Residential Workshops for New Economics Lecturers
New Lecturers residential workshop, 14-15 October, Bristol
The Economics Network is pleased to announce its Autumn workshop series. The workshops complement any generic-based institutional training delegates might receive (and in some institutions exempts attendees from parts of such training) and are facilitated by experienced economics lecturers.
The Economics Network runs residential two-day workshops specifically designed to meet the needs of new and early-career lecturers in economics.
The main aim is to discuss and evaluate what makes effective teaching of economics: including lecturers; seminars and small-group teaching; assessment and feedback; e-learning; module/unit design; classroom experiments and games. There will also be time at the end of the workshop to reflect on key issues and to plan next steps.
This workshop is just one of the ways we support new and early career lecturers. They complement any generic-based institutional courses that delegates attend. Participants receive a certificate of attendance, which maps the workshop activities and outcomes to the UK Professional Standards Framework.
Programme
The programme for the event can be found here.Booking
The event is free of charge for all new and early economics lecturers at UK higher education institutions. Booking for the workshop is available here.
"I have benefited tremendously from attending the workshop."
"A large number of resources from the Economics Network make my teaching easier and more efficient"
"I found it very educative specially for the people like me who are not used to the UK HE system."
"Some of my students said my teaching is very clear and intuitive, which is certainly benefited from the workshop."
"A large number of resources from the Economics Network make my teaching easier and more efficient"
"I found it very educative specially for the people like me who are not used to the UK HE system."
"Some of my students said my teaching is very clear and intuitive, which is certainly benefited from the workshop."
A report from an attendee at last year’s Bristol workshop describes it as “arguably the most rewarding workshop days I have attended on teaching and economics – and I have been to quite a few of these things”.
Alex Dickson, an attendee at a 2008 workshop has emailed us to say: “I attended the new lecturers’ workshop in Glasgow in 2008, shortly after commencing my lectureship at the University of Strathclyde. The resources that the Economics Network provide are nothing short of excellent, so I had high expectations of the workshop. I wasn’t disappointed. There was a variety of speakers addressing many different aspects of teaching: small group teaching, lectures and classroom experiments, to name a few. The sessions were always very interactive and were offered at a practical rather than theoretical level. They highlight both obvious and innovative ways to improve teaching an promote positive learning outcomes, and perhaps most importantly prompt you to think carefully about your teaching and learning strategy.
At the end you feel as though you’re leaving with bucketfuls of hints and tips to modify your own teaching. Even something as simple as taking a 5 minute break in the middle of a lecture is extremely effective in regaining students’ attention, but something that’s surprisingly hard to convince yourself to do as a new lecturer. Likewise, sacrificing valuable tutorial times to do classroom experiments is difficult to justify even though learning outcomes might improve. What the workshop does is give you the confidence to experiment with new teaching ideas and innovate on your teaching style. Added into the bargain, it’s great fun! For new lecturers I can’t recommend participating in one of these workshops highly enough.”
Facebook group
The Economics Network has created a facebook discussion page for New Lecturers who attended the workshop. The page is for New Lecturers to have an area to discuss their teaching, lecturing and change of practice after the workshop.
Sponsors
The Economics Network acknowledges the support of the Royal Economic Society and the Scottish Economic Society in delivering these events.
Past events
- 15-16 October 2010, University of Bristol
- 16-17 October 2009, University of Bristol
- 9-10 October 2009, Edinburgh Napier University
- 28-29 November 2008, Glasgow
- 10-11 October 2008, University of Bristol
- 23-24 November 2007, Heriot-Watt University (online materials)
- 12-13 October 2007, University of Bristol
- 13-14 October 2006, University of Bristol
