Department of Economics at University of Reading

Head of Department, Professor James Reade was interviewed by Channels Television on corruption concerns around Qatar’s successful bid to host the men’s football World Cup later this year.

If you missed it, take a listen! Professor Reade features at 18.45 minutes into the conversation.

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Great to see our Part 1 and 2 students out on the football pitches on several occasions during Spring Term! ⚽️

The matches were organised by Dr Neha Hui and Dr Shixuan Wang.

The department is determined to organise more footy matches, so stay tuned for more details!

We are ready to meet you!🙂

Today we are hosting another Visit Day at University of Reading

We are located in The Palmer Building, come along and meet our friendly student ambassadors, available all day to answer any questions

The sun is shining at University of Reading Whiteknights campus, a wonderful start to our 🌞

Our student ambassadors from the department are ready to meet applicants.

We are in the The Palmer Building all day, so come along and say 'hi' 👋

We are really looking forward to welcoming applicants and their families, to the first of several Visit Days, starting on Saturday 26th February 🥳

Visit Days are organised to provide applicants an insight into what it would be like, to be a student studying at the University of Reading. On Saturday, we have planned the following:

Taster seminars / lectures, workshops, Q&A sessions with current students and of course a chance to chat to academics.

You will also have a chance to tour our wonderful green campus and accommodation.

So what's it like studying Economics here?

Meet Tom, who tells us about his experiences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWrUGZNBa0g

There's still time to book a place 😊

Further details can be found here:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/applicantportal

Studying Economics at Reading - Hear from Tom

Congratulations to all our students that graduated last week and !

It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces!

We are immensely proud of all our students and are looking forward to seeing many go on to do the great things, we know they are capable of!

The first Lille-Reading Workshop on International Finance takes place this week, 4 - 5 November 21.

The workshop is co-founded & co-organised by Dr Alexander Mihailov from The University of Reading and Dr Florence Huart from Université de Lille. This event is supported by the Money, Macro & Finance Society.

The keynote speaker will be Dr Gianluca Benigno from The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE

The workshop will be held virtually on MS Teams please contact Alexander Mihailov for access details at [email protected]

More details about the event can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/view/lille-reading-workshop-intfin/home

Today marks the start of the autumn term!🍂

Welcome back to all returning students🧡

Join us today at 2pm, for our first online internal seminar with Dr Tho Pham discussing,

"Gender Bias in Job Ads: Explicit and Implicit Preferences"

If you would like to join, then please send us an email:
[email protected]

All welcome!

Wonderful to see so many students on campus for day 3 of Welcome!

We are holding undergraduate academic sessions for joint honours students between 11:00-13:00 in Chancellor's Building G06

Dr Vivi Burrows is running the session, alongside Dr Alice Baderin from Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Readingv as well as Dr Luke Elson covering PPE from Philosophy at the University of Reading

The session will provide an insight into SPEIR and more specific course and department information. It's also a great chance to meet other students, tutors and academics and have a chat over a coffee.

As a University student welfare is at the forefront of our minds and so we will also use this session to signpost all of our 'Essentials' information.

https://reading.ac.uk/essentials/

There's a lot of Welcome activities taking place today.

Why not drop by and visit us at the Module Information Fair? Dr Stefania Lovo can let you know about the many great modules on offer.

We are here until 4pm so come down, we are looking forward to meeting you!

The Volunteering & Sustainability Fayre stalls will also be available in the marquee today, as part of the University Life Fair, so why not look around.

Find out more information here:
https://rusu.co.uk/freshers

It's Welcome Week!

A warm welcome to our new & students, as a department we look forward to meeting you all.

We have a jam-packed week of events & activities organised online and in person. There are loads of great opportunities to explore the campus, make new friends & prepare for your studies, so make sure to download the UoR app for details

Download the UoR Welcome app for more details:

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📣Last ROSES Talk Before Christmas📣

Tomorrow we welcome Georgios Nalbantis from University of Tübingen to discuss “Substitution effects between international soccer
telecasts"⚽

The video of the talk will be up on our YouTube Channel shortly after: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6RTqaYr-HvkGCB3UheDnrA