Stefan Speckesser

As an Associate Dean, I am supporting the Dean of the Brighton Business School in the development, implementation and monitoring of the School Research and Enterprise plan. I am also working with colleagues on publications, proposals and collaborations within the university and with external partners as well as career development in research.

In my own research as an applied economist, I am focusing on returns to education investment in a time of accelerated technical and demographic change. Using large-scale data, this work investigates the earnings and employment outcomes of vocational education and apprenticeships for young people as well as labour market retraining for people in adult life. My main motivation is to understand how education and skills in these areas can be improved, so that people work in well-paid and highly productive jobs, which will help reduce earnings inequality and social inequality more widely, for a fairer society.

Most of my work has been published in scientific journals, discussion papers and government reports. A complete list of my research publications can be found on Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=MeWDVYYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao