Economics PhD student Jon McFarlane is representing the Scottish National Team at the IFCPF (International Federation of Cerebal Palsy Football) Men’s World Championships in Italy.
Jon already has international caps in CP football and this time round played his first match on Tuesday, September 27 against the hosts Italy. The match was live on the CP Football YouTube channel. Scotland are in group A and will face South Korea, Italy & Chile. Everyone at the Business School is behind Jon and the team.
Professor Dennis Nickson of the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation was a keynote speaker at a jointly organised Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)/PrOPEL Hub event, ‘Towards a sustainable practice action research community for HRM’.
The event was attended by HR practitioners and academics and the keynote was titled, “‘If you look the part, you’ll get the job’: Why our appearance matters in the workplace what does it mean for HR practitioners”.
The MSc Economics & Policy of Energy & Climate Change has been accredited by the Energy Institute, an organisation for professionals in energy related fields. This accreditation was held by the programme that preceded MSc Economics & Policy of Energy & Climate Change, and after review of the programme’s content and structure, the accreditation has been retained.
This will offer students free membership of the Energy Institute, given the Department of Economics is a Learning Affiliate, and after the completion of the programme graduates will be able to register as a Chartered Energy Manager. This is one of the professional registrations offered by the Energy Institute and gives assurances to potential employers and clients that individuals have studied on a competent programme offering relevant professional skills. Strathclyde’s MSc Economics & Policy of Energy & Climate Change is one of the few Business programmes accredited by the Energy Institute.
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Professor Tom Baum, Department of Work, Employment and Organisation, was the keynote speaker at the annual conference of Labor Movens, a collective of critical employment schools interested in the tourism sector in Brazil and is now working with them to facilitate collaborative links with a wider international research network in this area. His address was entitled “The future of sustainable work in tourism”.
Tom provided international perspectives on the international staffing crisis in tourism for a major stakeholder event organised by Austrade in Canberra, an event designed to identify new and innovative strategies to attract the lost workforce back into the industry.
On a similar theme, Tom was invited by 360info, an open access global information agency based in Melbourne, to address the staffing issue in tourism in a piece entitled “ COVID not only to blame for tourism’s staffing crisis”. This was published in early September at https://360info.org/covid-not-only-to-blame-for-tourisms-staffing-crisis/.
Meanwhile, Tom convened a working group on behalf of ReWAGE into work and employment in the hospitality sector and led the compilation of the group’s final report and policy recommendations for UK Ministries and the devolved governments. The Working Group also included Dennis Nickson and Emma Cosgrove from SBS and the group submitted its draft report at the end of August.
Staff from the Department of Economics and Fraser of Allander Institute hosted an event on September 9 to mark the end of their ESRC-funded project “The sectoral economic impacts of COVID-19 on the tourism economy: a regional analysis focussed on Scotland”.
The event – organised at the Technology and Innovation Centre – and titled “COVID and beyond for tourism industry in Scotland: the economic and policy perspectives”, began with presentations from Aditya Maurya from the project team as well as talks about the impact of COVID on Scotland’s tourism industry from speakers from VisitScotland and the Scottish Government.
In the second session of the event, Dr Gioele Figus along with speakers from Fraser of Allander Institute and Scottish Tourism Alliance presented on challenges facing the sector now, including low pay, vacancies, the cost of living and factors influencing the resilience of the tourism industry during the COVID crisis. More details of the project are available on the project website: https://fraserofallander.org/research/economic-impacts-of-covid-on-the-tourism-economy/.
The British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Scottish Area Group’s conference was held in September at Glasgow University and was attended by a number of professional bodies and accounting firms as well as academics from Scottish Universities.
The presentations included a conference paper on employer perceptions in graduate recruitment presented by Matt Gorrie, Teaching Fellow within the department of Accounting and Finance.
The conference concentrated on links between accounting and finance teaching and the accounting and finance profession. A round table event featured presentations from academics, employers and professional bodies and focused on the value of accreditation.
The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship hosted the Scottish Entrepreneurship Research Seminar 2022 at Strathclyde Business School on September 6, in person and online, with a theme of ‘Entrepreneurial Diversity as a Force for Good’.
The day comprised presentations, discussions, and networking on inclusive entrepreneurship, which will hopefully lead to further collaborations on entrepreneurship, neurodiversity and inclusion.
The event was chaired by Professor Jillian MacBryde, Professor Katerina Nicolopoulou, Dr Lucrezia Casulli and Professor Eleanor Shaw, with guest Professor Nigel Lockett, former head of the Hunter Centre.
Participants in this hybrid event came from the UK, Europe, Middle East and the USA.
Several Economics’ PhD students have completed their studies and have been successful in taking up positions in academia and industry recently.
Aristeidis Raftapostolos has taken up a post as a Research Associate within Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance at King’s College London. He completed his PhD thesis titled “Essays in Macroeconomic and Financial Forecasting using Big Data Econometric Methods” under the supervision of Professor Gary Koop and Professor Stuart McIntyre in August 2022.
Gennaro Rossi has taken up a post as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Economics at University of Sheffield working on a Nuffield-funded project on the change in demand for skills, led by Professor Andrew Dickerson. He completed his PhD thesis "Essays on school choice and child development" under the supervision of Dr Markus Gehrsitz and Professor Stuart McIntyre in September 2022.
Ross McKenzie took up a post as an Analyst at OFGEM in May 2022. He completed his PhD thesis "Three Essays in Migration Economics" under the supervision of Dr Marco Alfano and Professor Graeme Roy and successfully completed his viva in August 2022.
Dr Sreevas Sahasranamam has received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust for a project “Building digital ecosystems in bottom-of-the-pyramid communities”. The funding of £10,000 covers a two year period.
Sreevas also received an award at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in August for ‘top 5 best published paper 2021’ in journal of World Business. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951620300778
Recent research by Dr Hyoje (Jay) Kim (Department of Marketing) and his research team has gained media coverage by a tech and marking magazine, Contagious.
Contagious publishes the most interesting and relevant research pertaining to advertising and consumer behaviour for marketers seeking a competitive edge through creativity and innovation.
Their research shows how creative ads impair memory and likeability of other regular ads. This presents a red flag for advertisers: “Creative ads pose a threat to other ads even when they are not competing in the same category”. Read more in the Contagious article, ‘Creative ads make you forget boring ones’.
Professor Jillian MacBryde, Dr Marisa Smith and Dr Lucrezia Casulli are involved in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Alba Facilities Services which will be carried out over two years and is worth £182,000.
Zakia Jabeen, a first-year PGR student in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, presented a paper titled "Understanding regional entrepreneurial ecosystem as enabler for zero-waste social entrepreneurship in India" at the Doctoral Symposium British Academy of Management 2022, hosted by the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, on August 30.