regional policies with education, labour mobility and occupational choice, Public Finance,
53, 489-494.
The influence of expected wages on occupational choice: new evidence from
2002
Stochastic frontier estimation of a CES cost
function: the case of higher education in
Technical efficiency under alternative regulatory
regimes: evidence from the inter-war British gas industry, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 22, 251-270 (with C. Hammond and
T. Robinson).
A Tajik story:
the labour market following war and transition, Economic Systems, 26, 17-30.
2001
The effect of competition on the efficiency of
secondary schools in England, European
Journal of Operational Research, 135, 545-568 (with S. Bradley and J.
Millington).
A new look at gender effects in participation and
occupation choice, Labour,
15, 415-443 (with D. Soopramanien).
2000
It’s different
for girls: participation and occupational segregation in the
Up around the
bend: linear and nonlinear models of the
1999
The management of universities: Scottish Economic Society / Royal Bank
of Scotland Annual Lecture, Scottish
Journal of Political Economy, 46, 505-522. Reprinted in Belfield, C. and Levin, H. (eds) (2003) The Economics of Higher Education,
Camberley: Edward Elgar.
Schooling,
fertility and the labour market experience of married
women, Applied Economics, 31,
585-592.
Forecasting
unemployment, Applied Economics Letters,
6, 605-607.
House
prices and regional labor markets, Annals
of Regional Science, 33, 33-49 (with T. Hyclak).
1998
Human capital versus sorting: new data and a new
test, Applied Economics Letters, 5,
665-667.
The
costs of multi-product organisations and the
heuristic evaluation of industrial structure, Socio-economic Planning Sciences, 32, 199-209.
1997
Costs
and industrial structure in contemporary British higher education, Economic Journal, 107, 727-737.
Wage inflation
and unemployment in
British employers
and the Social Chapter: some survey evidence, Industrial Relations Journal, 28, 236-242 (with D. Sapsford, H.
Armstrong and R. de Kervenoael).
1996
Multi-product
cost functions and the funding of tuition in
Evaluating
universities' preferences for teaching and research, Journal of Education Finance, 22, 214-219.
1995
The
determinants of real wage flexibility, Labour Economics,
2, 175-185 (with T.J. Hyclak). Reprinted in Armstrong, H.W. and Taylor, J.
(eds) (2000) The
economics of regional policy, Camberley: Edward
Elgar.
Research funding
and performance in
Encouraging truthful revelation when monitoring is
costly, Omega, 23, 231-234 (with R.
Rothschild).
Scale and
technical efficiency in the production of economic research: data envelopment
analysis of the 1992 Research Assessment Exercise of British University
departments of economics, Applied
Economics Letters, 2, 7-11.
1994
The determinants of student
loan take-up in the
Policy reforms
and the theory of education finance, Journal
of Economic Studies, 21(1), 3-15 (with J.Johnes).
House prices,
migration and regional labor markets, Journal
of Housing Economics, 3, 312-329 (with T.J. Hyclak).
1993
Measuring
the research performance of
The role of
transport costs as a determinant of price level differentials between the Isle
of Man and the
Wage rigidity and
cyclical unemployment, Industrial
Relations Research Association Proceedings, 45, 524-530 (with T.J. Hyclak).
1992
Regional
wage inflation and unemployment dynamics in
Performance
indicators in higher education: a survey of recent work, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 8(2), 19-34.
Apples and
oranges: the aggregation problem in publications analysis, Scientometrics, 25, 353-365
(with J. Johnes).
1991
House prices in a small island economy: the
1990
Measures of research
output: university departments of economics in the
Tax based incomes policies and productivity deals, Economics Letters, 34, 61-65.
Equilibrium,
information and efficiency - the case of the NAIRU, Studies in Economic Analysis, 13, 3-11.
1989
Real
wage rigidity in regional labor markets in the
Real wages and
unemployment in
1988
Shake-outs and
shake-ins of labour: an example of the Riemann-Hugoniot catastrophe?, Indian Journal of Economics, 36, 24-29.
Determinants of
research output in economics departments in British universities, Research Policy, 17, 171-178.
