This call is open to all Economic students to bring their ideas/proposals/projects and help us to contribute to make Economics more attractive to all. You need to be a current Economics student (or related e.g. joint degrees with Economics) from an UK university in order to be eligible to participate. If you want more guidance or want to discuss your idea before applying, please contact us: economics dot womenconf at warwick dot ac dot uk

Download the application form here

Application deadline: 20th November 2019

If you are selected, we will cover an advanced standard-class return rail fare to Coventry and accommodation during the Workshop. All participants will stay at Warwick Conference Centre (lunches and dinner are also provided - please see the programme).

PRIZE: From each session, we will choose the best presentation and the winner will get a prize of £300.

Your proposal needs to focus on one of the following topics: (there is also one ‘open session’, please see more details on the application form)

Dr Luisa Affuso (Ofcom Chief Economist)

Luisa Affuso is Chief Economist at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator. She joined Ofcom in October 2018 from PwC where she headed the Competition Economics practice. Luisa has over twenty years’ experience in the application of competition, regulatory, and industrial economics. She has consulted for a range of organisations including economic consultancies, the World Bank and European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). She has given expert evidence on a number of high-profile cases before several antitrust authorities and courts. She has an MSc and PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick.

Professor Wendy Carlin

Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at the 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. The CORE project has produced an open-access e-book for a first course in economics used in various universities worldwide.

Wendy is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility and has acted as a consultant for international organisations such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, and the World Bank.

Urvashi Parashar

Urvashi is Deputy Director, Sector Analysis in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy where she leads a multi-disciplinary team of analysts supporting business sectors policy that involves appraisal and evaluation of interventions, understanding the impact of EU exit and future trade deals on sectors, and the role of industrial strategy.

Urvashi is a passionate believer in improving diversity in the civil service and in Economics. She is joint lead of the engagement strand of an initiative in the Government Economic Service called “Women in Economics” which aims to reach out to female students to encourage them to study, work and progress in Economics. The initiative has recently started to work with Royal Economic Society’s Discover Economics campaign so that the two organisations can achieve their common goals.

Dr Tom Schuller

Tom is the author of ‘The Paula Principle: how and why women work below their level of competence”. Women outperform men in education at every level and in almost every subject and there will soon be two women for every man in higher education in the UK. In a properly meritocratic system, we would expect women to be rewarded for these achievements but progress towards pay equality has been slow and stuttering. It is this striking contrast – between a fast-growing female/male competence gap on the one hand and a slow-shrinking male/female careers gap on the other – that has prompted The Paula Principle. Tom is currently a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck (London) and the Institute of Education.”

Professor Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department at the University of Bristol. She is the Women’s Committee Chair for the Royal Economics Society which role is to promote women in the Economics profession. Sarah’s research is on pensions, saving and retirement and welfare policy and more recently she has been working with a number of charity organisations to understand what motivates individuals to give and how donations respond to different (economic and non-economic) incentives. She has previously worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, HM Treasury, Financial Services Authority and the London School of Economics.

Dr Gemma Tetlow

Gemma is Chief Economist at the Institute for Government, she works across the institute’s programmes of work, which aims to improve the effectiveness of government. Prior joining the institute, Gemma was Economics Correspondent at the Financial Times, reporting on and analysing economic developments in the UK and globally. Gemma also spent 11 years at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, leading the organisation’s work on public finances and pensions. Gemma has a PhD in economics from University College London and an MSc and BSc in Economics from the University of Warwick.

Additional speakers will be confirmed later.

Programme

The preliminary programme for the workshop is:

Day 1 Saturday 18 January

Time
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee and registration
11.00- 11.15	Welcome and Introduction
11.15 - 12.15	Session A: Economics curriculum, and assessment & feedback
12.15 - 13.15	Session B: Universities’ students-led organisation
13.15 - 14.10	Lunch
14.10 - 15.00	Plenary: (speaker to be confirmed)
15.00 - 16.00	Session C: Role models in Economics
16.00 - 16.15	Break
16.15 - 17.15	Session D: Female students’ expectations
17.15 - 18.15	Session E: Other ideas
18.30	Drinks reception
19.30	Social Dinner

Day 2 (Sunday 19 January)

Time
10.00 - 11.00	Coffee
11.00 - 12.30	Panel discussion: Luisa Affuso (Ofcom), Wendy Carlin (UCL, The Core), Tom Schuller (Author of the Paula Principle), Sarah Smith (Bristol, RES), Gemma Tetlow (Institute for Government)
12.30 - 13.30	Buffet Lunch
13.30 - 14.30	Concluding Remarks and prizes
15.00	Event ends

Travel to the Warwick campus (Coventry): University of Warwick is at the heart of the Midlands and can be accessed through various types of transport. For more information please follow the link here.

Accommodation: All selected students will stay at the Warwick conference centre in campus. All accommodation is en-suite single bedroom, located few minutes walk from the workshop venue. Free parking and Wi-Fi. More information for students will be provided before the conference.