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Meet us in India in May and June

Dona Breese Padan, International Marketing and Recruitment Officer for the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law, will be visiting India between 23^rd of May and 4^th of June to meet students interested in studying Business, Law and Social Sciences degrees at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 03/05/2012

Meet us in Jordan this month

Dona Breese Padan, International Marketing and Recruitment Officer for the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law, will be visiting Jordan on the 9^th and 10^th of May to meet students interested in studying Business, Law and Social Sciences degrees at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 01/05/2012

4th International IFABS Conference on Rethinking Banking and Finance: Money, Markets and Models

Bangor Business School’s Professor Shahid Ebrahim and Dr Thanos Verousis are organising special sessions at the 4th International IFABS (International Finance and Banking Society) Conference on Rethinking Banking and Finance, which takes place in Valencia in June.

Publication Date: 30/04/2012

A public lecture not to be missed: “Research for Business and the Business of Research”

George Buckley, Deutsche Bank's Chief UK Economist and a Bangor graduate, is usually to be found giving interviews to radio, television and the national press. A Bangor Business School graduate himself, George now brings his personal experience and thoughts on the role of research for business, the value of university education and employability, to the George Building at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 26/04/2012

PhD studentships for October 2012

Bangor Business School is inviting applications for Research Bursaries starting in October 2012. This provides three years of support for full-time PhD study.

Publication Date: 12/04/2012

Two PhD studentship awards available in the area of Banking and Finance

Bangor Business School is inviting applications for two PhD studentship awards, worth approximately £16,000, in the area of Banking and Finance.

Bangor, Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Swansea Universities are partners in the new all-Wales Doctoral Training Centre (DTC), led by Cardiff University. The aim of this Centre is to train ESRC-funded PhD students across Wales on a range of issues affecting society today.

Publication Date: 03/04/2012

Where did the idea of a cashless society come from?

The concept of a "cashless society" is now getting increased attention as countries such as Sweden try to move away from bills and coins whereas in the UK there has been a failed attempt by banks to do without paper cheques. In a Bangor Business School Working Paper, Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo of the Business School, along with Thomas Haigh of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; The Haigh Group and David Stearns, of Seattle Pacific University document that the ‘cashless’ idea actually originated first in the world of business and only later moved into the realm of fiction.

Publication Date: 02/04/2012

What you see is what you get? Bangor academics to research impression management by business organisations

‘Impression management’, or how organisations control the way how they are perceived by the public, will be the focus of cutting-edge research undertaken by a new centre at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 27/03/2012

Leading German business newspapers cover research by Bangor academic

The article “Does it pay to have friends? Social ties and executive appointments in banking”, jointly authored by Dr Klaus Schaeck from Bangor Business School with his colleagues Allen Berger (University of South Carolina), Thomas Kick (Deutsche Bundesbank), and Michael Koetter (University of Groningen), has received widespread media coverage by two leading business newspapers in Germany, Handelsblatt and Wirtschaftswoche.

Publication Date: 26/03/2012

London Study Visit

23 second year undergraduate students studying various courses at Bangor Business School recently went to London for 3-days as part of the ‘London Study Visit’ module.

Publication Date: 23/03/2012

Elevate Cymru launched

More than 60 businesses attended the highly successful launch of the innovative project Elevate Cymru held at Bangor University recently. (Thursday March 1^st).

Publication Date: 16/03/2012

University staff to tackle Mount Kilimanjaro for charity

Two Bangor University employees are preparing for the trip of a lifetime in memory of a local boy killed in a road accident.

Emma Wynne-Hughes of Bangor Business School and Hazel Frost from the School of Psychology will climb Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Hope House and the Darren Rhys Memorial Fund.

Publication Date: 06/03/2012

Students become marketers for national competition

Last week, students Ffion Haf Jones, Megan Jones and Aysha Khalid represented Bangor Business School in 'Brolio/The Pitch', a student competition sponsored by the Welsh Government and the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).

