MBACONNECT Lord Ashcroft International Business School Magazine|issue 9
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Hello to you all and welcome to Issue 9 of MBA Connect. Since the last issue we are very excited to have launched our online Alumni Network Directory, which I hope you will all sign up to if you haven’t already done so. As MBA graduates you already know the value of networking, using contacts to open up opportunities, and the directory is a perfect way to do this. The directory will allow you to search for old classmates and send a message without having to contact us in the Alumni Office. And any changes of your contact details will come direct to us, so you need not send these through to the office. We already have almost 500 alumni signed up, but this directory will become more effective as more of you use it, so please register and make the most of it.
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Entrepreneurs can bid for £35k of funding
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Having our say at the national level
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£1 million joint ESRC bid submitted
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Student scoops £15,000 first prize in Anglia Ruskin’s Big Pitch competition
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Our University students help organise fossil fuel lecture
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Guest lecture delivered at new university in Croatia
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Dr Emanuele Giovannetti gives keynote address at high level international forum
8 Lastly, Erin Butcher – who has been responsible for the MBA Alumni Network – has now moved across to the Development side of our team. In her place we have David Abbott starting in July, so he will be your contact in future.
Anglia Ruskin is awarded Gold approval with ACCA
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New appointments for our Research Institute
It was great to meet up with many of you at the dinner, but if you weren’t there, please try and come along next year and do still keep in touch!
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Warm regards
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Last night we had a great MBA dinner in Cambridge. It was a nice change to hold the event on campus, which allowed good attendance from academics as they could come along straight after their teaching day. Trevor Bolton, the Dean of the Business School, took us all on a tour of the new facilities, which everyone found most impressive. It was just a shame the lift was not working, so we all well and truly worked off our dinner! We ended the tour in the new Harvard Lecture Theatre, where Trevor gave us an update on what’s been going on, along with what’s planned for the future. This generated plenty of questions and it was nice this year to have time for this discussion. Next month we’ll be in touch to see where, and when, you would like next year’s dinner to be held – maybe alternating between London and on campus.
Sue Jacobs Head of Development & Alumni Relations
Entrepreneurs can bid for £35k of funding Anglia Ruskin’s Enterprise Fellowship Scheme to help Cambridgeshire start-ups Cambridgeshire entrepreneurs have the opportunity to secure up to £35,000 in start-up funding courtesy of Anglia Ruskin University.
“Last year’s scheme was a great success and we saw four excellent business ideas receive funding and support. Someone could bid for the whole £35,000, but it is more likely we would look to split the money between two or three budding entrepreneurs.”
Now in its second year, the Enterprise Fellowship Scheme is run by Anglia Ruskin’s Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR) and is open to anyone in the county who has a bright business idea and is looking for financial backing.
The first phase, which closes at midnight on Saturday, 30 June, involves applicants submitting one page about their idea and another page about themselves. Successful applicants will get the chance to expand on their ideas in front of the judges, and those who proceed to Phase Three will formally pitch to the panel in the grand final.
The initiative is sponsored by a private benefactor and supported by the Lord Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin. Last year’s scheme saw start-up funding shared by a company producing photography software, a business selling advertising space on telecommunication boxes, an online service bringing together investors and installers of green energy projects, and a company specialising in nutritional supplements.
The judging panel consists of Professor Lloyd-Reason, Julie Horne (business leader, coach and consultant), Mark Layton (Chairman and owner of Incomes Data Services), Dr Geoffrey Butlin (CEO of TranscenData Europe Ltd), James Barlow (chartered accountant), Ben Mumby-Croft (Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin), Peter Taylor (Managing Director, TTP Group plc), Dr Walter Herriot OBE (Director of the CEDAR Entrepreneur in Residence network) and Roger Mumby-Croft (Professor of International Management Practice at Anglia Ruskin).
