In this episode I talk to Professor Denise Hawkes, Professor of Education Economics and Head of the School of International Business and Economics at the University of Greenwich. We discuss why we chose to pursue higher education and continue studying; the role our gender, ethnicity and background impacts this choice; deciding to go into management and making a difference from the position of Head of School; and the shocking figures we find when looking at gender and BAME gaps and discrimination in academia.
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.
