The Department of Marketing's recent PhD Hints and Tips session held on March 28 was a huge success. The three PhD speakers, Andrea Tonner, Mathew Analogbei & Matthew Alexander, provided great advice and help on how to successfully get through the PhD process, whilst Professor Stan Paliwoda and Professor Peter Naude provided great insight from the academic viewpoint.
The session was well attended and received, and was supported by marketing PhD students from Marketing, Accounting and Finance and the Hunter Centre.
Videoing of the session and a hand-out with hints from the day along with additional hints and tips has enabled the "PhD wisdom" shared to be available to all who were unable to attend, as well as future PhD students.
Management Science academic Dr Kerem Akartunali is involved in the organisation of the annual conference of the Operational Research (OR) Society which is taking place in Edinburgh this year.
Dr Akartunali said, "The conference is shaping up very fast. The OR committee is very pleased to welcome five very distinguished plenary speakers - Chris Dent (Durham University), Jason Field (DSTL), John Hopes (Ernst & Young), Geoff Royston (President of The OR Society) and Lyn Thomas (Southampton University)."
The conference from September 4-6 exhibits a fascinating venue for both the practitioners and the theoreticians of OR, and welcomes submissions in more than 25 specialised streams. More information (including submission and registration) can be found at the conference website.
Interested parties are also welcome to contact kerem.akartunali@strath.ac.uk who is Programme Scheduler on the organising committee with any informal enquiries.
The second in the series of talks addressing strategy, offered by Strathclyde Business School in association with the Strategic Planning Society (SPS), took place on April 24, and was well attended by staff, students and alumni of the business school.
Strategy expert Mark Anderson talked on the theme "Strategic Leadership: It's all About the People."
Mark Anderson is President, Global Strategy & Business Development, Pearson International. Since October 2007 he has also been President, Pearson Language Tests. He first worked for Pearson in the period 1984-1997 in the UK and Hong Kong, latterly running a regional professional publishing & information business. For ten years he worked in consumer goods and technology businesses, before re-joining Pearson in April 2007. He was educated at Cambridge University and received an MBA from Ashridge Business School. He is the author of The Leadership Book (2010).
Professor Alan Wilson of the Marketing Department was an invited keynote speaker at the International Customer Experience World Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa on March 27 and 28. The audience consisted of 120 customer experience professionals from a wide range of South African industries.
Professor Wilson's presentation focused on the preliminary findings of a joint research project being undertaken by the Marketing Department and Syngro, an international customer insight organisation. The research which covers respondents from more than 30 countries looks at the business practices and metrics being used by organisations in their management and measurement of the customer experience. Professor Wilson will also be a keynote speaker at the European Customer Experience World Conference in London in May.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS), on behalf of the constituent countries of the UK, is reviewing the methods used to produce the migration assumptions which feed into the production of the national population projections.
As part of this process, Professor Robert Wright of the Economics department has been appointed to serve on the "user needs" group. The overall aim of the review is to have a new improved methodology in place for the 2012-based national population projections.
Target Jobs' Undergraduate of the Year awards took place on April 13 in London. Economics student, Heather Purdie, was shortlisted for the Accountancy and Economics Undergraduate of the Year and, while she did not win her category, did extremely well to be shortlisted – a total of 5,201 students applied for the entire competition and just 120 were shortlisted for the 12 awards.
Strathclyde as a whole had five finalists in three categories. Declan Bryans (Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering) won the Low Carbon Undergraduate of the Year. The other Strathclyde students shortlisted were: Andrew Allan, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, shortlisted for the Low Carbon Undergraduate of the Year; Vicky Hamilton, Product Design Engineering, shortlisted for the Engineering Undergraduate of the Year; and Emma Kerr, Aero-Mechanical Engineering, shortlisted for the Engineering Undergraduate of the Year
Strathclyde Business School alumnus, James E. Dever, received a 2012 Seminole Award during Leadership Awards Night at Florida State University April 3, 2012. He earned a PhD from the University of Strathclyde and was based in the Hunter Centre. He is now a professor in the Florida State University College of Business, Department of Management.
Florida State University students, employees and organisations that have exemplified leadership through achievement or service over the past year are recognised in these awards. The Seminole Award is given to staff who demonstrate an exemplary attitude toward students, are enthusiastic about working with students and extend themselves to help students.
You can find out more here.