Sixty MSc Business Analysis and Consulting students have finished their summer projects with external organisations such as Rolls Royce, RBS, Tesco, NHS, Aegon, Simul8, Food Standards Agency, M&Co, Global Funds, and Scottish Enterprise.
Some great feedback has been received from the host organisations about the added value of the students. The positive impact of the students has also materialised through a number of analytical jobs offered to the students by the host organisations.
Professors Ian Wooton (Economics) and Joseph Francois (University of Bern) were honoured at the 20th ETSG Conference in Warsaw in September 2018. They were awarded certificates from the ScientificCommittee acknowledging their contribution "to the establishment of the European Trade Study Group in 1999 and fostering of academic scholarship in the field of international trade since then." ETSG is the world's largest conference on international trade and provides a forum for academic discussion and research on all aspects of trade theory and policy.
Emeritus Professor Richard Butler was keynote speaker at the 10th OTIE (Observatory in Tourism for Islands' Economy) International Conference in Palermo, Sicily, September 7-8. His paper was titled "The Vulnerability of Islands to Overtourism".
Professor Butler made a video presentation at the Conference Loving them to Death held at Plymouth University on September 16-18, speaking about the causes and effects of overtourism.
He was also a keynote presenter at the Opening Seminar of the Escola do Tourismo de Portugal programme for Nacional de Qualificacao da Amdintistracao Local Autarquica Para O Turismo, held in Porto, Portugal, September 21-22. His presentation was titled "Tourism: The Good without the Bad and Ugly".
The launch meeting of the second Open Innovation Cohort, funded by Scottish Enterprise took place on September 14 at the University of Strathclyde with Professor Sir Jim McDonald welcoming the group to the university. The academic team, Dr Beverly Wagner (Department of Marketing), Dr John Liggat (Applied Chemistry) and Prof Jill MacBryde (DMEM) successfully bid to be SE's academic partner for the programme.
Dr Beverly Wagner (Marketing), together with Dr John Liggat (Applied Chemistry) and Professor Jill MacBryde (DMEM) have been awarded a KTP with Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN). This 30 month collaborative project will be instrumental in fostering culture change, by embedding innovation into business as usual and ensuring SPEN's sustainability as the energy landscape evolves.
Professor Peter McKiernan (Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship) chaired the plenary panel on the Fellows Day of the BAM conference on a 'Celebration of Women in UK Business Schools'. As incoming Dean of the Fellows College, he presented new Fellowships to Geoff Wood (Essex), David Denyer (Cranfield), Jon BIllsbury (Deakin) and Jean Bartunek (Carroll School of Management, Boston College).
Professor McKiernan chaired the plenary panel at the 26th annual CEEMAN conference in Prague on 'Redesigning Management Education through Innovations and Innovative Partnerships'. Panel members included Lisa Frohlich (Cologne), Kostas Axarloglou (ALBA), Slavice Singer (Osiek) and Steven DeKrey (HKUST) (photo attached).
He has also published a new book on 'Scenario Thinking: a Historical Evolution of Strategic Foresight' with Cambridge University Press. This is available to download for free for a limited period online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/scenario-thinking/35E87DB9FC9B2898CA677120CDA61FAE
The Enterprise Pathway kicks off on November 6: open to students and researchers from all university faculties and all years of study, the Enterprise Pathway programme will enable you to enhance your employability and provide you with real world, practical experience in creating a business.
No business idea or business background is required and industry experts and entrepreneurs contribute to every stage; ensuring you enjoy an inspirational and practical course that will be an asset to your CV and offer a valuable experience.
This programme is being run by Strathclyde Entrepreneurial Network (SEN). SEN supports Strathclyde innovations through enterprise, entrepreneurship, commercialisation and investment. SEN's comprehensive programme helps Strathclyde students, staff and alumni to launch new ventures, commercialise University research and develop entrepreneurial skills.
The Induction Session on November 6 takes place from 5.30-6.30pm.
This is a great opportunity to develop employability skills, enhance CVs and build knowledge and confidence of business start-up through a practical, entrepreneurial experience,
Enterprise Pathway is a three-stage process, and is open to students from all faculties and all levels of study. No business background is required and no business idea is required.
Registration for this programme is essential, so please sign up here. Make sure you like us on Facebook and are following us on Twitter to be kept up-to-date on all things Enterprise.
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For further information please email pathway-marketing@strath.ac.uk
In the meantime, check out the business school students utilising SEN support to grow their own businesses:
Dr Russell Matthews and Dr Dominic Chalmers (both Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship) have recently published two articles in 4* FT50 journals. These include the article 'Institutionalizing Women's Enterprise Policy: A Legitimacy-Based Perspective' in Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice (with Dr Norin Arshed) and "The intersection of entrepreneurship and selling: An interdisciplinary review, framework, and future research agenda" in the Journal of Business Venturing (with Dr Simon Fraser).
Economics student Ben Cooper - a final year undergraduate - won first place in the Strathclyde intern poster session. Ben was working with Dr Stuart McIntyre and Markus Gehrsitz. As a Carnegie Trust Vacation Scholar, he also took part in the Carnegie poster and presentation session at Edinburgh zoo and was awarded second place.
Caroline Whitfield (PhD candidate, Department of Marketing) was invited to speak at China's first ever Place Branding conference in Beijing In July and to present early findings of works being jointly conducted with Professor Chunying Wen of the Communications University of China on the underlying identities of Beijing as a place brand.
Research was conducted with both residents and Chinese visitors to the city (440 participants in total) and archetype identification was used to elicit underling beliefs and characterisation. Of note was the emergence of a transformational identity, alongside that of the expected dominant ruler and sage perceptions. The alignment of historic power with the identified ability to continuing self-renewal was debated at some length by the participants. Next stage comparative place branding research is being conducted in Shanghai and also Xian later this year with a paper to follow thereafter.
With Professor Wen, Caroline is also shaping a research programme for 2019 on the role of place branding on inward investment, both intra-regional and international. In September 2018, Caroline was made a Visiting Scholar of the Asian Media Lab at the Communications University of China.
Professor Alan Wilson of the Marketing Department has published a new textbook, "Marketing Research: Delivering Customer Insight".
Now in its fourth edition and with a new title and publisher (Macmillan International), this popular and user-friendly text keeps digital data and internet research at its heart. It also details the central stages of the research process, covering both quantitative and qualitative methods, and offers a plethora of international case studies and examples.
The Strathclyde Medals recognise people who have made an important contribution to the University values in their work, relationships and achievements.
Dr Matthew Hannon, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, reports that, partnering with the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham, he has been successful in securing £50k for a 6-month project titled 'Interdisciplinary research for energy systems integration'. It is funded by the Centre for Energy Systems Integration and will explore best-practice whole energy systems research designs and methods. It will commence in Jan 2019.
Dr Hannon also suggested a topic to the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) via the Association for Studies in Innovation Science and Technology (Assist) which was approved by the POST board. The briefing will be on 'Key EU space programmes' and explain what these programmes are (e.g. Galileo), how they operate, the services they provide (or will provide once completed) and outline UK involvement to-date.
Dr Marisa Smith, lecturer in Strategy and Innovation, won the best full paper award in the Strategy as Practice track at the British Academy of Management, for her paper "Capturing the 'Sparkle'" on inclusive and participative strategy making with Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS).
She has also hosted a workshop with support from Lynsey Joyce (CCC) and Dilshod Makhmadshoev (Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship) for the Tajikistan government for a rights based approach to change management in the transformation of baby homes, fostering and adoption, and care for disabled children from NGO to government provision. Delegates included deputy minsters, representatives from NGOs including Unicef and social work and care facilities.