Congratulations and awards
Lisa Docker
Lisa Docker, Team Leader for Undergraduate Economics and Accounting & Finance programmes, has been nominated for the Disability and Learning Support Services’ inaugural Excellent Practice Awards. Students registered with the University’s Disability Support service were asked to nominate staff that they felt had been particularly helpful in helping us to ensure that they had the best possible experience while here at the University. She has been invited to have lunch with the pro-VC Jeff Bale in an awards ceremony. Lisa has consistently gone the extra mile for students with learning agreements to ensure they have a positive experience with us and we’re delighted her efforts have been recognised. Congratulations Lisa.
College’s 5th Anniversary celebrations
As part of the College’s 5th Anniversary celebrations, some of our own Business School staff have been nominated for awards and have been invited to attend the award ceremony at the Bramall at 2 p.m. on Thursday 5th December. The MSc team have been nominated for Most Inspirational Team and Libby Robotham and Andy Hammond have both been nominated for the Unsung Hero award. We wish them all the best of luck and congratulate them on their nominations.
More details of other Business School staff nominated for these awards will be published in the next edition of the newsletter.
Frances Bertram
Congratulations to Frances Bertram who was successful in her application to take on the Student Support Officer role. Fran will work with colleagues from across the School to support the School’s processes for extenuating circumstances, appeals and plagiarism. Fran is expected to take up this new role in early 2014. Well done Fran and we all wish you every success in your new role!
Hisham Farag
ICAS has agreed to fund Hisham Farag’s research proposal on which he is a co-applicant with Chris Mallin at the University of East Anglia. The research is on "Balancing the Board: Directors’ Skills and Diversity"(£11225). This project aims to examine the relationship between company board diversity and firms’ financial performance.