1987
Optimal tax progressivity
under imperfect competition, Economics
Letters, 22, 279-282.
Regional policy and
industrial structure in the Welsh economy, Regional
Studies, 21, 555-564.
On the
determinants of full employment unemployment rates in local labour
markets, Applied Economics, 19,
191-200 (with T.J. Hyclak).
The employability
of new graduates: a study of differences between
1986
Cost structures
in a large hospital for the mentally handicapped, Social Science and Medicine, 22, 605-610 (with A. Haycox).
1985
Error removal,
loss reduction and external effects in the theory of strikes, Australian Economic Papers, 24, 310-325
BOOK CHAPTERS
2012
Early years’
education and subsequent schooling in rural India, in K. Pushpangadan
and V. Balasubramanyan (eds)
Growth, Develoopment
and Diversity, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
2010
Skills and
earnings revisited, in Backhaus, J., Eamets, R. and Sepp, J. (eds) Advances in the Economics of Education: on
Markets and Post-Transformation Issues., Muenster, LIT Verlag.
2009
Economies of
scale and mergers, in
Tight, M. et al. (eds) International Handbook of Higher Education,
Routledge (with Colin Green).
2008
Cherry-picking in
the economics of education orchard: a selective survey of recent developments,
in Petretto, A. and Pignataro,
G. (eds) Economia del capitale umano:
istituzioni, incentivi e valutazione, Milan: Società italiana di economia
puibblica.
2004
Standards, in Johnes, G. and Johnes, J. (eds) International
Handbook on the Economics of Education,
Edward Elgar.
The evaluation of welfare under alternative models of higher education
finance, in Teixeria, P., Jongbloed,
B., Dill, D. and Amaral, A. (eds)
Markets in higher education:
rhetoric or reality?, Boston: Kluwer.
1997
The funding of
higher education in the United Kingdom, in Hare, P.G. (ed.) Structure and financing of higher education
in Russia, Ukraine and the Eueopean Union,
Jessica Kingsley.
1996
The structure of the
economy, in Artis, M. (ed.) The
Labour, in Artis, M. (ed.) The
Modelling the UK labour market: structural and VAR approaches, in L. Vlacic, T. Nguyen and D. Cecez-Kecmanovic
(eds) Modelling and Control
of National and Regional Economies, Oxford: Pergamon.
1994
The development
of competition among higher education institutions in the UK, in Bartlett, W., Propper, C., Wilson, D. and Le Grand, J. (eds) Quasi-markets
in the welfare state, SAUS, Bristol, 95-120 (with M. Cave).
Modern
approaches to unemployment, in Atkinson, G.B.J. Developments in economics, volume 10, 1-18.
Factors of production, in Kuper, A. and Kuper, J. International Social Science Encyclopaedia.
1993
Houses, jobs and
the decision to migrate, in Cambridge Econometrics (eds.) Regional economic prospects: analysis and forecasts to 2005, 35-41.
1991
Unemployment in
Lancaster and Morecambe, in Robinson, P. (ed.) Unemployment and local labour
markets, Avebury, 63-75 (with P. Regan).
European
integration and human resources - an introduction, in Johnes, G. (ed.) European integration: the human resource
dimension, MCB University Press, 4-9.
1987
Taxation, in Atkinson, G.B.J. (ed.) Developments in Economics vol. 3,
Causeway Press, 55-75.
OFFICIAL REPORTS
AND CONSULTANCY
2009
Development and
refinement of a greenhouse gas footprint measurement tool, Consultancy report
for Small World Consulting Ltd., funded by North West Development Agency. This work contributed to the publication of Berners-Lee (2010) How bad are bananas: the carbon footprint of everything, London: Green
Profile.
2006
Career
interruptions and labour market outcomes, Equal
Opportunities Commission.
Study
of the Costs of Provision through the Medium of Welsh in Higher Education
Institutions in
2004
The
global value of education and training exports to the
1997
Equity and
efficiency in education: some policy issues facing the
Restricted report
prepared for the Higher Education Funding Council.
