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Name

Dr Dean Garratt

School

Nottingham Business School

Staff group(s)

Division of Economics

Telephone

+44 (0)115 848 2442

Email

dean.garratt@ntu.ac.uk

Address

Nottingham Business School
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 4BU

Job title

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Job responsibilities

Dean teaches economics at a variety of levels to both students on economics programmes and those taking economics as part of non-economics programmes. He is also the module leader for the Dissertation.

Publications

Dr Dean Garratt

Research, scholarly and professional interests

In 2006 Dean was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Prize by the Economics Network of the Higher Education Academy. This award is given in recognition of exemplary teaching practice that encourages understanding of, and inspires interest in, economics.
Subsequent to his teaching award, Dean has become an associate of the Economics Network of the Higher Education Academy which helps to promote quality teaching practices.
Dean is a strong advocate of an issues or problem-based approach in his teaching of economics. He believes that this approach is important in fostering student engagement with economics and is conducive to deeper learning by students.
In 2008-09 he was the learning and teaching co-ordinator of the Nottingham Business School.
Dean is co-author with John Sloman of the introductory economics text, Essentials of Economics (5^th Edition) and with John Sloman and Kevin Hinde of Economics for Business (5^th Edition) which provides for a course in economic principles as they apply to the business environment.
Dean is the editor of HOUSES! a quarterly online newsletter which is a collaboration between property market specialists located in the property team of the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment and from Nottingham Economics, a consultancy centre located in the Economics Division of Nottingham Business School.
Dean’s research interests include the economics of residential property and mortgage markets, public expenditure growth, political business cycles and aspects of household spending behaviour.

Current projects

Dean has been involved in several funded learning and teaching projects, including the JISC/Higher Education Academy funded project, Mathematics for Economics and Business - Business Focused Case Studies which produced a series of resources for staff and students showing how quantitative methods can contribute to an understanding of aspects of economic and business behaviour.
In 2010-11 Dean is working with his colleague Stephen Heasell from the Division of Economics on an Economics Network funded project Supporting Students of Economics to Enhance their Skills in Using International Data. This project will develop a series of case studies for use by staff and students to promote student confidence in using international economic data and, at the same time, develop their awareness of economic issues at an international level. The project is an extension of their more domestically-focused 2008-09 learning and teaching project, also funded by the Economics Network, Enabling Students to Make Economic Sense of Quantitative Data.

External academic and professional activity

In 2007 Dean became an Associate of the Economics Network. The role of an associate is to promote the activities of the Network and to run events. Dean has taken part in events aimed at promoting a problem-based learning (PBL) approach to the teaching of economics and of quantitative methods to economists.
Dean is a contributor to the Sloman Economics News Site. The blog is aimed at engaging students and the wider publics with economics. It contains links to topical stories in the news discussing key economic issues and concepts.
Dean has been an external examiner on business management programmes at the University of Derby and the University of Worcester. Dean is happy to consider future positions as an external examiner both for undergraduate economics or business management programmes.

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