The Enterprise Pathway is open for interested Strathclyders to get involved in this three step programme which can help to increase employability and develop creative.
Open to all University faculties, from students at undergraduate and masters level through to researchers, the programme will allow participants to:
Interested parties can register now to secure a space and attend the induction session on Tuesday, November 3.
In the meantime, the Enterprise Pathway can be followed via social media for updates:
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The department of Management Science hosted a workshop on Expert Judgement on August 28. The event was chaired by Professor John Quigley and is jointly funded by the London Mathematics Society as part of a series in Mathematical Methods in Reliability as well as the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Network on Expert Judgement. The talks covered a range of relevant topics in elicitation of expert subjective probabilities from applications in petroleum industry and reliability engineering to more fundamental issues concerning the calibration of subjective measurements and the role of expert models in the 21st century. Participants included academics as well as practitioners who agreed the day to have been a great success.
Professor John Quigley successfully delivered a series of training modules in September to the European Food and Safety Agency (EFSA) on steering an Expert Knowledge Elicitation for risk assessment for members of their Scientific Committee and panel members. The project is a collaborative effort with FERA as well as academics from the universities of Sheffield, Warwick and Durham.
Students from the MSc in Global Energy Management undertook internships over the summer with a range of organisations in the energy sector, which included Scottish Power, SSE, Wood Mackenzie, NuCap Ltd, Ricardo AEA, Sgurr Energy, Scottish Power Renewables, Scottish Government, Institute for Future Cities, and Sonatrach.
The summer project is a key element of the MSc in Global Energy Management, and provides students with the opportunity to put the knowledge developed through the course into practice with industry.
Dr Robert Rogerson, Depute Director of the Institute for Future Cities, has a new book out on October 29. “Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games: behind the scenes” is published by Freight books.
The book delves behind the headlines to provide a critical account of the preparation and delivery of the Games and its impact on Glasgow and provides the inside story based on his academic involvement as legacy research coordinator over the past four years.
The book is also planned to feature in the ‘Aye write’ programme of public evening events in November. More information on the book can be found here.
PhD student Timbul Santoso from the department of Accounting and Finance has won the best paper and best prize for journal award from the International Review of Business Research Papers at the annual Paris Business Research Conference (August 13-14).
The award was for a chapter of his PhD thesis, “Risk Minimisation on Central Bank’s Bond Portfolio with Multi-Weight Constraint: Bayesian Spanning Test”
Second year students in BA programmes in Economics, Management, Business Analysis & Technology, Finance, Marketing and Human Resource Management are eligible to apply for BP scholarships.
Being a BP scholar will provide financial support of £5,000 per year, plus successful applicants will have unique opportunities to experience first-hand aspects of what BP does – from using the latest technology to find oil and gas and building platforms in the ocean, to working on the bustling trading floor or supporting the whole business through functions such as HR, Sales or Procurement.
An online application form is available with a closing date on November 27.
For more information click here.
Dr Colin Lindsay of the Department of Human Resource Management co-ordinated a high-level seminar in response to the Scottish Government's consultation on future employability services. The event, hosted at the TIC on September 30, brought together several senior officials from Scottish Government, other public and third sector experts, and leading researchers on employability.
The seminar was designed to tap expertise and evidence on "what works" in helping people with health problems to move towards work.
Dr Colin Lindsay of the Department of Human Resource Management was keynote speaker at a one-day seminar organised by the charity Gingerbread. The event on October 6 focused on "Coproduction and Collaboration in Employability Services".
Dr Lindsay presented findings on the benefits of coproduction in services for single parents, based on a project conducted by the Scottish Centre for Employment Research at Strathclyde team on behalf of the Big Lottery Fund in Scotland.
Dr Dimitris Andriosopoulos, Department of Accounting and Finance, was invited and delivered a keynote speech at the 8th International Symposium on Corporate Governance hosted by Nankai University, China Academy of Corporate Governance, and Tianjin University of Finance and Economics. The conference took place on September 5 and 6.
The title of the presentation was "To overpay or underpay? Payout policy, financial distress and investor horizons". The theme of the talk is the influence of corporate governance and institutional investors on firms' decision making on payout policy and the impact this has in turn to firms' financial distress, risk, and survival.
Professor Alan Wilson has been appointed as an external examiner on the MBA programme at the University of Mauritius.
Professor David Hillier opened the postgraduate area of the new-look open plan Strathclyde Business School PhD area on October 7, cutting a ribbon on the stairs which led to the new research space.
Academics from business school departments were on hand and made short presentations to the students in attendance. It is hoped the new open plan area will lead to cross-departmental research and discussion amongst the student research body.
Grant Allan and Eleanor Malloy of the Fraser of Allander Institute produced a short narrative report to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI Scotland) containing up-to-date quantitative measures relating to the Pharmaceutical sector’s activities in Scotland and related text explaining trends to these data (an update of a previous study of the Economic impact of the Pharmaceuticals Industry on the Scottish economy).
As a major element to one of the Scottish Government’s Growth Sectors, the Pharmaceuticals sector occupies a major position in Scottish economic policy, as well as in areas as seemingly distinct as health, life sciences, industrial policy and Higher Education. The report identified the different ways in which the sector relates across various areas of Scottish economic life, including (but not limited to) Universities and Scottish industry.