1994
Alternative
sources for financing education in
1990
Energy prices on
the Isle of Man, Board of Consumer Affairs,
Property prices
and rents on the Isle of Man, Board of Consumer Affairs, Isle of Man, pp.94
(with H.W. Armstrong, J. Johnes, and A.I. MacBean).
1989
Measuring research
output - a report, prepared for the Royal Economic Society, pp. 82. (This report comprised the Royal Economic Society's submission to
the Universities Funding Council as part of the 1989 research selectivity
exercise.)
Transport costs
and price levels on the Isle of Man, Board of Consumer Affairs,
1985
Redundancies in
the coal industry: a preliminary report and case study of the Haig colliery,
Whitehaven, National Coal Board, pp. 33.
1979
Index of
Industrial Production for
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS
Other
publications include more than 20 papers in professional journals and in
refereed academic journals in the fields of education and management, plus book
reviews in journals including the Economic
Journal, Business History, Regional Studies, Higher Education, Education
Economics, International Journal of Manpower.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Education and occupational
outcomes in Brazil and India (with A. Aggarwal, R. Freguglia, G. Spricigo)
Company performance and
strategic change (with Jill Johnes)
Determinants of child labour (with Reza Arabsheibani)
Happiness in Wales (with
David Blanchflower)
Regional unemployment (with
Deborah Gefang)
Social capital (with Thomas
Bolli)
Class time, contact time and
private study (with Thomas Bolli)
Cost structures and
efficiency in higher education in England (with Jill Johnes)
Cost structures and
efficiency in higher education in the US (with Tommaso Agasisti)
Evaluation of research
training in the US (with Tommaso Agasisti and Thomas Bolli)
GRANTS AND CONSULTANCY ( £1000)
2012
£45000 from BIS
to study costs and efficiency in higher education (with Jill Johnes)
2009
£97971
from the ESRC for analysing the impact of education
on occupational outcomes in India and Brazil (with Indian and Brazilian
partners).
£3000 from the
North West Development Agency Innovation Voucher Scheme in order to provide
consultancy services to Small World Consulting Ltd. on the development and
refinement of their greenhouse gas footprint tool.
2006
€250450 from the European Union to evaluate cost sharing in higher
education in six European countries (with Jill Johnes, Astrid Schwarzenberger and others).
£25000 from the Welsh Assembly Government for my
contribution to the London Economics report on the demand for and supply of
Welsh medium teachers.
£36000 from HEFCW for my contribution to the London
Economics report on the provision of higher education through the medium of
Welsh.
2005
£9998
from the Equal Opportunities Commission to examine labour
market outcomes of individuals with interrupted careers using BHPS data.
£57000 from the DfES to evaluate the impact of the Centre for
Excellence in Leadership (with Steve Bradley).
2004
£ 47000 from the DfES to continue
research on cost structures in higher education (with J.Johnes
and
2003
£30000 from the DfES to research cost
structures in higher education (with J.Johnes and
£30000 from the British
Council, DfES, DTI, and ONS to research the evaluation of educational exports
from the
2001
€ 429565.50 from
the European Union Minerva programme to fund network
resource-based learning in management (with H-P. Baumeister and others).
2000
€ 177210 from the
European Union Framework 5 to analyse the private
sector of higher education in Eastern Europe (with D. Sapatorou,
J. Earle and others).
1997
£10930
from the Department for Employment and Education, to co-ordinate the Employment
and Education Economics Group (with S. Bradley).
1996
$9000
from the World Bank, to design, pilot and implement a voucher system for the
finance of vocational training in the informal (Jua
Kali) sector in
38000 ECUs from
INTAS (International Association for the Promotion of Co-operation with
Scientists from the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union) to extend
the study of higher education funding in the European Union and in the
countries of the former Soviet Union (with P. Hare, U. Teichler,
A. Markov, M. Lugachyov, V. Savchuk
and P. Luzik).
£12900
from the Higher Education Funding Council for
FF30000 from the
OECD, to devise a framework for country studies of the financing of lifelong
learning. Further funding is currently being negotiated in connection with the
co-ordination of these studies and the writing of a synthesis report.
£10400
from the Department for Employment and Education, to co-ordinate the Employment
and Education Economics Group (with S. Bradley).
