Awards & Funding
Awards
The Economics Network has an annual awards scheme to recognise outstanding teachers. It also runs student competitions.
Open Educational Resources
The Teaching Resources in Undergraduate Economics (TRUE) project hosts showcases of shared resources in fifteen specialist options of economics.
The DeSTRESS project shares and creates resources to support statistical literacy in economics and other social sciences.
Learning and Teaching Development Projects (Funded Projects)
New projects announced for 2010/11
Surveys
Surveys of lecturers, students, alumni and employers inform our support activities. The 2011 Economics Lecturer Survey is closed recently. Full results from the 2009/10 Student Survey are now online.
Student focus groups
The Economics Network offers a focus group scheme to help departments address issues with their NSS scores. Results are confidential to the host department. Anonymised overview reports are available for the 2009/10 focus groups and the 2010/11 focus groups.
Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL5)
Four major HEFCE-funded projects for Economics:
