A range of events to raise funds for charity, organised by a group of third year Strathclyde Business School students as part of their events management course, brought in over £6,000.
This is the fourth year the Business School has challenged the students to put their learning into practice and organise, run and promote events which will attract custom and make money for a wide range of charities. This year they also created their own promotional videos.
Charities include the Teenage Cancer Trust, the Butterfly Trust in aid of Cystic Fibrosis, Annette Street Primary School, Trussell Trust Food Bank and Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity (formerly Yorkhill Children's Charity).
Lecturers Dr Kostas Tomazos and Hilary Kane organised an additional part to the challenge this year, with students required to present their event proposals to staff from the SECC/Hydro.
In addition two groups worked with the University in planning and running the 1st Vertically Integrated Conference held in the University attended by the Principal Jim McDonald, hopefully the first of many such events.
Hilary said, "SECC and Hydro are keen to develop their relationship with our class, and presenting to people in the industry gives students valuable experience in the events management arena."
Urban Creative, a Young Enterprise Scotland company, has recently won the top prize for young entrepreneurs in Dunbartonshire. During an Awards evening - hosted at the University of Strathclyde - the company, formed by pupils from Lomond School, won the overall award for the Best Company in the Dunbartonshire regional finals of the Young Enterprise Scotland Company Programme.
Young Enterprise Scotland works to inspire all young people encouraging them to learn and succeed through enterprise. Young Enterprise runs enterprise programmes for young people aged 5 to 30 in schools, colleges, community settings, secure and residential units.
The Company Programme - supported by Strathclyde Business School - has been running in Scotland for over 40 years. Throughout each year, pupils set up and run their own company with support from local business volunteers.
Presenting the Best Company Award at the recent event; Geoff Leask, Chief Executive at Young Enterprise Scotland, stressed that the standard was so high this year that the judges’ decision had been especially difficult.
Urban Creative now goes forward to the Young Enterprise Scotland Awards on June 15, possibly leading to a place in the UK Finals in July. Other Young Enterprise companies taking part included Amplify from St Peter the Apostle School and Happy as Jarry from Dumbarton Academy whose products were upcycled vinyl acoustic version amplifiers and upcycled decorative jars respectively.
Dr Juliette Wilson of the Department of Marketing presented the University of Strathclyde Award for Best Marketing Strategy.
Presenting at the Awards evening, Dunbartonshire Local Area Team Chair Paul Sheerin said, “In just eight months these young entrepreneurs have built their own company, identified markets, created products and services, and sold them throughout Dunbartonshire and beyond. Their products were innovative, imaginative and exciting! The company members were determined and resourceful. All who participated in the Company Programme are a credit to themselves and to Scotland.”
A seminar ‘New Perspectives on Business’ which has been designed as part of a series of presentations and workshop targeted mainly at PhD students within Strathclyde Business School is taking place on May 4.
Sarah Clark, NPOB seminar committee, said, “Our primary goal is to bring the PhD student community together and promote interdisciplinary learning and collaboration. We would also like to emphasise that these seminars will be informal and can be used as an opportunity to present progress and receive feedback from your peers or as a platform to discuss a specific problem or challenge that you are facing in your research.”
New Perspectives on Business will take place on Wednesday 4nd May, from 12:30–2pm in the PGR social space on Level 6 of the Strathclyde Business School building. This seminar will host three presentations from PhD students in different departments. Anyone wishing to attend should confirm their attendance by emailing c.pleym@strath.ac.uk
Dr Grant Allan of the Fraser of Allander Institute presented a research paper at the Regional Studies Association annual conference in Graz, Austria. The paper examines the economic legacy from the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and was presented in a special session on leveraging sports and events for regional economic development.
Research carried out by Management Science PhD graduate Laura Schang while at Strathclyde Business School has won an award in the 2015 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. The award was chosen by the editorial team of Journal of Health Organization and Management as a Highly Commended Award winner in the Healthcare Management category.
All winners and Highly Commended Award winners will be listed shortly on the Emerald and EFMD websites.
Professor Alan Wilson of the Marketing Department has had
the third edition of his Services Marketing textbook published.
“Services Marketing: Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm”, 3rd European Edition co-authored with Valerie Zeithaml, Mary Jo Bitner and Dwayne D. Gremler, uniquely focuses on the development of customer relationships through quality service and is the only text that puts the customer's experience of services at the centre of its approach.
In the third edition, new content on the role of digital marketing and social media as well as cases and vignettes on companies such as AirBnB, Skyscanner, Uniqlo and Zappos have been added throughout to reflect the latest developments in this dynamic field.
Dr Samuel Mwaura presented at the Higher Education Entrepreneurship Group (HEEG) best practice sharing conference on ‘Financial Literacy for Entrepreneurship: What to teach, and how?’ on April 13 at London South Bank University.
The HEEG is a network of academics, business development, entrepreneurship professionals, careers services staff, senior managers and students that aims to increase the capabilities of Higher Education to develop more enterprising students and more graduate business start-ups through up-skilling staff and sharing best practice.
Work undertaken by Dr Grant Allan and Dr Stuart McIntyre for the Scottish Cities Alliance on the economic performance of Scotland’s cities was mentioned in the Scottish Government’s “Scotland’s Agenda for Cities”.
Dr Grant Allan gave an invited seminar to Scottish Government economists and statisticians in Edinburgh, outlining the findings from his research on the economic consequences of low carbon policies, and the usefulness of current measures of “green jobs”.
The Institute for Future Cities recently welcomed 100 young people aged 18-25 to TIC from across the Commonwealth. Their visit was part of a legacy programme from the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in a project to give young people skills and experience to cross boundaries, lead change and use the Commonwealth’s networks effectively.
The visit, hosted in the Institute’s City Observatory, had very positive feedback from participants and comments included “I really enjoyed the visit…it was great to see real world views and gain ideas for the future.”
Dr Robert Rogerson and Janette Hughes from the Institute for Future Cities have been awarded, along with Marilyn Lennon (CIS), £15000 by Jersey Health department for a new health project. They will serve as academic advisors on Jersey’s programme of Sustainable Primary Care Pilots aimed to support restructuring of their health care system. The programme will see practitioners and service users engage in small scale projects aiming to improvement health outcomes and service provision.
Dr Kostas Tomazos from the department of Strategy and Organisation co-organised the fourth of a series of six seminars on Reconceptualising International Volunteering on April 20.
The series is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is supported by the ATLAS Special Interest Group. This month’s seminar was devoted to the sustainability and legacy of international volunteering and it attracted international academic attention.