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Welcome to the early careers workshop for 
economics organized by the Economics Network.

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Over the course of two very engaging days, 
a group of experienced economics educators

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will engage in insightful dialogues on teaching 
economics at University level. This Workshop is

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carefully designed to empower junior colleagues 
starting their journey as lecturers, as assistant

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professors or teaching fellows in economics who 
have responsibility on designing and delivering

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lectures. In the workshop we go beyond generic 
training provided at institutional level to

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explore teaching issues that are specific to 
economics. Annika, do you want to tell us something

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about the benefits of joining the early careers 
workshop for economics? Yeah so I think even

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if you're an experienced teacher there's often 
this big jump you go through in the early

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careers phase. Like I know in my case I went 
from running lots of quantitative methods

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seminars and then suddenly was in charge of a 
big theory-based unit that involved interacting

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with large teaching teams. I think for me the 
workshop's really helpful for helping me meet

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other people at similar early career stages 
in economics but also helping me understand

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how what I'm doing with my unit connects to the 
whole world of UK higher education quality

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assurance and frameworks and standards and things 
like that but also just for understanding how I

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can use examples of really great practice in 
economics education from all around the world

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to make my own course better. You know I 
think what we do as economics educators is

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really difficult, right? We don't just use maths; 
we don't just use text; we use both of them all

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the time alongside diagrams and graphs and coding 
and pictures and all of those things might be in

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one session. So understanding how to do that 
efficiently for me and really effectively for

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the students is something it's really useful 
to you know reflect on for the couple of

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days of this Workshop so that I can do things 
better going forwards. That's certainly what I

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took away from it anyway. Thank you very much 
Annika, I completely agree. Teaching economics is

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quite complex but this is not just about teaching 
economics: we believe the workshop can benefit all

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aspects of our academic career. Chris, do you want 
to tell us more about it? Yeah you don't have to

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look very hard to realize that teaching is 
becoming more important in UK universities

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and so for many of us learning how to teach 
better, more effectively, is just a no-brainer.

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However it's much wider than that too. Even if 
you're just purely research minded - if you're

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just after that top five publication - you 
still need to learn how to teach efficiently.

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If anyone's ever gone through writing a 
bad assessment and having hundreds of emails

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of students trying to clarify things or having 
a student complaint and having all the stress

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and heartache of that they're learning, these 
quick tips is just going to be so, so valuable.

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More generally, I think learning to teach also 
has some benefits in helping you to communicate

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and present your research. So I really think 
there's benefits for all academics no matter

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what your role exactly is. Thank you very much. 
I do think this workshop is carefully structured

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to foster interactivity and to provide a lot of 
opportunities for you to get guidance to share

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insights and to receive personalized feedback on 
your teaching and assessment materials. In fact

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before the workshop we encourage you to complete 
pre-workshop activities to help us tailor the

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sessions to your specific needs and aspirations. 
So join us and thank you; I'll see you soon.