Lecturer in Economics

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Salary

Grade F: £41,064 to £46,049 per annum

Grade G: £47,389 to £56,535 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 2 October 2026

The Economics Subject Group is a collegiate and generalist group of close to 40 academics with expertise in all areas of economics. We strive to deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality and attract highly qualified students to our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

We have a vibrant research community. Our research spans a wide range of fields within economics, loosely organised around four active research groups: (i) Macroeconomics; (ii) Applied/Empirical Microeconomics; (iii) Behavioural and Experimental Economics; and (iv) Economic Theory. Many research activities, such as the internal and external research seminar series, and the PhD work-in-progress seminar series, are group-wide. Across all areas we have significant depth in doing applied, policy-relevant research.

Colleagues have active funded projects in a range of areas including the Creative Industries and their internationalisation, Health, Development, Energy, Environmental, and Rural Economics. We also host a state-of-the-art Behavioural Research Laboratory. In terms of real-world impact, we have a long established national and international record of generating impact around the valuation of fatality risk and more recently in the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre.

We invite applications from strong candidates, committed to collegiality, from all fields of economics.

You will hold, or be close to obtaining, a relevant PhD and will be able to demonstrate a capacity to publish in journals of international standing.

You will have:

(i) A clear and viable strategy for sustained future research that has the potential to result in world-leading publications; and (ii) the ability to teach economics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Nils Braakmann (ni), and Professor Jytte Nielsen (j), the Joint Heads of the Economics Group.

We plan to hold the presentations on the morning of November 16th 2026 and the interviews on the same afternoon. We are aware that there may be time zone differences and we will aim to accommodate this if possible.

Newcastle University Business School is located in Newcastle City Centre and at the gateway to the Newcastle Helix, a £350million partnership between Newcastle University, Newcastle City Council, and Legal and General. Newcastle University is a world class, research-intensive, civic university. We play a leading role in the economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university that actively recruits, supports and retains staff from all sectors of society. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everybody, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital status/civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, as well as being open to flexible working practices.

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• To provide high quality teaching and learning and student support
• Mentor and support students throughout their studies in the role of personal tutor
• Set and mark assessment of modules in accordance with University standards and utilise on-line and digitised curricula and education frameworks
• Contribute to curriculum development
• Ensure all our students benefit from studying in a research intensive, research excellent academic environment
• Provide education for life, that engages, challenges and supports our students to discover and fulfil their potential both while they are studying with us and once they have graduated

• Conduct Economic research that demonstrates international standards of excellence in terms of originality, significance and rigour
• Contribute to the research profile of the Business School by publishing high quality outputs
• Pursue external funding
• Demonstrate impact by developing research-based solutions to real-world problems and engage with…