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Biography

Parama Chaudhury is a Professorial Teaching Fellow听at听the Department of Economics, and听Pro-Vice Provost (Education - Student Academic Experience)听at University College London (麻豆传媒视频网站). She is also the Founding Director of the 听dedicated to researching, implementing and evaluating new teaching and learning strategies in economics.听Professor Chaudhury also serves on the Teaching and Learning Committee of the and the .听

Parama听earned a听PhD in Economics at ,听an MA in Economics from the 听and a BSc. Economics at听听Kolkata.

To read more about Parama's role as Pro-Vice Provost (Education - Student Academics Experience), click .

Research听

Parama's research focuses on听labour economics, specifically inequality and technological change. She is听also interested in economics education especially the role of technology in higher education.

Teaching听

Professor Chaudhury teaches the following modules in the Department.听

• Economics - Introduction to Economics (based on )
• An Introduction to Economic Thinking (optional course for first years, using Team-Based Learning (TBL) format)
• Industrial Relations听(second/third year course in personnel economics and unions)
• International Trade (third year course covering trade theory, immigration, and the empirics of trade)

Education Consultancy听

Parama currently leads the CTaLE Team in designing and听delivering听bespoke economics training courses for UK government departments.

Courses include:听

• Fundamentals of Economics:听a two-day course exploring the fundamentals of micro and macroeconomics. Designed to help policymakers understand economic theory and it's implications as well as our state-of-the-art research findings
• Economics for Foreign Policy:听a blended course, designed exclusively for听HM Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. It covers the basics of empirical methods used in economics, as well as field specialisms including globalisation, macroeconomic crises, the environment and economic development.听

In the media

• 听| Times Higher Education Campus | April 2021
• 麻豆传媒视频网站 delivering economics training to staff at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office听| 麻豆传媒视频网站 News | 2 March 2021
• 听| Jisc podcast | 28 January 2021

Publications

• "Developments in economics education" in S. Marshall (ed),, Routledge;听November 2019
• (joint with Rosalind Duhs, Julie Evans and Paulette Williams) Compass, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2019).
• (Joint with Christian Spielmann) Journal of Economic Teaching, Vol 1, Issue 1 (2016).
• 听in , Kalenkoski and Foster (eds), Palgrave Macmillan. (2016).
• , funded by 麻豆传媒视频网站 CALT E-Learning Development Grant (joint with Christian Spielmann)