Queen's Management School Doctoral Colloquium 2017
Wednesday 21 June 2017, Lecture Theatre, Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast
Colloquium Theme: Impact
The colloquium will start with a talk by Dr Liz Fawcett of the Queen’s University Research Impact Team, followed by paper and poster presentations from PhD students conducting their research in the fields of Economics, Finance and Management and a session from the keynote speaker. The keynote speaker will be Dr Judy Stephenson, David Richards Junior Research Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford. Dr Stephenson researches employment, work and labour markets in England before 1800. Her interests are in finance, business and commercial organisations in England in the early modern period. Before she became an academic, Judy had career in advertising, marketing and consulting.
9:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00 (Chair: Ashleigh Neill, PhD Finance student, QMS)
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30 (Chair: Jiadong Liu, PhD Finance student, QMS)
12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 15:00 (Chair: Grace Carson, PhD Management student, QMS)
15:00-15:30
15:30 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00
For further information, please contact Grace Carson (gcarson07@qub.ac.uk), Muhammad Irfan (mirfan02@qub.ac.uk) or Tripti Sharma (tsharma01@qub.ac.uk).
Colloquium Theme: Impact
The colloquium will start with a talk by Dr Liz Fawcett of the Queen’s University Research Impact Team, followed by paper and poster presentations from PhD students conducting their research in the fields of Economics, Finance and Management and a session from the keynote speaker. The keynote speaker will be Dr Judy Stephenson, David Richards Junior Research Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford. Dr Stephenson researches employment, work and labour markets in England before 1800. Her interests are in finance, business and commercial organisations in England in the early modern period. Before she became an academic, Judy had career in advertising, marketing and consulting.
9:30 – 10:00
- Introduction: Dr Liz Fawcett (Queen’s University Belfast, Research Impact Team), ‘Importance of Research Impact’
10:00 – 11:00 (Chair: Ashleigh Neill, PhD Finance student, QMS)
- Marco Molteni (DPhil Economic and Social History student, Wolfson College, University of Oxford), ‘Bank failures: what failure? Banking distress and resolution policies in Fascist Italy: 1927-1934’; Discussant: Nikita Lychakov (PhD Finance student, QMS)
- David Jordan (PhD Economics student, QMS), ‘A place apart? Industrial policy in Northern Ireland’; Discussant: Stephen Billington (PhD Economics student, QMS)
11:00 – 11:30
- Coffee Break and Poster Session (First Year PhD students, QMS)
11:30 – 12:30 (Chair: Jiadong Liu, PhD Finance student, QMS)
- Aniketh Pittea (PhD Actuarial Science student, University of Kent), ‘Impact of Changing Population Demographics on Pension Plans’; Discussant: Tripti Sharma (PhD Finance student, QMS)
- Raymond Henderson (PhD Finance student, QMS), ‘Molecular Biomarkers and Precision Medicine in Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review of Health Economic Analyses’; Discussant Anne Devlin (PhD Economics student, QMS)
12:30 – 13:30
- Lunch Break and Poster Session (First Year PhD students, QMS)
13:30 – 15:00 (Chair: Grace Carson, PhD Management student, QMS)
- Lisa Messina (PhD Management student, QMS), ‘Entrepreneurial Proactiveness as a Catalyst for International Development: An Analysis of University Spin-Out Companies in Italy’; Discussant: Ruth Reaney (PhD Management student, QMS)
- Meghan Van Portfliet (PhD Management student, QMS), ‘Is there Any Recognition in Blowing the Whistle?’; Discussant: Muhammad Irfan (PhD Management student, QMS)
- Ruth Reaney (PhD Management student, QMS), ‘Reinforced Fragmentation or Coherent Cooperation? A Study of Local Union Strategy in the Wake of the 2008 Representativeness Reform’; Discussant: Lisa Messina (PhD Management student, QMS)
15:00-15:30
- Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30
- A Talk by the Keynote Speaker Dr Judy Stephenson (Wadham College, University of Oxford), ‘Wages and Prices: Monopsony and Bargaining in the Early Modern World’
16:30 – 17:00
- Closing Remarks
For further information, please contact Grace Carson (gcarson07@qub.ac.uk), Muhammad Irfan (mirfan02@qub.ac.uk) or Tripti Sharma (tsharma01@qub.ac.uk).