1995
£9700
from the Department for Employment and Education, to co-ordinate the Employment
and Education Economics Group (with S. Bradley).
1994
$6660
from the British Council, to work on a World Bank project on alternative
sources for financing education in
$9000 from the
World Bank, to compare and evaluate public and private sector arrangements for
training across South East Asian Newly Industrialised
Countries, with special reference to funding mechanisms.
30000 ECUs from
INTAS to study of higher education funding in the European Union and in the countries
of the former Soviet Union (with P.
Hare, U. Teichler, A. Markov, M. Lugachyov,
V. Savchuk and P. Luzik).
£9950 from the ESRC,
to co-ordinate the Research Study Group on the Economics of Education (with M.
Cave and M. Weale).
1992
£8480 from the ESRC,
to co-ordinate the Research Study Group on the Economics of Education (with M.
Cave and M. Weale).
£5000
from the Royal Economic Society, to study the funding of tuition at
1990
$29825
from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, to study wage rigidity
and unemployment dynamics in regional labour markets
(with T. Hyclak).
1989
£21000
from Isle of Man Government, to study prices of energy, housing and transport
(with H. Armstrong, J. Johnes and A. MacBean).
£3150 from Royal
Economic Society, to conduct a bibliometric
evaluation of research output of British university departments of economics.
1988
£2000 from
Anglo-German Foundation, to examine regional Phillips curves.
1985
£1000 from British
Coal, to investigate redundancy in the coal industry.
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
2013
Beijing Normal University (2 papers)
2012
Politecnico di Milano
SRHE Conference, Newport
2011
WPEG Conference, Sheffield
International Workshop on the Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro,
Italy
SKOPE, Oxford University
2010
Delhi University
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Delhi
GD Goenka World Institute, Lancaster
University, Sohna, India
2010
University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
ESRC Research Methods Conference, Oxford
2009
UK Council for Graduate Education conference, British Library, London
British Northern Universities India Forum conference, Trivandrum, India
Porto conference
on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (keynote speaker)
2007
VATT,
SIEP,
Conference on Funding, Equity and Efficiency of Higher Education,
2006
VATT,
NIESR Conference
on Public Sector Performance,
Porto conference
on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
2005
Department for
Education and Skills,
European Public
Choice Society Conference,
International
Conference on Education Economics,
Conference on Higher Education, Multijurisdictionality and Globalisation,
2004
Education
Economics conference,
CRISS, Welfare
State conference,
Scottish Economic
Society conference,
Missenden Centre
conference on Fixing Fees
British Council
Vision 2020 Launch event,
English
2003
IPBS Conference,
NCUP Conference,
Inaugural
Lecture,
Inaugural
conference of the Lancaster Centre for Management in
2002
Royal Economic
Society Conference,
2001
ATINER
Conference,
IPBS Conference,
1999
EEEG (Education
and Employment Economics Group),
Centre for
Economic Performance,
IPBS Conference,
1998
Social Science
Research Council,
World Bank,
Washington
1997
EEEG
(Education and Employment Economics Group - sponsored by DfEE)
Annual Conference,
1996
EEEG Annual
Conference,
1995
Economics
Department,
Manchester
Universities' Labour Economics Group
Centre for the
Economics of Education and Training,
IFAC Symposium on
Modelling of Regional and National Economies, Gold
Coast,
Department of
Economics and Finance,
ESRC Economics of
Education Seminar Group,
1994
Royal Economic
Society Conference,
Equal
Opportunities Commission Expert Seminar on Discrimination,
1993
American Economic
Association Annual Conference,
Industrial
Relations Research Association Conference,
SAUS Conference
on quasi-markets,
International
Symposium on the Economics of Education, British Council,
ESRC Economics of
Education Seminar Group, Regent's College,
1992
EMRU Labour Economics Study Group,
Economics
Department,
Economics
Department,
Operational
Research Society Annual Conference,
Economics Department,
1991
Conference on
Islands and
Regional Science
Association Congress,
European Economic
Association Conferece,
RES Conference on
the Economics of Higher Education,
1990
Tynwald,
ESRC Urban and
Regional Economics Seminar Group, University of Glasgow
1988
Economics
Department,
Science Policy
Support Group,
St Davids Forum, Llanwrtyd Wells
Political Studies
Association Conference,
Employment Market
Research Unit, Labour Economics Study Group, U.C.
