We are living through strange and unprecedented times at the moment. All of us - staff and students alike - have had to adapt at great speed to new ways of working, learning and studying and for the most part seem to be coping very well indeed.

In the midst of a pandemic, life finds its own way of carrying on. We adapt to new modes of study, of new ways of teaching, of new ways of carrying out exams and marking, of new ways of meeting and carrying projects forward. As an innovative and entrepreneurial business school, I'm delighted to see evidence of our staff and students finding paths through the obstacles the Covid19 pandemic is throwing at us. And I'm sure that we will only learn from this experience - perhaps we will find new ways of working that we will continue with in the future: as the old adage says, necessity is the mother of invention - and we are seeing that every day.

Of course, health is paramount at the moment and everything we are doing as a University is with a view to enabling our staff and students to stay safe and well. The University is regularly updating information and guidance for students https://www.strath.ac.uk/coronavirus/students/update8april/ and staff https://www.strath.ac.uk/coronavirus/staff/ at this time - please do keep checking it. 

While we may all be working from home just now, it's heartening to see that work is progressing, research is continuing, and new avenues are being explored. Across the Business School, important research into the impact of Covid19 on business sectors, on fair pay and working conditions, and how our economy will be impacted is ongoing. You can find out some of what's happening in this newsletter but please do also keep up to date via our web news page and the Strathclyde Business School blog.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the whole Strathclyde Business School community for your continuing hard work and flexibility with the current situation, and of course I wish each and every one of you reading this the very best of health - we may not be together physically but figuratively we have never been closer.

Professor David Hillier, Associate Principal and Executive Dean, Strathclyde Business School