Research
Research themes
- Agricultural and environmental economics
- Business administration and management
- Economic systems and institutional change
- Experimental and behavioural economics
- Health, Education and Welfare
- Industrial organisation
- Innovation, technological change and growth
- International economics
- Labour and demographic economics
- Migration and Urbanisation
Research projects and grants
Data Analytics in Research on Investment Efficiency of Clean Technology in UK Start-ups
Funding body: British Academy
(2024-2025). £9,244
Local Government, Economic Growth and Human Development: Chinese Lessons for Kenya and Uganda?
ESRC funded project
(2015-2019). £571,266 (fEC: £675,326).
Governance of Network Society
Professor Cong Cao
Research Grant
China National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences (14ZDA063), 2014−2016. Co-Investigator with Wang Fang as Principal Investigator.
Total RMB 800,000.
Nanotechnology in Society – Interdisciplinary Research Group on Globalization and Nanotechnology
Professor Cong Cao
Research Grant
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (SES−0938099), 2011−2016. Collaborator with Richard P. Appelbaum et al. as Principal Investigators.
Total $7,077,759.
Carbon Capture and Storage in China – Technology, Policy, International Collaboration and Implications for the Global Climate Change Challenge
Professor Cong Cao
PhD. Studentship
U.K. National Center for Carbon Capture and Storage, 2013−2016. Ph.D. Supervisor.
£58,777
Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Science and Technology Policy Making in China: The Case of Biotechnology
Professor Cong Cao
Research Grant
Science, Technology, and Society, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (SES−1115319), 2010−2013.
Principal Investigator. $63,647.
Globalization and Reform of China’s Science and Technology System
Professor Cong Cao
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship
EU FP7−PEOPLE−2011 (IIF−302303), 2012−2014.
Scientist in Charge. €209,033.40.
Financial Risk Analysis, learning from Graph-based Kernel Machine
Dr Chaoyan Wang
Project (2016-2018)
Funding body: The National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Grant No. 61503422.
Reaching Chinese consumers through the physical and digital marketing platforms of commodity trading markets in China
Project (2016-2017)
Funding body: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC Impact Accelerator Fund).