postgraduate
Postgraduate scholarships and bursaries
Don't forget - for outstanding postgraduate students, we offer many scholarships and bursaries.
MSc Additional Modules
To give students a head start in working in Finance, we are running extra classes such as Introduction to Electronic Trading, Portfolio Management, Bloomberg Training Programme and C++ for Finance.
Postgraduate Online Q&A Session
We are holding a Postgraduate Online Q&A Session on Wednesday 16th May from 12-2pm. You can register at http://groupchat01.hobsons.co.uk/01/Landingpage.aspx?clientname=qmul.
Dr Lipsey's guest lecture now available to watch online
This year's Peston Lecture, given by Dr Richard Lipsey in the College's new Arts 2 building, is now available to watch online at http://ess.q-review.qmul.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/c2b327b2-ae02-4fc8-8864-eaad647a44b6
The topic of the lecture is 'Policy Implications of Alternative Economic Paradigms: Some Surprises from Endogenous Technological Changes'.
Queen Mary now part of the Russell Group
The School is pleased to announce that Queen Mary will be part of the Russell Group from August 2012. The Russell Group is a group of 20, soon to be 24, research-intensive universities in the UK, committed to maintaining the best research, an outstanding teaching and learning experience, and unrivalled links with business and the public sector.
Professor Simon Gaskell, Principal of Queen Mary, said: “We are delighted to accept the invitation to join the Group."
Raphaela Hyee successfully defended her PhD thesis
Congratulations to Raphaela Hyee, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on Intrahousehold Distribution. It deals with the distribution of resources between spouses, and the influence the marriage market has on this distribution.
Raphaela was supervised by Paola Manzini and Giulio Fella. She is now working at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.
Additional modules for Postgraduate Students
This semester, the School of Economics & Finance is running a number of ungraded modules with the aim of equipping students with further technical skills.
Careers news from Abi Sharma
This term has brought with it a variety of well-attended Careers events.
Bloomberg Trading Room
The computer lab in W307 now hosts 10 Bloomberg terminals for exclusive use by the School’s students. Bloomberg is one of the market leaders in providing business, economics and financial data to decision makers and the terminals give you access to the full Bloomberg set of financial and economics data.
Martin Weale Talks
Professor Martin Weale, prominent member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee and Visiting Professor within the School has delivered two very interesting talks on the UK monetary policy and on quantitative easing to all our postgraduate and undergraduate students.
Students will have the opportunity of engaging again with Martin in the second semester when he will be moderating a students-led debate on the Euro crisis. More details of the event will be circulated soon. Keep checking your email!
