In conversation with Denise Hawkes

The Professoriate

Professor Denise Hawkes is Professor of Educational Economics and Head of the School of International Business and Economics. Prior to re-joining the Business School as Professor of Education Economics, Denise was Associate Professor in Education Economics at UCL Institute of Education serving as the EdD Programme Leader from 2013-2018 and the Academic Head for Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Transfer from 2017-2018 within the Centre for Doctoral Education. She has also held academic posts at: Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Queen Mary, University of London. Denise is an experienced PhD and EdD supervisor and has extensive experience teaching applied econometrics and secondary data analysis to students of many different education backgrounds and levels of study.

Denise has held research grants with ESRC, DfID and British Council as well as various local consultancy projects including Trust for London and the Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards. She has published widely, most significantly in: American Economic Review, Journal of the Royal Statistical Series A and London Review of Education. Her research has drawn interest of many outside of academic economics, including: Behavioural Insights Team in UK, Higher Education Commission in Pakistan, Ministry of Education in Georgia, BBC News, BBC Radio 4 and various national newspapers.

She is currently a Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of Education and has developed her research around postgraduate education transitions and the value of doctoral education.