In less than two and a half years, the University of Bristol has launched 12 social venture spinouts, each one rooted in academic insight and driven by societal purpose.
Research has revealed for the first time the full extent of how pupils from higher-income families are favoured by high-performing secondary school admissions criteria – but one simple change could help reverse this unfair divide.
The University of Bristol hosted a visit from the Economics Club Mumbai – an organisation aiming to inspire young people and transform economics education, in the state of Maharashtra and other parts of India.
Babies whose mothers had greater access to sugar during pregnancy - specifically in 1949 when sugar consumption spiked due to the temporary end of confectionery rationing - grew up to have lower body weight and ate less sugar later in life, a new study by Professor Stephanie von Hinke has found.
University of Bristol professors, Sarah Smith OBE and Christian Spielmann, have been awarded for their work in designing and teaching an innovative undergraduate course on ‘Communicating Economics’.
The University of Bristol has been awarded three prizes in the National Teaching Excellence Awards announced today (Thursday 7 August) by Advance HE.
Throughout this academic year, we’ve been profiling the academics who’ve recently joined us at the School of Economics. In this final edition for 2024/25, we meet Eleonora Guarnieri.
Dr Sebastian Merkel joined the University of Bristol as Lecturer in Economics in autumn 2024. His primary research fields include macroeconomics, monetary economics, and finance, and he also undertakes research in computational economics. This year, he’s been teaching International Economics and Finance.
University of Bristol Professor of Economics, Sarah Smith OBE, has been appointed to chair the Economics and Econometrics sub-panel of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029.
The University of Bristol recently held the ‘Bristol Applied Economics Meetings’ – an annual series of independent workshops, bringing together leading economists from across Europe and beyond.
The University of Bristol School of Economics recently hosted the renowned ‘REStud Tour’ – an annual event organised by leading academic journal, the Review of Economic Studies. Bristol was one of three European destinations chosen to feature this year.
Vishal Ashvinkumar is one of the School of Economics’ new cohort of academics for the 2024/25 academic year.
The School of Economics is delighted to be hosting the Royal Economic Society Easter Training School, Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 April 2025.
International Women’s Day 2025 calls on everyone to step forward in solidarity and help #AccelerateAction – to speed up progress towards true gender equality.
Weining Wang, Professor of Economics, is the newest academic addition to the University of Bristol School of Economics.
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