Carl Sherwood

Carl Sherwood is a Senior Lecturer (Teaching Focused) and Director of Education in the School of Economics at The University of Queensland. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from The University of Queensland. With 15 years’ experience as a professional engineer and 20 years’ experience of teaching economics in higher education, Carl has crafted a teaching approach that combines practical business experiences with his knowledge of economics. Carl’s research interests explore aspects of student learning aimed at promoting meaningful, practical, and relevant learning outcomes. Carl’s research and development of associated learning resources have seen him receive numerous teaching and learning awards, such as Australian Award for University Teaching Excellence, National Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, and a University of Queensland Teaching Excellence Award. Carl became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) in 2017.

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Principles of Microeconomics: Social Microeconomics (edX)

Learn about the realm of public goods and game theory. You will investigate and analyse how competitive markets, price discrimination and many more microeconimic concepts contribute to particular outcomes in the real world. In this course, we begin your strategic thinking journey by exploring imperfect competition, price discrimination, oligopoly, [...]

Principles of Microeconomics: An Economist Way of Thinking (edX)

Explore the fundamentals of microeconomics including economic efficiency, scarcity and opportunity costs. This course will set you up to think like an economist and to identify how economics relates to the everyday choices we make. Recent global economic and non-economic events have highlighted the importance of informed and well [...]

Principles of Microeconomics: Competitive Markets (edX)

Become immersed in economic concepts including elasticity of demand, market pricing, explicit and implicit costs and economic profit maximisation. Learn about monopolistic markets and market structure impacts on production and profit. By undertaking this course, you will be immersed in economic concepts including elasticity calculation, elasticity of demand, market [...]