In addition to a share of the £35,000 of funding, successful applicants will also receive mentoring support, specialist training and development, legal support and advice, and access to the StartupLab, the new business incubation centre at Anglia Ruskin. Lester Lloyd-Reason, Professor of International Enterprise Strategy at Anglia Ruskin, said, “Cambridgeshire is a hotbed of entrepreneurship – and not just in the traditional technology sector. Here at Anglia Ruskin we are passionate about driving enterprise and entrepreneurship because we recognise that it’s the lifeblood of our economy, and we hope this scheme will help more local entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality.
To submit an application, or for further details, please contact: Dale Coss T: 0845 196 2344 E: dale.coss@anglia.ac.uk The scheme is open to anyone living or working in Cambridgeshire, except staff and undergraduate students at Anglia Ruskin.
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Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Having our say at the national level Dr Jonathan Smith has recently been invited to join the National Membership and Professional Development Committee at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
2) Enhance LAIBS’ reputation with students and applicants to our HR courses. 3) Give us the ability to influence policy at a National level, and provide the opportunity to feed research that is being conducted in LAIBS into the CIPD policies. Examples of this would be Dr Diane Keeble-Ramsey’s and Dr Andy Armitage’s work on High Performance Working, John Rayment and Jonathan Smith’s work on Misleadership, the spiritual dimension of leadership and organisations, and responsibility.
The purpose of the committee is: • to offer informed advice and guidance on the definition, development and maintenance of the standards and their application to membership, education, qualifications and continuing professional development.
4) It will give greater access to information and examples that can be fed into discussions and information on our CIPD and leadership courses. Jonathan, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, says, “I am delighted to be offered this position and look forward to working more closely with the CIPD. As well as the great opportunities it provides LAIBS, for me personally I think it will raise my profile in the HR field and enable me to develop my skills in strategic thinking and influencing.”
• to provide oversight on behalf of the Board of the CIPD on professional capability standards and related activities in accordance with the overall strategy of the Institute. Membership of this committee will have great benefits for LAIBS, particularly: 1) Increase LAIBS’ engagement with the CIPD, enabling LAIBS to be more informed of current developments in HR.
Dr Jonathan Smith, Senior Lecturer T: 0845 196 2069 E: jonathan.smith@anglia.ac.uk
£1 million joint ESRC bid submitted We have also engaged in discussions, and will include the following in consultation during the research process – Professional Association Research Network (PARN); Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI); UN Global Compact; the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD); All Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate Social Responsibility; and Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
LAIBS have submitted a £1 million ESRC grant application to fund research into responsibility in business, professions and HE. It’s a joint research project in collaboration with the Business School at Leeds Met University. Five professional bodies in the UK are involved in the bid and the research – Institute of Directors (IoD); Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales (ICAEW); the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD); Chartered Management Institute (CMI); and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). We have had a number of meetings with them and they are all keen to be involved in the research and have signed letters of support for the bid.
We now plan to use the work done in developing this substantial bid to submit other related bids to Leverhulme, Rowntree, Carnegie and AHRC.
Four businesses will also be involved – Adnams (Southwold), Logistik, N.G. Baileys, and Engage Mutual which we have chosen to represent a range of business, from small to medium to larger. Again they are all keen to be involved and have all written letters of support for the bid.
Thank you to Lynsey McCulloch and Hoi Lei Chan for all your assistance with this bid – you have both been fantastic! Dr Jonathan Smith, Chartered FCIPD, Senior Lecturer, T: 0845 196 2069 E: jonathan.smith@anglia.ac.uk
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Student scoops £15,000 first prize in Anglia Ruskin’s Big Pitch competition Laszlo’s truffle business will mushroom! Laszlo Csiba is celebrating after winning £15,000 in The Big Pitch student business competition at Anglia Ruskin University on Thursday night (31 May). The 26-year-old from Mohacs, Hungary, has set up The Original Truffles Limited, a company supplying fresh local truffles and truffle products. Laszlo, who impressed the seven-strong panel of business experts and entrepreneurs with his presentation, said: “It is a very valuable experience and I am so glad that I could win this competition. However, it is not only about the money, but also the things we have learned and experienced.” “I will use the 15k to create a website, develop own-branded products and take the necessary steps to grow British truffles.”
