Portsmouth Business School

 

Robert Gausden is a Principal Lecturer at Portsmouth Business School.

 

Robert's current teaching interests include Econometrics, Statistics and Macroeconomics. Also, in the past, he has lectured in the areas of International Economics and Labour Economics.

 

Robert's research involves applying econometric techniques to macroeconomic time-series data. More specifically, he has recently been concerned with investigating the relationship between the price of oil and macroeconomic performance in the U.K.. Additionally, Robert has been examining the usefulness of indicators of consumer confidence for the purpose of predicting household consumption expenditure in the U.K..

 

For five years, Robert undertook the responsibility of Director of Undergraduate Programmes in Economics. He has also been a member of the Portsmouth Business School Board and the faculty's Timetabling Group.

 

Robert has previously been employed as a lecturer at the University of Northumbria and the University of Leeds. He has also worked for the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, where he assisted G.D.N. Worswick in the writing of "Unemployment: a problem of policy".