Social Macroeconomics PhD Scheme and Scholarship

The UCL Institute for Global Prosperity's PhD scheme in Social Macroeconomics aims to advance research on new approaches to the economy and the development of a new economic paradigm. This scheme is part of the Institute's Global Prosperity MPhil/PhD programme and offers students the opportunity to work on various key themes linked to a new hub on Social Macroeconomics. The research interprets the macroeconomy as a system to create and use knowledge in the context of fundamental uncertainty. Students will work under the guidance of leading professors including Professor Angus Armstrong, Professor William Hynes, and Professor Dennis Snower, advancing the next phase of Rebuilding Macroeconomics' work on Social Macroeconomics. The programme focuses on five main themes: rethinking macroeconomics embracing fundamental uncertainty, knowledge as a distributive and evolving system, new empirical measurements of human and planetary flourishing, network and agent-based models to address complex macroeconomic issues, and industrial policies for an era of challenges to security and sustainability. The scholarship provides full tuition fees for UK Home students pursuing full-time (3 years) or part-time (5 years) MPhil/PhD studies at the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL based in London.