Hanna Szymborska

I work as a Senior Economic Research Specialist at Homes England. I have previously worked in academia as Senior Lecturer in Economics at Birmingham City University and as Lecturer in Economics at The Open University.

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I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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I completed my PhD in the Economics Division at the Leeds University Business School (supervised by Prof Gary Dymski, Prof Giuseppe Fontana and Dr Peter Phelps). I hold BSc Economics from SOAS, University of London (supervised by Prof Jan Toporowski) and MSc Economics from the University of Leeds (supervised by Prof Gary Dymski). 

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My research interests include income and wealth inequality, distributive impact of financial sector development, macroeconomic modelling (including stock-flow consistent models), econometrics, Kaleckian and Post-Keynesian economics, feminist economics, financial economics, development economics, and history of economic thought. I act as a referee for the following peer-reviewed journals: Cambridge Journal of Economics; World Development; Review of Political Economy; Review of Radical Political Economy; Feminist Economics; The Economic and Labour Relations Review; Financial Internet Quarterly.

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I am a member of Reteaching Economics and I sit on the executive board of D-Econ, the Advisory Board of the Women’s Budget Group Early-Career Network, the Section Editors Board of E-Finanse Journal, and the Editorial Board of The Mint Magazine. I am also active in promoting economic pluralism in Poland as a committee member of the Edward Lipinski Foundation and the Polish Economic Network.

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I was awarded the 2016 EAEPE-Simon young scholar prize for the best paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.

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I have been involved in working with the UK government as Assistant Economist in the Department of Health, Medicines and Pharmacy Directorate. I also contributed to policy reports, collaborating with Think-tank Action for Social Change. 

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I am passionate about public engagement. I am an invited expert in the Panel of Polish Economists, an invitation-only survey of economics experts on the ongoing economic policy issues in Poland. I have also communicated my expertise by writing blogs (including for The Conversation, The Platform UK, Developingeconomics.org, INET Blog), on social media platforms, and by giving media interviews, including a live video interview on BBC News World Business Report 23rd Nov 2022 and regular expert interviews at TOK.FM radio in Poland.  In print, I was interviewed by leading journalists in Poland:

• Mokrzycka, K. (2021) “Dług publiczny nie powinien ograniczać państwa przed bardziej hojnymi programami wsparcia obywateli. Wywiad z dr Hanną Szymborską”, 300gospodarka.pl, 7th October [in Polish];

• Sroczyński, G. (2018) “Kapitalizm się chwieje. "Kolejny kryzys może być tak głęboki, że zatopi wszystkie łodzie"”, Gazeta.pl, 26th December [in Polish].