Dr Kavita Sirichand

Senior Lecturer in Financial Economics,
Loughborough Business School



Our global student alumni have achieved incredible things professionally. Read some of their unique stories and discover how you could benefit from AmplifyME.



Our global student alumni have achieved incredible things professionally. Read some of their unique stories and discover how you could benefit from AmplifyME.

Our School motto is ‘Progress with Purpose'...

At Loughborough University we have a passion for teaching, this was the key driver to developing the Business School’s partnership with AmplifyME, bringing key insights from industry and work-based learning into our teaching from the finance sector, where many of the School’s students want to work.

In January 2020, we liaised with alumnus and AmplifyME, to organise a Morgan Stanley sponsored one-day Financial Trading Event for our students. The event involved students using AmplifyME’s specialist software to undertake simulations where students enacted the role of traders reacting to live information to make buy and sell decisions. The event was attended by over 140 students from across campus and was a huge success.

This teaching and enterprise initiative subsequently led us to work to deepen the School’s relationship with AmplifyME by liaising with them to teach a Financial Trading module, on our suite of specialist finance postgraduate programmes, this module will run for the fourth time this summer.

Based on the success of this Postgraduate module we introduced a new undergraduate equivalent in Autumn 2022. These modules use AmplifyME’s specialist software, and exposes our students to real, work-based, practical technologies. Aside from the practical learning aspect, students thoroughly enjoy the simulations.

Beyond the module itself and in terms of employability, AmplifyME have helped place many of our students in posts with top financial institutions including HSBC, and they themselves have recruited several of our graduates, some of whom have come back to teach on the modules, which in itself is inspiring for our current students.

Our School motto is ‘Progress with Purpose’, this partnership provides practical learning serving to enhance student learning, experience and employability, allowing our students to progress during their studies with us and beyond with purpose and success. 
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The impact
  • In 2023 Dr Kavita Sirichand was awarded Teacher of the Year for her efforts to help students put theory into practice in finance
  • Based on the success of this Postgraduate module we introduced a new undergraduate equivalent in Autumn 2022.
  • Rated consistently highly by students as excellent.
  • In 2023 Dr Kavita Sirichand was awarded Teacher of the Year for her efforts to help students put theory into practice in finance
  • Based on the success of this Postgraduate module we introduced a new undergraduate equivalent in Autumn 2022.
  • Rated consistently highly by students as excellent.
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More Case Studies

Amaury Coguel

Head of MSc Financial Markets & Investment at SKEMA

As head of the MSc in Financial Markets & Investments at Skema Business School, I was looking for a way to bring the industry to life and engage our students in the practicality of working in the industry and in turn – increase their employability...

Doctor Kevin Campbell

Senior Lecturer in Finance & Accounting at the University of Stirling

We began to integrate AmplifyME’s simulations into our postgraduate programmes back in 2013 and quickly saw improved academic performance, higher levels of motivation and engagement, and increased employability.

Jillian D’Agostino

Undergraduate Programme Manager at the University of Strathclyde

Our academic programmes but initial introduction to AmplifyME was in early 2020, when the onset of Covid-19 meant moving from face-to-face to virtual learning, and engaging students with careers and employability was looming.

Kostantinos Bozos

Professor of International Accounting & Finance at Leeds University

We first engaged with AmplifyME in 2014 when they delivered the first week-long Trading-focussed Bootcamp for all our MSc students…
"A collaboration that’s had profound impact on our students’ educational journey and the reputation of our university”

Amaury Coguel

Head of MSc Financial Markets & Investment at SKEMA

As head of the MSc in Financial Markets & Investments at Skema Business School, I was looking for a way to bring the industry to life and engage our students in the practicality of working in the industry and in turn – increase their employability...

Kostantinos Bozos

Professor of International Accounting & Finance at Leeds University

We first engaged with AmplifyME in 2014 when they delivered the first week-long Trading-focussed Bootcamp for all our MSc students…

Jillian D’Agostino

Undergraduate Programme Manager at the University of Strathclyde

Our academic programmes but initial introduction to AmplifyME was in early 2020, when the onset of Covid-19 meant moving from face-to-face to virtual learning, and engaging students with careers and employability was looming.

Doctor Kevin Campbell

Senior Lecturer in Finance & Accounting at the University of Stirling

We began to integrate AmplifyME’s simulations into our postgraduate programmes back in 2013 and quickly saw improved academic performance, higher levels of motivation and engagement, and increased employability.
"A collaboration that’s had profound impact on our students’ educational journey and the reputation of our university”