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
The Global Followership Conference is being held at Strathclyde next year on April 25 and 26 and the final call for papers is December 31.
Registration is now open for the conference which is being co-chaired by David Scott, a PhD researcher at Strathclyde.
The two-day conference has a full programme of research presentations, workshops, lightning talks, discussions, panels and plenaries.
More information is available here: https://followershipconference.com
David took part in a recent podcast, sharing his concept of followership as informal leadership in this episode
Professor George Wright, Department of Management Science, and Dr Stathis Tapinos, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, attended the launch event of Design HOPES at the V&A Museum in Dundee on October 30.
Design HOPES - Healthy Organisations in a Place-based Ecosystem, Scotland - is one of four £4.625M Green Transition Ecosystem (GTE) investments awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
Green Transition Ecosystems (GTEs) are large-scale projects that focus on translating the best design-led research into real-world benefits. Capitalising on clusters of design excellence, GTEs will address distinct challenges posed by the climate crisis including, but not limited to, realising net zero goals. GTEs are the flagship funding strand of the £25m Future Observatory: Design the Green Transition programme, funded by the AHRC and delivered in partnership with the Design Museum.
The project aims to exploit the potential of design-led thinking, making, and acting to tackle multifaceted health delivery and net zero challenges efficiently.
Stathis and George are collaborating with colleagues from DMEM, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Heriot-Watt, and NHS to develop scenarios for the future of the NHS in Scotland.
Professor Jillian MacBryde, Head of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, was a speaker on women in manufacturing at two events. On October 31 she attended a Women in Manufacturing event at the MTC Coventry with 150 participants. The event was organised by the Women in Manufacturing Initiative – of which Jillian is a part - which is a network of industrial and academic professionals with a shared interest in encouraging diversity and inclusion in the sector. It is led by the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge and Innovate UK.
The following day Jillian headed over to the NEC, Birmingham for the Advanced Engineering Conference where she was on a panel hosted by Innovate UK and supported by Lloyds Bank and Make UK. The panel was chaired by Dr Megan Ronayne from Innovate Uk and the other panelists were: Riddhi Karambelkar from Brompton Bicycles, Emily Smith from Micro Spring & Presswork Ltd., and Jennifer Castañeda Navarrete from the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge. The panel discussed why there is a gender gap in UK Manufacturing with women only accounting for 26% of the workforce in the manufacturing sector; what the business case is for bridging the gender gap; and how gender diversity can be improved in manufacturing and the practical steps that can be done to start doing this now.
Professor Tom Baum, Department of Work, Employment and Organisation, acted as the International Panel Member in the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation of Taiwan’s (HEEACT) review of programmes at Universitas Bunda Mulia (UBM). HEEACT provides extensive international quality accreditation services to universities in South East Asia in support of the recognition of university education in the region.
Professor Norin Arshed, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, is a finalist in the “Achievement in Education” category award at the forthcoming 17th Scottish Asian and Business Awards
These awards celebrate the achievements of Scottish-Asian businesses and professionals whose continued graft and dedication has created a lasting legacy for what the Scottish Asian community are capable of as business leaders and drivers of the economy.
The Awards showcase the strength of the Asian community, the impact they have on Scotland’s culture and economy, and highlight their progression over the last year.
The ceremony takes place on December 19 at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow and will honour a range of Asian community achievements including in business, charity, food, law and finance.
The following month, Norin is an invited guest speaker on Past and future of REF at Newcastle University Business School in January 2024.
Professor Matt Hannon has been appointed as a member of Labour’s Local Power Plan Working Group. It will report to Ed Miliband in early 2024 to inform Labour’s manifesto for the General Election 2024/25 and its policies to support local and community-led power generation.
Dr Abdullah Gök, of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, has been elected as a member of the board (“Membre du Conseil d'administration”) of the European Network of Indicator Designers.
The network “aims to facilitate and promote the cooperation between institutions and individuals actively engaged in designing, constructing, producing as well as using, and interpreting Science and Technology Indicators (S&T Indicators)” and it organises the prestigious Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI) Conference series. More information: https://enid-europe.eu/
Professor Norin Arshed, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, has received a funding award from the Scottish Government (November 2023) for £92,200 for the project Enabling the forgotten women of Scotland: Potential entrepreneurs for the future. The aim of the project is to demonstrate that entrepreneurship can help overcome economic and social barriers for vulnerable women and introduce and equip them to re-integrate back into society and the economy.
Dr Aylin Ates has delivered a seminar on ‘Digital Transformation’ to small and medium enterprise (SME) leaders through the Help-to-Grow Programme. In collaboration with John Anderson, Aylin also delivered a full day workshop on ‘Competitive Market Advantage’ to SMEs as part of the Growth Advantage Programme. Both Help to Grow and GAP sessions were highly engaging, facilitated peer-to-peer learning as well as discussion latest research findings and trying out proven SME-friendly support tools.
Professor Tom Baum (WEO) gave a presentation on behalf of ReWAGE on post-pandemic hospitality work and employment to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Business Resilience. The focus was on the ReWAGE report, Work, wages and employment in the UK’s hospitality sector (2023) but the emphasis in questions was on measures that could inform policy interventions. APPGs typically comprise members of both Houses at Westminster, civil servants and invited guests with particular interest in the topic.
Dr Francis Portes Virginio of the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation has co-authored a paper entitled “Logistics of unfreedom: The labour trafficking of Venezuelan truck drivers in Brazil.” This is in a special issue on trafficking borders of Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231213196
This is part of Francis’s Leverhulme Fellowship and the paper was written in collaboration with the co-ordinator of the programme to end modern slavery in Brazil, Livia dos Santos Ferreira.
The paper offers inputs for policy design and employment protection with respect to the labour intermediation of migrant workers.
The ISBE 2023 conference in Birmingham, November 8-10, was a successful event for Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship current and former PhD students.
Yu Zhang delivered a fantastic and enthusiastic first conference presentation, and recent graduate Efe Imeren received praise for her work on women digital entrepreneurs from senior scholars. Meanwhile Beverley Best (pictured) got the best paper award in the technology entrepreneurship track (photo here https://isbe.org.uk/isbe-2023-best-paper-award-winners/ for “Fostering Female Entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Caribbean: Transformative Prospects through Digital Technologies”.