Congratulations to Ramin for being runner-up in the UCL Student Choice Awards 2020 for “Inspiring Teaching Delivery”. Everyone at CTaLE is very proud of his achievement! A student was quoted: His lessons create an atmosphere where even the most quiet people are engaged and are not afraid of sharing their thoughts, questions or ideas. Please … More Ramin Nassehi for “Inspiring Teaching Delivery”
The fourth session of the #EconTEAching chats organised by CTaLE and the Department of Economics at Warwick University took place on 27th May 2020. Dimitra Petropolou (LSE) and Silvia Dal Bianco (UCL) talked to us about video projects as assessment methods. They both shared their experiences in using videos and group work. The session live-stream … More Review: EconTEAching Session 4: Economics student group videos- assessment and beyond, by Dr Stefania Paredes Fuentes (University of Warwick)
The third session of the #EconTEAching chats organised by CTaLE and the Department of Economics at Warwick took place on 20th May 2020. The session live-stream can be found on the CTaLE YouTube channel. The #EconTEAching session on employability held on 20th May featured Dr Cloda Jenkins from CTaLE and Dr Dean Garratt from Aston University, … More Review: EconTEAching Session 3: Improving Employability for Economics Students, by Prof Parama Chaudhury (UCL)
The second session of the #EconTEAching chats organised by CTaLE and the Department of Economics at Warwick took place on 13th May 2020. Sam McLoughlin from globalbridge talked about “Widening Participation: Mind the gap between schools and universities” and shared his experience in working with young people from under-privileged backgrounds. The conversation was chaired by … More Review: EconTEAching Session 2: Widening Participation – Mind the gap between schools and universities, by Dr Stefania Paredes Fuentes (University of Warwick)
On April 29th 2020, CTaLE and the University of Warwick Department of Economics co-hosted the first EconTEAching Session on Assessment in the Brave New World. The session featured Dr. Stefania Paredes Fuentes and chaired by Prof. Parama Chaudhury. The session live-stream can be found on the CTaLE YouTube channel. During the session there were a … More Review: EconTEAching Session 1: Assessment in the Brave New World, by Prof Cloda Jenkins (UCL)
On 26th February, we held the annual undergraduate research conference, ExploreEcon, which showcases independent work from all years of our Economics programme. To access the full list of posters and presentations, please take a look here! During the first part, students with poster boards pitched their research to judges whilst attendees mingled and took in … More ExploreEcon 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
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
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?
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
