{"id":6079,"date":"2025-03-19T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2025-03-19T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:43:10","slug":"expert-insight-meet-dr-matloob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2025\/03\/19\/expert-insight-meet-dr-matloob\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Insight: Meet Dr Matloob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/458\/piracha-matloob\"><strong>Dr Matloob Piracha<\/strong><\/a>, an expert in labour economics and migration, who shares his knowledge with MSc and undergraduate students at Kent. With a genuine passion for teaching and a love for continuous learning, he reveals his secrets to research success and reflects on the timeless advice he&#8217;d give to his younger self.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell me about yourself &#8211; what do you teach and what&#8217;s your area of expertise?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I teach International Economics to MSc students and Game Theory to final year undergraduate students. Even though my PhD was in international trade, my research area for a long time has been labour economics and migration<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favourite part about teaching\/interacting with students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teaching and interacting with students is rewarding in at least two ways. One, I learn a lot during the process of preparing the teaching material, especially the process of finding the best way to intuitively explain a difficult concept. And two, interaction with students in itself is a learning experience, as I learn a lot from them as well. In the end we are all students in some way throughout our lives!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your current favourite reads, commuting tunes, and go-to podcasts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the moment I am reading The Worldly Philosophers. On my commute from London on the train I generally read a book or the Economist magazine (or newspaper, as they prefer to call it). If I am really tired then I sometimes watch old golf matches or golf instruction videos on YouTube on my phone (I know, quite sad!!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your tips for choosing a research topic for your studies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Choose the topic that interests you the most. And keep in mind that you are not doing this research to change the world! Keep it real and manageable. You won&#8217;t have a lot of time to do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you give your past self when you were first starting University, and would you do anything differently?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many things! That&#8217;s the nature of growing old as one learns from new experiences. But generally, I don&#8217;t regret any major decisions of my university life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Dr Matloob Piracha, an expert in labour economics and migration, who shares his knowledge with MSc and undergraduate students at Kent. With a genuine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2025\/03\/19\/expert-insight-meet-dr-matloob\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78674,"featured_media":6084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[722],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6085,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions\/6085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}