Lecturer in Economics

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Lecturer Grade F: £41,064 - £46,049 per annum. Lecturer Grade G: £47,389 - £56,535 per annum.

The Economics Subject Group has 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 highly-qualified students to our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

The Subject Group has a vibrant research community that promotes research around the following sub-themes:

• Applied Time Series Econometrics
• Behavioural and Experimental Economics
• Economics of Safety, Health, Environment and Risk
• Finance, Financial Economics and Financial Econometrics
• Labour, Health, Education, Crime, and Development Economics
• Macroeconomics, Policies and Institutions in Open Economic Systems
• Spatial, Urban, Regional, International and Industrial Economics

Colleagues have active funded projects in a range of areas including the Creative Industries and their internationalisation, Education, Development, Energy, Environmental, and Rural Economics. We also host a state-of-the-art Behavioural Research Laboratory.

We are expanding  invite applications from strong candidates, committed to collegiately, from all fields of economics.

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 Business School is located in Newcastle City Centre and at the gateway to the Newcastle Helix, a £350million partnership between Newcastle University, Newcastle City Council, and Legal and General. Newcastle University is a world class, research-intensive, civic university. We play a leading role in the economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university that actively recruits, supports and retains staff from all sectors of society. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everybody, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital status/civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, as well as being open to flexible working practices.

Formal applications should include a curriculum vitae and a job market paper. Please combine your job paper with either your CV or Covering Letter and upload this to the relevant section of the system as one document.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor John Sessions (j), Professor Nils Braakmann (ni), and Professor Jytte Nielsen (j).

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The University has developed an Academic Job Summary Guidance document which summarises the range of activities that academic colleagues may be expected to perform.

£41,064 to £56,535 per annum. See advert text for details.