Jiwei Zheng

Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) · Director of External Relations

Department of Economics, Lancaster University Management School

Research funding

  • 2026–2028

    BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

    “LLMs in Tacit Bargaining: Decision processes, Behaviour, and Outcomes”

    £9,750 · Principal investigator

  • 2023

    LUMS Perfect Pitch 2023

    “Effect of Social Media on Cryptocurrency Pricing and its Economic Consequences”

    £13,500 · Principal investigator

  • 2022

    Northwest Partnership for Security and Trust Algorithmic Bias Funding

    “Identifying Intentional Algorithmic Bias and its Effect on Model Behaviour”

    £40,006 · Co-investigator

  • 2020–2023

    BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

    “The role of player labels as focal points in tacit bargaining games”

    £9,900 · Co-investigator

  • 2021

    Lancaster Pump Prime funding

    £3,000 · Principal investigator

  • 2019

    “Views from somewhere” workshop funding

    £6,000 · Main organiser

  • 2018

    University of East Anglia School of Economics impact case funding

    £4,000

  • 2015

    University of Warwick GRP funding

    £1,000

  • 2013

    Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) funding

    £1,000

Awards and recognition

  • 2022

    Lancaster University Management School Dean’s Award (Excellence in Teaching)

  • 2022

    Fellow of the Higher Education Academy