24th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference
17-18 July 2019
The University of Melbourne
The Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne was pleased to host the 24th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference (ATEC) on 17-18 July 2019.
Conference theme: Managing diversity: designing curriculum and teaching economics effectively to students with diverse backgrounds, skills and interests.
The conference will focus on discussing challenges and research led best practices related to teaching diverse students, including local and international students, female students, those with diverse academic skills and students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. The conference will also focus on initiating and strengthening links between tertiary-level and secondary school economics teachers to enhance quality of teaching and learning.
Key Features:
- Three Keynote Addresses:
Wendy Carlin (UCL), Bill Goffe (Penn State University) and Jacqui Dwyer (RBA)
- Three Panel sessions
- Contributed Paper Presentations
- A Lunch Time Poster Session
Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is leading an international project - the CORE project - to reform the undergraduate economics curriculum. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, and the economics of transition. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the UK's Office for Budget Responsibility. She has co-authored with David Soskice three macroeconomics books: Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain (OUP, 1990), Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (OUP, 2006) and Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (OUP, 2015). In 2015, she was awarded a CBE for services to economics and public finance.
Jacqui Dwyer is one of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s senior economists. She has worked in various roles at the Bank involving economic research, analysis of economic conditions and central bank communication. She established the Bank’s business liaison program and more recently its public education program. Jacqui has also worked as an economist at the Bank of England, the Queensland Treasury and the former Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
The ATEC conference is proudly sponsored by:
The Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
Supported by:
- Williams Centre for Learning Advancement (WCLA), Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne)
- Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)
- Women in Economics Network (WEN)