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Meet the Team

Working together with UCL central services, the team manages all aspects of incoming student mobility at UCL Economics and consists of two Programme Administrators and an Affiliate Tutor.

The Programme Administrators act as a primary point of contact for perspective and current students. They oversee all teaching and learning elements of the programme including student induction, module registration, admissions, student support and exams. 

The Affiliate Tutor offers academic expertise such as assessing student’s suitability for the programme or a specific module, support and guidance where a student is struggling and advice on choosing disciplines in line with career plans. Students are introduced to Affiliate Tutor at the beginning of Term.

Feel free to contact the team at economics.affiliates@ucl.ac.uk.

Programme Administrators

Peter Thompson  

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Peter joined the Department of Economics in 2024 and works with incoming and outgoing study abroad students. Having completed a Film and American Studies degree in the UK whcih included him spending a year abroad in San Francisco, he is well aware of the challenges and excitement that comes with adapting to studying in a new country. He views his own experience of studying abroad as one of the most enjoyable and rewarding of all his time at university and he approaches his role in the Department of Economics with the goal of making sure that students have an experience as positive as his own. Outside of work, Peter's personal interests include cinema and sport.

Rebecca Burns 

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Rebecca has been working on the affiliate programme in Economics since time began and enjoys the excitement of each new cohort as students arrive at UCL to have the time of their lives. Having studied both at UCL and in the US herself she understands the implications of being a student in London and abroad; and that embracing the differences between the two will shape students’ study abroad experiences more positively. She hopes you will be one of those! Rebecca has played tennis for over 40 years and can be seen here in her spiritual home of Wimbledon’s Centre Court.

Watch our video series on being an Economics student at UCL

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Hear from Department professors and current students about the curriculum, careers and the student journey.

Prizes

  • Find out more about the history of prizes for undergraduate winners and a list of recent undergraduate prize winners.

CORE Economics

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Get a flavour of the BSc Economics programme with CORE's new online short course.

David Card Talks Policy: The Journey So Far and the Road Ahead

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In 2022 as part of their Nobel Laureate Series, The Economist’s Society hosted labour economist and Nobel Prize winner David Card to present a lecture entitled “Economic Research and Policy: Immigration and the Minimum Wage”.