Dr Andrew Perchard, department of Strategy and Organisation, and the Scottish Oral History Centre (also Strathclyde), co-organised the successful Deindustrialization and its Aftermath conference in Montréal (1-4 May) with Professor Steven High and Lachlan MacKinnon of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University. Attended by all the leading figures in the field from Europe and North America, the conference will be the subject of a book to be published by University of British Columbia Press in 2015 and a review in History Workshop Journal.
Andy Clark, a first year PhD student supervised between Human Resource Management and History at Strathclyde, also contributed an excellent paper.
There are scholarships available for the Institute of Future Cities’ new Masters, the MSc Leadership for Global Sustainable Cities. A total of eight are available for this innovative new Masters degree which aims to create the City leaders of tomorrow.
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Professor Robert E. Wright, Economics, has been awarded the President’s Medal of the Scottish Economic Society (SES) for: “Contributions to economics in Scotland”. The objectives of the SES are to promote the study and teaching of economics on the widest basis, in accordance with the Scottish tradition of political economy inspired by Adam Smith, and to provide a forum for the discussion of Scottish economic problems and their relationship to political and social life in Scotland.
Professor Wright served as President-elect from 2005 to 2008 and President from 2008 to 2011. The front of the medal shows a likeness of Adam Smith based on James Tassie’s glass paste medallion that is on display in the Scottish Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. The back shows the classic diagram of the supply and demand model, the central tool of economic analysis. The medal was struck by Carl Poellath Münz- und Prägewerk GmbH, Schrobenhausen, Germany.
Students from the first three cohorts of the Executive Masters in Hospitality and Tourism Leadership programme held their first alumni dinner in London on May 9. Participants came from Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, Russia and the UK.
The event was also attended by Professor Alan Wilson, the Academic Director of the Programme, and head of marketing at Strathclyde Business School.