We caught up with Antara Roy on her winning paper (“Investigating the impact of the US-China trade war on US soybean farmers”) … More Explore Econ 2021 Best Research Paper – Antara Roy

Congratulations to Aoife Horan, Economics Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, for winning the UCL Provost Education Award. … More Provost Education Award – Aoife Horan

Congratulations to Ahmed Saade, Economics Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, for winning Inspiring Teaching Delivery at the 2021 Student Choice Awards. … More Award for Inspiring Teaching Delivery – Ahmed Saade

I was really excited to hear that our great colleagues from the award-winning UCL Integrated Engineering Programme were joining us for a cuppa and chat at our 16th EconTEAching seminar on May 26th 2021. I’m not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination but I have spent most of my career, as an advisor in the utilities sector, working on … More Review: #EconTEAching Session 16: Incorporating Project-based Learning into Engineering Education, by Cloda Jenkins (UCL)

Teaching and learning during a pandemic increased our awareness of the importance of well-being for learning. Learning is facilitated by positive emotions but may be hampered by negative ones, therefore well-being and learning are associated with one another. In this EconTEAching session, Jo Blanden (University of Surrey), Jonathan Boymal (RMIT), and Eric Golson (University of … More Review: #EconTEAching Session 15: Designing Online Teaching with Student Well-Being in Mind, by Stefania Paredes Fuentes (University of Warwick)

Signing up to attend university in 2020/21 was a brave move for any student in summer 2020, given the uncertainty at the time about teaching, learning and the wider student experience. Those on undergraduate programmes have either had ‘normal’ time on campus (2nd and final year students) or are hopeful of a return to campus in the future (1st and 2nd year students). It is different, however, … More Student Reflections: Heather Little

When Prof Cloda Jenkins introduced our BSc Economics with a Placement Year degree, she had not envisioned supporting students out on placement with virtual home working or considered how best to advise students on the etiquette of online interviews and assessment centres. However, this is indeed what our placement students have had to contend with, like the rest … More Student Reflections: Phan Nguyen

It is over a year since UCL first moved teaching, learning and assessment online. Little did we know at the time that the changes we were making for an ‘emergency’ operating model would be in place for so long. Our students in second year of our BSc had their first year of studies interrupted, with formal … More Student Reflections: Emad Siddiqi

Next in our student reflection series is Benjamin, who is a first year and was in London for the most of the year. … More Student Reflections: Benjamin Hentschel

2020/21 at UCL Economics has been interesting on many dimensions, with many firsts. This includes having our largest first year intake ever, providing opportunities to students who met their offer requirements despite a difficult final year of secondary school. … More Student Reflections: Maha Khalid