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Top Tips for Students: How To Write an Effective Personal Statement for Your University in the UK
If you're applying to study economics in the UK, you'll have to prepare a personal statement which will be used to assess your application along with your grades and other materials. Here are our tips on writing an effective personal statement. Follow the standard format There is an accepted format for personal statements, and while deviating from the format might be required in some unusual cases, it's usually best to stick with it. The format is as follows:
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Top 10 Tools To Teach Economics
When you're teaching an economics class, you don't need to rely just on yourself and the materials that you've made. There are tons of resources out there which can help to support your teaching. Here are ten of our favourite tools for teaching economics: 1. Moodle
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What is Innovation Economics? Links and Resources
A relatively new branch of economics is Innovation Economics. This subject focuses on the topic of innovation, alongside the study of technology, knowledge, and entrepreneurship. It aims to understand where new ideas come from, and how we can put forward policies which will encourage the development of new ways of thinking. As many nations move away from an industrial model of production and towards a knowledge-based economy, the economics of innovation becomes more and more relevant.
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How to Connect With Other Economists in Your Field
So you know that getting to know other people in your field is important, and that you need to network when you attend a conference. But what about the rest of the time? What websites can you use to get in touch with other experts in your field? Here are some ideas: Twitter
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- Posted 1 year ago
Top 10 New Year's Eve Parties for Students Around the World
With the end of the year in sight, it's time to start planning your New Year's Eve parties! We're here with suggestions for 10 of the best NYE parties for students around the world. Amsterdam: Dam Square
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- Posted 1 year ago
The Economics of Christmas Songs: When to start playing Jingle Bell Rock?
It happens every year. As you’re walking through a shopping centre, a store, or perhaps a supermarket, you hear a Christmas song, and you know it’s the beginning of the buying frenzy that leads up to Christmas.
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- Posted 1 year ago
Conference Testimonials - Rebecca Hjemdahl from Norway
INOMICS supports students and researchers in attending conferences with a €500 grant Hear their perspectives on attending conferences and what advice they have to give other academics
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Conference Testimonials - Sarbjeet Singh from India
INOMICS supports students and researchers in attending conferences with a €500 grant Hear their perspectives on attending conferences and what advice they have to give other academics
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Conference Testimonials - Anthony Orji from Nigeria
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Conference Testimonials - Naila Tasneem from Pakistan
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Conference Testimonials - Christopher A. Hartwell from Poland
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- Posted 1 year ago
Conference Testimonials - Mihaela Liliana Gondor from Romania
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2017 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Richard Thaler
The Nobel Prize for Economics, the most prestigious prize in the field, has been awarded this year to American economist Richard Thaler. The prize, fully titled The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was announced by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and will be awarded in a ceremony in Stockholm in December.
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- Posted 1 year ago
Conference Testimonials - Charles Kalinzi from Uganda
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- Posted 1 year ago
Meet Jasna: a Master degree student of Business Management at the Masaryk University in Brno
Today, over 43,000 foreign students are studying in the Czech Republic and their interest is growing as the offer of study programmes and courses taught in English is increasing. Jasna Brkić from Serbia, a Master degree student of Business Management at the Masaryk University in Brno, shares her story and explains why she chose the Czech Republic for her studies:
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- Posted 1 year ago
5 Effective Ways Professors Can Build a Personal Brand
Brands? Aren’t those for corporations and businesses? Not anymore. Building your brand is about what people think of when they think of you. As a professor, you represent your institution, but you also want to work on your personal brand. Having a reputable brand can help you advance your career whether it’s in academia or not.
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- Posted 1 year ago
Career in Research: Pros and Cons
This article was featured in the INOMICS Handbook 2017, a new career guide for Economists. Download it here.
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- Posted 1 year ago
How to Switch from Academia to Industry
This article was featured in the INOMICS Handbook 2017, a new career guide for Economists. Download it here. For researchers who are thinking about moving into industry, there are a huge range of employment possibilities outside of academia. The advantages of such a move may include greater job security, better pay, greater opportunities for career progression, and a more goal-oriented research culture. But the culture of business can come as a shock to those who have spent all their work time in universities.
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- Posted 1 year ago
Top Economics Podcasts
This article was featured in the INOMICS Handbook 2017, a new career guide for Economists. Download it here. Of all available internet resources in economics, podcasts often remain the most overlooked. Yet it’s a great way not only to enrich your knowledge, but also to look at an already familiar matter from a different perspective. Normally, podcasts are issued in the style of lectures, talks, interviews or just short commentaries, and cover either current economic issues or pure academic topics.
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- Posted 1 year ago
How To Get An Academic Job After Finishing Your PhD: A Mini Guide To Academic Job Search
This article was featured in the INOMICS Handbook 2017, a new career guide for Economists. Download it here. When you're about to finish your PhD, it can be hard to know where to start looking for a job. If you want to stay in academia, then you'll need to find a postdoc position after you've finished your thesis and defended it. Today we're sharing this mini guide to finding an academic job and some tips on how to handle the process. Fellowships, grants, and other sources of funding
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- Posted 1 year ago
Getting Started with Stata
What is Stata? If you want to work in econometrics, chances are you’ll need to learn to use a statistical analysis package like Stata. Stata is one of the most widely used software packages to help students and researchers explore, summarise and analyse complicated datasets. The software is available in several different versions which differ mainly in the number of variables allowed in memory.
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- Posted 1 year ago
5 Useful Tips for Career Development and Increasing Academic Network
Career development and networking go hand in hand. It’s important to start working on them before entering the workforce permanently. Not every connection needs to be made in your prospective career field, either. Ask any professional, and he or she will tell you about a time in his or her career when a lead came from a friend of a friend or some other unlikely source.
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- Posted 1 year ago
Standardizing The Data Of Different Scales - Which Method To Use?
When you're doing data analysis, you might find yourself with a number of different variables to work with. For example, perhaps you have invited participants to your lab and run them through your experiment. You have collected data on variables such as the participant's age (in years), their reaction time to a particular stimuli (in milliseconds), their reaction time to another stimuli (in milliseconds), and their rating of a preference (on a 1 – 10 scale).
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- Posted 1 year ago
Top 10 Journals of Finance
To keep your knowledge up to date on developments in your field, you need to read through the academic journals which publish new research on your topics. This will help you stay on the top of your game while you're studying or working. It's important to keep your finger on the pulse of the latest updates in your field. Otherwise your knowledge could be out of date and your research won't be be topically informed.
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7 Presentation Tools That Engage Students More Than Slideshows
College students complain about a lot of things—lack of sleep, dining hall food, and finals week, to name a few. As a professor, it isn't your job to address complaints about life outside the classroom. But if students take issue with your teaching style, it's time to listen up. One of their biggest gripes in the classroom: slideshows.