A team of academics from the business school, together with colleagues from the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences, are running a seminar series on "Nostalgia in the 21st Century" starting next year, funding for which came from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The team has now been successful in getting ESRC funding to host an event at the ESRC Festival of Social Science Week next March.
The Festival of Social Science will be held from March 12-21 as part of National Science and Engineering Week and is expected to take place in more than 25 UK towns and cities and range from conferences, workshops, debates and exhibitions to film screenings, plays, policy briefings and much more.
The theme for Strathclyde's event is 'Glasgow Remembered: Food and Nostalgia' and it will be held at the Mitchell Library, as part of the annual 'Aye Write' literary festival. It will coincide with the re-publication of the Glasgow Cookery Book (1910). The event will be preceded by a writing competition, where individual entrants in three categories can submit a piece that focuses on how nostalgia has influenced Glasgow's diverse culinary scene.
Two award-winning Scottish writers, David Kinloch and Rodge Glass, will choose winners and present prizes at the event and the winning pieces will be published in The Herald. The event will also feature family food quizzes and traditional Scottish food.
Elsewhere in the business school, Dr Jill MacBryde (Management Science), Dr Sara Davies (EPRC) and Rona Michie (EPRC) have secured funding from ESRC for another event running under the ESRC Festival of Social Science banner.
The Strathclyde researchers, part of Strathclyde's growing innovation research cluster, are using their event to tie in with the ESRC's commitment to promote awareness of UK social science research to new audiences and engage with younger people. As a result, they will be hosting a debate aimed at secondary school pupils in the Highlands and Islands, asking, "Are people living in rural areas innovative?" This topic is relevant to the Strathclyde team's current ESRC-funded research looking at innovation in Peripheral Areas.