Research
Research themes
- Agricultural and environmental economics
- Business administration and management
- Economic systems and institutional change
- Experimental and behavioural economics
- Health, Education and Welfare
- Industrial organisation
- Innovation, technological change and growth
- International economics
- Labour and demographic economics
- Migration and Urbanisation
Research projects and grants
Data Analytics in Research on Investment Efficiency of Clean Technology in UK Start-ups
Dr Jing Zhang
Funding body: British Academy
(2024-2025). £9,244
Local Government, Economic Growth and Human Development: Chinese Lessons for Kenya and Uganda?
Professor Lina Song
ESRC funded project
(2015-2019). £571,266 (fEC: £675,326).
Governance of Network Society
Professor Cong Cao
Research Grant
China National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences (14ZDA063), 2014−2016. Co-Investigator with Wang Fang as Principal Investigator.
Total RMB 800,000.
Nanotechnology in Society – Interdisciplinary Research Group on Globalization and Nanotechnology
Professor Cong Cao
Research Grant
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (SES−0938099), 2011−2016. Collaborator with Richard P. Appelbaum et al. as Principal Investigators.
Total $7,077,759.
Carbon Capture and Storage in China – Technology, Policy, International Collaboration and Implications for the Global Climate Change Challenge
Professor Cong Cao
PhD. Studentship
U.K. National Center for Carbon Capture and Storage, 2013−2016. Ph.D. Supervisor.
£58,777
Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Science and Technology Policy Making in China: The Case of Biotechnology
Professor Cong Cao
Research Grant
Science, Technology, and Society, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (SES−1115319), 2010−2013.
Principal Investigator. $63,647.
Globalization and Reform of China’s Science and Technology System
Professor Cong Cao
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship
EU FP7−PEOPLE−2011 (IIF−302303), 2012−2014.
Scientist in Charge. €209,033.40.
Financial Risk Analysis, learning from Graph-based Kernel Machine
Dr Chaoyan Wang
Project (2016-2018)
Funding body: The National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Grant No. 61503422.
Reaching Chinese consumers through the physical and digital marketing platforms of commodity trading markets in China
Dr Jinmin Wang
Project (2016-2017)
Funding body: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC Impact Accelerator Fund).
