PhD Job Market 2025-26
Information about our job market candidates for the current academic year
To enquire about our job candidates please contact PhD Placement Officer, Professor Tirthankar Roy (t.roy@lse.ac.uk).
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Olivier Accominotti and Professor Kim Oosterlinck (ULB)
Research interests: Applied microeconomics, financial history, art market, market inefficience
PhD title: The intelligent collector: returns, expertise, and the economics of art in nineteenth-century Britain
Ruoran Cheng
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Joan Roses and Professor Kent Deng
Research interests: Economic history, economic geography, digital humanity, historical GIS, the origin and evolution of civilsation
PhD title: Transportation network and spatial distribution of economic activities in the past 10000 years China
Personal webpage: https://ruoranc.github.io/website/
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Joan Roses and Professor Mohamed Saleh
Research interests: Economics of climate change, development economics, demographic economics, French and Spanish economic history
PhD Title: Climate Impacts and Adaptations in French and Spanish Economic History
Nick Fitzhenry
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Leigh Gardner and Professor Eric Schneider
Research interests: Applied econometrics, historical demography, public health economics, the history of Africa, medical history, development studies
PhD title: Death, Disease and Doctors: The Health Transition in 20th-Century South Africa
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Max Schulze and Professor Patrick Wallis
Research interests: English East India Company; history of the business corporation; early modern financial history; historical political economy of finance; corporate theory; agency theory; public choice theory; economic history of war; economic history of empire
PhD title: The English East India Company's Transition to a Permanent Capital, 1600-1679
Personal webpage: in development
Mikhail Kolosov
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Patrick Wallis and Professor Sara Horrell
Research interests: Social history, agricultural history, Georgian and Victorian England.
PhD title: Farm servants in Victorian England: Evidence of census records and registers of servants
Tom Learmouth
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Janet Hunter and Dr Gerben Bakker
Research interests: Japanese economic history, business history, industry history, industrial clusters, East Asian industrialisation, global economic history
PhD title: Becoming Asia’s First Industrial Nation: The Absorption of Foreign Manufacturing Knowledge in Japan, 1900-1965
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Kent Deng and Professor Olivier Accominotti
Research interests: Monetary and financial history, central banking, and historical banking and currency crises
PhD title: The Frontier and Latecomer? The Historical Origins, Evolution and Development of China’s (Proto) Banking System, 618 – 1939
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Joan Rosés and Dr Mohamed Saleh
Research interests: Long-run economic growth, economic geography, Korean economic history, regional inequality, industrial location, urban and regional economics
PhD title: Long-run Economic Growth and Regional Inequality in South Korea
Víctor Pérez Sánchez
Dissertation supervisors: Dr Alejandra Irigoin and Professor Joan Rosés
Research interests: Monetary and financial history; historical political economy of finance: economic history of Spain; monetary economics; financial history; early modern history; early modern trade; monetary policy; history of central banks
PhD title: Geography of money: A monetary explanation for early modern monetary policy and trade (1575-1680)
Tianning Zhu
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Chris Minns and Professor Eric Schneider
Research interests: Economic history, historical demography, migration, marriage, Chinese history
PhD title: Kinship Networks and Emigration: A Case Study of 19th- and Early 20th-century Guangdong, China