Aberdeen
“Enquiry into Health and Safety at Work: an EU perspective” approx €1,000,000, 19 partners directed by Prof Ioannis Theodossiou, University of Aberdeen.
Hans K. Hvide from the University of Aberdeen has been awarded appromiately £80 000 for the project "Entrepreneurial Performance" from the ESRC.
Dundee
Catia Montagna, based at the University of Dundee, received two knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) grants (with Carlo Morelli and Sushil Mohan) for an approximate value of 125K and 127K respectively. Both grants are on export market penetration.
Carlo Morelli and Jim Tomlinson (University of Dundee) have been awarded £128,910 from the Leverhulme Trust for a project on the decline of the jute industry in Dundee.
Edinburgh
John Moore, SIRE Director and Director of the Behaviour, Incentives and Contracts Programme, has recently been elected to the Presidency of The Econometric Society. He is currently a Vice President of the organisation and will become President in 2010. As President, he will make the keynote address to the World Congress of the Society in Shanghai in November 2010. The Congress represents one of the world’s largest international gatherings of economists.
Jonathan Thomas, along with co-investigators Andy Snell and Ric Holt (University of Edinburgh) have been awarded an ESRC grant of £342,976 for a 3 year research project on “Cohort effects within firms, and their implications for labour market outcomes and the business cycle”.
Maia Güell has been elected Executive Committee Member of the European Association of Labour Economists for 3 years starting this September.
Napier
The Employment Research Institute at Napier University has received £38,000 from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to research "How Can Disadvantaged Parents Escape From Recurrent Poverty".
An evaluation report of the £50 million Working for Families Fund (2004-2008) has recently been published by the Scottish Government.
It was carried out by Professor Ronald McQuaid and colleagues at the Employment Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University.
The Working for Families Fund invested in initiatives to improve the employability of disadvantaged parents facing barriers, particularly childcare barriers, to participating in the labour market. It assisted over 25,000 disadvantaged parents and covered 20 local authority areas covering 79% of Scotland's population of whole; over 15,000 moved into employment of various sorts, or into substantial training and education.
Stirling
The Environmental Economics group at Stirling University, led by Nick Hanley, have recently won a major grant worth €3.7 million from the European Commission 7th Framework Programme. Working with collaborators in eight European and African countries (including the Macaulay Research Institute in Scotland, and Imperial College London), “HUNTing for Sustainability” will assess the social, cultural, economic and ecological functions and impacts of hunting across a range of contexts in Europe and Africa.
Sascha Becker received a grant together with colleagues at the University of Padova Title: The Long-Run Effect of Imbalanced Sex Ratios Amount: 56,000 EUR
Strathclyde
ESRC have decided to fund Strathclyde's Peter McGregor's application on "The Overall Impact of HEIs on Regional Economies" joint with Richard Harris (Glasgow), Kim Swales and Robert Wright. The main grant is worth £599,500. Peter has also been appointed as joint co-ordinator of the overall HEI project with Ursula Kelly (Information Resources Directorate, Strathclyde). This is worth a further £131,000.
Peter McGregor, Grant Allan, Kim Swales and Karen Turner have received a further research grant for "Cross-technology innovation dynamics and scenarios" from the EPSRC Supergen 2 Hydrogen Consortium. Strathclyde's share will be around £150k.
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