The Open University has appointed Professor Jane Frecknall-Hughes as Head of its Law School.
An expert in taxation, Professor Frecknall-Hughes has worked as a chartered tax consultant and chartered accountant. Her academic work has been instrumental in taking tax research forward into a number of different areas from an interdisciplinary perspective, such as legal history, ethics, strategic management, international business, finance and the history and development of the tax and legal professions. Until May 2009 she was President of The Tax Research Network (TRN) and she has written articles on taxation for numerous publishers and journals.
She has taught and examined undergraduates at all levels across a wide...
Dr Kirstie Ball, Reader in Surveillance and Organisation will be delivering a public lecture entitled ‘Security and Surveillance: has it gone too far?’ on the 13th March 2012, 6.30pm at the British Library.
The lecture is part of the ‘Myths and Realities’ series of events sponsored by the British Library, the Academy of Social Sciences and the ESRC. The event will also feature a lecture by Dr Pete Fussey of the University of Essex and will be chaired by Professor Bridget Hutter of the LSE.
Tickets are £5 and can be bought on the British Library website: www.bl.uk/whatson
After this week’s ‘The Bottom Line’ on Radio 4, the founder of 99pShopper.com, Suleman Sacranie, shares his experience and gives tips to fellow entrepreneurs who want to start a business on the net. Fiona Ellis-Chadwick, a senior lecturer in retail management at The Open University Business School interviews.
Find out more and watch the video by following the link below.
Privacy and security have always had a controversial relationship. On one hand security requires the collection of information about citizens, but on the other, it can be seen as infringement of their privacy. Dr Kirstie Ball, Reader in Surveillance and Organisation at The Open University, has received funding totalling £450k to investigate whether people view surveillance and the collection of information as acceptable in return for enhanced security - commonly positioned as a trade-off.
Kirstie said: “Surveillance has many positive uses, including law enforcement and investigating criminal activity, but it can also affect human...
The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. The programme is a co-production between The Open University and the BBC.
Prompted by a comment from a guest in last week's programme that Facebook could never have been created in the UK, Evan and his panel swap thoughts on why the US does so well when it comes to startups when compared to Europe. They also discuss whether a big ego helps you get on in business, or gets in the way.
Joining Evan in the studio are Anita Frew, chairman of plastics company Victrex; entrepreneur and...
The Open University has appointed Professor Rebecca Taylor as Dean of its Business School and Law School.
Professor Taylor was previously Associate Dean at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University and has extensive experience within the business education sector. She has a PhD in Economics and has directed several HEFCE-funded projects related to the development and dissemination of online teaching and learning resources for Economics and the wider Social Sciences.
Professor Taylor is also an Associate Director of the Economics Network at the University of Bristol and has worked with the Economic and Social Research Council and the Higher Education Academy on addressing the identified skills deficit...
The impact of the recent recession on the sales performance of small and medium-sized companies was more sudden and severe than that experienced in the early 1990s, but the drop in employment levels has been less dramatic, according to the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain, produced by The Open University Business School (www.open.ac.uk/quarterly-survey) with support from ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
The report for the fourth quarter shows a much bigger dip in SMEs’ sales performance in the recent recession, compared to that of the early 1990s. Despite this, the current economic downturn...
The Open University Business School recently hosted its free Breakfast Briefing for business people local to the Milton Keynes campus.
The briefing, on Thursday 12 January, was the second in a series of events supporting companies in the region. Over breakfast, Professor Brian Smith, Visiting Research Fellow at the Open University Business School, spoke about what prevents firms from implementing their strategic decisions effectively; he suggested steps that can be taken to improve the process. The session included a self-diagnostic exercise so that attendees left with a clear picture of how they might improve their own organisations.
For more information about our Business Network and series of...
The Open University Business School has appointed Evan Davis as a Visiting Professor of the Public Understanding of Business to support the research, scholarship and enterprise strategy.
Evan gave his first public lecture on 1st November at the OU’s Milton Keynes campus.
The lecture entitled 'Reflections on the British Economy', was hosted in association with the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science. It explored the challenge faced by the...
Helen Roby, Research Associate in Social Marketing at The Open University Business School is to give a presentation on the role of sustainable personal travel policies and practices as a corporate responsibility and human resources issues.
Sustainable travel policies can be much more than structural enhancements to the site. In order for them to succeed they need to support and deliver behaviour change and engage the community. These changes in behaviour can impact how a site is used by changing how people travel to work, or by developing working practices that encourage people to work more flexibly, from home or meet through virtual means. These can then have far reaching impacts on how people are managed and...
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