Salman Salah Bader Ali Naqi, who began his PhD study in the Department of Economics in January 2023 has been awarded the 2022 Kuwaiti Economic Student Award for his research titled “Digitalizing the Trade Finance Industry in Kuwait: A Transaction Cost Perspective of Block chain-based Letters of Credit”.
The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) held a ceremony to honour the top three winners of the Kuwaiti Economic Student Award on November 9. The CBK Governor and Chairman of the Institute of Banking Studies (IBS), Basel Ahmed Al-Haroon, attended alongside a number of key figures from the banking and finance sector.
The winners were presented with certificates of merit and commemorative gifts, and Salman’s paper – as the first-prize winning research paper - will be printed, published and distributed “to serve as a reference for those wishing to benefit from sound research”.
The Kuwaiti Economic Student Award is part of the Kafa’a Initiative, set up to encourage scientific research in the economic and banking fields through motivating young people to enhance their research competence in the banking and finance areas.
Strathclyde Business School academics are working in collaboration with the MacEachen Institute at Dalhousie University, Canada, to conduct comparative research into the barriers and enablers of tourism for people living with disabilities in Nova Scotia and Scotland.
Funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant, the Strathclyde researchers involved are Nilou Arabi, Dr Abby Colson, Professor John Quigley and Professor Tom Baum.
As part of this project, the investigators recently held the first of two sets of scenario planning workshops involving participants from Nova Scotia with the second set planned for Glasgow in summer 2024.
The workshop brought together 25 stakeholders from the tourism industry, disability advocacy organisations, and government; many with lived experience. Participants reflected a wide array of views and experiences and policy responses for several imagined futures were developed.
For further information please see https://www.dal.ca/dept/maceachen-institute/research/AccessibleTourism.html