Denise Hawkes

Biography:

Dr Denise Hawkes joined the Business School in January 2009. Since September 2010 Dr Hawkes has been the Programme Leader for the MA by Research (Business) and MPhil/PhD (Business). Dr Hawkes is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  Before joining the Business School, Dr Hawkes worked as a researcher within the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute of Education and prior to that at the Centre for Research into Business Activity (CeRiBA). Dr Hawkes has held research grants with ESRC and National Government Departments.

Responsibilities within the university:

Teaching and administrative activities

• Programme Leader for MA by Research (Business) & MPhil /PhD (Business)
• Course Leader for ECON1116 Applied Econometrics, RESE1044 Research Methods, RESE1098 Quantitative Methods and BUSI1266 Dissertation (MA by Research)

MPhil/PhD supervision

Sridevi Yerrabati “FDI and Corporate Governance in Middle Income Countries:  An Empirical Study focusing on India”

Current research:

Labour Economics, Family Economics, Education Economics, Applied Economics focusing on panel data and twins data, Social Policy

External activities:

• External Examiner at Kingston University for mathematics and economics modules on the International Foundation Course

Recent Press Coverage of Research;

• BBC Radio 4 interview on teenage motherhood and child attainment

• Newspaper coverage of work on benefits of using nurseries for child care on child attainment

• BBC News Channel interview looking at the effect of the 2012 autumn statement on women’s employment

Awards and prizes:

• 2012 “Youth worklessness: Bridging academic research and policy practice, Interdisciplinary workshop”, funded by ICABEEP - The International Confederation for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics and Economic Psychology
• 2011 “What is the impact of higher rates of innovation on employment in LICS?” Funded by DFID/AUSAid
• 2010 “Understanding Worklessness: A Multi-Method Pilot Study of Worklessness in Greenwich” funded by University of Greenwich, Research and Enterprise Investment Programme
• 2010 “What is the evidence of the relationship between education, skills and growth in low-income countries?” funded by DFID
• 2006 “The Relative Importance of Nature, Nurture & Peer Effects on Adult Outcomes” funded by ESRC
• 2006 “Motherhood and Child Outcomes: The Timing of Motherhood and Employment and Consequences for Children” funded by ESRC
• 2005 CAPCA Travel Grant
• 1999 ESRC Standard Research Studentship (MPhil/PhD)

Recent publications:

Bonjour, D., Cherkas, L., Haskel, J., Hawkes, D. and Spector, T. (2003) “Returns to Education; Evidence from U.K. Twins”, American Economic Review, December 2003, Volume 93, Number 5, p1799-1812

Crespi, G., Criscuolo, C., Haskel, J. and Hawkes, D. (2006) “Measuring and Understanding Productivity in UK Market Services”, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, December 2006, Volume 22, Number 4, p560-572

Crosby, D. and Hawkes, D. (2007) “Cross-National Research Using Contemporary Birth Cohort Studies: A Look at Early Maternal Employment in the United Kingdom and United States.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Volume 10, Issue 5, December 2007, pages 379 – 404

Flouri, E. and Hawkes, D. (2008) "Ambitious mothers-successful daughters: Mothers' early expectations for children's education and children's earnings and sense of control in adult life" British Journal of Educational Psychology, Volume 78, pages 411 - 433

Hansen, K. and Hawkes, D. (2009) “Early Childcare and Child Development” Social Policy, Volume 38, pages 211-239

Hawkes, D. and Joshi, H. (2012) “Age at Motherhood and Child Development: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort” National Institute Economic Review, October 2012, vol. 222, no. 1, R52-R66

Hawkes, D. and Plewis, I. (2006) “Modelling Non-Response in the National Child Development Survey”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), July 2006, Volume 169, p479-493