Dr Rong Zhu

Lecturer Business Economics

College of Business, Government and Law

+61 8 82012544

rong.zhu@flinders.edu.au

Law & Commerce Building (3.67)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Senior Lecturer, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University
Research Associate, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, University of New South Wales

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, University of New South Wales

Honours, awards and grants

Award: Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Researchers, Flinders University (2015)
Australian Research Council Linkage Grant: "Economic complexity as a driver of innovation and smart specialisation" (with Professor John Spoehr, Associate Professor Giselle Rampersad, Professor David Powers, and Professor John Quiggin), 2018-2020. Partner Organisation: Government of South Australia Department of State Development
External Consultation Grants: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (2012); Australian Council of Learned Academies Secretariat (2013); Curtin University National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (2014); Department of Veterans' Affairs (2014); New South Wales Skills Board (2015); Fair Work Commission (2015); Commonwealth Grants Commission (2016); Commonwealth Bank of Australia (2017)
Internal Research Grants: Faculty Research Grant (2013, 2017); Faculty Establishment Grant (2016); College Small Research Grant (2018); College Large Research Grant (2018)

Research interests

Applied Microeconometrics
Labour/Health/Urban Economics

Topic coordinator

BUSN2043 Managerial Economics

BUSN9115 Quantitative methods

Publications

Professional engagement

Reviewer for: Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Australian Economic Papers, Australian Economic Review, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Australasian Journal on Ageing, China Economic Review, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economic Papers, Economic Record, Economics and Human Biology, Economics Letters, Economics of Education Review, Education Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Forum for Social Economics, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of International Development, Journal of Population Ageing, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Development Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Science & Medicine.