Teaching Experience
Teaching Experience
We examine the inter-relationships between the developing international economy and growing national economies since the late nineteenth century. The course is designed to introduce students not only to a wide variety of topics and issues, but also to the wide variety of approaches used by historians. The course includes analyses of the original leading nation, Britain and its replacement, the United States, as well as the catch-up of areas such as continental Europe, and the failure to catch-up of earlier well-placed areas such as Latin America. The effects of major events - such as wars and debt crises - are investigated, and we also consider the effects of sometimes rapid changes in products and process technologies.
This course is concerned with how economic historians have used quantitative methods and with how researchers design and structure a research project. In terms of quantitative methods the emphasis is on the applied and practical rather than the theoretical and will range from the use of simple summary descriptive statistics to multiple regression. The course is concerned with the problems of analysing and interpreting quantitative historical evidence. It will consider topics such as sampling and statistical distributions, correlation, simple and multiple regression, specification problems, hypothesis testing, panel data analysis and instrumental variables. The course will also provide students with training in using an econometrics software package STATA. An important component of the course is the deconstruction of historical articles that have used quantitative techniques.
This course covers the introductory level mathematics and statistics for economics. The mathematics portion of the course covers Linear and quadratic functions, indices and logarithms, matrices, differentiation, optimisation of functions of one variable, partial differentiation, constrained and unconstrained optimisation of functions of several variables, and basic integration. The Statistics portion of the course covers graphical and numerical data description, probability theory, discrete and continuous random variables, sampling, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.
"Eoin is a stand-out teacher who truly cares about making sure his students feel engaged, and are motivated to learn, grow and succeed. He puts a lot of effort into fostering an inclusive class environment where everyone feels valued and has the opportunity to be heard. Furthermore, he is proactive in providing additional support to students through his regular office hours, where students gain worthwhile and thought-provoking insights into the course material, which Eoin evidently has a deep understanding of and passion for. What really sets him apart from other educators is that he took the time necessary to get to know us individually, thus giving us the best possible guidance and support." - LSE, EH101, 2024
"Eoin is a great teacher. He structures the class in an organized way so that we are able to discuss the week’s topics with each other during group activities. He also explains the topics in a way that is easy to understand." - LSE, EH101, 2024.
“I love Eoin as a person and teacher. He comes off as incredibly intelligent and makes the class content easily understandable. EH101 has became my favorite class at LSE because of him. I particularly enjoy how the we create ideas as small groups and present them to the class.” - LSE, EH101, 2023
“I really like the discussions and debates we have in class – it really allows me to understand the material better, and also interact with more of my peers (which I barely do in my other classes).” - LSE, EH101, 2022
“I think Eoin continues to do a fantastic job in fostering a positive environment for discussion. He gave many opportunities for individuals to contribute in class, and made it constructively conversational as opposed to an "interview" or purely "Q & A" style, which I personally benefitted from. He also broke down complex concepts in a way that made them easy to understand and apply to papers we were looking at.” - LSE, EH402, 2023
“He takes his time to explain concepts that I don't understand. If I still don't understand, he is patient and will continue to explain it till I do. Additionally, I love how he focuses on exam questions and planning, as it gets the students into the practice of planning out answers. He goes through my essays in detail, providing me with constructive feedback. Overall, he is incredibly approachable and kind and I am happy that he was my class teacher.” - LSE, EH101, 2025
“Relaxed environment in which questions and discussion was promoted. Eoin spent time going through each individual's questions which helped the whole class overall.” - TCD, mathematics, 2018.