Swansea
1987
Science Policy
Support Group, Ciba Foundation,
1983
Economics
Department,
Bachelor level programmes at Bangor (1999-2001), Stirling
(2000-2002), Strathclyde (2003-2005), Durham (2007-2010).
Masters level programme at
Doctoral theses
at Newcastle, Australian National University (1998), London (2000),
Southampton, Heriot-Watt (2002), Sheffield, Edinburgh
(2003), York, Durham, Queensland (2004), Exeter, Northumbria
(2006), York (2007), Keele (2008), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(2011), Swansea (2012), Nottingham (2012).
Upgrade from MPhil to PhD at
MAJOR SERVICE ROLES
This post
involves:
Achievements (so
far) while in this post include:
2. Head of Department of Economics, Lancaster
University Management School, 2006-2009.
This post
involved:
Achievements
while in this post include:
3.
Associate Dean with special responsibility for postgraduates, and Director of the
Graduate Management School, Lancaster University, 2003-2005.
This post
involved:
·
quality review, validation and monitoring of all postgraudate programmes and
courses in the
·
direct responsibility for programmes
and courses offered by the
·
overall responsibility for postgraduate admissions
·
membership of School and University committees:
Planning and Resources Committee, Dean’s Steering Group, University Committee
for Graduate Studies, the School Teaching Committee (chair), Senate, various
other committees
Achievements
while in this post include:
·
15% growth of masters programmes
within
3. Associate
Dean,
This post
involved:
·
quality review, validation and monitoring of all
undergraduate teaching programmes and courses in the
·
direct responsibility for School courses not located
within departments (BBA, BSc in Management)
·
responsibility for all undergraduate admissions in
the School
·
membership of School and University committees:
Planning and Resources Committee, Dean’s Steering Group, University Committee
for Undergraduate Studies (deputy chair), the School Teaching Committee
(chair), Senate, various other committees
Achievements
while in this post include:
·
expansion of central school courses
·
rationalisation of course and programme provision
·
co-ordination of the development of programme specifications throughout the School (at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level)
·
introduction of a wide variety of measures to
improve teaching, learning and quality assurance within the School – including
internal peer review, adoption of grade descriptors, requirement that new staff
undertake CPD, raising profile of employability issues in validation process,
improvement of quality assurance generally (and specifically on European BBA)
etc.
·
development, with partner institutions, of
Foundation Degree in Management
·
development of relations with associated and
accredited institutions
·
modest enhancement of e-learning provision
·
promotion of a teaching and learning ethos within
the School
4. Director of
Studies for Part I Economics, 1991-1999. During this period I led a
complete restructuring of the department’s first year undergraduate programme.
5. Key participant in QAA Developmental Engagement
within the Department of Economics,
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of ESRC
Board of Examiners, 2008-2010.
Member of UniversitiesUK Experts Group on Economics, 2009-2010.
Member
of the World Bank's Economics of Education External Advisory Group, 1998-date.
Member of
Department for Education and Skills panel to advise on
research in higher education, 2001-2005.
Member of
Technical Advisory Group for Universities UK and British Council led project on
forecasting overseas student numbers (Vision 2020), 2003-04.
Accreditor,
Higher Education Academy (formerly the
Joint
co-ordinator (with Steve Bradley) of Education and
Employment Economics Group (sponsored by DfEE)
1995-1998.
Joint
co-ordinator of ESRC Study Group in the Economics of
Education (with
Local
organiser, EMRU Labour
Economics Seminar Group summer conference, 1994.
Referee for
various journals, including Economic
Journal,
Referee for ESRC
research grant and research centre proposals.
Referee for
various book publishers.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member
of the
American Economic
Association
European
Association of Labour Economists
EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES
Club Captain, Lunesdale Lawn Tennis Club, 2006.
Governor,
Caton St Paul's
Chair,