Ruth Tarrant FREcon

Ruth’s focus is economics education. She is Chair of Examiners for Economics A level for a UK awarding body, and the subject lead in Economics for an educational publisher and student/teacher support organisation for whom she designs and delivers training for secondary school economics teachers, and creates learning resources for A level students. 

At Oxford, Ruth teaches Introductory Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, and History of the World Economy, as well as being the course lead in Economics for the Astrophoria Foundation Year in PPE, and providing tutorials in a range of Management papers for Visiting Students. 

Ruth is deeply engaged in pedagogy in economics, and actively works on widening participation in the subject from early secondary education upwards. She also has informal research interests in the history of economic thought with particular interests in the work of David Ricardo and the impact of national political policy on the dominance of different economic schools of thought. Ruth is a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society for her contribution to economics education in the UK.