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Working together to promote financial inclusion and tackle isolation

Description
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

Description
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

Li Siguang (李四光) PhD Scholarship

Description
Six scholarships a year will be awarded, on a competitive basis, for three years of PhD study at the University of Birmingham to include tuition fees and living costs.
Date:
29/03/2012
Categories:
International, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching

University launches first academic centre for Women's Enterprise and Leadership (CWEL)

Description
The University of Birmingham's Business School and the Women's Business Development Agency have formed a partnership to create the UK's first academic centre devoted to women's enterprise and leadership.
Date:
20/02/2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching

Global Banking and Finance MBA Speakers Series

Description
The MBA Global Banking and Finance Speakers Series, an integral part of the programme, has been designed to allow global players from within the banking and finance industry to share their expertise further enhancing the MBA experience at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham.
Date:
17/02/2012
Categories:
Research, Students, Teaching

Highlighted PhD profile - Doga Istanbulluoglu

Description
Helping to understand how we behave online: In recent years, online Social Networking Sites have proved to be remarkably popular.
Date:
14/02/2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences, Students

Revealing Hidden Sales Trends and Management Practice from Supermarket Loyalty Card Technologies

Description
Dr Mark Palmer is leading a new research project which aims to investigate the role of loyalty card programme workshop insights in the practice of market strategising. Over the next two years the project, in conjunction with Dr Geoff Simmons from the University of Ulster and Professor Andrew Fearne from the University of Kent, will seek to understand how database insights – Tesco's loyalty Clubcard data – informs and ascribes meaning to the market strategies of producers and suppliers across the UK.
Date:
03/02/2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Irish Eyes are Wandering

Description
International Business Times spoke to Professor Cillian Ryan, an expert on Ireland to discuss the present crisis and how it differs from previous periods of economic hardship on the Emerald Isle.
Date:
18/01/2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences, Students
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