Laszlo Csiba
Paula Albinana Spanish student Paula Albinana secured the second prize of £10,000 for CB – a real ale designed for the female market. Eddie Shevlin from Hammer & Tongs took the third prize of £5,000 to help him grow his social enterprise which aims to provide arts resources for young offenders.
“All of this year’s finalists did a fantastic job and are a real credit to Anglia Ruskin University. The whole point of the competition is to identify entrepreneurial ideas and people who have the potential and passion to succeed.” “CEDAR is now looking forward to working with all of the winners over the coming year and providing professional mentoring and business advice to give each of our entrepreneurs the best possible chance of making their ventures a success.”
Over 150 people from Anglia Ruskin and the local business community attended the final on the East Road campus in Cambridge. The seven finalists had all progressed past previous rounds which had seen them produce a short video pitch and submit a 2,000-word business plan.
The judging panel comprised of Walter Herriot OBE; Peter Taylor, CEO of TTP Group plc; Paddy Bishopp Co-founder of Paddy & Scott’s; Natalie Haywood, Founder and Managing Director of This is Leaf Ltd; Chris Walklett, Partner at Peters Elworthy & Moore (PEM); Laragh Jeanroy, Partner at Peters Elworthy & Moore (PEM); and Michael Loffler, Partner at Eversheds. Laszlo Csiba and Walter Herriot OBE Walter Herriot OBE said: “The Big Pitch is rapidly establishing itself both as a key date on the University calendar and also on the regional entrepreneurial scene.”
The three winners of The Big Pitch, which was open to all Anglia Ruskin students, also receive 12 months free office space at the Anglia Ruskin StartupLab, mentoring from a successful entrepreneur, legal and financial planning workshops from Eversheds and Peters Elworthy & Moore (PEM), and a year’s free business banking with Barclays.
“The quality of the finalists and professionalism with which this year’s competition was organised is a real testament to Anglia Ruskin University and all of the sponsors and judges are already looking forward to next year’s event.”
Ben Mumby-Croft, Deputy Director of the Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR) and Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin’s Lord Ashcroft International Business School, said:
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Our University students help organise fossil fuel lecture On the 16 March, Charles Perry, Co-founder of SecondNature who specialise in transforming organisations to make sustainability second nature, was the principal speaker at our Cambridge Campus hosted by Professor Mike Thorne, Vice Chancellor, entitled: Renewables versus fossil fuels: the global clean energy revolution.
Consultant at URS and then to BP (during John Browne’s leadership) to roll out “beyond petroleum” and develop BP Ultimate “more performance, less pollution” before being promoted to Director of BP Green Energy. In 2006, Charles left BP to join New York firm GreenOrder before setting up his own sustainability advisory business. Charles has a BA from Brown University, Rhode Island, USA and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.
The lecture was organised by a group from the student Sustainability Society, University Chaplaincy, GRLI Ambassadors, the Global Sustainability Institute and Dr Jonathan Smith, Senior Lecturer in Lord Ashcroft International Business School. Charles has a long track record in sustainability and climate change, working to transform organizations including Tesco, Barclays, ArjoWiggins, Lafarge, BP, GE, H&M and the UK government in order to “make sustainability second nature”. Charles was selected and trained by Al Gore, former US Vice President, to present “An Inconvenient Truth”, appointed a judge for the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards and Adviser to David Cameron’s Quality of Life Policy Review on Climate Change. His career in sustainability began as PR Manager of BSI, where he launched ISO 14000, moving to Senior
Charles outlined the challenges the world faces and some of the ways renewable energy is being addressed. Dr Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge, then responded, setting out not just government policy but the wider scientific framework and the imperatives it implies. This was followed by a lively debate between the audience and speakers.
Guest lecture delivered at new university in Croatia were some interesting exchanges. The topic is an important one for this geographic region as there are many questions around culture, identity and tourism.”
On 8 May, Jonathan Goodacre, an Associate Lecturer in LAIBS, gave a lecture at the University of Pula in Croatia after which he was interviewed on regional television and radio.
