Anastasia Charalampidou, a first year PhD student based in the Department of Economics and funded by the ESRC via the Scottish Graduate School Doctoral Training Centre (SGS-DTC) has been appointed as one of the inaugural Scottish Graduate School Student Representatives and will also serve as a Supervisory Board representative. Her appointment runs to December 2014 in the first instance.
Anastasia's studentship was awarded through the Environment, Climate Change and Energy pathway of the SGS-DTC and in her doctoral research she is exploring the concept of geopolitical peak oil.
Dr Ying Zhang, Department of Strategy and Organisation, has been working closely with Claire Winsback who has extensive working experience in multinational companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Coca-Cola, on the Managing Across Cultures workshop - a hands-on, practically oriented exercise enabling MSc in International Management students to put into practice the knowledge they have acquired during the Managing Across Cultures section of the MIM programmme.
Claire Winsback, an MBA alumnus, came to the business school on November 22 to hear students' presentations for the one day workshop. Students worked in teams of 5 or 6 to provide real-life business solutions to GlaxoSmithKline.
Elaine Collinson, Strathclyde Business School, has been nominated as co-chair of the European Affinity Group of AACSB. The remit of this group is to represent the European and regional learning contexts to AACSB in order to engender greater understanding of the impact of national and European regulations on models adopted in business schools across the region.
The group undertakes research across European business schools and develops benchmarking information relating to all the standards associated with AACSB accreditation. Telecom Business School (Paris), Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Lancaster and the University of Sheffield make up the rest of the leadership committee.
The first newsletter from the Marie Curie 'ChangingEmployment' programme, and Initial Training Network, which kicked off in December 2012, is now available here. The newsletter contains information on activities surrounding the research programme including field trips, conferences and publications.
This first e-newsletter also features an introduction from Professor Paul Stewart, Department of Human Resource Management and co-ordinator of Marie Curie 'ChangingEmployment', and is edited by two early stage researchers from Strathclyde Business School, Radek Polkowski and Pedro Mendonca.