Research published in the internationally acclaimed journal Science last Friday May 24 by a team of economists – including School of Economics Professor Robert Slonim – raises the question, what if we were offered an economic reward or gift to donate? What effect might economic incentives have on donor numbers, blood supply and blood safety?

Congratulations to Russell Toth, who has just been awarded funding as Principal Investigator in the 2012 AusAID Development Research Awards Scheme, for his project "The Human and Environmental Impacts of Migratory Pastoralism and Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Arid and Semi-Arid East Africa".

Congratulations Dr Aarti Singh and Dr Jonathan Newton who have both been awarded DECRAS in the latest ARC round.

The 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics has been jointly awarded to Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapely.

Congratulations Professor Adrian Pagan who was recently awarded the Houblon-Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England.