'Bridging the Gap' between academic and professional Economics with Dr Dean Garratt

In this episode Karishma Patel welcomes Dr Dean Garratt, a Senior Teaching Fellow from the Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship department at Aston University, to share his vision for bridging the gap between academic and professional economics. Motivated by his own experiences in professional economics, including his work at the Government Economic Service (GES), Dean talks about how he has embedded the GES competencies assessed at Economic Assessment Centres into his module’s teaching and assessment. Dean provides valuable advice for colleagues teaching Economics (and beyond), on how they can more closely align their assessment and teaching with the real world.

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Within the Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship (EFE) department at Aston University, many of our academics have a strong interest in teaching and learning. We therefore created this podcast with an aim to share insight, innovations, and best practice among the department, as well to a wider audience. The podcast is led by Karishma Patel, a Teaching Fellow in Economics at Aston University. In each episode, we invite members of the department to have a conversation about a topic which they are interested in. We also invite guest speakers to share their insights with us.