The Juraj Dobrila University of Pula is an entirely integrated university, founded in 2006 and consisting at present of five departments: Department of Economics and Tourism “Dr Mijo Mirkovi” Department of Humanities Department of Music Department for Studies in the Italian Language Teacher training department
Jonathan was invited to give the lecture, the subject of which was: Developing Cultural Projects for the Benefit of Society and the Economy, and was delivered for Metamedia at the University of Pula in Croatia. Amongst the audience were students of cultural tourism and representatives from local non-governmental organisations.
Jonathan works widely in Europe and will be hosting students from the European Diploma of Cultural Project Management (Association Marcel Hicter) in Cambridge in September. This will include a lecture by renowned theorist Pier Luigi Sacco from the University of Milan who will be speaking at Anglia Ruskin University on Wednesday 26th September. For more details contact: jonathan.goodacre@anglia.ac.uk
Jonathan said, “I very much enjoyed speaking to a wide range of people and hearing about their own experiences. Out of 40 participants, only one person had ever been to the UK so there
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Dr Emanuele Giovannetti gives keynote address at high level international forum On 6–8 April 2012, Dr Emanuele Giovannetti, Reader in Economics at the Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP), was invited as a keynote speaker to the IEEE sponsored conference held in Lushan, China – the 2012 Second International Conference on Electric Information and Control Engineering (ICEICE). The title of the keynote address was entitled, An Economist’s Perspective on the Internet Organization: strategies and policies. Other keynote speakers were: Professor Michael Pecht, University of Maryland, USA, Professor Xiaolong LI, Indiana State University, USA and Prof Tad Foster, Indiana State University, USA. The ICEICE conference is a high-level international forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances, new techniques and applications in the field of electric science such as instrument and measurement technology, information processing, control and automation engineering, or other closely related fields. More than 400 scientists attended the conference. Emanuele also presented a paper for the session on IT Policy and Business Management entitled, Clustering, Connectivity and Power laws, Useful Tools for Assessing Market Structure of the European Internet? The Conference papers are published by IEEE, included in IEEE eXplore, and indexed by EI Compendex. An extended version of the paper is now being prepared for submission to ABS ranked journals.
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Following ACCA’s approval visit to LAIBS on the 18 April 2012, we are delighted to report that Anglia Ruskin University has been awarded Gold approval under the Approved Learning Partner – student tuition programme in recognition of the quality of tuition provision and support for ACCA students
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Dr Emanuele Giovannetti, Reader in Economics, IIMP T: 0845 196 2233 E: emanuele.giovannetti@anglia.ac.uk
Tim Spencer, Senior Lecturer at LAIBS said:
“The award of Gold Status is recognition of the hard work of both staff and students on our ACCA course. Continuing to meet the stringent requirements required for the award will provide significant benefit to our students and our reputation as a top class provider of accountancy tuition.”
Approval is valid until 31 Mach 2013.
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Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP)
New appointments for our Research Institute Dr Simon Down is joining LAIBS on 1 August 2012 as a Professor of Management and will be the Director of the Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP). His previous post was as Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, where he has worked for eight years, following periods working as an academic at Wollongong University, Australia, and Plymouth University. In recent years, he has been the Co-Director of an innovation and enterprise research centre and Co-Subject Group Head. He began his working life as an entrepreneur in the independent music sector before working for London Underground. In his late twenties, he went to the London School of Economics, studying an undergraduate degree in history, and after living for a year teaching English in Berlin, completed an MA in Industrial Relations at Warwick. He is the author of two books: Narratives of Enterprise: Crafting Entrepreneurial Selfidentity in a Small Firm (Edward Elgar, 2006), an ethnographic study of a small firm in the UK, and a textbook, Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Small Business (Sage, 2010). He has published articles and book chapters on small firm policy, entrepreneurial self-identity, indigenous entrepreneurship, management history and ethnographic methodology in journals such as Human Relations, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Organization and the International Small Business Journal. He is currently researching how small firms receive and respond to regulation in a longitudinal project funded by the ESRC. For the last few years he has also been the Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, a role he is stepping down from when he starts at LAIBS. Simon says,
“The University is making an enormous investment to develop research in the Business School. I am excited at the opportunity to build an internationally respected institute focused on research into the managerial practices that underpin enterprise and innovation.� Note: Professor Roger Jeynes will be Acting Director of IIMP until Simon joins us later in the year.
