Departmental news

Every year, several awards and prizes are granted to a selection of our graduating students to recognise and celebrate the success of our top performers! We are proud to announce this year's winners.

Working on the development of a new composite steel and CLT floor system, which is supported by the UK Forestry Commission through the Wood into Management (WiM) Forestry Innovation Fund initiative. 

We are pleased to report that this year’s results of two national postgraduate student surveys show high levels of satisfaction amongst our postgraduate student community.

Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) 2023

The overall satisfaction with the quality of the course remains high – 91% with 96% of our postgraduate taught students saying that they would recommend the University of Warwick. This was achieved with a response rate of 51.6% of the postgraduate taught cohort.

The top satisfaction scores in PTES were in:

• Teaching: 92% agreed that ‘staff are good at explaining things’ and 91% agreed that ‘the course is intellectually stimulating’.
• Resources: 96% agreed that they ‘have been able to access subject specific resources necessary for their studies when on campus.’
• Dissertation: 97% were ‘happy with the support received for planning their dissertation.’

There were also high scores received in the categories of Skills Development (88%), Organisation (87%) and Support (85%).

Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) 2023

The overall satisfaction amongst postgraduate research students was 85% with the top scores in:

• Supervision: 89% agreed that their ‘supervisor had the skills and subject knowledge to support their research.’
• Research skills: 91% agreed that their ‘skills in critically analysing and evaluating findings and results have developed during their programme.’
• Professional development: 89% agreed that their ‘ability to communicate information effectively to diverse audiences had developed during their programme.’

Dr Claudia Rei, Deputy Head of Department (Teaching & Learning) said:

“We value student feedback as we want to deliver the best teaching and learning possible. So, we’re very pleased to see such encouraging results. We also want to make further improvements in the future and are already looking at ways to address some of the areas where our scores could have been higher such as Engagement and Assessment in PTES and Support in PRES. We also encourage students to submit their feedback to us throughout the year.”

Further information about the two postgraduate student surveys can be obtained from the University's webpages for PTESLink opens in a new window and PRESLink opens in a new window.

Examples of how we have responded to student recently can be found on our webpage We have acted on your feedback: Postgraduate TaughtLink opens in a new window and Postgraduate ResearchLink opens in a new window.

If you are a student of the Department of Economics, you may submit feedback to us at any point via the Student Feedback FormLink opens in a new window.

End

An exciting opportunity is available for this PhD Scholarship funded as part of the Monash Warwick Alliance. The studentship will be jointly supervised by Professor David Lambert (Warwick) and Professor Gordon Pentland (Monash).

For full details and how to apply visit Jobs at Monash. Closing Date: Sunday 3 September 2023, 11:55pm AEST

Warwick Economics PhD student, Jinlin Wei, has received the Best Paper Prize of the Business and Industrial Section of the Royal Statistical Society awarded at the PhD Symposium in Industrial Economics.

Jinlin’s paper, Branching for Caution: Banks in England and Wales during the 1878 Financial Panic discussed his research on how exposure to an unexpected financial panic resulting from the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank in 1878 led to the geographic expansion of banks affected, based on a bank-level dataset on joint-stock banks in England and Wales in the 1870s and 1880s.

Jinlin (third year PhD student of Economics) was awarded the Best Paper Prize of the Business and Industrial Section of the Royal Statistical Society for the best contribution to the use or advancement of statistical-econometric methods or data collection to the analysis of industrial economic issues.

Jinlin was presented with the prize at the PhD Symposium in Industrial Economics he attended last week, as part of a two-day research conference of the Network of Industrial Economists (NIE) held at the University of Leicester School of Business. The symposium brings together early career economists (PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) to foster discussion and dissemination of research in all areas of industrial economics and to provide them with feedback on their work from a designated discussant drawn from both internal and external faculty.

Commenting on the award, Jinlin said:

"Witnessing the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, I hope that this paper can add to our understanding of how accountability affects the responses of banks to financial panics and how regions with low financial access are affected."

We congratulate Jinlin on this fantastic achievement and wish him more successes in the future.

Related information

Jinlin Wei is a third year PhD student in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. For further information about his research and publications can be found on his PhD student Profile - Jinlin WeiLink opens in a new window.

The Network of Industrial Economists

Established in 1970s, the Network of Industrial Economists (NIE) is a forum for interchange among university economists in the UK, and for interaction between academia, business, and government on topics of industry economics.

NIE Conference and PhD Symposium 2023Link opens in a new window, 8-9 June 2023, University of Leicester School of Business

Royal Statistical Society

Founded in 1834, the Royal Statistical SocietyLink opens in a new window is one of the world’s leading organisations advocating for the importance of statistics and data. It’s a professional body for all statisticians and data analysts with more than 10,000 members in the UK and across the world.

Image banner attribution

Wikimedia Commons license: A cleared cheque from 1877, the year before the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank,Link opens in a new window 4 June 2014, author AllyD

Congratulations to James Poskett and Niels Boender for making the 2023 shortlist for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (Arts Faculty & PGR). Well deserved recognition of brilliant teaching! The winners will be announced on 27 June 2023.