So what is Study Economics?
This website has been made in conjunction with the Why Study Economics initiative. Its aim is to provide support, help and assistance to undergraduates of economics. We discovered that there is a lot of general 'student' advice but discipline based help is harder to come by. With this site we hope to offer you, as an economics student, some advice from students, graduates and lecturers.
From this idea, it only seemed suitable that a former student would help with the making of the site. Jonathan Pinder graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in economics.
Over the summer of 2008 he spent a lot of time writing and collaborating information that is useful and necessary for students of economics to know and, as a result, this website was formed for you to use.
In keeping with the student viewpoint the Economics Network have a Student Placement. Miriam Best was their first student placement and worked with the Network for a year. She is currently studying for a degree at the University of the West of England in Economics and International Relations.
Miriam's role at the Network is a 'Student Placement Project Officer', which means she takes care of the 2 student websites that the Economics Network runs; Study Economics and Why Study Economics.
Ryan Hoare is the Economics Network's 2009/10 student placement, also doing a degree in Economics and International Relations at the University of the West of England.
Martin Poulter is the Economics Network's ICT Manager, and provides programming, panic recommendations and pedantry (or copy-editing as it's better known).
The Studying Economics and Why Study Economics sites are both based with the Economics Network. The Economics Network is one of 24 Subject Centres that promote high quality learning and teaching in their respective HE communities. It is part of the HE Academy, funded by the UK Higher Education funding bodies, that provides institutional and discipline-specific support for enhancing teaching and learning across HE. The Economics Network team provide all sorts of guidance and support to make this site a reality.
Both this site and WhyStudyEconomics are supported by the Royal Economic Society, a professional association promoting the encouragement of the study of economic science in academic life, government service, banking, industry and public affairs.
'A leafy Georgian square' provides you with a rather artistic view of the Economics Network's role.