The Royal Economic Society’s 3-day conference will convene over 600 professionals, all working and teaching in economics and related disciplines. This event offers sponsors and exhibitors an exceptional opportunity to meet, listen, inform, and network.
Headline Sponsor
Kingston University have kindly sponsored our Headline Lecture given by Professor John Van Reenen on Wednesday 8 July followed by a drinks reception.
The Economics Department at Kingston University offers a dynamic, diverse, and inclusive environment for both teaching and research. As a pluralist department, it provides a distinctive and rigorous perspective on some of the most pressing economic challenges in the United Kingdom and globally. Key areas of research strength include inequalities, poverty, productivity, skills, financial markets, and sustainability. Research activities are further supported through the University’s Knowledge Exchange and Research Institutes. We accept postgraduate research students in a wide range of areas: https://www.kingston.ac.uk/research/FBSS
The Department’s research is closely integrated into its teaching, ensuring that module content remains current, intellectually stimulating, and analytically rigorous. In alignment with Kingston University’s Future Skills agenda, the Department is committed to equipping students with the advanced knowledge, competencies, and critical skills required to succeed in an increasingly complex and demanding professional environment.
Special Session Sponsor
@ADR_UK
ADR UK Sponsor Special session 14: Expanding possibilities for economic research with linked administrative data
ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK) is a partnership transforming the way researchers access the UK’s wealth of public sector data, to enable better informed policy decisions that improve lives. By linking together data held by different parts of government and facilitating safe and secure access for accredited researchers to these newly joined-up and de-identified datasets, ADR UK is creating a sustainable body of knowledge about how our society and economy function – tailored to give decision makers the answers they need to solve important policy questions.
ADR UK is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
Special Session Sponsor
The Bank of China sponsor Special Session 2: Global Inequality
Bank of China is the most internationalized bank in China and one of the world’s leading commercial banks, with over 110 years of history. Founded in 1912, it has played a key role in China’s financial development and global integration. Today, it operates in 62 countries and regions, offering a comprehensive suite of services across corporate banking, personal banking, financial markets, and more. Bank of China (UK) Limited, established in 2007, is a vital part of the Bank’s international network, supporting trade and investment between China and the UK through retail, corporate, and private banking services. In the UK, it serves clients across London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Glasgow.
Exhibitor
Understanding Society is the UK Household Longitudinal Study. The Study is based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. We are a household panel study, interviewing everyone in a household to see how different generations experience life in the UK. The Study helps us find out about parents and children, siblings, new family formation and our wider family and community links. As a longitudinal study, Understanding Society helps us explore how life in the UK is changing and what stays the same over many years.
Key features of Understanding Society:
• The Study covers all ages, allowing us to understand the experiences of the whole population over time.
• The whole household contributes. We collect information from everyone in a household so that relations between generations, couples and siblings can be explored.
• There is continuous data collection. We interview participants every year so that short- and long-term changes in people’s lives can be investigated.
• All four countries of the UK are included, allowing researchers to compare the experiences of people living in different places and in different policy contexts.
• We have an Ethnic Minority Boost sample and an Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Boost sample to increase the sample sizes of different ethnic minority and immigrant groups, allowing more detailed research to be carried out on the experiences of different ethnic minorities across migrant generations in the UK.
• The Study is multi-topic and covers a range of social, economic and behavioural factors, making it valuable to a wide range of policy makers and researchers.
• Geographical data linkage is possible, allowing researchers to investigate the role of neighbourhoods and regions on individual lives.
• Study data can be linked, with consent, to administrative records from other sources to build a richer picture of households.
• Our participants have contributed biomarker and genetic data. This health and genetic information enable researchers to investigate the links between social and economic circumstances and health.
• It’s underpinned by world-leading methodological research. Understanding Society is supported and developed by an internationally recognised team of survey methodologists, statisticians, and social science researchers. The Study includes innovative experimentation, development, and testing.
