His Highness Sayyid Kamil bin Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said, a member of the Omani royal family graduated with an MBA with distinction in Oman two years ago. He currently holds the position of Assistant Secretary General of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of
Ministers, a vey senior position in Oman.
On September 20 he was presented with the "voluntary work award" for his contributions to voluntary service. He received the award at a ceremony in Manama, Bahrain, held under the patronage of Sheikh Isa bin Ali al Khalifa.
The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship has completed the latest round of Sales Workshops for Scottish Enterprise clients and Scottish EDGE winners. Delivered in partnership with sales specialists Klozers, the series of one-day workshops addresses the essential sales and sales management skills required by early stage growth companies as they begin to scale up.
Professors John Quigley and Zoe Shipton secured £71K from the Oil and Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) to support research with the industrial partner Cognitive Geology. The research will centre on elicitation of expert judgment to support geological evaluation of oil fields. The work will bring together a core strength of Management Science in knowledge elicitation and risk assessment with the geological expertise in Civil Engineering.
Jonathan Tweedie, a graduate of the Department of Accounting and Finance, had his dissertation research published in Golf Club Management magazine (GCM), the leading industry golf journal in the UK and Europe and Bunkered, the leading Scottish Golf magazine. Jonny is continuing his research and is registered for a PhD in the Department. His new research has been the subject of a second article in GCM.
Dr Andre Vermeulen, CEO of Neuroscience of Learning, Colorado, gave a three hour session on 'Mind Power' in Dubai, before driving to Abu Dhabi to give the same session in the evening.
There were around 60 attendees in Dubai and 50 in Abu Dhabi and the sessions were very well received.
The edited Routledge book "New Production of Users", in which Dr Luciana d'Adderio (Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship) is one of the authors/contributors, has won the 2016 EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) Chris Freeman Award.
The Award is for a publication which is a significant collective contribution to the interaction of science and technology studies with the study of innovation.
A paper by Jaleesa Wells, a doctoral researcher at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, won the Best Phd Paper Award at this year’s International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC).
Her paper was entitled, "Phenomenological methodology: crafting the story of Scotland's creative social enterprises."
Jaleesa said, "It was a fun and engaging conference. I was very surprised and grateful to be recognised amongst everyone there."
Dr Aylin Ates (Department of Strategy and Organisation) has been invited to publish an article "Visual Strategy: Linking projects with organisational goals" in Brazil's popular Mundo Project Management magazine. This featured article is translated into Portuguese and edited by the magazine editors in order to access a wide audience in Brazilian industry. The featured article seeks to link theory with practice and provides a novel approach to manage strategy and project portfolios using visual techniques.
Dr Ates was awarded a travel grant through Newton Fund Researcher Links Programme and travelled to São Paulo in March 2016. This publication is a result of this collaborative activity between UK and Brazil and aims to increase impact and internationalisation from research developed at Strathclyde.
Ms Ivelina Hristova, an Honours student in the Department of Marketing, was shortlisted for the Best Poster Presentation resulting from research undertaken during her summer internship under the supervision of Dr Maria Karampela, also the Department of Marketing.
At the beginning of the summer, Ms Hristova had successfully been awarded a research internship as part of the ‘Research Interns @ Strathclyde’ programme of the University, which aims to provide direct experience in the research environment for undergraduates who might be considering a career in academia. Ms Hristova’s research internship was part of Dr Karampela’s larger research project on the factors facilitating and inhibiting Scottish micro-breweries’ growth.
Ms Hristova was shortlisted in the top 9 out of 50 Research Interns across the University, and was the only shortlisted research intern from the Business School.
Dr Andrea Tonner and Dr Nusa Fain of the Department of Marketing have extended their ongoing partnership with Frame Communications Agency to offer students in their Integrated Marketing Communications class the opportunity to compete for a paid internship with the agency.
The academic team collaborate with their industry partner to create an assignment which offers students experience of working on a live creative brief - this year for the Scottish Football Association - and the student with the best assignment can then experience the realities of agency life.
Dr Matthew Alexander, Dr Derek Bryce and Dr Samantha Murdy (Department of Marketing) delivered a briefing to the Scottish Ancestral Tourism Group in Edinburgh recently. The group is a government-led organisation that brings together important stakeholders in Scottish Tourism including Visit Scotland to discuss issues relating to tourism and the diaspora.
The briefing related to a new website – www.myancestralscotland.com - developed in the Department of Marketing from research in the area. The website aims to connect members of the Scottish diaspora with locally held resources which could link potential visitors with their ancestral past and give local history providers a source of much needed revenue.
The website has been developed in collaboration with Professor Ian Ruthven in the Department of Computer Information Science and was built by students studying in this area using funding from the Knowledge Exchange Income Growth Fund. The team hope to launch the site as a spin-out company in 2017 and are currently seeking commercial support and funding alongside ongoing business development with the assistance of RKES and a final year BA Entrepreneurship intern.