Who We Are
Directors
Dr Declan French
Declan is a Lecturer in Finance in the Queen’s Management School. His most recent research has focused on the role of economic growth in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. He is currently working on several projects on the impact of indebtedness on mental and physical well-being as well as a study with researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health on the economic determinants of fertility. As a member of the QUB Centre of Excellence for Public Health, he is involved in an interdisciplinary project with public health colleagues on attitudes to work disability. He has co-ordinated the economic content in the Northern Ireland Cohort Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA).
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Dr Mark McGovern
Mark McGovern is a Lecturer in Economics at Queen’s Management School, Queen’s University Belfast, and the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (Northern Ireland). Prior to joining Queen’s in September 2015, he was a Program on the Global Demography of Aging Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. His main research interests are in health and development, including a variety of topics in ageing, HIV, and maternal/child health. His work has been featured in journals such as Economics and Human Biology, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Journal of the International AIDS Society, Epidemiology, American Journal of Epidemiology, and the International Journal of Epidemiology. He has collaborated with international agencies including UNAIDS (on methods for dealing with non-ignorable missing data), the Pan-American Health Organisation (on estimating the economic burden of non-communicable disease), and UNICEF (on the long run economic effects of childhood malnutrition). In 2016 he was awarded the Barrington Medal by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland for his research on infant mortality and inequality.
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Theme Leaders
Health
Professor Matthias Beck
Professor Matthias Beck is Professor in Public Sector Management at Queen’s Management School, where his research interests include public finance, public private partnerships, risk management and health care management. Before joining Queen’s in 2011, he held chairs at Glasgow Caledonian University (from 1999), and at the University of York (from 2005). His recent publications include a monograph (with Beth Kewell) entitled Risk: A Study of its Origins, History and Politics. Matthias completed a study into the role and effectiveness of public-private partnerships (NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust) in the development of enhanced primary care premises and services for the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation programme in 2010. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Public Sector Management. |
Employee Wellbeing
Professor Duncan McVicar
Duncan McVicar is a Professor of Economics at Queen’s Management School. His current and recent research includes studies of: the links between homelessness and drug use (with Julie Moschion from the University of Melbourne and Jan Van Ours from Tilburg University); peer effects in adolescent drug use (with John Moriarty from the Queen’s Centre of Excellence for Public Health); educational impacts of adolescent drug use (with Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja Kassenboehmer, Trinh Le and Rong Zhang at the University of Melbourne); labour market and benefit-claiming impacts of disability onset (with Melanie Jones at the University of Cardiff); and disability benefit reforms (including with Barbara Hanel and Roger Wilkins at the University of Melbourne, Richard Burkhauser at Cornell and Mary Daly at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco). |
Population Science
Dr Arcangelo Dimico
Arcangelo is a Lecturer in Economics in the Queen’s Management School. His most recent research has focused on historical determinants of HIV in Africa and on the effect of educational shocks on the trade-off between number and quality of children. His main research areas are Economic Development and Political Economy. He is also member of the Queen’s University Centre of Economic History (QUCEH). |
