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QUES aims to better your experience of economics at university by engaging with both academic and social events and providing a platform to learn more about economics-related careers.
Dr Alan Fernihough, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's Business School, has been awarded the Barrington Medal 2024 by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: https://t.co/kP6llZCy6o
#ChartOfTheDay Economic Inactivity in Belfast at the 2021 Census (ages 16+)
Make sure you check out our Data Hub to explore, create and share your own charts #dataviz https://t.co/Acs8XaKr6L
The Good Friday Agreement was signed on 10 April 1998. In this this @EconObservatory piece @GrahamBrownlow@DJordan_Econ and I reflect on how the Northern Ireland economy has changed over the past 25 years. #GFA25 https://t.co/gMCfsXtToe
In your final year and want to feed back on your university or college experience? Take part in the National Student Survey 2023. It's open now: https://t.co/k2yoEx36vA #YourViewsYourNSS#NSS2023
❓ Bank runs, too big to fail, bailing out... Have the students been asking about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank?
👉 We've got what you need!
1⃣ A CORE Insight
2⃣ Unit 17 of The Economy
A 🧵 below with ideas... You're welcome!
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This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating all the women of Queen’s Management School. Here are just some of our vibrant, brilliant female staff. #IWD23
To mark #AdamSmith300, @UofGSocSci has opened a student competition for UK undergraduates & post-graduates asking students to redesign covers of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations or The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Specifics here: https://t.co/EcjXMFJcG4.
Even in London new rail lines massively out-perform expectations/predictions once they open. As always with rail - if you build it, they will come 👍
https://t.co/KjAZQTgxuP
🎊 10 years (and counting) of CORE Econ 🎊
CORE Econ was born on 3 January 2013. First adopted by a handful of universities, today 400+ unis in 65 countries use CORE Econ.
Director @WendyCarlinEcon celebrates CORE Econ's achievements in her message ➡️ https://t.co/pCzAwsYpcR
A thread on econ inactivity in NI 🧵
1)Econ inactivity long been much higher in NI than in other UK regions/countries. Although there has been some convergence it has been slow!
2)This trend of convergence appears to have been reversed in the midst of the pandemic.
New research by @ESRIDublin suggests productivity (economic output per worker) is 40% lower in Northern Ireland than in the Republic with this gap opening up over the last 20 years.
Catastrophic risks force policy-makers to make quick decisions based on limited information. What can today’s policy-makers learn from the #GreatIrishFamine?
@ClioChris, @DoranAine & Alan Fernihough explore: https://t.co/Cg7vJZaET8
#QMSResearch
⭐Hiring: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in #Economics⭐
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape the future direction of the Economics Department from both a research & teaching perspective.
Deadline: 28/11/22
Apply here: https://t.co/Kfo3M4Yn6T
#AcademicJobs
To recap 👻:
The McClay Library = Probably #haunted
QUB Medical Library = Haunted
@QUBBiomed = Probably haunted but by a very small and quiet ghost
Old tower Library (RIP) = That was DEFINITELY haunted 100 %
HSC @healthcarelib = All haunted
@AFBILibrary = Not haunted