The 26th Oil and Gas survey, conducted by Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Fraser of Allander Institute was released on June 13. It reveals that the oil and gas sector continues to show resilience in the face of continued challenges, not least the sustained low oil price.
To read the full report, please download: 26th Oil and Gas Survey
The Marketing & Recruitment team at Strathclyde Business School has used YouTube Live as a new means of interacting with potential applicants. So far, two films have been posted on YouTube Live, allowing viewers to pose questions to those being interviewed.
Director of marketing and recruitment Melissa McCrindle has taken on the role of interviewer, with the first panel interview featuring Executive Dean Professor David Hillier and Professor Andy Marshall talking about accounting and finance at Strathclyde.
Four Masters students took part in the second Facebook Live event, discussing their respective programmes: Daniel Austin from MSc International Marketing; Michael Dore, MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology; Israel Sanchez, MSc Business Analysis and Consulting; and Eze Ejiogu, MSc Economics and Finance.
You can watch the student discussion here and the finance discussion here.
Professor Peter McKiernan (Department of Strategy and Organisation) addressed the EFMD annual conference in Berlin. Professor McKiernan presented the seven principles of responsible research in business and management as developed by the EFMD Commission in their White Paper. These principles revolve around service to society and include placing equal weighting on applied research as well as basic research, and so becoming less obsessive with 4 and 4 star journal output.
Professor Peter McKiernan also participated in the Scientific Committee meeting for the CABS journal guide revision at the London School of Economics. There will be moderate alterations to the guide for 2018 with a completely revised guide coming out in 2020. For the 2018 revision, a new category of 'Journals of Distinction' will be introduced as well as several new journals in each discipline.
Dr Derek Bryce, Dr Samantha Murdy and Dr Matthew Alexander, Department of Marketing, have had a paper accepted for publication in Annals of Tourism Research, a high impact journal and the leading Social Science journal in the field. The paper - Diaspora, Authenticity and the Imagined Past -contributes to the theorisation of 'Authenticity' in the Heritage and Tourism literatures and contextualises using Scotland's important and growing Ancestral Tourism sector.
Abstract
Ancestral tourism in Scotland, a sector of the heritage tourism market sensitive to consumer personalisation, has particular propensities towards process-driven co-created experiences. These experiences occur within existing categories of object-based and existential notions of authenticity alongside an emergent category of the ‘authentically imagined past'. The latter of these modes reveals a complex interplay between professionally endorsed validation of the empirical veracity of objects, documents and places and the deeply held, authentically imagined, narratives of 'home'. These narratives, built up in the Diaspora over centuries, drive new processes towards authenticity in tourism. We conducted 31 re-enactment interviews across 27 sites throughout Scotland with curators, archivists, and volunteers to explore these notions of authenticity within the ancestral tourism context.
Postgraduate students from the Department of Strategy and Organisation attended an elective at Toulouse Business School in France in the week beginning May 29.
The 36 students from MSc in International Management, MSc in Business and Management, MSc in Project Management and Innovation, MSc in Finance and Management and MBA attended the elective, Managing in Europe which takes place annually.
Dr Beverly Wagner and Dr Nusa Fain, Department of Marketing, hosted an innovation workshop at Scottish Power Energy Networks, Glasgow. Dr Wagner facilitated the workshop with guest Mr Steven Rader, Deputy Manager of NASA's Centre of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation.
The Centre works to support crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. Steve has worked at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston for 25 years on space mission operations projects related to the Space Shuttle, International Space Station the Mars mission. He has been studying and curating crowdsourcing communities since 2011.
IHE, a company based in Cumbernauld Stainless officially launched their designer radiator collection at the Ideal Home Show in Glasgow at the end of May. These radiators were developed as a result of the successful completion of a KTP project undertaken by Professor Alan Wilson of the Marketing Department and members of the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management.
A ScottishPower scholarship has been awarded to Rebecca Robertson, a student on the new MSc Data Analytics programme due to commence in September.
Eight scholarships were awarded to the University as a whole, with the scholarships awarded for postgraduate studies in energy and the environment in the UK. Scholarships cover enrolment costs for one calendar year full time masters level course and the provision of a generous monthly living allowance.
Rebecca will also be attending an all-expenses paid trip to the Awards Ceremony in Madrid as well as receiving mentoring and support from the company and access to attend relevant networking/careers events and seminars. Awardees are also given preferential consideration for the Scottish Power Graduate Training Programme following completion of their studies.
Dr Beverly Wagner, Department of Marketing, has been editor of Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, since 2002, and at that time the impact factor was 0.6 and over the years the journal has gained a consistent 3* ABS ranking.
The newly released SCOPUS/Citescore metrics rank SCMij at 4.48 and the 2016 IF at 4.072 (2015 IF was 2.731), placing it high in the Top 10% of all Strategy and Management journals. Out of a suite of 300 Emerald journals this is the first time a score higher than 4.0 has been achieved.
Beverly Wagner and Nusa Fain, have their paper titled "Regulatory influences on innovation in the public sector: the role of regulatory regimes", accepted for publication in Public Management Review (ABS 3; IF1.872).