Faculty:Faculty of Business and Law
Location: Chelmsford
Areas of Expertise: Business, management and leadership , Economics
Research Supervision:Yes
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Denise's research is focused on higher education transitions, equality, diversity and inclusion in higher education and the value of doctoral education. She has held research grants with various funders including ERSC, OfS and British Council. She has published widely, most significantly in American Economic Review, Journal of the Royal Statistical Series A and Policy Reviews in Higher Education. Prior to joining ARU, she was professor and Head of Department of Economics and International Business at the University of Greenwich and previously Academic Head of Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Transfer in the Centre for Doctoral Education, UCL Institute of Education.
Denise is an experienced research degree supervisor with experience with both PhD and professional doctorates. She has 10 doctoral research degree completions and is an experienced research degree examiner with 11 doctoral examinations undertaken. She is interested in supervising students in areas related to:
Denise has extensive experience teaching education economics, applied econometrics, research and secondary data analysis to students of many different educational backgrounds and levels of study.
“Improving the Quality of Doctoral Supervisory Training: Capacity Building Workshops”, Research England, Universities UK, UK-Ukraine R&I Twinning Grant, Principal Investigator, Mar 23 – Aug 23 £86.8k
“MEDiate - Multi-hazard and risk informed system for Enhanced local and regional Disaster risk management” HORIZON, European Research Executive Agency, Co-Investigator, Oct 22 – Sep 25, £5m
“Harlow Local Procurement Portal Evaluation” Harlow Council, Principal Investigator, Feb 22 – Dec 22, £9.5k
Academic Papers
Cagliesi, Gabriella and Denise Hawkes (2023) “What shapes student intentions? The interplay between policy, social and personal factors in postgraduate education” forthcoming in Policy Reviews in Higher Education
Cagliesi, Gabriella and Denise Hawkes (2021), "Are we all in this together? Alleviating the childcare constraint for women in economic crises", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 48 No. 9, pp. 1245-1263. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-10-2020-0718
Ashraf Maleeha, Gabriella Cagliesi, Denise Hawkes and Maryam Rab (2021) Tackling the gender biases in higher education careers in Pakistan: potential online opportunities post COVID-19 Emerald Open Res 2021, 3:13 https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.14256.1
Research Reports
Paredes-Fuentes, Stefania, Tim Burnett, Gabriella Cagliesi, Parama Chaudhury and Denise Hawkes (2023) “Who Studies Economics? An Analysis of the Economics Pipeline in the UK” Royal Economic Society Report, UK https://res.org.uk/who-studies-economics-an-analysis-of-diversity-in-the-uk-economics-pipeline/
Hawkes, Denise (2022) “Independent Evaluation Report for Harlow Council Community Renewal Funded project – “Harlow winning Business” local procurement project” Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Keynote Speaker at Queen Mary, University of London, School of Economics and Finance First International Conference in Education and Scholarship, UK, November 2022. Presentation entitled “Metrics, metrics, metrics, but what do they tell us! The value of institutional data and econometrics in closing the BAME awarding gap”
Society for Research in Higher Education, UK, December 2022. Poster entitled “The Forgotten Research Academics: The Academic Career Structures of Research Academics within Business Schools in Teaching Focused Institutions in the UK
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, UK, April 2022. Paper entitled “The Triple Hurdle BAME race to a good academic degree”