3 Research Fellows in ‘ESCoE’ Projects at the University of Nottingham

The School of Economics at the University of Nottingham is offering three Research Associate/Fellow posts on separate but related projects as follows:

Productivity and the Modern Economy; Using Firm-Level Surveys to Understand Industrial and Regional Capacity, Investment, Productivity and Output Growth

Using the suite of four business surveys conducted monthly by the CBI over the last twenty years, you will work on understanding business cycle fluctuations through better measurement of investment, inventories, capacity and output, real-time forecasts of economic activity, regional or industrial and national prospects, and matching CBI and ONS data sets.

Understanding and Explaining Management Practices to Promote Higher Productivity in UK Businesses (ESRC Grant No. ES/S012729/1)

Using information collected by the Office for National Statistics, you will work on understanding the causes and consequences of variation in management practices across UK businesses and to draw from this a number of practical lessons for improving UK productivity within and between firms, sectors and regions in the UK and compared to other countries. You will link data to other micro-datasets from administrative trade records, R&D surveys and patenting data, and business surveys. You will explore how quality of management practices recorded in the MES surveys contribute to the ability of firms to manage uncertainty shocks such as Brexit and Covid-19.