Dean's Strategic Funds Awards 2021– winners

The Dean’s Strategic Funds Award have awarded funding of up to £2,500 to six Department of Economics research projects.

Our congratulations go to our colleagues on their successful bids this year. 

Our Department winners:

Dunli Li (BSc Economics Programme Co-director)
Aureo De Paula (BSc Economics Programme Co-director)

Project title: Enhancing students’ data analytics skills with Python

The aim of the project is to introduce students to the ‘Python’ programming language and to enhance their data analytics skills and eventually their employability.

Valérie Lechene (Reader in Economics)

Project title: Measurement of individual poverty

Poverty is experienced at the individual level, rather than at the household level, as there might be inequality inside households. Effective poverty alleviation requires policies that target individuals, not households.

Silvia Dal Blanco (Lecturer, Teaching)
Parama Chaudhury (Professor, Teaching)
Cloda Jenkins (Professor, Teaching)
Dunli Li (Lecturer, Teaching)
Michela Tincani (Lecturer)
 

Project title: Designing Adaptable Teaching and Learning for a more resilient Higher Education Model

The ultimate aim of this project is understanding students’ and lecturers’ aims, outcomes and perception of the Adaptable Education Model (AEM).

You can find out more about this project at this link.

Cloda Jenkins (Professor, Teaching; Economics Careers Tutor)
Caroline Garaway (Vice Dean Education)
Robert Donovan (UCL Careers)

Project title: Helping students understand and make the most of the skills they develop in their degree

Literature emphasises that students under-value the employability skills they develop in their degree. We need to communicate what employers are looking for and how an individual can demonstrate their individual skills. The aim of the project is to establish a framework that facilitates this communication part of employability support.

Marcos Vera-Hernández (Professor, BSc Admissions Tutor)
 

Project title: Using Rich Data to Design a More Inclusive and Fair Undergraduate Admission System in Economics”

The aim of the project is to conduct extensive data analysis of administrative datasets that will feed into the BSc in Economics admission criteria, so that this is fairer and more inclusive.

Gabriella Conti (Associate Professor)
 

Project title: The impacts of COVID-19 on Health Visiting in Scotland and Wales

The project will address the following question: how the covid-19 pandemic and its associated public health restrictions have affected the delivery of child services and the health visiting workforce in Scotland and Wales?

You can follow Gabriella’s research on COVID-19 here.

Parama Chaudhury (Professor, Teaching; Director of CTaLE)
Anna Killick (Research Fellow at UCL Politics)

Project title: Communicating Economics in a Fake News World”

This project acts as a pilot for a larger study (with the National Institute Economic and Social Research (NIESR), in which we propose workshops where small groups of members of the public from a full range of social backgrounds engage with individual economists, to improve mutual understanding and communication about economic issues.