05-8-24
I was appointed the SGPE PhD Director.
01-07-24
I hosted Scott Cunningham (Baylor) in the 3rd annual SGPE Summer School on Causal inference at the University of Stirling.
08-05-24
Willem Sas and I presented the paper on the Evolution of Devolution during COVID19 at the Scotland/ Northern England (SaNE) Applied Micro Workshop hosted by St Andrews in Crieff.
01-05-24
I was awarded £13.5k by the Carnegie Trust to investigate the role of austerity on food bank usage in the UK.
25-04-24
I successfully oversaw the change of UG Programme from a BA to a BSc and the quinquennial L&T review
23-04-24
My paper ‘How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?’ was one of the top 10 most cited papers in the Economic History Review last year
17-04-24
I presented the pollution and labour supply paper at the Scottish Economic Society
17-11-23
I was appointed SGPE MSc Dissertation Coordinator
27-06-23
I was appointed SGPE PhD Summer School Director
28-05-23
I coordinated the Scottish Graduate Programme’s PhD Summer school on Differences-in-Differences hosted @ Stirling. It was lovely to host Scott Cunningham (Baylor)
12-05-23
I have been promoted to Senior Lecturer (Assoc Prof)
23-04-23
I have been elected to serve in the Scottish Economic Society’s council
19-01-23
Household structure, labour participation and economic inequality in Britain, 1937-61 has been conditionally accepted at the Economic History Review
03-11-22
Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa has been accepted at Oxford Economic Papers
22-10-22
Escaping Hunger before WWI has been accepted at Cliometrica
27-9-22
I was appointed Economics Pathway convenor for the SGSSS & PhD co-Director for the SGPE
25-04-22
I presented the halls paper at SES
22-02-22
How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain? is now published in EHR
30-06-21
The Student halls paper is now out as GLO Discussion Paper, No. 868
21-06-21
I was interviewed by Simon Baker at the Times Higher Education about the implications of the Student Halls + Covid-19 Cases paper
12-06-21
Student Halls paper has been covered by the Times
09-06-21
New paper on the impact of University Reopenings on COVID-19 cases in Scotland is now out in COVID Economics 80