MSc Global Energy Management student Olivia McGregor has successfully been awarded a scholarship from the ScottishPower Foundation.
Strathclyde as a whole did well, securing a total of six awards out of the 16 allocated to candidates wishing to study in the UK, with Olivia being the sole recipient for the Strathclyde Business School programme.
All successful students will receive an invitation to attend the Awards ceremony in Madrid in early July. Scholarships cover full tuition fees and a stipend of £1200 per month for the duration of the student’s course.
Dr Viktor Dörfler (Management Science Department) gave an 'academic keynote' talk last month in London at the Legal Knowledge & Innovation Conference organised by Janders Dean. Dr Dorfler's talk represented the 'outside the legal profession' perspective and was also the only academic talk at this conference with predominantly practitioner audience. His talk, titled 'Legal Expertise vs. Competence - Knowledge Sharing Theories & Practices' was received very well and inspired an interesting tweet-stream: #JDKMConf
SBS alumnus Allan Millar from Morgan Stanley recently took part in an informal recruitment event with the current MBA students on Friday June 5.
He and colleague Jon Moss spent time at Strathclyde Business School talking to some of the current crop of full time, part time and flexible MBA students. Most of the students attending had an engineering, consultancy or entrepreneurial background.
Allan said, "I was able to give some insight into the type of work they could expect to do in the event that they were successful in applying to join us. Most of the questions centred on opportunities, the recruitment process and what were the essential ingredients for CVs. It was gratifying to see the level on interest in our company and that we are seen so positively. It was rewarding for Jon and I as well and our next step is to consider the frequency of these events."
Dr Julia Smith, Reader in Accounting & Finance, has been appointed Campus Advocate for IMA, the Institute of Management Accountants, based in Montvale, NJ, USA. IMA is the worldwide association of accountants and financial professionals working in business. They are committed to helping more than 70,000 members to expand their professional skills, better manage their organisation, and enhance their career.
IMA's mission is to provide a forum for research, practice development, education, knowledge sharing, and the advocacy of the highest ethical and best business practices in management accounting and finance.
They do this by: offering a rigorous, highly respected credential - the CMA - that recognizes and rewards expertise; building a peer network of professional relationships to share industry experience, access career opportunities, and make business contacts to last a lifetime; providing extensive education programs to advance professional knowledge, increase leadership potential, and satisfy CPE requirements; giving a voice to the profession with insightful and timely journals and newsletters; promoting leading-edge research and industry best practices; and advocating for the profession in a challenging regulatory environment.
As part of her role as Campus Advocate Dr Smith will be working with IMA towards achieving CMA accreditation for both undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes in accounting at Strathclyde.
MBM, MIM and MBA students attended an elective course entitled 'Managing in Europe' delivered by our partner institution Toulouse Business School in France. This is offered to students each year.
This year, students attended during the first week in June. As well as class room teaching, they went on a study trip to Airbus. One of the students who took part, Anmol Kalra, said, "The trip to Toulouse Business School for our summer school elective Management in Europe was a platform for great learning. The course was scheduled in a highly organised manner incorporating lectures from three highly experienced faculties covering various aspects of intercultural management and also a visit to the iconic Airbus manufacturing plant. The lectures delivered by Shahla Rivaldi, a highly experienced individual in dealing with people from various cultural backgrounds, gave us the opportunity to understand the work ethics while working with people that have different work practises.
"The course has also provided us with the information over how the various recruitments, job promotions and working style differ within Europe. At Airbus we were shown the manufacturing and assembly process of Airbus A380, the largest commercial passenger carrier aircraft in the world. We were also taken through the Airbus museum where the importance of Toulouse in the aviation industry and how it became the European centre for aerospace industry was explained. It was a great way of learning about another European culture too."
A student has successfully completed her PhD in what was the first in the faculty to have three supervisors from three different departments, highlighting the growing inter-connectivity around the business school.
Andrea Coulson (Accounting and Finance), John Quigley (Management Science) and Calvin Burns (HRM) were all involved in supervising. Emma Comrie's PhD subject looked at risk under a health theme: "Explaining the role of Twitter in the amplification and attenuation of risk during health risk events through causal loop diagrams: a comparative study of Nova Scotia and Scotland".
This arose out of research carried out by Strathclyde Business School and Dalhousie University in Canada. Research has already focused on critical infrastructure challenges such as supply networks, cyber-security and pandemics. The links gained with Dalhousie via this research led to Emma's PhD subject as well as other projects, joint papers and literature reviews.