Sheffield Urban, International Trade and Environmental Economics (SUITE)
Our research group brings together scholars from the School of Economics who specialize in urban and regional economics, international trade, and environmental economics.
We hold regular meetings to foster collaboration, develop new research ideas, initiate joint projects, and exchange knowledge. These meetings also support grant applications and training on novel theoretical and empirical methodologies. Additionally, we run a regular PhD reading group and organize a variety of research seminars and conferences throughout the year.
We collaborate with a broad network of academic researchers across the UK and international institutions, as well as with UK government departments and agencies (DBT, DSIT, HMT, MHCLG, OFGEM, UKRI) and international organizations such as the OECD and the European Commission.
As part of our outreach, we coordinate the Sheffield Spatial Analysis Network (SAN) webinars, which facilitate research sharing and collaboration on spatial issues. This network connects over 300 members across 25 countries, promoting interdisciplinary engagement and innovation.
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Representative publications
Burlinson A, Davillas A & Giulietti M (2025) Socioeconomic inequality in low-carbon technology adoption. Energy Economics, 143, 108244-108244.
Corradini C., Morris D. and Vanino E. (2025). Marshallian agglomeration, labour pooling and skills matching. Cambridge Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
De Fraja G., J. Matheson, P. Mizen, J. Rockey, and S. Taneja (2025) Remote working and the new geography of local service spending. Forthcoming at Economica.
Roper S., Vanino E. and Hewitt-Dundas N. (2025). Trade-offs and complementarities between regional, sectoral, and national support policies for firms’ innovation. Industrial and Corporate Change, forthcoming.
Adetutu, M. O., Odusanya, K. A., Rasciute, S., & Stathopoulou, E. (2024). Pollution risk and life insurance decisions: Microgeographic evidence from the United Kingdom. Risk Analysis, 44, 1907–1930.
Adetutu, M.O., Odusanya, K.A., Stathopoulou, E. and Weyman-Jones, T.G. (2024), The Impact of Firm Technology on Carbon Disclosure: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure. Oxf Bull Econ Stat, 86: 1438-1471.
Boggiano B, Williams M, Matheson J, Jenkins D & Oggioni MR (2024) The contemporaneous healthcare cost of particulate matter pollution for youth and older adult populations. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 125, 102994.
Burlinson A, Davillas A, Giulietti M & Price CW (2024) Household energy price resilience in the face of gas and electricity market crises. Energy Economics, 132.
Corradini C, Matheson J & Vanino E (2024) Neighbourhood labour structure, lockdown policies, and the uneven spread of COVID‐19: within‐city evidence from England. Economica, 91(363), 944-979.
Gokan T., S. Kichko, J. Matheson, J.F. Thisse (2024). How the rise of teleworking will reshape labor markets and cities. LIDAM Discussion Paper CORE 2024/10.
Matheson J., B. McConnell, J. Rockey, A. Sakalis (2024). Do Remote Workers Deter Neighborhood Crime? Evidence from the Rise of Working from Home. CESifo working paper No. 10924.
Becker B., Roper S. and Vanino E. (2023). Assessing innovation spillovers from the public science system. Technovation, 128, 102860.
Casadei P., Lee N. and Enrico Vanino (2023) Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialisation in the UK. Regional Studies.
Corradini C., Morris D. and Vanino E. (2023). Towards a regional approach for skills policy. Regional Studies, 57 (6): 1043-1054.
Foureaux-Koppensteiner, M., Jesse Matheson and R. Plugor (2023) The impact of improving access to support services for victims of domestic violence on demand for services and victim outcomes, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Lim, F., Carrasco, R., Edwards, D. and Jolian McHardy (2023) Market responses to oil palm intensification could exacerbate deforestation in Indonesia, Conservation Biology.
Owen G, Chen Y, Birabi T, Gwilym Pryce, Song H & Wang B (2023) Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China. Urban Studies.
Pinchbeck E, Roth S, Szumilo N & Enrico Vanino (2023) The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Risk Maps and the Housing Market. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Funded research projects
Uncovering Hidden Innovators: using big data to develop comprehensive measures of firm innovation and regional tech specialisation (British Academy Innovation Fellowships 2023 - 2025 – Enrico Vanino)
'Trade under Turbulence: Political Tensions and International Trade.' (CITP - Dr Antonio Navas)
Exploring the Link between Publicly Funded R&D Collaborations and Regional Technological Development (UKRI - Dr Enrico Vanino)
New project aiming to tackle wage disparities in the UK (ESCR - Dr Enrico Vanino and Dr Richmond Egyei)
UKERC Flexible Research Fund: Gas price volatility: distributional impacts and mitigations (Andrew Burlinson).
EPSRC Grant: Energy Transactions for Non-Traditional services (EnTraNTS) (Andrew Burlinson).
Past events
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Webinar on Local Economic Effects of Renewable Energy Investment – 26 March 2024 
Royal Economic Society workshop, discussing regional income disparities 
1st Bessemer Symposium in Economic Geography of Innovation – Sheffield 19-20 September 2024
Media
Breathing rooms: pollution and the property market - Financial Times
How the working from home boom has left slim pickings for burglars - The Guardian
From beating burglary to weight gain: 12 ways that working from home has changed Britain - The Guardian
Here’s What We Do and Don’t Know About the Effects of Remote Work - New York Times
Work-from-home era is bad for thieves. They find a new target - The Economic Times
Why the Energy Security Strategy won’t control soaring household bills - The New Statesman