Sarah Jewell
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Professor in Economics
- Employability Lead for Economics
- Module Convenor for Economics of Labour, Advances in Causal Inference
- Module Convenor for Core Competencies
Office
Room 184Building location
Edith MorleyAreas of interest
Labour Economics: the graduate labour market, gender inequality: women's health, fertility and the workplace; human capital. Sport Economics: economics of cricket
Postgraduate supervision
I am interested in supervising applied labour economics research related to the graduate labour market; gender and the labour market; women's health, fertility and the workplace; and the economics of cricket.
Research centres and groups
Background
I have been at the University of Reading since 2005, first as a PhD student, then as a lecturer and I was promoted to Professor in 2022. I am an applied labour economist and microeconomist. I am currently working on a series of projects relating to women's health, fertility and the workplace and I am principal investigator for the Nuffield Foundation funded project "Maternal well-being, infant feeding and return to paid work decisions”. I am also working on projects related to: the graduate labour market, with a particular interest in creative graduates; and testing economic ideas using cricket data. My PhD research focused on Human Capital acquisition in higher education. Before my PhD I spent two years as a research assistant at the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) at the University of Bristol, working on executive pay and firm performance.
Academic qualifications
- PhD (Economics), University of Reading
- Msc, Bsc (Economics), Royal Holloway, University of London
Awards and honours
- Nuffield Foundation funded project:"Maternal well-being, infant feeding and return to paid work decisions”, Principal Investigator (2022-2025).
- ERASMUS+ Project:“Employability in programme development: Establishing a labour market to higher education feedback loop drawing on local labour market intelligence”, partner institution (2021-2023)
- Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Project: "So What Do You Do? Graduates in the Creative and Cultural Industries", partner investigator (2016-2019)
- Centre for Career Management Skills (CCMS) PhD Scholarship, University of Reading (2005-2009)