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Nobel Prize Winner Professor Al Roth Guest Lectures at the University of Birmingham

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The Department of Economics welcomed Nobel Prize winner Professor Al Roth to the University of Birmingham on 4th February 2013.
Date:
05/02/2013
Categories:
Arts and Law, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Vice Chancellor

Living close to a rubbish tip reduces house price

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Living close to an active landfill site reduces house prices by 2.6% and the cost to home owners can still be counted two decades after the facility has shut, new research shows.
Date:
04/01/2013
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Elite Doctoral Researcher Scholarships 2013 - 2014

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The University Graduate School is pleased to announce that it has ten Doctoral Elite Researcher Scholarships which will commence in the 2013-2014 academic year.
Date:
02/10/2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences, Students

Are Consumers Fully Aware of How They Are Being Researched?

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Given that social media are increasingly used to gather consumer insights and theorise consumer behaviour, the aim of this pilot research entails turning our gaze to research practice.
Date:
25/07/2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge

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Prof. Shenkar shows how savvy imitators generate huge profits. They save not only on R&D costs but also on marketing and advertising investments made by first movers.
Date:
15/06/2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching

First annual Universitas 21 Doctoral Research Consortium

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Five doctoral researchers from the Business School along with the Programme Director attended the the first annual Universitas 21 DRC in April 2012. Universitas 21 is an international network of 23 leading research-intensive universities in fifteen countries
Date:
11/06/2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences, Students

Working together to promote financial inclusion and tackle isolation

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Karen Rowlingson recently chaired the afternoon session at the 'Working Together to Promote Financial Inclusion and Tackle Isolation' event held in London.
Date:
16/05/2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Punishing the Foreigner: Implicit Discrimination in the Premier League based on Oppositional Identity

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The authors analyse referees' decisions in the 2007-08 and 2008-09 English football's Premier League seasons using an extensive in-match dataset collected by OPTA Sportsdata.
Date:
15/05/2012
Categories:
Alumni, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching
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