Greater Manchester Property Price Dynamics and Effects: The Political Economy of the Greater Manchester Property Market

Jointly Supervised with the Chief Economist of Greater Manchester (Dr Alan Harding), this PhD project will investigate the drivers and determinants of property process in Greater Manchester, developing appropriate econometric / data science models and approaches (possibly including machine and deep learning). The PhD will then investigate these regarding their social, economic and population impacts.

***Aims and objectives***

This project is an exciting supervisory collaboration between Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the Future Economies University Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University. The economics of property prices and their effects are of vital importance to the long term sustainability of the Greater Manchester Region and Manchester as a global city. The project will be supervised by Dr Richard Whittle (Chief Economist at Future Economies) , Dr Alan Harding (Chief Economist of Greater Manchester Combined Authority), Dr Craig Berry (Assistant Director of Future Economies) and Dr David Beel (Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography).

This project is a true multidisciplinary approach combining cutting edge econometrics and data science with contemporary political economy. The successful candidate will already have existing skills in one of these broad areas and will receive expert doctoral training to support all areas of this work.

We anticipate that in the first ‘half’ of this PhD, the candidate will concentrate on developing a data rich approach to understanding the dynamics and nth order effects of the Greater Manchester property market, under the supervision of Dr Richard Whittle. Then under the guidance of Dr Craig Berry (an Industrial Strategy Commissioner) the student will investigate these effects in terms of power, society and the public policy implications.

The successful candidate will be joining a new and vibrant research environment within The Future Economies University Research Centre, where we host Future Economies Analytics, a commercial data science research unit, research groupings in Behavioural Economics and Econometrics and globally recognized research in Political Economy.

The Future Economies University Research Centre is a new initiative launched by Manchester Metropolitan University bringing together world leading academics and practitioners in regional economics, political economy and data analytics. Our overarching question is “what are the challenges facing the Greater Manchester Economy and how can they be addressed?”.

We apply a unique interdisciplinary lens to this question, drawing in Behavioural Science, Economic Governance, Political Economy insights along with cutting edge empirics, data science and statistical analysis, enabling us to provide original multifaceted research. Drawing on our members experience of advising policy including in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, HMRC, Political Parties, the World Bank, the WTO, the Industrial Strategy Commission, and the Global Poverty Organisation. Future Economies uses its leading academic and consultancy research to develop new thinking in policy and its design.

Find out more and apply: https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-study/scholarships/detail/bl-rw-2019-1-greater-manchester-property-price-dynamics-and-effects-the-political-economy-of-the-greater-manchester-property-market.php