I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, where I teach Behavioural Economics and Public Economics. In addition, I am research active in the fields of behavioural economics and experimental economics where I published research in high-quality international journals. In my role of Senior Lecturer, I am member of the Faculty’s Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team and also member of the Faculty’s Ethics Committee.

With my colleague Robert Gausden I have established within my Faculty a 'Women in Economics Network' as a mentoring platform for young female economists. I am also Academic Champion within the 'Discover Economics' campaign at the Royal Economic Society.  Through this network, I have set up a series of webinars promoting economics to A-level students across the UK. 

My research interests are in the areas of behavioral economics, public economics, experimental economics, and gender inequality.

I enjoy interdisciplinary research and I am actively collaborating with colleagues from Organisational Studies, Accountancy, and Law.  

I am involved with an EU Horizon project on gender inequality, titled: “Realising Girls’ and Women's Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment”, which is an interdisciplinary collaboration of academics from seven universities across Europe and South Africa. In this project, we aim to understand the causes of gendered power hierarchies and gender gaps across political, social, economic and cultural spheres, in order to prevent and reverse inequalities and promote girls’ and women’s inclusion.

In terms of behavioural economics and public economics research, the main focus of my work is on the provision of threshold public goods. In this research I use laboratory experiments to understand how cooperation in small groups can be achieved.

I coordinate and teach Public Sector Economics, a final year undergraduate module. I also teach behavioural economics on the second-year module Behavioural Economics and Game Theory. 

I act as personal tutor to undergraduate students. I supervise final year, undergraduate projects, Master's dissertations and PhD research.

I am happy to receive applications relating to PhD research in behavioural economics.

I am happy to take calls and emails from the media on my research, and I am aware of the need to respond to journalists in a timely manner. Please contact me at federica.alberti@port.ac.uk or on +44 23 9284 4270.