Beyond Peer Review: Productivity and Diversity when Funding is Randomised

This in person seminar is open to members of the University.  It can also be accessed on Teams.

Speakers:
Philip Clarke, Professor of Health Economics & Director, HERC

Bio:
Professor Philip Clarke re-joined HERC in August 2018 after previous appointments at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne in Australia. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA).
His research interests include developing methods to value the benefits of improving access to health care, health inequalities and the use of simulation models in health economic evaluation. Philip has been involved in the development of the UKPDS Outcomes Model, a health economic simulation model for type 2 diabetes.

Rhys Thomas, MSc, PhD, Health Economics Researcher

Bio:
Rhys Llewellyn Thomas is a researcher at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC).
Rhys is focussing on health policy projects as part of the Health Foundation Research and Economic Analysis for the Long-term programme (REAL) Demand Centre. His research employs econometric and quasi-experimental methods to address health-related research questions. He has previously worked on the impact of health information on behaviours, distributional effects of publicly funded health insurance coverage, and physician maldistribution.
Rhys also has extensive teaching experience and is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE. Before joining HERC, Rhys was an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, where he is currently a fellow by special election.
At St Edmund Hall, Rhys instructed undergraduates in microeconomics-related courses, including first and second-year microeconomics, public economics, and labour economics and inequality, as well as probability and statistics.
Rhys graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Southampton in 2016. Subsequently, he pursued an MSc and a PhD in Economics, both at the University of Southampton, with funding from an Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 Research Studentship.

There will be tea/coffee and cakes available for seminar attendees in Atrium 1, 30 min prior to the seminar.