Research Degree News

Annual Research Conference

The fourth Annual Research Conference was held on 17th and 18th May. PhD students, DBA delegates and staff presented their research projects, and there were plenty of opportunities for networking and knowledge exchange. The keynote speaker, Angus Macpherson (The Environment Exchange), gave an interesting presentation on sustainability and Edinburgh Beltane (www.edinburghbeltane.net) delivered a practical workshop on public engagement. Thanks to all participants for their work in producing high quality presentations and posters for the conference. 

Congratulations to the winners of HSBC Prizes for Research Excellence:

DBA First Year Posters:
Ron Livingstone – School of Management
Bernhard Bachmann - School of Management

DBA Final Year Presentations:
Matthew Carpenter – School of Management
Mark Fowlestone – School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages

PhD First Year Presentations:
Lars Achterberg - School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages
Emmanuel Asiedu - School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages
Anthea Luk - School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages
Jennifer Rice - School of Management

PhD Second Year Posters:
Jian Yang – School of Accounting, Financial Services and Law
Johannes Meuhl – Employment Research Institute
Nathalia Tjandra - School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages
Sarah Snell - School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages

PhD Final/Interim Year Presentations:
Zhenkun Wang - School of Accounting, Financial Services and Law
Michael Fascia - School of Management
Anke Valentin - School of Accounting, Financial Services and Law

External prize winner
Congratulations to Jennifer Rice (Graduate Teaching Assistant Studentship, School of Management) who was awarded the prize for best paper at the Annual Scottish Doctoral Management Conference, held at University of St Andrews on 26th-27th May.

Research Degree Graduates in June 2011
Congratulations! We wish you all well in your future endeavours.
Jane Ali-Knight (PhD by Published Works)
Tao Chen (PhD)
Bryan Mcintosh (PhD)
Allan Ramdhony (PhD)
Uwe Sachse (PhD)
Andrew Scott (PhD)
Claire Seaman (DBA)
Louise Todd (PhD)