Professor Magdy Abdel-Kader, Professor of Management Accounting (Ashcroft Foundation Chair) at Anglia Ruskin University and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Management Accounting Research (IJMAR), has joined the Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP) as Professor of Management Accounting. Before joining Anglia Ruskin University, he worked at the universities of Exeter, Essex, Brunel and Bedfordshire. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Brunel University and a member of the American, European and British Academic Accounting Associations. He is the representative of the information systems section of the American Accounting Association in Europe. Professor Abdel-Kader received his PhD from the University of the West of England, Bristol, in 1997. His articles and commentaries have been published in journals such as Management Accounting Research, British Accounting Review, European Accounting Review, Financial Management, and Accounting Education. He is the principal author of a book on Investment Decision-Making in Advanced Manufacturing Technology, book on new product development teams, and co-author of books on enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and management accounting
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change, Review of Management Accounting Research, non-financial performance measurement, and behavioural aspects of auditors’ evidence evaluation. Magdy commented, “Part of my current role at the Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP) is to promote and develop my own research profile, to lead the research team in the accounting and finance area and to assist the Institute to achieve international recognition in terms of research excellence and long-term financial viability.” Magdy has extensive experience in research students’ supervision. He is currently supervising doctoral candidates within the areas of management accounting; performance measurement and management, risk management, capital investment decisions, corporate governance, and sustainability. Magdy’s current research interest lies within Management Accounting. In particular he is interested in Enterprise Resource Planning, Performance Evaluation and Management, Capital Investment Decisions, Fuzzy set theory applications into management accounting and Gender and Budgetary Participation.
Dr Emanuele Giovannetti has been made Reader in Economics in IIMP and is currently following different research lines, all linked to the economic analysis of entrepreneurship. The first area of research is on the economic opportunities for operators in the Internet Sector. Emanuele is currently presenting his work on hierarchical organization of the Internet, in different world conferences, also as a keynote speaker, and is pursuing different publishing opportunities. This theme is essential to understanding the evolution of the market for small and large Internet operators; as operators’ revenues and their cost conditions also change dramatically following a reorganization of the market structure, thus driving the interrelated dynamics of entry exit and growth. Emanuele has just been awarded an IIMP fully funded PhD Studentship to supervise a student on a project on entry and exit of Internet operators in developing countries, in conjunction with Professor Vivarelli. The second area of research focuses on the economic analysis of public policies, in particular competition policies aiming at preventing the imposition of vertical price restraints by producers and distributors onto retailers. Emanuele influenced the regulatory debate at European level when the new regulations on vertical restraints were approved, by writing and publishing as an economic advisor to the Office of Fair Trading on their submission to the OECD and the EU. Emanuele is currently working on the empirical evidence collected on the specific vertical restraints cases in relation to the relevant upstream and downstream market conditions. The third area of current interest is linked to the role that space and economic integration have on both competition and adoption of technological innovation for the growth process of firms, operating in oligopolistic environment. The implications of this research are of relevance for both regional and infrastructural policies. While contributing with his economic and competition policy background, developed in many years of active research and advisory experience, Emanuele is looking forward to the synergies with the new colleagues at the IIMP and to learn and benefit from other areas of expertise in the Institute, in particular with the strategic management analysis that will complement particularly well with Emanuele’s original background in the application of game theory to the analysis of economic strategic interaction. For more information on the IIMP, visit: www.anglia.ac.uk/laibs/iimp
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PhD student combines his research with busy day job Darren Leech is a well published part-time research student at LAIBS. Balancing his research and academic interests with a busy day job as Chief Operating Officer at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Darren’s PhD research is focussed on exploring the impact of marketisation on the leaders of NHS hospitals in England.
involved interviewing the senior leadership team at a District General Hospital in the East of England, followed by an on-line questionnaire targeted at 60 NHS leaders from over 20 hospitals across the country. The supervisory team Darren works with is led by Dr Rob Willis, Director of Research at LAIBS. They agreed early on that Darren would deliberately set an annual publication (see list below) and presentation rate, as a means to developing his critical research skills, promoting his work and getting feedback from those ‘in practice’ in both health service provision and academia. This tactic seems to have worked very well, with a series of articles published in a mix of academic journals, along with others in practice based periodicals and journals too.
