Shanka Fernando, Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

Shanka Fernando

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

University College London

Lieu
Royaume Uni - London
Éducation
Master, Economics
Expérience
3 years, 8 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :3 years, 8 Mois

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant à University College London
  • Royaume Uni
  • janvier 2017 à juillet 2017

Provide tutorial instruction for “Applied Economics” module (first year undergraduate, BSc):
∗ Prepare and present classes in an exciting and engaging manner
∗ Find creative solutions to students' problems and questions
∗ From such work, I have developed strong presentation, organisation and time-management skills, as well as the ability to thrive under pressure and working towards deadlines

Volunteer à Achieve Real Change
  • Royaume Uni
  • juin 2014 à juin 2015

Assist the business branch of ARC in promoting social cohesion and commerce in Sri Lanka by suggesting possible strategies to bring together the North and South of the county

Research Assistant à University College London
  • Royaume Uni
  • juin 2012 à août 2014

Furthered and contributed towards Professor Christian Dustmann's (and others') research:
- Project on Return Migration and Outmigration:
∗ Create detailed reference files on over 100 academic papers relating to outmigration and
return migration (work acknowledged on page 1 for excellent research assistance in
Dustmann and Gorlach (2014): Selective outmigration and estimation of immigrants)
- Project on Seasonal Birth Effects:
∗ Deliver empirical evidence from academic papers regarding seasonal birth effects to see
whether the theory holds in practice
- Project on Education and Health outcomes:
∗ Produce an extensive and detailed panel data set on 28 developing nations, to tackle issues
on education, poverty and health

Éducation

Master, Economics
  • à University College London
  • septembre 2016

Master of Research (MRes) in economics (equivalent to first year PhD). My areas of interest are: labour economics, the economics of migration, the economics of education and applied/statistical economics.

Master, Economics
  • à University College London
  • septembre 2015

Master's in Science (MSc) in Economics. Thesis focused on the impact that remittances have on agricultural technology adoption in developing countries.

Baccalauréat, Economics
  • à University College London
  • juillet 2014

Bachelors of Science (BSc) in economics

Specialties & Skills

College Teaching
Analysis
Applied Econometrics
Data Research
Statistical Software
ACADEMIC
ECONOMICS
INSTRUCTION
LANGUAGES
MIGRATION
RESEARCH
TIME MANAGEMENT

Langues

Anglais
Langue Maternelle
Japonais
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