Economics Learning and Teaching Awards
Each year, the Economics Network of the HE Academy gives out awards to recognise and reward exemplary practice from within the UK academic economics community. There are three categories of award for teaching staff:
Winners of the 2011 Learning and Teaching Awards have now been announced.
Please direct all enquiries about the awards to Inna Pomorina (inna.pomorina@bristol.ac.uk).
Student Essay Competition
We offer annual awards for students' reflections on their experiences of studying economics. In the 2011 competition the question was "Why study economics @ University?" Unlike previous years, entries could be submitted in any creative format (not just in writing) and was kindly sponsored by both PwC and Baille Gifford.
Congratulations to Joevas Asare from the University of Surrey, his rap was this year's winner. Also congratulations to our two runners-up; Anu Omotunde-Young from Lancaster Univeristy who wrote a poem and Daniel Derbyshire and Alex Grindulis from the University of Manchester who created a cartoon video. All of these entries as well as the commended entries can be found on Studying Economics.
The 2010 essay question was “How is you economics degree preparing you for life?” The three winning essays are online as is a summary of all of the entries.
The 2009 essay question was "How would you make difficult economics easier to learn?" and the three winning essays are also online.
2008's question was "What makes the best learning experience for you?".
The 2006 winner was studying BA(Hons) Economics at Manchester University, with an essay answering "How does your experience of your course compare with any expectations you may have had?".
The 2005 competition was won by a Kingston University undergraduate for writing on "What makes the best learning experience for you?".
