post

Academic Leader

responsibilities

Economics Subject Group Leader

brief biography

Barry Harper leads the Economics Subject Group, which is one of the largest Economics departments/groups in the UK, and includes around 30 full-time academic staff, including 10 professors, academic leaders and principal lectures. Barry also established the London Financial Academy, part of London Metropolitan University, which offers training and short courses for the financial services industry. He has published in leading academic journals including Oxford Economic Papers and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics on labour market economics. His work on beauty, height and earnings has been covered by leading newspapers worldwide including The Economist. Barry has held academic posts at Warwick University and City University.

key teaching areas

Economic theory, policy and application including:

• Economics of the labour market
• Personnel economics
• Macroeconomic theory and policy

research interests

Labour market economics including:

• Early child development and occupational attainment
• Gender pay differentials
• Economic impact of physical appearance (beauty, stature and obesity)
• Ambition and economic attainment.

publications

Major publications include:

• Ambition, Discrimination and Occupational Attainment: A Study of British Cohort, Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 53, pp695-720, 2001.
• Beauty, Stature and the Labour Market: A British Cohort Study, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 62, Special Issue, pp. 771-800, December 2000.
• Occupational Attainment of Men in Britain, Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 638-650, 1997. (with M. Haq)
• Male Occupational Mobility in Britain, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol.57, No.3, pp. 349-369, 1995.
• Occupational Sex Segregation in Iran 1976-1986, Journal of International Development, vol.7, no. 4, pp. 637-651, 1995.(with P.Alizadeh)

professional practice and consultancy

Barry established the London Financial Academy (LFA), which is a leading provider of financial and professional training in finance, regulation and compliance. Enhancing talent and delivering quality solutions to a wide-ranging client base, the LFA occupies a unique position at the heart of both the City of London and Canary Wharf.

memberships

Member of Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics (CHUDE), Royal Economic Society.

Academic referee for leading international journals including: Manchester School, Health Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Regional Studies, Education Economics, Research in Labor Economics.