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Professor Duncan McVicar

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Professor Duncan McVicar

Professor Duncan McVicar

School of Queen's Management School

My research interests include: social policy evaluation; disability and the labour market; contingent employment; education; health behaviours. Current projects include research on the impacts of zero hours contracts on workers, on disability benefit claiming and reforms, and on health effects of pollution. I have recently published in European Sociological Review; Journal of the Royal Statistics Society A; Economics of Education Review; Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis; Social Science and Medicine; British Journal of Industrial Relations; Economic Record; Industrial Relations.

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  • D.McVicar@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 4809

Research Interests

I am open to PhD applications in;

  • Social policy evaluation
  • Disability and the labour market
  • Contingent employment
  • Education
  • Health behaviours

More broadly in labour economics, health economics, education economics, and the economics of social policy. I am happy to consider transdisciplinary PhD projects.

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Public outreach & key achievements

I am a Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA): https://www.iza.org/person/2629/duncan-mcvicar 

I engage with policy makers, e.g.: https://niassembly.tv/zero-hours-contracts-job-quality-impacts-workers/ 

Media contributions include:

http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/parental-leave-trump/ 

http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/disability-welfare-reform-and-northern-irelands-inactivity-problem/ 

http://theconversation.com/manifesto-check-the-right-and-wrong-of-the-conservatives-welfare-proposals-40188 

https://theconversation.com/fact-check-who-has-been-hit-hardest-by-the-bedroom-tax-39414 

https://theconversation.com/a-few-dodgy-private-training-colleges-shouldnt-taint-the-rest-38645 

https://theconversation.com/lord-freud-was-wrong-about-disabled-workers-but-at-least-hes-got-us-talking-33116 


Research students

PhD area Peer and network effects in adolescent substance use 
Name John Moriarty
Years of study 2009-2012
Country Northern Ireland 
   
PhD area Health Economic Evaluation Of Alternatives To Current Surveillance In Colorectal Adenoma At Risk Of Colorectal Cancer  
Name Ethna McFerran
Years of study 2014-2018 
Country Northern Ireland  
   
PhD area Joblessness, Religion and Economic Opportunity in Northern Ireland
Name Neil Rowland
Years of study 2015-2019
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Understanding work disability in Northern Ireland
Name Anne Devlin
Years of study 2016-2020
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area The Economics of Waiting Lists
Name Ursula Smyth (part-time)
Years of study 2006-2014
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Understanding Mental ill Health
Name Chandril Ghosh
Years of study 2018-2021
Country India

 


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