Department of Economics

The Management School

Lancaster University

Lancaster LA1 4YX

Office phone (0524) 65201 ext 4225

Home phone (0524) 770767

DATE OF BIRTH: 14 December 1962

MARITAL STATUS: Married (1987), three children (born 1991, 1992, 1994)

NATIONALITY: British

EDUCATION:

Queen Mary School, Lytham 1974-1981

Lancaster University 1982-1988

QUALIFICATIONS:

BA: First class honours, Lancaster University, 1985; combined

mathematics and economics.

PhD: 'University Performance Indicators', Lancaster University,

1988. Financed by SERC grant.

PRIZES:

1985: Adam Smith Memorial Prize, Lancaster University.

1985: Elizabeth Brunner Memorial Prize, Lancaster University.

1985: College Prize, Lancaster University.

1991: Pilkington Teaching Award, Lancaster University.

EMPLOYMENT:

1981-1985:

Senior Commercial Apprentice, British Aerospace Warton Division (BA degree course was taken under sponsorship during this period).

1986-1988:

Part-time teaching in the Department of Economics and the Department of Operational Research and Operations Management, Lancaster University.

1988-1991

Lecturer (A), Department of Economics, Lancaster University.

1991 to date:

Part-time Lecturer (A), Department of Economics, Lancaster University.

TEACHING:

Lectures: 1st Year Introduction to Microeconomics

Introduction to Macroeconomics

2nd Year Microeconomics: Principles and Practice

Introductory Econometrics

3rd Year Econometrics

Urban and Regional Economics

Tutorials: 1st Year Microeconomics

Macroeconomics

Techniques of Operational Research

2nd Year Statistics for Economics

Minitab Statistical Package

Introductory Econometrics

Microeconomics: Principles and Practice

Managerial Economics

3rd Year Econometrics

Urban and Regional Economics

Post-graduate Techniques of Operational Research

COURSES UNDERTAKEN FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT:

Variance Component Analysis Workshop and Demonstration, Centre for Applied Statistics, Lancaster University, 9th January 1986.

Recent Developments in Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews, 25th-29th June 1990.

Lecturing (Module 1), Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education by Open Learning, Staff Development, Lancaster University, October 1990 to March 1991.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS

1990: Performance Indicators in Higher Education: UK Universities, Open University Press and the Society for Research into Higher Education, Milton Keynes, 199pp (with J. Taylor).

JOURNAL EDITORSHIPS

1989 to 1992: Regional Studies, Deputy Editor.

1992 to date: Education Economics, Book Review Editor

PAMPHLETS

1987: The Graduate Labour Market: What happens to Unsuccessful Graduates?, Association of Careers Advisory Services (with J. Taylor).

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

1987: 'Graduates and jobs: an analysis of the Graduate Employment and Training Survey', Higher Education Review, 19, pp55-64 (with J. Taylor).

1987: 'Degree quality: an investigation into differences between UK universities', Higher Education, 16, pp581-602 (with J. Taylor).

1989: 'The first destination of new graduates: comparisons between universities', Applied Economics, 21, pp357-373 (with J. Taylor).

1989: 'An evaluation of performance indicators based upon the first destination of university graduates', Studies in Higher Education, 14, pp219-235 (with J. Taylor).

1989: 'Undergraduate non-completion rates: differences between UK universities', Higher Education, 18, pp209-225 (with J. Taylor).

1990: 'Determinants of student wastage in higher education', Studies in Higher Education, 15(1), pp87-99.

1990: 'Unit Costs: some explanations of the differences between UK universities', Applied Economics, 22, pp853-862.

1990: 'Undergraduate non-completion rates: a reply', Higher Education, 19(3), pp385-390 (with J. Taylor).

1991: 'Consumer goods and energy prices on the Isle of Man', Management Research News, 14 (with H. Armstrong, G. Johnes and A. MacBean).

1991: 'Non-completion of a degree course and its effect on the subsequent experience of non-completers in the labour market', Studies in Higher Education, 16(1), pp73-81 (with J. Taylor).

1992: 'The citation record of Regional Studies compared to other related journals', Regional Studies, 26(1), pp93-97 (with J. Taylor).

1992: 'The 1989 Research Selectivity Exercise: a statistical analysis of differences in research ratings between universities at the cost centre level', Higher Eductaion Quarterly , 46(1), pp67-87 (with J. Taylor).

1992: 'The potential effects of widening access to higher education on degree results', Higher Education Quarterly, 46(1), pp88-107.

1992: 'Apples and oranges: the aggregation problem in publications analysis', Scientometrics, 25(2), pp353-365 (with G. Johnes).

1993: 'The role of transport costs as a determinant of price level differentials between the Isle of Man and GB', World Development, 21(2), pp311-318 (with H. Armstrong, G. Johnes and A. MacBean).

1993: 'Measuring the research performance of UK economics departments: an application of data envelopment analysis', Oxford Economics Papers, 45, pp332-347 (with G. Johnes).

1993: 'The research performance of UK universities: a statistical analysis of the results of the 1989 Research Selectivity Exercise', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), 156(2), pp271-286 (with J. Taylor and B. Francis).

1994: 'Policy reforms and the theory of education finance', Journal of Economic Studies, 21(1), pp3-15 (with G. Johnes).

1995: 'Research funding and performance in UK university departments of economics: a frontier analysis', Economics of Education Review, 14(3), 301-314.

1996: 'Performance assessment in higher education in Britain', European Journal of Operational Research, 89(1), pp18-33.

Forthcoming: 'Inter-university variations in undergraduate non-completion rates: a statistical analysis by subject of study', Journal of Applied Statistics.

OFFICIAL REPORTS

1989: Transport Costs and Price Levels on the Isle of Man, Consultancy Report, 110pp (with H. Armstrong, G. Johnes and A. MacBean).

1990: Energy Prices on the Isle of Man, Consultancy Report, 94pp (with H. Armstrong, G. Johnes and A. MacBean).

1990: Property Prices and Rents on the Isle of Man, Consultancy Report, 94pp (with H. Armstrong, G. Johnes and A. MacBean).

MISCELLANEOUS

1989: Comment on Student Non-completion Rates, Report for the Executive Committee of the Standing Conference of Scottish Universities (with J. Taylor).

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