{"id":3824,"date":"2022-03-02T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:37:37","slug":"february-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/03\/02\/february-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"February News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The Kennedy building is back in business! Read about our recent Casino night as well as the upcoming Macro Growth and History Conference hosted at Kent -all the details are here in our February RoundUp. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">What Gets an Economist out of Bed in the Morning?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor of Economics, Irma Clots-Figueras answers our 6 questions from working and living in Kent to the recent challenges technology poses to Economics. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3808\/what-gets-an-economist-out-of-bed-in-the-morning\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Undergraduate Life<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Having studied much of his degree through a global pandemic, including a Year in Industry placement, Stage 3 student Kheireddine Adeyemi is now all about making the most of the resources available to him in his last year of University. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3788\/getting-my-moneys-worth\">Read his experience<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>To kick off the Spring term the School of Economics co-hosted Casino Night along with The Economics Society and Kent Invest societies. President of the Economics Society, Aliye Osman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3770\/the-kennedy-casino-night-a-full-house-and-royal-flush-of-an-event\">writes all about it<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>When people hear part-time work alongside a full-time university course, most respond \u201cHow? I could never!\u201d with the assumption that it would be a distraction. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3800\/can-you-work-part-time-and-get-a-degree\">Read about Jai&#8217;s experience<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Loving that energy!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/448\/klein-alexander\"><span class=\"mark4mz4y5p4l\">Dr Alex<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markxpzopl1dh\">Klein<\/span>,<\/a> together with Joan Roses (LSE) and Ryland Thomas and Sally Srinivasan, both from Bank of England, obtained research funding for this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/\">ONS<\/a>\u00a0project:\u00a0<i>\u2018Regional Inequality and Energy Trends in the UK: A Long-Run Perspective<\/i>\u2018. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3813\/research-news\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We&#8217;re looking forward to&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">The largest long-running Macro conference in the UK will be taking place, in person, in September hosted by the School of Economics and <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/maghic\/\">Macroeconomics, Growth and History Centre<\/a> (MaGHiC)\u00a0at the University of Kent, and is inviting submissions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3831\/53rd-annual-conference-of-the-money-macro-and-finance-society-hosted-by-the-university-of-kent\"><strong>More information<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The annual MaGHiC lecture will be delivered by <a href=\"https:\/\/fuchsschuendeln.com\/\"><strong>Nicola Fuchs-Sch\u00fcndeln<\/strong><\/a> (Goethe University Frankfurt) presenting a paper on: \u201cThe Fiscal and Welfare Effects of Policy Responses to the Covid-19 School Closures\u201d. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3840\/the-fiscal-and-welfare-effects-of-policy-responses-to-the-covid-19-school-closures\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\"><strong>Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Economics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kennedy building is back in business! 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