Covid-19 research in Department of Management Science

Professor Alec Morton and Dr Itamar Megiddo of the Department of Management Science (along with others) edited a special issue of Health Care Management Science “Management Science in the Fight Against Covid-19”. The issue was published in June along with an editorial that Alec led and Itamar was co-author on. https://link-springer-com.proxy.lib.strath.ac.uk/journal/10729/volumes-and-issues/24-2

 Itamar is a co-author on a paper published in Gates Open Research in June called “Assessing fitness-for-purpose and comparing the suitability of COVID-19 multi-country models for local contexts and users”. The paper is based on a project from earlier in the pandemic that was convened by the WHO, World Bank, International Decision Support Initiative, and the Gates Foundation https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.13224.1

Tax paper accepted for publication

A paper by Dr Chandra Thapa and Professor Andrew Marshall of the Department of Accounting and Finance, Hisham Farag (University of Birmingham), Biwesh Nupane (University of Greenwich), and Suman Neupane (Queensland University) titled ‘Tax Threat and the Disruptive Market Power of Foreign Portfolio Investors’ has been accepted for publication in British Journal of Management (ABS 4, Impact factor 6.567, SJRQ1) published by British Academy of Management.

Prestigious fellowship award for researcher

Congratulations go to Dr Francis Portes Virginio, Department of Work, Employment and Organisation, who has been awarded the prestigious Leverhulme Early Career fellowship for the project “Securisation of Nature, Displacement and Unfree labour in Brazil's Amazon” - this is a three-year project that starts in October 2021. 

Francis has been at the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation since 2014 as a doctoral researcher and in 2018 he was appointed as a postdoctoral research associate. He has teaching and research interests in the areas of political economy, forced displacement, labour migration, slave labour, social reproduction, and socio-environmental conflicts with a particular focus in Latin America.

The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships are for early career researchers to enable them to undertake a significant piece of publishable work.

Book discussion

Professor Dennis Nickson, Department of Work, Employment and Organisation, took part in an ‘Author Meets Critics’ session at the recent Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics (SASE) annual meeting, which was held virtually and attended by academics from all over the world. 

The session discussed the book that he co-authored with Professor Chris Warhurst - Aesthetic Labour. The discussion was chaired by Dr Mary Gatta from the US and the panellists were Dr Kyla Walters, Professor Elizabeth Wissinger - both also from the US - and Dr Angela Knox from Australia.

ACCA Virtual Global Conference

Dr Andrea Coulson, Department of Accounting & Finance, was a Panel Member speaking on ‘Social purpose: acting together to do the right thing’ at the ACCA Virtual Global Universities Conference on June 24.

ACCA’s conference theme was ‘Partnerships for an inclusive future’. The conference brought together experts and practitioners to stimulate ideas, discussion, and action around four key topics: Rethinking graduate careers; Enhancing the attractiveness of your programmes; The rise of the entrepreneurial university; Universities, social impact, and inclusion.