The SIRE aims to:
- develop and sustain a reputation for internationally excellent research in major fields of economics, building around and beyond existing strengths, enabling economics in Scotland to compete effectively in the global academic market place
- attract high quality graduate students to Scotland, consolidating and enhancing the growing success of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics (SGPE), and building the next generation of research leaders by attracting and developing high potential young researchers at PhD and junior lecturer level
- foster and disseminate high quality economics research among all economists in Scotland
- contribute to the quality of policy-related and other research activities, by providing a forum for interaction between fundamental researchers and policy/applied researchers and through knowledge transfer and CPD activities