Publication Date: 02/03/2012

Meet us in Canada this March

Dona Breese Padan, International Marketing and Recruitment Officer for the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law, will be visiting Canada between 1^st and 7^th of March to meet students interested in studying Business, Law and Social Sciences degrees at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 21/02/2012

Bangor sees in the Chinese New Year in style

Hundreds of Chinese students have joined Bangor Business School for a spectacular celebration of the Chinese New Year.

Organised in conjunction with the Chinese Student Society, the event saw students and their families come together to celebrate the most important date in the Chinese calendar, which this year marks the Year of the Golden Dragon.

Publication Date: 08/02/2012

Meet us this February in India

Dona Breese Padan, International Marketing and Recruitment Officer for the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law, will be visiting India between 12^th and 22^nd of February to meet students interested in studying Business, Law and Social Sciences degrees at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 08/02/2012

Bangor Academic wins award to research the current account market

The real cost of ‘free’ current account banking services will come under greater scrutiny in a new research study by Bangor Business School. Dr John Ashton, a senior lecturer in banking, has been awarded a £25,000 grant from the Friends Provident Charitable Foundation to determine what are the costs of ‘free’ current account use, particularly for customers viewed as more vulnerable or poorly-informed about financial services. The project is to be undertaken with collaboration from North Wales Credit Union.

Publication Date: 04/02/2012

From Bangor to Brussels: Law and Business students unite on Europe trip

Students from Bangor Business School and Bangor Law School have united for an eye-opening study trip to the institutions of the European Union and the Council of Europe, sponsored by Jill Evans MEP.

Publication Date: 24/01/2012

Two teams to represent Bangor at IBM Universities Business Challenge semi-finals

Two teams of Bangor Business School students have made it through to the semi-finals of the 2012 IBM Universities Business Challenge.

The IBM Universities Business Challenge is a prestigious and highly competitive contest in which undergraduates from universities throughout the UK participate in a series of realistic, simulated business scenarios.

Publication Date: 21/01/2012

Bangor academic co-authors article selected as one of the best corporate finance papers

The article “Who disciplines bank managers?”, co-authored by Dr Klaus Schaeck from Bangor Business School, is the lead article in a virtual issue of the best corporate governance papers published in the Review of Finance, one of the top five finance journals.

Publication Date: 14/01/2012

Professional Sports Management module as popular as ever

Each year, second-year students selecting the Professional Sports Management module participate in a two-day study visit to Norwich City FC which enables them to see how the theory they are introduced to in lectures can be applied to organisations in a real-world setting.

Publication Date: 11/01/2012

Bangor Lecturer wins Economist Paper award

A Bangor Business School lecturer has won an award for a paper presented at a major banking and finance conference in Italy.

Publication Date: 10/01/2012

Potential solution to financial services mis-selling raised by Bangor Academic

In a week where we have observed yet another financial services mis-selling case are there any solutions to this perennial problem of financial regulation? While the recent movement to remove commission in the sales of retail investments may assist this problem, an article published this month by a Bangor academic suggests more fundamental change to how we regulate the development of financial services products is required.

Publication Date: 05/01/2012

Bangor Professor leads speakers at international conference

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Professor of Business History and Bank Management at Bangor Business School, delivered the key note address at the first international conference organised by the Tolani Institute of Management Studies (TIMS) in Gandhidham, Gujarat (India). The town bears the name of India's founding father because the announcement of the decision to house the Sindhi community (a group of people relocated after partition) in that area was Gandhi's last act on the day he was killed. The Institute itself is part of an educational group that educates over 8,000 students thanks to the effort, financial support and vision of K. B. Tolani (1893-1988).

Publication Date: 16/12/2011

Lectures come to life on Cardiff study trip

Second-year students from Bangor Business School have undertaken a study trip to Cardiff for a unique insight into devolved governments and the impact of ‘change’.

Publication Date: 14/12/2011

Credit Ratings Research at Bangor Business School

On 5^th December 2011, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) attracted news headlines by placing the credit ratings of 15 eurozone nations under review (‘watch’) for downgrade. Using a 15-year dataset, researchers at Bangor Business School identified that S&P has tended to act earlier than other agencies in placing sovereign government ratings under review for downgrade.

