Dr Rong Zhu

Senior Lecturer Business Economics

College of Business, Government and Law

+61 8 8201 2544

rong.zhu@flinders.edu.au

Law & Commerce

GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Dr Rong Zhu is a Senior Lecturer in Business Economics at Flinders University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Germany.

Rong's research has appeared in Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Economics of Education Review, Health Economics, Labour Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Oxford Economic Papers, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, and Social Science & Medicine.

Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/rongzhu.

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, University of New South Wales, 2012

Honours, awards and grants

Honours/Awards: Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Researchers, Flinders University (2016); Young Scholar Best Paper Award, 5th China Education Finance Symposium (2019); College Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research (2021); Honourable Mention, Student Led Teaching Award, Flinders University Student Association (2021); South Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2022); Elsevier China Economic Review Best Paper Award (2023); College Award for Outstanding Research Publication (2024).

External Grants: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (2012); Australian Council of Learned Academies Secretariat (2013); National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (2014); NSW Department of Education and Training (2015); Fair Work Commission (2015); Commonwealth Grants Commission (2016); Commonwealth Bank of Australia (2018); Australian Research Council Linkage Project (2019–2021); Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant (2023–2024); Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2023–2025); Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (2024–2025).

Topic coordinator

BUSN9115 Quantitative methods

BUSN2043 Managerial Economics

BUSN2022 The Australian Economy

Professional engagement

Research Working Group Member, "National Strategy of Volunteering 2023–2033" (Establishment Phase), Volunteering Australia, 2024.

Research Working Group Member, "National Strategy of Volunteering 2023–2033" (Development Phase), Volunteering Australia, 2021–2022.

Editorial Board Member, Volunteering Research Papers Initiative, Volunteering Australia, 2022.

Assessor, Australian Research Council Discovery Funding Scheme.

Reviewer for: Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Australian Economic Papers, Australian Economic Review, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Australasian Journal on Ageing, China Economic Review, China & World Economy, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economic Inquiry, Economic Papers, Economic Record, Economic Systems, Economica, Economics and Human Biology, Economics Letters, Economics of Education Review, Economics of Transition, Education Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Health Economics, Industrial Relations, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of International Development, Journal of Population Ageing, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Oxford Economic Papers, PloS One, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Development Economics, Review of Economics of the Household, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Science & Medicine, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, World Bank Economic Review, and World Development.