Professor Tom Baum, Pratima Sambajee and Ann Ndiuini from the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation participated in a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya to launch their collaborative research project with Moi University.
Supported by GCRF, this project is exploring research methodologies that give voice to socially excluded, nomadic communities in Kenya in the development of tourism. Ann and a co-researcher from Moi remained in Kenya after the workshop in order to conduct exploratory fieldwork with the Masi and Wasini communities.
The Marketing Department has a strong tradition of supporting Young Enterprise and this year was no exception. The final of this year's Company Programme for Young Enterprise Dunbartonshire took place on March 13 in Strathclyde Business School where eight schools competed for the awards.
Tracey McLeod, Director of CBI Scotland, was the inspirational guest speaker and talked about her career journey. Dr Juliette Wilson, a Board Member for over 10 years, presented the Best Marketing Award on the night and is involved throughout the year. Lead Tutor Elizabeth McKee was Business Adviser to Kirky Tiles (Kirkintilloch High School) who won the award for the Best Presentation.
Scott McGrane, Department of Economics, delivered an invited presentation at the Apex Hotel in Edinburgh on March 22 as part of World Water Day, discussing the future impacts of drought on the Scottish Economy". On March 27, Scott presented an invited seminar as part of the University of Edinburgh's Global Environmental Change seminar series, discussing the water footprint of the Scottish economy and threats posed by climate change.
Professor Sara Carter has been commissioned by the Scottish Government to
undertake a research evaluation of Women's Business Centres (£25k, between
March and May 2019). Specialist centres providing business start-up and
growth support for women-owned businesses have been used in various
countries, and most strongly in the USA where every State has a Women's
Business Centre and the US Federal Small Business Administration houses
the Office for Women's Business Ownership.
The US leads the way internationally for rates of women's business
ownership, but other countries, including Germany, Sweden and Canada also
offer specialist provision for women entrepreneurs.
Strathclyde Business School is collaborating with the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering to form the STRAthclyde Diversity in Data LinkagE (STRADDLE) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT).
STRADDLE will develop a centre of excellence in the linkage and analysis of data across disciplines, focusing on health and health delivery service and overcoming data silos to achieve new insights and to maximize the value of big data in health research.
The STRADDLE CDT, which is led by Dr Itamar Megiddo in the Business School, is receiving its first round of funding through the CDTs for Chancellor's Fellows scheme.
Dominic Finn and Fahim Ahmed from the Management Science department organised a workshop and led a stream on "Education in OR" at the NEW2OR conference in Birmingham on April 10-11 which Fahim helped to organise.
Dominic gave a talk on "Work Based Learning in Online and Blended Degree Programmes" at the NEW2OR conference while Fahim gave a talk on "Use of Videos in Teaching OR courses" .
In early March, Alina Bas and Viktor Dörfler (both from the Management Science Department) co-presented a workshop called "Intuitive Wayfinding as a Mode of Knowing" at Google in New York.
The room was full of software engineers who were curious about the concept of wayfinding and how it is applicable to their work. Wayfinding is conceptualised as an intuition-based mode of knowing, where you “know as you go” in contrast with analysis-based navigation, where you “know before you go”. The problem with wayfinding is that it needs to be learned through wayfinding – there is no set-in-stone, fool-proof, always-working recipe for it.
A total of nine papers were presented by Economics staff, PhD students and their co-authors at the Scottish Economics Society Conference in Perth on April 8-9:
Full details are on the conference web pages https://happening.eventsair.com/scottish-economic-society-annual-conference-2019/
Professor Susan Howick (Management Science) gave an invited presentation at the UK Chapter of the System Dynamics Society annual event in London.
She co-presented with Ralph Goodchild from White & Case LLP. Their presentation was based on work undertaken by Susan and Professor Colin Eden. This work involved auditing a system dynamics model whilst acting as expert witnesses during a multi-billion euro arbitration case.
The case was settled last year and was the largest arbitration case to take place in Europe.
Grant Allan and Kevin Connolly of the Department of Economics presented the results of research funded through the SuperGen Wind research programme as part of a showcase event at the WindEurope 2019 in Bilbao.
This is Europe's largest gathering of the wind energy sector and provided an opportunity to present the outcomes of the research, led by the University of Strathclyde's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
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