ProfessorJames Sefton

Head of the Department of Finance

Department of Finance - Business School

  • Head of the Department of Finance
    Department of Finance - Business School
  • 020 7594 9128 (Work)
  • 3.08, 53 Prince's Gate, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

RESEARCH

2023-2027  Consortium Member of ‘SUSTAINWELL: Long-term socio-economic impact of population ageing on European society’,  Horizon Europe Award No. 101095175 for €3,000,000

2017-2023  Principal Investigator  for ‘Changes in the Distribution of Resources across Generations in both the UK and the US’, ESRC Award No. ES/P000142/1 for £384,759

2014-2017  Consortium Member of ‘AGENTA: An application of National Transfer Accounts for explaining and projecting trends in public finances’, Consortium Member, European Union's Seventh Framework Programme, Award No. 613247 for €2,200,000

2009-2012 ‘Inter and Intra Generational Redistribution in the UK ‘, ESRC Collaborative Governmental Studentships, ESRC Award for 3 year PhD student.

2001-2003  ‘Pensions, Means Testing and Early Retirement’, ESRC Award No. L138251048 for £115,000.

1999-2001  ‘Inherited Wealth and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality’, ESRC Award No. R022250164 for £80,000

1998-1999 ‘The Construction of Public and Personal Accounts for the UK’, ESRC Award No R000222518 for £40,000

1999-2000  ‘Why are Household Saving Rates in the US, UK and Italy So Different?’. ESRC Award No. R000222981, for £43,000