Publication Date: 09/12/2011

Bangor Academic’s Research Quoted in Position Limits Article

A working paper by a Bangor Business School academic has been quoted in a Computerworld article on position limits.

Research undertaken by Professor Shahid Ebrahim, Professor of Islamic Banking and Finance at Bangor Business School, was quoted in an article reporting on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s recent 3-2 decision to impose a position limits regime in the commodity futures and swaps markets.

Publication Date: 01/12/2011

Bangor Business Lecturer goes Down Under

A Bangor Business School lecturer recently completed a stint as Visiting Chair at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Professor Lynn Hodgkinson, Professor of Accounting and Finance at Bangor Business School and its new teaching centre in London, worked alongside Sydney’s Professor Graham Partington on a paper examining the impact of a change in dividend taxation of New Zealand Managed Funds.

Publication Date: 01/12/2011

Local Business Owners take their business to the next level

Twenty four business owners on the second LEAD Wales Programme graduated on 14th November at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 19/11/2011

Bangor Business Lecturer secures funding to promote Welsh-medium education

Dr Sara Parry, Lecturer in Marketing at Bangor Business School, has been awarded funding to develop to develop a digital film promoting the benefits of Welsh-medium study.

Publication Date: 12/11/2011

Bangor Business School enters new partnership with Guru Nanak

Bangor University has signed an articulation agreement with Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Information Technology in India which will see Guru Nanak students being able to transfer their studies to Bangor Business School, one of the top Business Schools in Europe.

Publication Date: 26/10/2011

Bangor University a world-ranked University

Bangor University has risen substantially in Times Higher Education World University rankings 2011-12, and is now placed among the world’s top 275 universities, alongside universities such as Bath and Queen’s.

Publication Date: 19/10/2011

Vice-Chancellor to host launch of Bangor Business School ‘Green Economy’ project

Monday, 17th October 2011 sees the launch of Bangor Business School’s GIFT (Green Innovation Future Technologies) project, an instrument to establish a cross border forum to help grow a sustainable “green economy” in the INTERREG regions of Wales and Ireland.

GIFT is a partnership between Bangor University, the Waterford Institute of Technology and University College Dublin. The project was established in response to the Operational Programme call for “more and better jobs”…”through greater linkages between the region’s higher education institutions and industry”. It aims to bring together and up skill Welsh and Irish businesses / social enterprises and the public sector. The project is funded by the Economic Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the INTERREG IVA programme.

Publication Date: 13/10/2011

North Wales SMEs boost their management and leadership skills thanks to Bangor Business School-based programme

Twenty three business owners are the first delegates to graduate with flying colours in the first LEAD Wales programme at Bangor University.  The first graduation of SME’s on the LEAD Wales Programme took place at Bangor University on Friday 15^th July 2011.  The aim of the programme is to give owner-managers the resources and support they need to fully harness the skills and energy of their staff, recognise and exploit opportunities for greater efficiency, and provide a sound platform for growth.

Publication Date: 19/08/2011

Bangor Business School Graduation 2011

Over 300 Bangor Business School students celebrated their graduation in glorious sunshine on Saturday, 9th of July 2011.

Publication Date: 16/08/2011

Read the latest edition of the Bangor Business School Newsletter

Click here to catch up on all the latest news and developments in the Bangor Business School newsletter, 'Bangor Means Business'.

Publication Date: 15/08/2011

Local Graduate wins top Student prize

A local student’s hard work has paid off as he is awarded the Dr John Robert Jones Prize worth £1,125.

Publication Date: 19/07/2011

Trading bells ring across the region as schools take part in a unique skills challenge

Students from across North Wales got the opportunity to experience the excitement and the adrenalin of dealing on a live trading floor thanks to a Bangor University initiative called Stock Market Challenge.

Publication Date: 07/07/2011

Bangor London Centre Announces MSc Degrees

Bangor Business School has announced a trio of new Masters courses to be offered at its London base from September.

Publication Date: 27/06/2011

Marketing Students Get the Message Across in Waste Campaign

An end of term campaign to reduce waste problems in Bangor has been carried out by Bangor University, Bangor Students’ Union, Gwynedd Council and North Wales Police.

