PhD Conference
1st Annual PhD Conference
27-28 October 2020, via Microsoft Teams.
We are happy to invite you to our 1st Annual PhD Conference. SMS PhD students will be presenting their current work and research ideas to faculty and peers, and would like to see you at this event and have your constructive feedback on their work. There will be plenty of time for questions and feedback during the presentations. We are also pleased to announce the keynote speech by Prof Bernard Burnes. We hope that you can join us at this event.
Dr Seda Erdem, PGR Director
Keynote by Prof Bernard Burnes:
"Scholarship in the 21st Century: What it Means For You and Your Career"
Bernard Burnes is Professor of Organisational Change at the Stirling Management School. He is one of the leading international authorities on organisational change. He originally trained as an engineer and holds a BA (Hons) in Economic and Social History and a PhD in Organisational Psychology. Bernard has published widely in academic and professional journals. He is the author of over 50 journal articles, over 20 books and around 40 book chapters. He is the author of Managing Change (5th edition), the best-selling European textbook in the field, Editor of the Routledge book series Understanding Organizational Change, Joint Editor of the Routledge Companion to Organizational Change, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Change Management. His published output receives over 400 citations per year and many of his articles appear on journals’ ‘most read’ lists.
The Programme
Programme - Tuesday 27th October 2020
| Time | Name |
Year (1/2/3) | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 to 10.20 | Fanni Tamasi | 1 | The effects of new technologies on skill requirements in Scotland |
| 10:20 to 10:40 | Duncan Mphande | 1 | An exploration into the profitability and prevalence of price manipulation by market intermediaries in a less developed country |
| 10:40 to 11:00 | Christoph Naborowski | 1 | The Development of Mobility-as-a-Service as Institutional Work |
| 11:00 to 11:15 | Break | ||
| 11:15 to 11:35 | Mehmet Sahiner | 2 | Modelling and Forecasting Stock Market Volatility: Evidence from Asia |
| 11:35 to 11:55 | Ilaf Alyatama | 2 | Agency Theory |
| 11:55 to 12:15 | Jianfu Xu | 2 | Whether the dividend yield contained predictive power for stock returns |
| 12:15 to 13:00 | Break | ||
| 13:00 to 13:20 | Rodolfo Sejas Portillo | 3 | Temporal patterns of energy efficiency pricing in the housing market |
| 13:20 to 13:40 | Yi Ding | 3 | Forecasting Realized Volatility using Sparse AR model |
| 13:40 to 14:00 | Phuspa Poopalasingam | 3 | How sensemaking processes influence organisational decision making |
| 14:00 to 14:30 | Break | ||
| 14:30 to 14:50 | George Mark Kiley | 1 | Employee wellbeing |
| 14:50 to 15:10 | Dean Smith | 1 | Disability Barriers for People with Dyslexia in the Workplace |
| 15:10 to 15:30 | Caitlin McKennie | 3 | Banking Deregulation and Household Consumption of Durables |
| 15:30 to 16:30 | Keynote Speaker – Prof Bernard Burnes | ||
Programme - Wednesday 28th October 2020
| Time | Name |
Year (1/2/3) | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 09:50 | Lynne Brierley | 1 | Study of employability programs in Scotland and England |
| 09:50 to 10:10 | Burak Korkusuz | 1 | Forecasting realised volatility |
| 10:10 to 10:30 | Isaac Atanga | 1 | News Sentiment Analysis and Economic activities in developing economies |
| 10:30 to 11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00 to 11:20 | Anthony Higney | 1 | Lead exposure and educational attainment in Glasgow |
| 11:20 to 11:40 | Elizabeth Malaba Ncube | 1 | Institutional Factors Influencing the Service Offerings of Mobile Network Providers |
| 11:40 to 12:00 | Xinpeng Zhang | 1 | Garch model vs machine learning methods in volatility forecasting |
| 12:00 to 12:20 | Amilia Soultani | 1 | A critical review of employment relations in the public sector |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 to 13:50 | Liangliang Li | 3 | Overseas listing and investment: the case of China |
| 13:50 to 14:10 | Robert Murphy | 3 | QALY weights for mental health: would informing population raters make a difference? |
| 14:10 to 14:30 | Muhammad Burdbar Khan | 3 | Ethics, Stakeholders and Management of Human Resources in Microfinance Banking industry in Pakistan |
| 14:30 to 14:45 | Close the Event - Dr Seda Erdem | ||