The fourth in a series of four lecture days on Reliability takes place on Friday, August 31. Hosted by the department of Management Science, this session will concern Expert Judgement.
There will be a wide range of topics covered including: Meta-Analysis and Participatory Risk Analysis; Uncertainty in Competitive Bidding; and Importance of the Process for Expert Judgement Elicitation.
Detailed information is available here
All are welcome to attend. There are no fees but anyone interested in attending should contact John Quigley or Nicola Thom to register with regard to lunch and refreshments.
Economics doctoral student, Stuart McIntyre, has had a paper accepted in the journal “Economic Letters” entitled, “'Personal Indebtedness, Spatial Effects and Crime'. Paper available here.
Stuart also presented some related work from this paper at a summer school in Umeå, Sweden, this month which was organised by the European Regional Science Association (ERSA).
Professor Robert E. Wright (Economics) has been reappointed to the Economic and Social Research Council’s Methods and Infrastructure Committee (MIC) for an additional two years. The MIC is responsible for developing essential resources such as data, research methods, and information technology, which make high-quality research possible. It is also responsible for the management of Resource Centres and Resource Programmes.
The main aim of the MIC is to ensure UK social science has not only world-class datasets, but also the appropriate skills and technologies to reap optimum benefit from these resources.
Professor Robert E. Wright (Economics) in June travelled to the University Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain to present a paper at the EcoMod 2012 International Conference. EcoMod is a leading research, advisory, and educational not-for-profit network dedicated to promoting advanced modeling and statistical techniques in economic policy and decision making. His paper (co-authored with Katya Lisenkova, National Institute of Economic and Social Research and Marcel Merette, University of Ottawa) was concerned with evaluating the labour market impacts of population ageing using an over-lapping generations computable general equilibrium model. The research reported in this paper was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council through the Center for Population Change. He also chaired a session on computable general equilibrium modeling.
At the invitation of Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Professor Robert E. Wright (Economics) attended the RAND Dataset Workshop in June at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. The aim of this workshop was to bring together the leaders of longitudinal studies of ageing from a variety of countries. At the meeting he spoke about HAGGIS—Healthy AGeinG In Scotland. This is a research programme and five-wave longitudinal survey he is developing with Professor David Bell, University of Stirling. It is currently being supported by the RAND Corporation, the National Institute of Ageing (USA) and the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), University of Michigan.
Professor Tom Baum (HRM) has completed a report for the International Labour Office (ILO) on Gender Equality in the International Hotel Industry. The study included a survey of international hotel companies, investigating their policies and practices with respect to gender equity and equality in the workplace as well as a comprehensive analysis of secondary information in the area.
Dr Kathy Hamilton and Dr Matthew Alexander were invited to deliver a presentation on their research on ‘Adopt a Station’ at the ‘Association of Community Rail Partnerships’ Seminar in Manchester Town Hall in July.
Dr Hamilton presented findings from their three year study and discussed how local stations can become sites for heritage promotion and tourism gateways through the involvement of the local community.
SMAAS (Strathclyde MBA Alumni Association Switzerland) organised its 4th SMAAS BBQ Event on the shores of Lake Zurich. This event on July 5 was informal and was open to Strathclyde alumni, current Strathclyde MBA students as well as their guests. This year, what now seems to be the obligatory thunder storm took place shortly before the start of the event but organisers report a ‘perfect evening’ at the Rowing Club of Zurich. Amongst the group of alumni, students and guests present was one special guest - a student from the Bahrain centre, who joined the group for the evening.
Professor Robert E. Wright (Economics) has edited a special issue of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy titled; “Demographic Change and Housing Markets”, which will appear in print in November 2012.
The six papers included in this publication were originally presented at a workshop he organised in Glasgow in April that brought together individuals carrying out current and leading research into the major links between demographic change and housing markets. The workshop was funded by the Scottish Institute of Research in Economics (SIRE) and the Scottish Economic Society (SES), with participants from academia, government, charities and business.