Liliana Harding

Liliana is an Associate Professor in Economics. She has previously taught at the RGU in Aberdeen, and UWE Bristol, where she has also completed her PhD. She obtained an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, was a Soros/FCO/Chevening scholar at the University of Oxford and completed her BSc (Licenta) at the (West) University of Timisoara. Her work focusses on migration economics, and her interests extend to further areas of labour economics, cultural economics, regional economic development, economic systems and economic education. She is currently a visiting associate professsor at Tohoku Univeristy, Japan. 

PhD Supervision Interests 

Labour migration, economic development in Central and Eastern Europe, economics of arts and culture.

Current projects

Social inclusion in public spaces: an inter-disciplinary conversation (with C. Nani and F. Pamfil)

From transit to destination country: changing refugee trajectories (with C. Panzaru) 

I am the co-ordinator and contact person of the Migration Research Network at the UEA.

I am a member of the Romanian Migration Network and an associate of the East European Centre for Research in Economics and Business.

Earlier projects

The value of public art.

Modeling dynamic systems of unemployment with labour mobility.

Economics students' changing expectations.

From study to work. Analysing EU graduates’ destinations based on UK HESA data.
International study prospects: a Romanian case study. 

Earlier Research Output (as L. Hiris)

‘International Labour Mobility: Recent trends in Romanian migration’, in A human resources perspective on performance in organisations, ed. D. Abrudan, 2010. Timisoara: Solness Press.
 

'The Social Context of European East-West Migration’, in Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union - Space of Freedom and Security, eds. G. Silasi and O. L. Simina, 2008. pp. 27-50. Timisoara: West University Press.

 
‘New migrants in the North-East of Scotland’, July 2007, in Aberdeen Business Journal, Scotland.

‘The mobility of CEEC workers: a comparative study of Romania and Bulgaria’, in The new economists on the Romanian economy, eds. D. Daianu and M. Isarescu, 2003. Bucharest: The Romanian Academy.

Book Review of Chiswick’s ‘The Economics of Immigration’, in Economic Issues, March 2007, 12(1): pp. 125-27.

 
Book Review of Artis, Banerjee and Marcellino’s ‘The central and eastern European countries and the European Union’, in Journal of Common Market Studies, December 2006, 44(5): pp. 1112-13.
 

Book Review of Zimmermann’s 'European Migration: What do we know?', in Economic Issues, September 2006, 11 (2): pp. 88-91.

 
Book Review of Venturini’s ‘Post-War Migration in Southern Europe, 1950-2000. An Economic Analysis’ in Economic Issues, March 2005, 10(1): pp. 72-4.

I am the School of Economics study abroad co-ordinator.

Current Teaching:

ECO-6001A Labour Economics (module convenor)

ECO-5006B European Economy (module convenor) 

ECO-5005A International Trade and Integration (module convenor)

ECO-5008B Econometrics Research Project

I am also supervising undergraduate and MSc research projects on a variety of applied economics topics.

Previous Teaching:

ECO-5006A Introductory Econometrics

ECO-5007A Intermediate Microeconomics

ECO-5007B  Intermediate Macroeconomics

ECO-4001Y Introduction to Mathematics and Statistics for Economists

ECO-4003Y Economics of Society, Media and Culture

NBS-1B4Y Economics for Business

External Teaching: 

I am an associate and the key contact for the Economics Network at the UEA, for which I deliver part of the series of GTA training sessions and contribute to online resources.

I have been an external examiner and PhD supervisor for projects including topics such as the resource curse, oil price shocks and macroeconomic conditions, trade openness and financial crisis, telecommunication and economic development, media economics, corporate governance, transition economies.

I have previously been the course leader for an MSc programme in European Policy, Law and Management. 

I have provided reviews and edited web material for textbooks on Business Economics and Economics of European Integration.