Dr Julia Smith (Accounting and Finance Department) has been successful in applying for one of the recent Strathclyde PhD Studentships. The successful research student is Mr Renzo Cordina from Malta, who recently graduated with distinction in the MSc in International Accounting & Finance, which Julia directs. Renzo will be joining the Department in January 2011 to work on a project investigating 'Transparency in the Valuation of Intangibles'.
The Department of Marketing's Paul Hewer and Mark Tadajewski have been appointed to succeed Professor Susan Hart as editors-in-chief of the Journal of Marketing Management (JMM).
The new editorial line up, which took over at the beginning of October, emerged out of a competitive selection process and maintains the University's interest in the editorial leadership of JMM, the official journal of the UK Academy of Marketing and a leading European Marketing journal.
Professor Hart was Editor-in-Chief of JMM for 10 years.
At the invitation of the President and Senior Management Team, Dr Julia Smith of the Accounting & Finance Department recently attended the CIMA President's dinner at Merchant Taylor's Hall, Threadneedle Street, London, which had a theme of 'Global Business: The Sustainable Footprint'.
The guest speaker was Professor Tim Jackson, advisor on the Prince of Wales' Accounting for Sustainability Project, economics commissioner on the Sustainable Development Commission and professor of sustainable development at Surrey University. As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Dr Smith was delighted to be invited and to share in this prestigious occasion and to use the opportunity to network with senior business, government, and industry professionals and academics.
Four undergraduate students of the marketing department - Euan De Ste-Croix, James Barkley, Ross Baptie and Paula Mullan - will fly out this month to Chicago, USA, to represent Strathclyde at the finals of the International Sales Competition being held at Northern Illinois University from November 11-13. They will be competing against 16 other students from the United States.
The final is expected to involve a direct selling role-playing exercise. Dr Michael Marck, the students' 'coach' and co-ordinator of the department's Sales Management class, will accompany the team to Chicago. The event organisers are covering the cost of the trip.
Professor David Hillier (Accounting and Finance) has had a paper accepted at the Review of Behavioral Finance. The paper - 'Institutional Shareholder Activism and Limited Investor Attention' - is co-authored by Professor Pornanong Budsaratragoon (Chulalongkorn University) and Dr Suntharee Lhaopadchan (Kasetsart University).
Professor Hillier has also been appointed as an editor of the 'Journal of Economics and Business'.
Professor Phil Taylor of the Department of Human Resource Management gave a keynote address to the Unite Royal Bank of Scotland representatives meeting held in Manchester on October 1. The subject of the talk was 'Performance Management and Lean Working'.
Professor Taylor also presented at a seminar discussion on the subject of Performance Management to the National Australia Group national representatives meeting held in Glasgow on September 14 2010.
Over the last few months, Christine Reid, Learning Services Manager at Strathclyde Business School, has been working with the Glasgow Women's Library Women Make History Group planning and researching a walking tour of the Glasgow Necropolis. The focus of this tour is on the stories of some of the forgotten - and occasionally notorious - women who are buried in these atmospheric and ethereal surroundings - and women who played their part in the development of the city. The walk was launched in September as part of the Doors Open Day programme. In addition, last week it was recorded by BBC Radio 4 as part of Clare Balding's Rambling programme and was broadcast at the end of October.