Darren has been with LAIBS for the last five years and completed his ‘confirmation of candidature’ earlier in 2012. He is currently applying for ‘write-up’ status as his practical research and data collection is now complete. The research
Leech D (2007)
Squaring up to marketisation
Health Service Journal
Leech D, Willis R & Jones C (2007)
Market values
Journal of the Institute of Healthcare Management
Leech D, Willis R
Leading the way
Health Director
Leech D (2007)
Bridging the Gap – Leadership qualities in an inreasingly market-based health service
Pharmacy Management
Leech D (2008)
Interpreting the new language of leadership
British Journal of HealthCare Management
Leech D (2008)
Towards marketisation
National Health Executive
Leech D & Cox D (2008)
Working in and learning from a troubled system
The British Journal of HealthCare Management
Leech D & Matthews J (2008)
Nurse leaders and competition – are the blind leading the blind to market?
The Journal of Nurse Management
Leech D (2009)
Face tough times together
Health Management, Journal of the Institute of Healthcare Management
Leech D (2009)
Increasing competition – the implications for leadership
Global Emerging Leaders Network, European Health Management Association & The King’s Fund
Leech D (2010)
Quality improvement and cost reduction
Health Service Journal
Leech D (2010)
Making the right fit
Health & Care Management, Journal of the Institute of Healthcare Management
Leech D, Willis R & Jones C (2011)
Competition in a Shrinking NHS market
The British Journal of HealthCare Management
Leech D (2011)
The morality of leadership
Public Servant
Darren has worked with both professional colleagues at work and also fellow students in other faculties. As a result, as well as being asked in late 2011 to present to a gathering of GradSoc, he has also been asked to join an editorial panel and been listed on the King’s Fund, a UK health charity that shapes NHS policy and practice, recommended reading list!
Darren now plans to scale back on publication, in order to focus fully on getting his thesis drafted for submission late 2012 or early 2013.
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LAIBS helping the police with their enquiries Saifan bin Saifan and Dr Jonathan Smith from LAIBS visited the National Police Training Centre for the UK at Bramshill on 23rd April. They met with members of the Leadership Faculty and International Faculty there. Saifan is a Manager for Courses at the Police Science Academy, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He is doing his PhD with us, researching Strategic Leadership in the UK and UAE Police. At the meeting Saifan and Jonathan explored the possibility of LAIBS conducting research with senior leaders in the UK police service and observing courses delivered at Bramshill. They also explored the possibility of LAIBS providing leadership programmes and qualifications for the UK police. A number of other visits to LAIBS from UK police services are planned over the coming months. Jonathan will be hosting visits from Essex, Kent and Hertfordshire Police. There are a large number of people now within LAIBS and Anglia Ruskin University who are involved in some aspect of police research or teaching. Much of the research that is currently being done with the police in America and the UK has much wider applicability. As well as offering huge benefits to policing internationally it can benefit other emergency services, health professionals, leaders, and University staff and students. Jonathan said,
“There are many changes to the police landscape in the UK taking place at the moment and I believe LAIBS can make a significant and exciting contribution on the way forward.�
Bramshill House at the National Police Training Centre, Bramshill
Jonathan has established a VLE site at Anglia Ruskin University specifically for policing in order to provide a forum to share and discuss this work. The VLE also provides the opportunity to share resources and work together. A vital element to grant applications and bidding for work and research with the police. Anyone wanting to discuss this VLE, or wishing to join it can contact Jonathan at Jonathan.Smith@anglia.ac.uk
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