Dean Garratt

Dr. Dean Garratt is a Senior Teaching Fellow at Aston Business School. He joined Aston University in September 2018, having previously been a Principal Lecturer at Nottingham Business School. Dean teaches economics at a variety of levels, including modules in macroeconomics and economics for non-specialists. He is passionate about developing the employability skills of students of economics, including their ability to communicate economics intuitively and apply the toolkit of economics to a range of issues.

Earlier in his career Dean worked as an economic assistant at both HM Treasury and at the Council of Mortgage Lenders. While at these institutions he was researching and briefing on a variety of issues relating to the household sector and to the housing and mortgage markets.

Dean is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and an Associate of the Economics Network. Dean is co-author of three leading and influential undergraduate economics texts led by Professor John Sloman: Economics, Essentials of Economics and Economics for Business.