We'd like wish a happy and prosperous new year to all our economics students, alumni, and connections who are celebrating today ✨ Very best wishes if you're enjoying Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Seollal, Tết Nguyên Đán or another festival 🎆

The Government Economic Service Assistant Economist Graduate Scheme is now open for applications! 🚀 ✅ Make a difference to society ✅ Government departments across UK ✅ Flexible working   ✅ Learning & development opportunities   bit.ly/ges-grad

Weining Wang is the latest academic to join us, as Professor of Economics 👋 "I was drawn to Bristol because of its strong reputation and its commitment to fostering an open academic environment" 💬 Learn more about Weining and her research interests: brnw.ch/21wQNTo

International Women's Day 2025 calls for us to #AccelerateAction for gender equality 🌍 Dr Danielle Guizzo, Associate Professor in Economics Education, shares how her work is doing just that. More 👉 brnw.ch/21wRf71 #IWD2025 #BristolUniWomen #WomeninEconomics

We're looking forward to the Royal Economic Society Easter Training School next week (7-9 April), which we're hosting for the 5th year 🗓️ This year's fascinating theme is 'Environmental Economics: Macro and Micro Perspectives' 🌍 Learn more on the RES website 👉 res.org.uk/event-listing/…

On 16 Apr, a Bristol Transport Project Town Hall event at the University discusses: "What would make travel work better for you?"🚌 The project's led by Snr Economics Lecturer, Dr Ruth Badru💡 The event's open to anyone interested in Bristol transport 👉 brnw.ch/21wRRpr

Our Applied Economics Meetings feature leading economists from Europe & beyond 🌍 ✅ 6-7 May: 'Development Economics'. Keynote: Sara Lowes (UC San Diego) ✅ 8-9 May: 'Gender, Diversity, & Human Capital'. Keynote: Michèle Tertilt (Uni of Mannheim) 👉 brnw.ch/21wRZeA

Just over a week to go! ⏲️ We're looking forward to welcoming so many esteemed economists to Bristol for our annual Applied Economics Meetings 😃 Find out more👉 brnw.ch/21wRZeA

Dr Vishal Ashvinkumar is a Lecturer in Economics, and one of our new cohort of academics for 2024/25 👋 We spoke to Vishal about his career, his research, and the appeal of Bristol's academic community of microeconomic theorists 🎓 Read the article 👉 bristol.ac.uk/economics/news…

We're honoured to be 1 of 3 European destinations on the REStud Tour, organised by the Review of Economics Studies (The Review of Economic Studies) 🌍 On 15-16 May we welcome 7 leading new global economists to speak to our academics & explore Bristol 🎓 Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wSkVM

Our Applied Economics Meetings 2025 have begun, starting with 2 days on 'Development Economics'. Welcome to all our visitors 👋 We look forward to hearing from keynote speaker, Sara Lowes of UC San Diego later, on 'Culture & Development Policy' 💡 👉 brnw.ch/21wSrw7

The 2nd theme of our Applied Economics Meetings 2025 began today: 'Gender, Diversity & Human Capital' 💡 We're delighted to welcome keynote speaker, Michèle Tertilt (Department of Economics, University of Mannheim), now delivering her talk on 'The Economics of Women's Rights' 👏 👉 brnw.ch/21wRZ4g

Fascinating research from our own Prof. Sarah Smith covered in yesterday's FT 💡

We were privileged to welcome the Review of Economic Studies' (The Review of Economic Studies) annual 'REStud Tour' to Bristol last week 🌍 We enjoyed fascinating research insights from 7 bright young economists from North America 🎓 👉 brnw.ch/21wSQug Thanks to all our guests 🤝

Our recent Bristol Applied Economics Meetings featured over 30 guest speakers from Europe & North America, exploring insights on the themes of 'Development Economics', and 'Gender, Diversity, & Human Capital' 🌍 Watch the full video and learn more: brnw.ch/21wSZe3

Congratulations Prof. Sarah Smith, who's been appointed to chair the REF 2029 Economics & Econometrics sub-panel 👏 REF is the system by which UK university research quality is assessed & informs the spending of £2bn-a-year in public funds 🏛️ 👉 bristol.ac.uk/economics/news…

Dr Sebastian Merkel, Lecturer in Economics, joined us last autumn from the University of Exeter 👋 We spoke to him about his career to date, and his research in macroeconomics, monetary economics, finance, and computational economics 💡 Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wTcVD

⭐ VoxTalks Economics NEW EPISODE ⭐ Why is there an authority gap that means the public trusts female experts less? What signals can reverse that gap? Sarah Smith University of Bristol | School of Economics tells Tim Phillips Talk Normal about how some women manage to become more authoritative than their male peers.

Congratulations Professor Sarah Smith OBE for being awarded the RES Medal for Services to the Economics Profession. A fantastic achievement recognising her work with Discover Economics (Discover Economics) - helping broaden the appeal of economics to a wider range of young people 🎉👏

For the last in our 'Meet our academics' 2024/25 series, we spoke to Dr Eleonora Guarnieri, Senior Lecturer in Economics. She talked about her career so far, including research in political economy, development, cultural economics & gender economics 💡 👉 brnw.ch/21wTYto