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Darren Sugden

Senior Lecturer

Leeds Business School

Darren has worked for over 30 years in the university sector as a lecturer in economics and other business related disciplines. Current teaching includes macroeconomics and econometrics both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. 

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Darren has worked for over 30 years in the university sector as a lecturer in economics and other business related disciplines. Current teaching includes macroeconomics and econometrics both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. 

Darren has worked for over 30 years in the university sector as a lecturer in economics and other business related disciplines.

Darren began his university lecturing career at Humberside University in 1991 and later worked at Lincoln University before moving to Leeds Beckett University in 2009. Darren has taught on a variety of economics and business related courses including macroeconomics, strategic management, role and structure of financial institutions and econometrics. Responsibilities have included course leadership and curriculum design.

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Research interests

Darren's current research interests are focused on post-Keynesian analysis of monetary policy after the Great Recession of 2008.

Current teaching

  • L4 Introductory Microeconomics
  • L4 Introductory Macroeconomics
  • L5 Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • L6 Current Macroeconomic Issues
  • L6 Business Competition and Government
  • L6 Applied Econometrics
  • L7 Financial Risk and Uncertainty
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