Dr William Whittaker (PhD) - personal details

In 2003 I completed my BSc(Economics) with first class at Manchester. During the degree I became interested in both econometrics and the UK economy. I obtained an ESRC 1+3 award in 2003 which provided funding for my MSc(Economics and Econometrics) which was awarded in 2004 (which included a dissertation on the asymmetric costs of recession on UK regions), and my PhD 'Internal migration in Great Britain: causes and effects' which was supervised by Dr Ken Clark and Professor Martyn Andrews and was submitted in 2008. 

In October 2008 I was appointed as a Research Associate in Health Economics within the Health Methodology Research Group at the University of Manchester. Here I havedeveloped further interest in inequality and applied panel data methodology.

In March 2010 I was awarded with an ESRC/MRC/NIHR Early Careers Post Doctoral Fellowship in Health Economics which began September 2010 for two years, and includes research on associations between spousal health, the effect of different health conditions on contributions to the Exchequer, a continuation of my third PhD paper on the subjective well-being of migrants in Great Britain, and work on workforce planning in dentistry. 

Health Economics Study Group (HESG)
Royal Economics Society (RES)
International Health Economics Association (iHEA)

PhD Economics
MSc Economics & Econometrics
BSc Economics

I am joint course director for the new MSc Economics (Economics of Health) programme