John Cooper, Tom Bourkel, Ashley Duncan, Peter Keenan and Euan Beveridge
A team of Management Science academics attended the joint meeting of the European Safety and Reliability/Probabilistic Safety Analysis and Management (ESREL/PSAM) conferences in Helsinki, Finland, from June 24-29.
Professor Tim Bedford, Professor Lesley Walls, Professor John Quigley, Dr Kevin Wilson and Dr Maria Segovia presented five papers on research in off-shore wind farm availability modelling (based on EPSRC project with Athena Zitrou), as well as method driven developments in areas such as emulators and Empirical Bayes/Bayes Linear for correlated processes.
Dr Wilson and Professor Bedford co-hosted a PhD workshop following the conference and presented a session on Structured Expert Judgement. Professor Walls is now Chair of the European Safety and Reliability Association committee on Risk Management.
The British Accounting and Finance Association Scottish Area Group Annual Conference will take place at the University of Strathclyde on August 31. This year’s event will include keynote addresses by Professor John Holland and Professor Irvine Lapsley.
Two SBS staff (Dr John Ferguson from the Department of Accounting & Finance and Dr Kathy Hamilton from the Department of Marketing) are part of the organising team for Strathclyde Solutions Exchange, an interdisciplinary workshop - which runs from August 27-30.
The aim of the workshop is to encourage staff and research students to work collaboratively with other Strathclyde researchers from a range of disciplines to solve problems faced by local industry, charities and SMEs. This year, participating organisations in the workshop include Volunteer Development Scotland, Scottish Water and the Glasgow Science Centre. For more information, contact john.ferguson@strath.ac.uk
Once again, Professor Ian Wooton (Department of Economics) is on the Organising Committee of this year’s conference of the European Trade Study Group whose activities are sponsored in part by the University of Strathclyde. The conference is the largest annual conference on International Trade in the world. This year’s conference, ETSG2012, is being hosted by the Faculty of Business and Economics, Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium from September 13-15. Almost 300 papers will be presented with an expected attendance of nearly 400 research economists at the conference.
Also at ETSG2012 will be the award by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) of the prize to the winner of its fourth annual WTO Essay Award for Young Economists. This Award aims to promote high-quality research on trade policy and international trade co-operation among young economists and to reinforce the relationship between the WTO and the academic community. The winner receives a prize of CHF 5,000 (approximately £3,300) as well as funding to attend the conference.
John Cooper, Tom Bourkel, Ashley Duncan, Peter Keenan and Euan Beveridge
The Department of Management celebrated eleven of its Master of Research, Doctor of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy research students graduating in July. The eleven were: John Cooper, Tom Bourkel, Ashley Duncan, Peter Keenan, Euan Beveridge, Ron Bradfield, Azin Haghighi, Khongphu Nimanandh, Eva Schreiber, Zaleha Yazid and Jane Zhang.
Professor Tom Baum (Human Resource Management) has been appointed to the Advisory Board of two new international centres for research and education in hospitality and tourism, namely, the Irish Academy of Hospitality and Tourism, based in Tralee, Co. Kerry and the Malaysia Center for Tourism and Hospitality Education (MyCenTHE) in Kuala Lumpur. MyCenTHE is a national initiative under the Economic Transformation Programme of the Prime Minister's Office in Malaysia. The President of MyCenTHE is Associate Professor Wong Kong Yew (PhD Strathclyde) of UCSI University.
Professor Baum was also keynote speaker at the Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE) 1st International Conference held in conjunction with MyCenTHE’s 1st Anniversary Celebration in August.
Dr Andrew Perchard’s new book, Aluminiumville, was the subject of an article in The Herald on August 17 entitled ‘Price of Progress’ which examines the history of the aluminium industry in the Highlands.
‘Aluminiumville’ was the name British Aluminium had thought of calling Kinlochleven, its second development in the Highlands, but it used instead the Anglicisation of the existing Gaelic placement, Ceann Loch Liobhuinn.
Dr Perchard, Department of Management, says the closeness of British Aluminium to the government at the time may have ‘blinkered’ the company and its story ‘may provide a valuable insight for businesses today’.
The newest professor in the Department of Human Resource Management – Mick Marchington – has been shortlisted by HR Magazine in the annual industry poll to name the most influential HR thinkers in the UK. The 2011 winner was Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School.
Network, the magazine of the British Sociological Association, reported in its summer edition that the three most cited papers in the 4 star journal ‘Work, Employment & Society’, from 2002-present, were:
Work organization, control and the experience of work in call centres, Taylor, P; Hyman, J; Mulvey, G; March 2002 16(1) 133-50.
India calling to the far away towns: the call centre labour process and globalization, Taylor, P; Bain, P June 2005 19(2) 261-82.
Disconnected capitalism: or why employers can’t keep their side of the bargain, Thompson, P, June 2003 17(2) 359-78.
The Department of Human Resource Management is delighted to note that the principal authors of all three papers – professors Phil Taylor and Paul Thompson – are HRM academics.