Master of Research [M.Res] [Economics and Econometrics] From Queen Mary, University of London

The MRes can be pursued as a stand-alone degree or as the first year of a planned PhD, and when appropriate a conditional offer of admission to the doctoral programme will be made.

Alongside the substantive modules offered in conjunction with the School's MRes Economics, the programme includes a core module in research design and qualitative methods taken jointly with social science students from a range of disciplines across QMUL, Kings College London, and Imperial College as part of the training offered by the ESRC funded London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP).Ê

Why join the MRes programme in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary?

The School of Economics and Finance is one of the UK's leading departments, ranked 10th in the UK for research power in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014). The breadth and depth of our expertise enables us to offer courses and supervision in virtually all major areas of economics and finance. The School has more than 30 research-active staff working in a wide range of research areas, including macroeconomics, microeconomic theory and game theory, applied microeconomics, econometric theory, time series analysis, theoretical and empirical finance, and financial econometrics.Ê

Staff members typically publish in the leading economics and finance journals, with publications over the 2014 Research Excellence Framework period in journals including Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Finance, and many others. Individual members of staff also have active collaborations with various governmental and non-governmental agencies, including the UK Treasury, the Bank of England, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD, and ILO.