The Director of the Institute is Professor John Wilson, Dean of the University of Ulster's Faculty of Social and Health Sciences and Education.

BBC: New Ulster-Scots institute

"Financialphobes can be intelligent people who are high achievers in most areas of their lives - they are not irresponsible, feckless or spendthrift, " said Dr Brendan Burchell, of Cambridge University's faculty of social and political sciences.

BBC: One in five 'suffers banking phobia'

Private and public budgets are busting to keep up with expenses driven by such factors as an ossified system of tenure-driven faculty appointments, outrageous research obligations even in the humanities and social sciences and gilded accommodations for the (ever longer) nesting students.

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