Please see below for the call for papers:

Call For Papers

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 3rd Annual Southern PhD Economics Conference (ASPEC) which will be held on 29th and 30th of June 2023. This PhD conference is supported by the economics departments and schools of nine universities [University of Bath, Oxford Brookes University, City University of London,University of East Anglia, Royal Holloway (University of London), Middlesex University, University of Reading, University of Southampton and University of Sussex] broadly based in the south of the United Kingdom.


The conference committee is inviting papers from PhD students and postdocs (who have completed their PhD in the past two years) in any field of economics. This will be a two-day conference and will be held in-person at the University of Sussex.


Please send full papers to: aspec2023@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is the 5th of April 2023. Papers will be reviewed by a committee of current PhD students to achieve a varied and high quality programme. Decisions will be communicated by the 28th of April 2023.


Registration will close on the 22nd of May. 



for more on ASPEC and to see previous conference programmes:
https://sites.google.com/view/aspec-2023/home





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Dr. Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos
Lecturer in Economics
University of Stirling School of Management

PhD Convenor, Economics Division, University of Stirling School of Management
Co-Director UG Programme in Economics, University of Stirling School of Management 
Global Labor Organization Research Fellow
PhD Co-Director, Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics
Economics Pathway Convener, Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences, ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership

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