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Improving Student Satisfaction in Economics – summary of workshop discussion

February 10, 2020

In November 2019, Dr. Cloda Jenkins, Prof Antonio Cabrales and Dr. Dunli Li hosted a workshop attended by Economics departments from all over the UK on how to improve student satisfaction with their experience in economics degrees. Some of the ideas, linked to National Student Survey (NSS) questions, that emerged from the workshop discussion can … More Improving Student Satisfaction in Economics – summary of workshop discussion

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2019-2020 First Year Challenge Winner Announcement

January 29, 2020

ExploreEcon 2020 is just around the corner and one of the many things we do during the all-day undergraduate conference is celebrate our First Year Challenge winners. In Term 1, our first year students created quality pieces of work by combining the the theme of “Capitalism, Growth and Inequality” (based on CORE Unit 1) and … More 2019-2020 First Year Challenge Winner Announcement

S Factor finalists and judges with Michela

Have you got the S Factor?

January 15, 2020

Following last year’s magical demonstration, this year Dr. Michela Tincani introduced the S-Factor to her Statistical Methods in Economics class. See below for Michela’s blog post on her new X Factor style statistics competition! With S Factor, I had two goals in mind. First, to better connect the course material to the real world. On … More Have you got the S Factor?

Scott presenting at Causal Inference workshop

Review: Professor Scott Cunningham Causal Inference workshop

January 9, 2020

As we start a new term and get ready for Explore Econ 2020 and other CTaLE events, including Dr Abdullah Al-Bahrani’s seminar on Diversity in the Classroom and his workshop on Financial Literacy for Students, let’s take a look back at one of the highlights of last term, the extremely popular Causal Inference workshop run … More Review: Professor Scott Cunningham Causal Inference workshop

Abdullah presenting seminar

Review: Dr. Abdullah Al-Bahrani Economics Education seminar

November 28, 2019

We recently had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Abdullah Al-Bahrani who is currently a visiting Associate Professor at the University College of Dublin (originally based at Northern Kentucky University). During his visit, Abdullah held an Economics Education seminar on the topic of “Increasing Students’ Interest Through Experiential Learning”. We were able to learn about projects … More Review: Dr. Abdullah Al-Bahrani Economics Education seminar

CTaLE Podcast 1: Interview with Sam Asher, winner of ExploreEcon 2019

November 12, 2019

Dr. Ramin Nassehi, our innovative CTaLE member (one of many actually) who is also the founder of EconWalks and EconFrame, has started up a podcast series. The first episode is with Sam Asher about his path to conducting research and eventually becoming a winner of ExploreEcon 2019. Ramin believes that the novelty of the podcast … More CTaLE Podcast 1: Interview with Sam Asher, winner of ExploreEcon 2019