Jackline Wahba#
| Membership Number: | 4847 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://sites.google.com/site/jackiewahba |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Professor of Economics
- 2012 Member of the UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)
- 2015 Director of Research in Economics, University of Southampton
- 2008 Leader of the Migration Research Strand, ESRC Centre for Population Change at University of Southampton
- 2006 - 2012 Associate Professor (Reader) in Economics, University of Southampton
- 2007 - 2008 Head of Economics Teaching Programmes, University of Southampton
- 2001 - 2006 Lecturer in Economics (Tenure awarded 2002), University of Southampton
- 2000 - 2001 Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Economics, University of Southampton
- 1996 - 2000 Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Southampton
- 1995 - 1996 Lecturer- Department of Economics, University of Southampton
Fields of Scholarship
- Migration
- Labour economics
- Labour markets in developing countries
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Named one of 6 vital voices on the economics of migration by News Deeply.
- 2016 International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition, to which I contributed a piece on Child Labour, won the PROSE award for Excellence in Reference Works and for Multivolume Reference - Humanities & Social Sciences. It was also the number 1 most accessed Major Reference Work on ScienceDirect in 2015.
- 2009 - 2012 Principal Investigator, NORFACE, Migration Programme, “Understanding Migrants’ Choices in Europe, large grant.
- 2005 Winner of Best Policy Oriented Paper, Labour Theme. “The Effects of Structural Adjustment on Youth Unemployment in Egypt”. Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum (ERF).
