Vitae
Here is a brief CV. For a more detailed CV please get in touch.
Employment
2018 onwards: Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Marketing, De Montfort University, UK.
2014-2018: Reader in Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent, UK.
2010-2014: Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent, UK.
2004-2010: Lecturer in Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent, UK.
2003-2004: Post-doctoral student, University of Paris 1.
Qualifications
2018: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
2007: Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Kent.
2000-2003: PhD in Economics, University of Warwick, supervised by Myrna Wooders, on 'Learning, social conformity and bounded rationality in games with many players'.
1999-2000: MSc in Economics (Distinction), University of Warwick.
1996-1999: BA in Mathematics and Economics (1st Class), Durham University.
Current Positions
2018 onwards: Director of the Institute for Applied Economics and Social Value, Leicester Castle Business School.
2018 onwards: Associate of Economics Network.
2013 onwards: Associate Editor of Journal of Public Economic Theory.
2013 onwards: Fellow of ESRC Peer Review College.
Research Funding
2022: The Alan Turing Institute Public Engagement Fund, 'A smart city that works for all: A case study of Leicester', PI, £9,880.
2022: Innovate UK CyberASAP, ‘Cyber security toolkit for small organisations’, PI, £15,000.
2021-2022: NCSC/RISCS grant, 'Ransomware: The role of cyber-insurance', CI, value £200,000.
2021: Ethereum Foundation Grant, 'Game theoretic modelling of a ransomware attack against Ethereum 2.0', PI, value £30,000.
2021: AHRC-ESRC Census 2021 grant, 'Community radio and lost voices: Inspiring engagement in economic and social policy', PI, value £8,950.
2021-2023: Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), ‘Regional productivity, prosperity and growth through business intelligence’, with East Midlands Chambers of Commerce, Academic Supervisor, £180,782.
2021-2023: British Academy GCRF grant, 'Food resilience and rural poverty in Vietnam: The role of trading networks and information', PI, value £49,000.
2018-2019: Home Office Grant, ‘Connecting delayed pre-commitment with cyber awareness in order to address the perception gap and present bias’, CI, value £43,000.
2017-2020: EPSRC Standard Grant, ‘EconoMical, PsycHologicAl and Societal Impact of RanSomware (EMPHASIS)’, CI, £915,946.
2016-2019: European Union H2020 Grant, ‘Internet forensic platform for tracking the money flow of financially-motivated malware (RAMSES)’, CI, €3,803,807.
2016: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, ‘On the morality of conflict’, PI, £13,000.
2014: University of Kent Faculty Grant, ‘Impulse balance and threshold public goods’, CI, £3,180.
2009-2011: Nuffield Foundation Small Research Grant, ‘An experimental investigation of prejudice and economic discrimination’, PI, £5,031.
2008-2009: British Academy Small Research Grant, ‘Anonymous free riding in collective action problems’, PI, £7,100.
2007-2009: ESRC Small Grant, ‘Why some people choose to be leaders: the emergence of leadership in groups and organizations’, PI, £98,431.
2006-2007: ESRC First Research Grant, ‘Social learning and the Theory of Search’, PI, £31,075.
Teaching Funding
2017: University of Kent Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fund, ‘Interactive experiments in the classroom’, CI, £1,446.
2008: Challenger Fund Grant, ‘Economic classroom experiments’, PI, £1,000.
Teaching Experience
2022: Applied Microeconomics, first year undergraduate, De Montfort University.
2018-2022: Managerial Economics, taught postgraduate, De Montfort University.
2015-2018: Topics in Applied Microeconomics, PhD training, University of Kent.
2004-2018: Public Economics, final year undergraduate, University of Kent.
2006-2018: Strategy and Games, first year undergraduate, University of Kent.
2004-2018: Supervising dissertations, final year undergraduate and taught postgraduate, University of Kent.
2004-2012: Microeconomics, second year undergraduate, University of Kent.
PhD Students Supervised
2017-2021: Yidan Chai, 'Social preferences and information in public good games'.
2016-2019: Omar Shaikh, 'Essays on religion, risk-taking and social-preferences'.
2013-2019: Matthew Leadbetter, 'A game theoretic study of doping in sport'.
2013-2017: Zarak Mirza, 'Experiments on charitable giving: Study of the impact of restricted choice and imperfect information on warm glow givers'
2013-2016: Denise Lovett, 'Follow the first-follower: Donations to charity and pro-social behavior'.
2006-2009: Amrish Patel, 'Essays on public goods, esteem and social norms'.
Post-doc Students Supervised
2017-2018: Lian Xue, on project ‘EconoMical, PsycHologicAl and Societal Impact of RanSomware, EMPHASIS’.
2009-2011: Federica Alberti, on project 'Focal points in threshold public good games '.
2007-2009: Joris Gillet, on project 'Why some people choose to be leaders: the emergence of leadership in groups and organizations'.
Professional Activities
2022-2023: Chair of De Montfort University working group on fair and responsible bibliometrics.
2019: Co-organizer of a 'Summer-school on the Human Aspects of Cyber-Crime and Online Fraud', University of Kent, with financial support from the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology.
2019-2023: External examiner at Stratchlyde University, undergraduate economics.
2019: Organizer of a two-day workshop on 'Economics for the social good', De Montfort University, with financial support from the Royal Economic Society.
2018: Co-Editor of a special issue of Games on ‘Public good games’.
2017: Co-organized a one day workshop on ‘The economic and human aspects of cyber-security’ , University of Kent.
2014-2018: External examiner at Queen Mary, University of London, undergraduate economics.
2014-2017: Director of economics PhD program, University of Kent.
2011-2014: External examiner at the University of Exeter, undergraduate and postgraduate economics.
2010-2013: Stage 2 director for economics, University of Kent.
2010-2012: Co-organizer of School of Economics seminar series, University of Kent.
2010: Co-organized a one day workshop on ‘Behaviour change and behavioural economics’ at the Department for Communities and Local Government .
2010: Organized a two day workshop on ‘The economic psychology of giving’, University of Kent.
2009: Co-organized a two day workshop on ‘Charity giving, philanthropy and volunteering’, University of Kent.