Business School successes with PhD studentships

University, faculty and national competitions have resulted in a total of 14 full-time three-year PhD studentships being awarded to the Business School for students beginning their studies in October 2011. Two of these were awarded by the new Economic and Social Research Council-funded Doctoral Training Centre, the Scottish Graduate School for the Social Sciences.

Drawing from a variety of funding sources, including the University, Faculty and Departments, awards were made across all Business School departments, both for excellent students and for project studentships designed to complement strategically significant interdisciplinary research being carried out by Business School staff.

In total, six project studentships will begin this October, supervised in most cases by staff from different departments. The projects and staff involved are:

• Corporate governance, insider trading, and regulatory compliance (Professor David Hillier, Accounting & Finance)
• Open innovation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Dr Jill MacBryde, Management Science and Dr Beverly Wagner, Marketing)
• An international comparison between risk regulatory frameworks (Dr Calvin Burns, Human Resource Management, Dr Andrea Coulson, Accounting & Finance, and Professor John Quigley, Management Science)
• People and practices in innovation and technology (Dr Barbara Simpson, Management and Dr Erik Monsen, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship)
• Entrepreneurial philanthropy, agency and innovation (Professor Eleanor Shaw, Marketing and Professor Sara Carter, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship)
• Self-employment, employment choice and the accounting profession (Dr Erik Monsen, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Dr John Ferguson, Accounting & Finance)

The two studentships awarded by the Scottish Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) – to Ashleigh Logan (Marketing) and Mairead Lynch (Human Resource Management) - are especially prestigious, both for Strathclyde Business School and the students involved.

Strathclyde's students were awarded two of only three available studentships allocated to the Business and Management/Accounting and Finance Pathways of the DTC, and beat a highly competitive field of candidates put forward by the seven eligible Scottish institutions. The DTC, which forms the core of the new Scottish Graduate School in the Social Sciences, draws together Scottish universities to build doctoral students' skills and capacities, and its new studentship competitions for each of its 24 pathways replaces the previous centralised ESRC competition.

These successes, of course, are not the only studentships awarded within the Business School, as departments also provide packages drawing on their own resources or collaborations with external partners. These considerably strengthen the diversity of students and research training which we can offer in the Business School.

In short, the Business School continues to support high quality doctoral research and leads the way in Scotland for attracting excellent, highly qualified UK and international students.