Sarah Keast

Dr Sarah Keast

Job title: Lecturer in Information Management, School of Management (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
Postal address: Room 234b, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585657
Email: sarah.keast@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

Economics Programme Manager

Qualifications & background

MMath (Hons) Master of Mathematics

PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

PhD A Bi-Regional CGE Model of the South West Economy

Teaching interests
Quantitative research methods

Business statistics

Game theory

Risk analysis

Mathematical economics

Research interests

Regional economics

Computable general equilibrium modelling of regional economies

Housing markets

Decision making

Publications

Bristow, G., Gripaios, P., Keast, S.and Munday, M. (2002) Call Centre Growth and the Distribution of Financial Services Activity in the UK, Service Industries Journal, 22 (3), pp 117-134

Gripaios, P., Bishop, P. and Keast, S. (2000) Differences in GDP per head in GB counties: some suggested explanations, Applied Economics, 32, 9, pp 1161-1168

Gripaios, P., Gripaios, B., Wiseman, N. and Keast, S. (1999) Differences in household income per head over the UK trade cycle; a comment, Applied Economics Letters, 6, 8, pp471-476

Keast, S. and Towler, M. (2009) Rational Decision Making for Managers: An Introduction, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons

Additional information

Dr Sarah Keast is the Economics Programme Manager and a lecturer at the University of Plymouth. With an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a PhD in economic modelling, Sarah’s research and teaching interests are predominantly quantitative in nature, including regional economic modelling, econometrics, quantitative decision making and the housing market. Sarah’s PhD involved the development of a computable general equilibrium model for the South West with particular focus on the regional housing market. She has also co-authored several published papers and a book on quantitative decision-making techniques for managers.

During her career at the University of Plymouth, Sarah contributed to research and consultancy for both the private and public sector. She has worked with organisations including the BBC, the South West Regional Development Agency and local councils.

Sarah has taught a wide variety of subjects including microeconomics, macroeconomics, research methods, game theory, mathematics and statistics. As Economics Programme Manager, Sarah is responsible for the maintenance of academic standards across all Economics degree programmes. She works closely with her colleagues in the Economics Group to ensure that each student who chooses to study Economics at Plymouth is able to reach their academic potential and is fully prepared to meet their future career development challenges.