14 May 2015
Knowledge Exchange & Impact Grant
Dr Charlotte Gilmore is the latest recipient of the College KE & Impact Grant for her project ‘An impact & capacity building study of audience development within contemporary arts in Scotland.
Creative Scotland as the national development agency for the arts, and the primary investor in the subsidized arts sector needs to understand as precisely as possible the value of the art forms that it funds. Creative Scotland funds one hundred arts organisations within Scotland. This funding does not allow for research, in relation to measuring and evaluating the impact of this funding in relation to the profile of audiences, the perception of audiences and the attraction of new audiences to the funded artistic performances. This impact study seeks to fill the need for this research, with the aim of assessing the impact of contemporary arts in Scotland. This study will take Red Note contemporary classical music ensemble, as a case study, as an archetypal Creative Scotland fundee. Such a case study will provide invaluable learning and knowledge for Creative Scotland policy making and the broader contemporary arts community in Scotland and beyond. In addition the knowledge exchange would provide practitioner learnings and insights in particular for students in Charlotte's new Creativity: theory and practice course at the University of Edinburgh, in addition to academic and practitioner orientated national workshops and 3 and 4 star journal outputs.
Best Paper Prize
Dr Francisco Ascui was recently awarded the Reg Mathews Memorial Prize by St Andrews University.
The Prize was awarded for Francisco's article 'A Review of Carbon Accounting in the Social and Environmental Accounting Literature: What Can it Contribute to the Debate?' published in Social and Environmental Accountability Journal (SEAJ).
The Reg Mathews Memorial Prize is an annual award for the paper considered to have made the most significant contribution towards the social and environmental accounting literature published inSocial and Environmental Accountability Journal (SEAJ). The paper is selected by the editorial board of SEAJ and is named in memory of Professor Reg Mathews, a leading figure in the development of social and environmental accounting. The award was established in 2013, and first awarded in 2013 for papers published in 2012.
Francisco says this was an unexpected honour: well done Francisco!
Emeritus Professor News
Lifetime Achievement Award
The British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) awarded Irvine Lapsley (Professor of Accounting Emeritus at UEBS) a Lifetime Achievement Award at its 2015 annual conference. The Lifetime Achievement Award is for highly distinguished service to the accounting and finance academy. These awards are made to individuals who have made a substantial and direct contribution through research, teaching and/or public service to UK academic accounting and finance over the course of their careers. A fantastic achievement!
PhD success
Business School PhD students were really well represented at the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science ESRC Business and Management Pathway PhD Colloquium in Aberdeen in early April 2015. Our PhD students took home all the prizes the poster presentations at the recent event. Kristina Auxtova was awarded 1st place overall. The award winning poster presentation students are:
1st place – Kristina Auxtova
2nd place - Melike Senturk
3rd place – Ilay Ozturk