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Damian Phelan was a Stone Centre PhD Scholar in 2023/2024, and has a background in secondary teaching. Damian shared his perspective on how the Stone Centre’s support helped him.

Sam and Weikai's new book 'Allocation, Distribution, and Policy: Notes, Problems and Solutions in Microeconomics' is a fantastic new book of problem sets packed with data on inequality and the environment.

Eric Klemm received a Stone Centre PhD scholarship back in 2024. We spoke with Eric to find out how the scholarship helped him, and what he's been up to since.

The discussion centred on the tension between philosophical and economic approaches to inequality, and the shift from historical concerns to modern data-driven analysis.

Thomas Lazarowicz was one of the Stone Centre at UCL’s inagural PhD Scholars alongside Joern Onken back in 2022. We spoke with Thomas to find out what he’s been up to since his time with the Stone Centre, and how the support helped him.

We caught up with one of the Stone Centre at UCL's inaugural PhD Scholars, Joern Onken, to find out what he's been up to and how his PhD scholarship helped him.

Four PhD students from the UCL Department of Economics have been appointed Stone PhD Scholars for the 2025/2026 academic year, meet Clara, Ararat, Matthew and Elena.

We caught up with Gaby and Ossian to find out what they plan to do during their time at the Stone Centre and afterwards, what their research is about, and what they think are the most pressing issues economics should address.