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ESRC Impact Accelerator Account

Professors Tom Archibald and Jake Ansell are the successful recipients of an ESRC IAA. This was a highly competitive award, the aim of which is to enhance relationships with research users to increase impact and to enhance learning on how to maximise the impact of research. Tom and Jake already have a REF Impact Case Study, based on a KTP with Scottish Water which resulted in considerable potential savings in Asset Planning. They have also worked with MoD under a formal consultancy contract, which involved a feasibility study for Asset Management and work is ongoing to take this forward. The IAA will enable further developments to achieve even greater potential savings by considering all maintenance actions, repair, refurbishment and replacement, within a single model. The project is match-funded by Scottish Water and MoD and it is anticipated that the model will be rolled out to other businesses.

The KTP with Scottish Water has now also been shortlisted for Innovate UK's ( 'Best UK Partnership Award' and they will attend the awards ceremony next week - so watch this space!

We are delighted to announce that Xi Liang has recently been awarded funding from a variety of sources:

The first is joint funding from Asian Development Bank. The Bank has approved a special grant to fund Guangdong CCUS Centre. The next step for the CCUS Centre will be identifying larger grants for industry projects.

In addition, the Scottish government recently approved a grant for the Centre, mainly to fund technical experts in CO2 storage. Xi has also received funding from the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Centre's travel grant to travel to the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology. The UKCCS leads and coordinates a programme of underpinning research on all aspects of CCS in support of basic science and UK government efforts on energy and climate change and is funded by the EPSRC.

Finally, Xi has secured Scottish Council Funding for his project, Carbon Emission Modelling of Energy Systems for Retrofit Office Buildings. This was awarded as part of SFC's Hong Kong : Scotland Collaborative Research Partnership scheme. Congratulations Xi, looks like you'll be busy!

CHSS Knowledge Exchange and Impact Grant

Professors Stephen Osborne and Chris Carter recently secured funding from the CHSS Knowledge Exchange and Impact Grant. This is to fund their project 'Thinkers, Leaders and Visionaries Series', which will comprise four events over an eight month period. Each event will bring together a key leader in the arts and media sector together with the proposers to discuss the findings of their research about the key element of strategic leadership and change management in the arts and media sector. This discussion will take the form of a ‘Question Time’ event with an audience of both invited key leaders from the sector and the general public. Not only will it influence practice within the sector, it will also profile the important work of the Business School with the general public in Scotland.

Congratulations again to Dahlia El-Manstrly - she has been awarded a Marketing Science Institute scholarship to participate in the 3rd ESPC European Faculty Publication Workshop to be held in Paris in January 2015. The editors of Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Research in Marketing, Journal of consumer research, Marketing Research and Marketing science will provide hands-on advice on the research and publication process.