The tongue-in-cheek awareness raising campaign was developed and led by the University’s Marketing Society with Marketing students Emma-Louise Jones, Ffion Haf Jones and Yueun Chung leading the team. The campaign aimed to highlight the contrast between the stereotype of the messy student and the current geek chic fashion championed by television shows aimed at young people.

Publication Date: 16/06/2011

Bangor to Host Major Financial Sector Conference

Financial experts from across the world will attend a major conference at Bangor Business School next week.

Publication Date: 14/06/2011

Come and Visit Bangor Business School’s London Centre

The Bangor Business School London Centre has announced the dates of its first ever Open Days.

Publication Date: 09/06/2011

Unique PhD Sponsorship for Bangor Business School Student

Anahita Baregheh is one of 5 Bangor Business School students to be awarded a PhD this year, but hers is a PhD with an ‘innovative’ twist.

In a unique partnership with Bangor Business School, Anahita’s studies were sponsored by BIC Innovation, a Bangor-based business consultancy for whom she worked on a part-time basis during her third and final year of study.

Publication Date: 03/06/2011

Bangor Business School Appoints New Head

Professor John Thornton, Professor of Global Finance, has been appointed as the new Head of Bangor Business School.

Publication Date: 02/06/2011

Bangor Business School Students Visit China

16 Bangor Business School students recently took part in the School’s first ever student visit to China.

Publication Date: 06/05/2011

Bangor Business School PhD Scholarships

Bangor Business School is inviting applications for Research Bursaries starting in October 2011, each providing a total annual allowance of £13,000. This provides three years of support for full-time PhD study.

Publication Date: 19/04/2011

One in Se7en Awards scheme for young entrepreneurs launched at Bangor Business School

Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones and Bangor Business School marked World Entrepreneurs Day by launching One in Se7en, a new awards scheme for young entrepreneurs in participating schools and colleges in north Wales.

Publication Date: 19/04/2011

New Module in Corporate Social Responsibility a Success

Final year students returned recently from a successful two day study visit to Burnley Football Club as part of Bangor Business School’s new module in Corporate Social Responsibility led by Neil Doncaster, Chief Executive of the Scottish Premier League and Professor John Goddard, Deputy Head of Bangor Business School.

Publication Date: 14/04/2011

Chief UK Economist visits Bangor Business School

A former Bangor Business School student, who is now Chief UK Economist of Deutsche Bank in London, one of the world's leading financial service providers, recently returned to Bangor to deliver a talk to our current students.

Publication Date: 13/04/2011

Stand out from the crowd

As more and more people graduate every year with bachelor degrees, have you ever thought what would make you stand out from a crowd, or what would make your job application stand out from a bundle of application forms?

Publication Date: 12/04/2011

Investors not impressed by impression management, according to Bangor Business School research

The practice of awarding hefty bonuses to employees within the Banking industry at a time of global Banking crisis has caused widespread controversy. Bank employees had grown accustomed to receiving substantial annual cash bonuses, and such bonuses in a period of recession became highly unpopular amongst the public in general. Banks have been seeking alternative methods of rewarding employees, including the award of ‘share option compensation’.

Publication Date: 11/04/2011

Bangor Business School to take its expertise to the City of London

Bangor University is set to be the only Welsh higher education institution to take its teaching into London as the University’s Bangor Business School, currently ranked as the leading institution in the UK for Accounting and Finance research, launches a new teaching base in the City.

Publication Date: 15/02/2011

BBC’s The One Show revisits Beatles’ Bangor visit

Remember to watch The One Show on BBC 1 at 7.00 on Tuesday 23 November to find out about when The Beatles came to Bangor.

Publication Date: 23/11/2010

BBS PhD anniversary Bursary

Bangor Business School is offering a PhD Anniversary Bursary for an immediate start. Areas of research that the school is particularly interested in encouraging applications to include, but are not limited to:

Publication Date: 03/10/2010

Schools in North Wales beat the Stock Market

Students at Prestatyn High School took on 23 other young fund management teams from regional schools in Stock Market Challenge and came out on top.

Publication Date: 01/10/2010