The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship has been awarded the EU Marie Curie Fellowship worth 140,000 Euros for a project entitled, 'Determinants of the start-up process and their impact on newly-created companies' growth intentions'.
The investigator will be Professor Aleksandra Gawel, from Poznan University of Economics, Poland who will start the project based at the Hunter Centre in August 2012.
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) hosted a drinks reception at the British Accounting and Finance Association Special Interest Group on Corporate Governance /ACCA Conference, in order to launch the publication of a report authored by Dr John Ferguson and colleagues from the University of Dundee (David Collison, Stuart Cross, David Power and Lorna Stevenson). The conference was held at ACCA headquarters in London on February 29.
Professor Robert Wright (Economics) has been appointed to the Commissioning Panel of the Economic and Social Research Council's Secondary Data Analysis Initiative. The aim of this Initiative is to deliver high impact policy and practitioner relevant research through the analysis of various datasets.
The first phase will fund around twenty projects of up to £200,000 each, with a maximum duration of 18 months. The role of the Commissioning Panel is to select the projects to be supported.
Dr Jill MacBryde from Management Science was out teaching operations management at the new Strathclyde SKIL Business School in India during the Holi Festival, a religious spring festival, also known as the festival of colours. One of its traditions is for participants to throw coloured powder at each other to celebrate spring's abundant colours. Dr MacBryde enjoyed the colourful celebration but is hoping that the dye comes out of her clothes!
Jaszmina Szendrey, an ESRC funded research student in Management Science, has been awarded £7,000 as an additional overseas allowance from the Research Council to conduct her field work within organisations located across Europe.