Dr Nikolaos Danias

Teaching Fellow

Economics

Personal statement

Nikos obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Strathclyde in 2013. Previous to this, he studied in the University of Piraeus from which he received his BSc in Industrial Management and Technology in 2003, and his MBA in Total Quality Management in 2006.

In 2015, Nikos became Fellow of The Higher Education Academy.

In 2021, Nikos obtained his MSc in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from the University of Strathclyde.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

    • Microeconomics
    • Energy Economics
    • Regulatory Economics
    • Natural Resource Economics
    • Environmental Economics
    • Industrial Economics
    • Political Economics
    • Higher Education Pedagogy

Publications

The "Heroic Journey" : managing the pedagogy and development of business studies teachers
Danias Nikolaos
Conference for Higher Education Research (CHER) – Hong Kong 2022, Lingnan University (2022)
The "heroic journey" : managing the pedagogy and development of Business Studies teachers
Danias Nikolaos
(2022)
The welfare impacts of discriminatory price tariffs
Danias Nikolaos, Swales J Kim
Energy Economics Vol 71, pp. 321-331 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.03.011
The welfare impacts of discriminatory price tariffs
Danias Nikolaos, Swales J Kim
(2016)
The greek electricity market reforms : political and regulatory considerations
Danias Nikolaos, Swales John, McGregor Peter
Energy Policy Vol 62, pp. 1040-1047 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.08.010

More publications

Teaching

Undergraduate

Nikos is the Director of Undergraduate Learning and Teaching in the Department of Economics, overseeing the Economics studies undergraduate programme.

He is the lecturer in charge of the classes “Intermediate Microeconomics” and “Natural Resource, Environmental and Energy Economics”. He also teaches in the class "Introduction to Economics and Business Analysis and Technology".

Postgraduate

Nikos is the Director of the MSc in Economics and Policy of Energy and Climate Change, which is a course aiming to train future leaders in the sectors of energy and climate change. The course equips its students with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand the challenges and uncertainties that industries, economies, governments and societies face in the areas of energy and climate change.

He is the lecturer in charge of the MSc classes "Energy Technologies, Impacts and Implementation", "Energy Finance and Forecasting", "Fundamentals of Microeconomics" and "Games of Strategy". He also teaches in the MSc class "Energy Industries and Markets".

Supervision

Nikos supervises Economics honours year dissertations, MSc Summer Projects, MSc Final Projects, MBA Final Projects and PGR studies in a number of topic areas.

Research interests

Energy Economics, Regulatory Economics, Industrial Economics, Political Economics, Higher Education Pedagogy