Risk researchers from Strathclyde Business School - Dr Calvin Burns, Human Resource Management; Dr Andrea Coulson, Accounting & Finance; Professor John Quigley, Management Science; Howard Ramsay, SEES - in collaboration with colleagues from Dalhousie University, Canada, have been awarded a $200,000 partnership development grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
This three-year grant project will investigate risk governance issues to produce multi-disciplinary analyses of past and potential critical infrastructure failures. It will use the immersive world software Second Life to reduce travel and carbon costs to conduct a number of virtual workshops that join scholars and critical infrastructure practitioners from across Canada and the UK to investigate risk governance frameworks in the following areas: off-shore oil; flooding; bridge infrastructure; pandemics and supply chain management.
Major industry partners include KPMG, Nova Scotia Department of Health, Port Authority of Nova Scotia and Scottish Power. Dr Calvin Burns said, "We are very excited about this multi-disciplinary project as a move toward realising our goal of becoming a leading international technological university."