Professor Robert E. Wright, Department of Economics, delivered the key note address at the Regional Approaches to Graduate Recruitment and Retention Conference in Leeds on June 17. The title of his address was "Graduate Retention, Utilisation and Migration".
At the request of the Economic and Social Research Council, Professor Wright is conducting a review of the Centre for Microdata, Methods and Practice. CEMMAP is a joint venture between the Department of Economics at University College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. It is a world-leading institute that researches, develops and applies methods aimed at modelling individual behaviour.
Professor Sara Carter of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship has been awarded an Erskine Visiting Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Professor Carter will be based at the University of Canterbury from August to mid-September.
The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship's annual Scottish Entrepreneurship Research Seminar and Doctoral Workshop was hosted jointly with the KITE Newcastle University Business School in Newcastle on June 3-4. The event attracted high profile international speakers, including professors William Gartner (Clemson University, USA) and Per Davidsson (Queensland University of Technology, Australia). In total, 20 leading entrepreneurship scholars presented papers discussing the emergence of a new 'European' school of entrepreneurship.
A book by Dr Michael Tribe, honorary lecturer in the Economics department, will be published by Routledge at the end of July.
Dr Tribe was lead author of the book, Economics and Development Studies, which was written together with Frederick Nixson and Andy Sumner. The book is aimed at making the economic dimension of discourse around controversial issues in international development accessible to second and third year undergraduate students working towards degrees in development studies.
Professor John Quigley delivered a key note paper at the ASRANet Conference held in Edinburgh in June. Professor Quigley spoke on his work with Professor Walls concerning the use of Bayesian Networks for comparing the value of alternative test strategies, which they developed for assessing the capacity of cable anchorages on the Forth Road Bridge in Edinburgh.