Postgraduate Studies in Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE)

The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) at the University of Sydney is a leading group in Australia engaging in teaching and researching in applied economics, with a particular focus on agricultural economics, development economics, natural resource economics and environmental economics. Postgraduate studies at ARE are offered at PhD level, MPhil level (research), and MAgr. level (coursework). All postgraduate research students undertake individual research projects and produce a significant and publishable piece of original research work (thesis) of high standing. Students are supported in this endeavor by world class supervision and research environment. All research students are also required to undertake some advanced postgraduate coursework in the areas of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics.

Enrolling in a postgraduate studies program at ARE opens opportunities to research some of the most intellectually demanding problems of our time:

• How to feed a growing human population without further depleting valuable natural resources?
• How to think about and act on climate change?
• How to best help some of the poorest countries in the world to develop?
• How to use our water, minerals, and oceans in best possible way?

Come and join us in a quest to answering some of these questions.

Alan Randall
Head of Department

Abstracts of recently completed theses and projects by ARE postgraduate students

Profiles of some current ARE postgraduate students

Samad Azad, samad.azad@sydney.edu.au

Meilanie Buitenzorgy, meilanie.buitenzorgy@sydney.edu.au

Hasneen Jahan, hasneen.jahan@sydney.edu.au

Karunagaran Madhavan, karunagaran.madhavan@sydney.edu.au

Thusitha Marawila , thusitha.marawila@sydney.edu.au

Deviga Vengedasalam, deviga.vengedasalam@sydney.edu.au

To see postgraduate student profiles from all disciplines in our faculty please click here.

Where have our recent PhD, MPhill and MAgr graduates gone?

Some institutions where our recent graduates have taken positions:

• United Nations University
• University of New South Wales
• Macquarie University
• Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
• The Productivity Commission
• Reserve Bank of Australia

Enquire about an ARE postgraduate program

ARE accepts expressions of interests for its postgraduate programs in two rounds over a year, depending on the type of the applicant (international / domestic), the program, and the requirements for funding.

Send your expression of interest (EoI), including a short cover letter, a CV, and a short document outlining one or several research ideas that you would like to pursue: (click on the appropriate date * or **, to create and send an e-mail with your EoI).