Peter Mottershead, BA(Hons), MSc, studied at Warwick University and Birkbeck College, University of London, the latter course undertaken part time whilst lecturing at UEL. Before joining UEL in 1976 he worked in research at Warwick University and at the National Board for Prices and Incomes shortly before its abolition. He then worked for the independent National Institute of Economic and Social Research for five years before moving into teaching at UEL. In addition to working at UEL, he has been involved in preparing course material for the Open University. He has supervised economics students at Cambridge University and also spent a term on leave at Cambridge. He has taught a summer school at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and in 1998 he spent a semester as visiting professor at the Business Faculty of the Fachhochschule in Nurenberg, Germany. He has also taught on Business Economics programmes at Queen Mary University of London College. He acted as consultant to the Equal Opportunities Commission on several projects concerned with the economics of child care. He is active in the lecturer's union UCU.

Peter's specialist academic interests are in industrial economics and the economics of regulation. More recently he has developed courses in financial economics. He also has an interest in developing alternative forms of assessment, including forms that can be used within WebCT.

• Peter's teaching is mainly within the Economics Programmes (BA Economics and BSc Finance Money and Banking).
• He also teaches on the Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management.

• FE2010 Portfolio Analysis and Management
• FE2012 Principles of Intermediation
• FE3007 The Regulation of Economic Activity
• FE3009 Industrial Economics

• Peter's research interests are in the areas of competition policy and economic regulation. He is interested in the functioning of markets and in the degree and manner in which governments might and could intervene. In terms of competition policy he has undertaken research on the identification and treatment of complex monopolies within UK competition policy. He has also produced a discussion paper on the issues surrounding the UK government's decision in 1999 to refuse permission for BSkyB to take over Manchester United Football Club.

• He is a member of the Industrial Economics Network and of the Regulatory Policy Research Centre. More recently he has addressed issues about assessment and has written a paper entitled The DX (Documentary Extracts) Test, presented to the UEL Learning and Teaching Conference June 2005.

• Mottershead, P "Playing to the Whistle: the proposed merger between Manchester United Football Club and BSkyB " UEL Economics Working Paper 31, 2000

• Mottershead, P "Economic Problems of Capital City Surrounds: Evidence from Three European Regions" in Regional Studies Vol 28 No 3, 1994

• Mottershead, P "Industrial Policy" in Handbook of Radical Political Economy Edward Elgar 1994

• Mottershead, P Contributor to "Childcare for Starters" Manchester Training and Enterprise Council 1993

• Mottershead, P Contributor to "Capital City Surrounds: Regions in the Making" South East Economic Development Strategies, Harlow, 1993

• Mottershead, P "The Costs of Childcare" in The ABC of Quality Childcare: the Start-Up Guide Daycare Trust 1991

• Monk, S & Mottershead P "Job Creation and Job Displacement: the Impact of Local Enterprise Boards" Discussion Paper 26, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, 1990

• Mottershead, P "Recent Developments in Child Care: A Review" HMSO 1988

• Mottershead, P "Resource Implications of Childcare Policy" in B Cohen & K Clarke (eds) Childcare and Equal Opportunities HMSO 1986

• Fothergill S, Kitson M, Monk S, & Mottershead P "An econometric analysis of physical constraints on the location of manufacturing employment change" Industrial Location Research Project Working Paper No 7 University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy 1984

• Mottershead, P chapter 4 "Shipbuilding: adjustment-led intervention or intervention-led adjustment?" in G Shepherd, F Duchene & C Saunders Europe's Industries Francis Pinter 1983

• Mottershead, P chapter 10 "Industrial Policy" in FT Blackaby (ed) British Economic Policy 1960-74 Cambridge 1978

• Mottershead, P A survey of child care for pre-school children with working parents: costs and organisation Equal Opportunities Commission 1978

• Mottershead, P, Naughton, J, & Bolton, D "A Shipbuilding Firm" Module 8 of revised T241 Systems Behaviour Open University Press 1977

• contributor to NIESR The UK Economy Heinemann (several editions, first 1974)

• Mottershead, P chapter 4 "A Tabular Comparison of the Three Models" in GDN Worswick & FT Blackaby (eds) The Medium Term Heinemann 1974

• Mottershead, P & Naughton, J "Modelling Economic Systems" Module 8 of T241 Systems Behaviour Open University Press 1973

The DX (Documentary Extracts) Test, presented to the UEL Learning and Teaching Conference June 2005

This short paper introduces a method of assessment called the DX test, where DX stands for Documentary Extract. The paper begins by reviewing familiar difficulties with setting assessment questions. It then considers some of the difficulties associated with essays as a means of assessment. The paper moves on to introduce the DX approach and then explore features of the approach with reference both to pedagogic issues and practical suggestions for implementation. The paper considers some copyright issues and end by providing some initial feedback from students who have taken this form of assessment.