Professor Philip B Whyman
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Philip B Whyman is Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the UCLan Research Centre for Business, Management and Enterprise (URCBME). In this role, Philip leads the research activity of the university in the field of economics and political economy. He teaches aspects of economic policy and European economics, and supervisors doctoral students in areas pertaining to economics, economic policy, cooperatives, the Preston Model, labour economics and workplace flexibility.
Professor Whyman has published widely in the areas of economic policy, with particular emphasis upon European economics and the impact of Brexit. His most recent monographs include The Economics of Brexit (Palgrave, 2017 and 2020), Rethinking Economic and Monetary Policy in Europe (Routledge, 2018) and The Preston Model and Community Wealth Building: Creating a Socio-Economic Democracy for the Future (Routledge, 2020 forthcoming).
Formerly educated at the University of Bradford, Philip has worked in both the public and private sectors, including a year as a Swedish Institute Scholar at Stockholm University and a researcher for the trade union USDAW. He has acted as economic advisor for Global Britain and the Forum for Private Business. Professor Whyman has spoken widely on the issue of Brexit, and his research has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Today Programme and has been interviewed by Dutch and Japanese broadcasters. His research into local economic development and the Preston Model has been commissioned by local and national policymakers, including the Lancashire County Council, the Local Economic Partnership, the Department of Trade and Industry and NESTA (formerly the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts).
- Co-Director UCLan Research Centre for Business Management and Enterprise
- PhD Economics, University of Bradford, 1996
- BSc (Hons) Economics, University of Bradford, 1987
- Economics of Brexit
- European economics
- economic policy
- post-Keynesian economics
- labour economics and workplace flexibility
- local economic development
- the Preston Model
- cooperatives
- Royal Economic Society
- the American Economic Association
- the British Academy of Management
- Post Keynesian Economics Society
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- UCLan Research Centre for Business, Management and Enterprise - Business, Economics and Society
- Business Reliance post-COVID-19
- Economics of Brexit
- Preston Model
- Determinants of Productivity
- Skills Drain
- The most recent externally funded projects include: Creative Industries and the Preston Model (NESTA, £47,466), 2019-20
- Safepod (ESRC, £30,000), 2019-20
- Lancashire Skills Drain (Corporate funder, £18,000), 2019
- Determinants of Productivity in Lancashire (LEP/LCC, £60,000), 2016-7
- Jean Monnet Module (European Commission, £18,113), 2013-6
- North West Business Development Network, KN4B (ESRC, £200,000), 2012-15
- CIVITAS workshop on Brexit, 2018
- GFTU 'Union Building' Conference, 2018
- CIPFA NW Conference, 2017
- Houses of Parliament Brexit Conference, 2016
- Post-Crash 'Boom and Bust' Conference, 2016
- Labour Marke Security and Flexibility (Work Organisation and Employment Relations Research Centre, Sheffield Management School) Conference, 2015
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