Blended with Yurtsev Uymaz (University of East Anglia) - Teaching Corporate Finance

In this episode Wes Hallam interviews Yurtsev Uymaz, an associate professor in finance from the Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia. Yurtsev discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected finance courses and why he believes that whilst other disciplines have seen a decline in student numbers, finance courses have seen a rapid expansion. Yurtsev believes that the lockdown and the shift to online learning have changed students' habits, and they now see finance as a discipline that can prepare them to survive in a post-COVID world. We also talk about his conservative perpective on ChatGPT in the Finance education world.