The 2025/26 academic year has been one of the busiest yet for research events at the School of Economics. Across the year, the School hosted fourteen research workshops and welcomed around eighty seminar speakers from leading international institutions. This roundup brings the year’s programme together in one place.
Workshops
The School ran fourteen workshops between March and July 2026, several of them recurring fixtures in the international research calendar. Topics ranged from economic theory and empirical industrial organisation to migration, fairness, intangible capital, and the application of AI to time series. Among the prominent speakers across the programme are Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides (LSE) at the Bristol Macro Workshop, Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich) or Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) at the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings, Philip Haile (Yale) at Empirical IO, and Ben Brooks (University of Chicago) at the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory.
The full list of 2025/26 workshops can be found below:
- Makris Symposium in Economic Theory (MSET), 23 to 24 March 2026. Programme
- Empirical IO, 27 to 28 April 2026. Programme
- Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BAEM): Development Economics, 5 to 6 May 2026, Fry Building. Programme
- Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BAEM): Migration Economics, 6 to 7 May 2026, Fry Building. Programme
- Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BAEM): Fairness in the Economy, 8 May 2026, Fry Building. Programme
- Bristol Macro Workshop (BMW), 14 to 15 May 2026, Wills Memorial Building. Programme
- Workshop on Economic Networks, 20 to 21 May 2026, Wills Memorial Building. Programme
- Intangible Capital, 22 May 2026, Priory Road Complex. Programme
- AI for Time Series in Economics and Finance, 27 to 28 May 2026, Fry Building. Programme
- Teaching Excellence, 18 June 2026, Life Sciences Building
- Higher Education in a Cold Climate (HECC), 29 to 30 June 2026, Priory Road Complex
- Decentralised Financial Markets, 6 to 8 July 2026, Helen Woodhouse Building. Programme
- Econometrics Study Group, 8 to 10 July 2026, Engineers House, Clifton
- Minority in Economics Workshop, 13 to 14 July 2026, Arts Complex
The full programme and venue details for each workshop are listed on the School’s Workshops 2025/26 page.
Seminar series
Alongside the workshops, the School ran its regular weekly and monthly seminars throughout the year. The programme is organised into a monthly departmental seminar and four field seminar series, complemented by a weekly PhD series in which Bristol’s own graduate students present their work.
Across the five invited series (Departmental seminar, Applied, Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomic Theory), the School hosted sixty-seven talks during the year, with a further thirteen presentations in the PhD seminar, bringing the total to eighty seminars across the year. The departmental series included internationally recognised economists Matthias Doepke (LSE), Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Niels Johannesen (University of Oxford), Sandra Sequeira (LSE), Estelle Cantillon (Universite libre de Bruxelles), Tobias Salz (MIT), and Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE).
The full schedule of speakers is available on the School’s Seminars series 2025/26 page.