Colin Jennings is a Reader in Political Economy and Deputy Head of Department. He completed his PhD at Southampton University, a masters at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and his undergraduate at Queen’s University, Belfast. Before DPE he was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Strathclyde University, a college lecturer at Queen's College, Oxford University, and a lecturer at Portsmouth University.

He is a co-editor for the National Institute Economic Review.

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Research

Colin's research area is in political economy. Within this broad area his work splits into two branches. The first looks at conflict and the second at political competition and voting behaviour.

A uniting theme in his work is the role of competing individual motivations (for example, material versus identity concerns) in collective actions and the implications of this for collective outcomes and welfare.

Teaching

Colin teaches the following undergraduate modules:

• The Economics of Politics (Year 2)
• Economics of the Public Sector (Year 2)
• Studying Economics (Year 1)

PhD Supervision

Colin is interested in offering supervision to students focusing on the following broad areas:

• Political economics, in particular, individual choice in collective action settings
• Conflict explored from an economic perspective
• Various branches of public sector economics