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Here you'll find information about our current PhD students and the research projects they're working on.

Alanood Duhaim Alotaibi

Research cluster:

Main interest: Macroeconomics

Supervisors: Dr Simon Burke and Professor James Reade

Year joined: 2019

a.d.m.alotaibi@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Alarfaj Omar 

Research cluster:  

Main interests: Behavioural finance 

Supervisors: Dr Steven Bosworth and Dr Tho Pham 

Year joined: 2021

o.a.a.alarfaj@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Albert Chongo

Research Cluster:

Main Interests: Applied Microeconomics

Supervisors: Dr Stefania Lovo and Dr. Sophie Clot

Year Joined: 2021

a.chongo@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Anurag Srivastava

Research cluster:

Main interest: Applied Microeconomics

Supervisors: Professor Uma Kambhampati and Dr Vivien Burrows

Year joined: 2015

a.srivastava@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Baker Audeh

Main interests: Real Estate Economics & Macroeconomics

Supervisors: Dr Hussein Hassan and Professor Anupam Nanda (external)

Year joined: 2020

b.a.s.audeh@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Benson Portia  

Research cluster:

Main interests: Behavioural Economics   

Supervisors:  Dr Steven Bosworth and Dr Vivien Burrows  

Year joined: 2021  

p.benson@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Bushan Mohan

Research cluster:

Main interest: Economics of Education

Supervisors: Professor Uma Kambhampati and Dr Sarah Jewell

Year joined: 2018 (Part-Time)

b.mohan@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Celislami Elda 

Research cluster: and   

Main interests: Political Economy and Crime  

Supervisors: Dr Stephen Kastoryano and Dr Stefania Lovo  

Year joined: 2021  

elda.celislami@reading.ac.uk

Chai Yan

Main interests: Labour Economics

Supervisors: Dr Carl Singleton and Dr Andy Chung

Year joined: 2022

yan.chai@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Duo Xu

Research cluster:

Main interest: Monetary Economics

Supervisors: Dr Alexander Mihailov and Professor James Reade

duo.xu@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Elly Twineyo Kamungisha

Research cluster:

Main interest: Corruption and Firm Growth

Supervisors: Dr Sam Rawlings and Dr Stefania Lovo

Year joined: 2019

e.r.k.twineyo@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Hamed Alaidarous

Main interests: Macroeconomics, Optimal Public Policies & Financial Economics

Supervisors: Dr. Alexander Mihailov, Dr. Fangya Xu

Year joined: 2021

h.s.a.alaidarous@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Ifeatu Uzodinma

Research cluster:

Main interest: Psychology of Poverty

Supervisors: Dr Sophie Clot and Dr Steven Bosworth

Year joined: 2019

i.u.uzodinma@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Jemma Underdown

Main interest: Societal Change

Supervisors: Professor Ken Dark and Professor Mark Casson

j.m.g.underdown@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Jim Chen

Research cluster:  

Main interest: Labour Economics 

Supervisors: Dr Vivien Burrows and Dr Sarah Jewell 

j.j.chen@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Jisan Afrin

Research cluster:

Main interest: Gender Relations

Supervisors: Professor Uma Kambhampati and Dr Sam Rawlings

Year joined: 2017

j.afrin@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Jordan Alwyn   

Research cluster:

Main interests: Monetary Policy  

Supervisors: Dr Alexander Mihailov and Dr Christos Mavrodimitrakis  

Year joined: 2021  

a.g.jordan@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Lillian Mookodi

Research Cluster:

Main interests: Poverty and Inequality

Supervisors: Professor Giovanni Razzu and Professor Simonetta Longhi

Year joined: 2020

l.mookodi@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Matthew Yeo

Research cluster:

Main interest: Political Economics

Supervisors: Professor James Reade, Dr Tho Pham and Dr David Marshall

Year joined: 2019

m.j.yeo@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Minko Markovski

Supervisors: Dr Alexander Mihailov and Dr Hussein Hassan 

Year joined: 2020 

m.t.markovski@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Muayad Ismail

Main interest: International Macroeconomics

Supervisors: Professor James Reade and Dr Joo Young Jeon

Year joined: 2018

m.ismail@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Noof Alfehaidi

Research cluster: Development Economics

Main interest: Macroeconomics - Fiscal Policy

Supervisors: Dr Hussein Hassan and Professor James Reade

Year joined: 2020

n.s.alfehaidi@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Okoror Okiemua Theresa  

Research cluster:

Main interests: Agricultural Economics and Adaptation

Supervisors: Dr Stefania Lovo and Dr Sam Rawlings

Year joined: 2021 

o.t.okoror@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Philip Ramirez

Research cluster:

Main interest: Sports Economics

Supervisors: Professor James Reade and Dr Carl Singleton

Year joined: 2019

p.ramirez@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Richa Saun

Research cluster:

Supervisors: Dr Carl Singleton and Dr Neha Hui

richa.saun@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Ruqayya Aljifri

Main interest: Financial Economics 

Supervisors: Dr Simon Burke and Professor James Reade 

Year joined: 2018 

r.m.a.aljifri@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Salman Ebrahim Almutawa

Research cluster:

Main interest: International Economics

Supervisors: Dr Hussein Hassan and Dr Stefania Lovo

Year joined: 2020

s.e.a.almutawa@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Sayantani Ghosh

Research clusters: and

Main interests: Development Economics and Experimental Economics

Supervisors: Dr. Neha Hui, Dr. Joo Young Jeon and Dr Sam Rawlings

Year Joined: 2021

sayantani.ghosh@pgr.reading.ac.uk

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Sonia Jan Alam

Research cluster:  

Main interest: Environmental Economics 

Supervisors: Professor Uma Kambhampati and Dr Neha Hui 

Year joined: 2019 

sonia2@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Stephen Opata

Main interest: Time Series Econometrics 

Supervisors: Professor James Reade and Dr Simon Burke 

Year joined: 2018 

s.k.opata@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Suraj Mattai

Research cluster:

Main interest: Econometrics

Supervisors: Dr Carl Singleton and Dr Stephen Kastoryano

Year joined: 2020

s.r.mattai@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Weaam Amira

Main interests: Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Energy Economics

Supervisors: Dr Hussein Hassan and Dr Alexander Mihailov

Year joined: 2021

w.amira@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Willie Nakunyada

Research cluster:

Main interest: Banking and Finance

Supervisors: Dr Stefania Lovo and Dr Minyan Zhu

Year joined: 2019

w.nakunyada@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Winnie Muangi

Research cluster:

Main interest: Applied Microeconomics

Supervisors: Dr Steven Bosworth and Dr Sophie Clot

Year joined: 2020

w.c.muangi@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Yi Sun

Supervisors: Dr Fangya Xu, Dr Nigel Wadeson, Prof Yipeng Liu

Year joined: 2023

y.sun4@pgr.reading.ac.uk