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8th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference by SEERC
8th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference by SEERC On 16-17 September 2013 our research centre, SEERC organized the 8th South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2013) with great success. The event took place at the main campus of the University of Sheffield International Faculty in Thessaloniki and this year was organized in collaboration with the University of Belgrade. With its programme divided in three thematic areas (Research tracks), the aim of the conference was to further facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers and to consolidate the established network of scholars currently undertaking research in South East Europe. Prof. Panayiotis Ketikidis, Chairman of the conference and Mr Nikos Zaharis, SEERC Director welcomed all the participants and opened the conference with the key note speech by Assist. Prof. Panagiotis D. Bamidis, School of Health Services, Department of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on "Silvergaming for body and mind health: neuroscientific principles, software design, pilot deployment and commercialisation." During the two-day conference more than 40 papers were presented while two workshops took place, one on "Successful Intergenerational Learning in Enterprizes: Demonstration of the DIGL tool" presented by Dr. Ana Vivas, Head of the Psychology Department of the International Faculty and Dr Antonia Ypsilanti, Lecturer at the Psychology Department, and one on "Public Engagement and Impact of PhD Researchers" presented by Dr. Tim Vorley, Dr. Robert Wapshott from the Management School of The University of Sheffield. The event concluded with the best paper awards. Esida Gila Gourgoura received the best paper award of Research Track 1: 'Enterprise, Innovation & Development' for her paper on "Investigating the causality between Financial Development and Economic Growth in the developing countries of Europe: Evidence from Albania and Turkey", Magdalena Kostoska received the best paper award of Research Track 2 "Information and Communication Technologies" for her paper entitled paper "Cloud Service Portability Opportunities" while the best paper award of Research Track 3 : "Society and Human Development : Psychology, Politics, Sociology and Education" went to Dimitra Athanasiadou for her paper "The relationship between dysfunctional patterns of families' response to the illness and symptom severity in adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa at illness onset: A gender specific approach" The Doctoral Conference brought together researchers and succeeded in establishing collaborative links between disciplines, for testing the ground with innovative ideas and for engaging the wider academic community. All papers presented during the event will be included in the conference's proceedings that will be published in due course. For more information visit the conference’s official website.
23/09/2013
Student from the International Faculty undertakes internship opportunity at the University of Sheffield USE, UK
Mr George Sakkiadis What better place for a university student to gain work experience that his University? George Sakkiadis, third level student at the BA (Hons) in Business Studies (Accounting and Finance) programme recently returned from Sheffield, UK where he completed a three-month internship at the University of Sheffield Enterprise Unit (USE) . Aiming at gaining work experience in the field of enterprise, George applied for the internship posted by the University and was selected among other applicants. Over the summer he worked at the University of Sheffield Enterprise Unit were he had the opportunity to assist and contribute in projects undertaken by the USE team. USE is an organisation of the University of Sheffield that helps students and graduates to ‘make their ideas happen.’ It runs events and competitions to improve their skills and help students and graduates to start their own businesses/social enterprises. The USE team works closely with academics to develop enterprise in the curriculum so that all students have access to enterprise education. The Student Affairs Department ensures that students from the International Faculty have access to all these useful resources provided by the University. At Sheffield George enjoyed this skills development opportunity presented by USE. increased his skills outside of his degree course by gaining hands-on real-life experience through the responsibilities he assumed and his involvement in project work. While at Sheffield George enjoyed meeting people and fellow-students from different places and working with them. George said: "It’s been great pleasure for me to be a part of the USE Team this summer. Working at USE as an intern has given me the chance to meet really nice people and to do a lot of interesting and exciting stuff. In my first few months working here I learnt how to deal with new things such as the Open Days at University of Sheffield, the social enterprise events and the start-up Weekend.I learnt so many new things and I have become more confident about my skills and abilities. Perhaps the most important thing I gained while working at USE is to not be afraid to think big, and to be courageous enough to dream that I can achieve whatever I set my mind to. In other words the often used phrase, 'To make my ideas happen'. With this mindset, I am more ready than ever to embark on new challenges and try new things! I look forward to meeting and working with the USE team again." The University aims at providing its students with opportunities to develop their employability skills even before completing their studies and become competitive by demonstrating work experience in the challenging employment market. Read George’s posts on USE website.
12/09/2013
SEERC PhD Candidate participates in Global Workshop in New Delhi, India
Our alumnus and currently PhD student and research associate at our research centre, SEERC, Mr Adrian Solomon travelled to New Delhi, India on 8-9th August 2013 together with another colleague from the university, Dr Andrea Genovese, in order to attend a workshop on Next Generation Sustainable Freight Transportation in the framework of the NEX-GIFT project, in which the University of Sheffield is the lead partner. The NEX-GIFT project is closely related with the aims of Mr Solomon’s PhD thesis. For this reason, Dr Alok Choudhary and Prof. Panayiotis Ketikidis, the main PhD supervisor of Mr Solomon from SEERC, suggested that he took part in this global project where he would have the opportunity to become exposed to international, high quality best practices from the freight transportation field and he would get the opportunity to visit other academic institutions and network with experts and peers from this sector. The team prepared and delivered a presentation about the status of green freight transportation in the UK as compared to USA and India. Additionally, the team had to engage the workshop participants in interactive discussions and collect the emerged best practices. Furthermore, during the networking sessions, Mr Adrian Solomon discussed the topic of his PhD “Knowledge Based Simulation Framework for Resilient Green Supply Chain - Freight Transportation in South Eastern Europe” and highly stressed the importance of his research for the progress of the South East European region as well as the importance of the efforts of TUOS International Faculty and SEERC for the same purpose. The participants were highly impressed by the collaboration between the University of Sheffield and its International Faculty, CITY College and SEERC and admired the internationalisation efforts, as well as the remarkable opportunities provided to early stage PhD students. Mr. Solomon’s participation in this workshop was fully supported by the University of Sheffield through the NEX-GIFT project and so will be his participation in two forthcoming workshops in Sheffield-UK and Philadelphia-USA. Adrian commented on his experience in New Delhi: “Being offered the opportunity to participate to such an international event, even from the first year of my PhD, was more than just an exceptional educational opportunity which SEERC and the University of Sheffield offered me. It was a ground-breaking experience which significantly helped my PhD research by providing me further knowledge in my field and by exposing me to global practitioners from the logistics field, as well as from academia and policy making. I am highly thankful to my PhD supervisors for offering me this opportunity and for enabling all the mechanisms for me to take the best out of it, since acting local by thinking global may be one of the key success factors of nowadays research, industry and government issues. To this end, SEERC, the International Faculty, CITY College, and the University of Sheffield have always excelled in offering me a great deal of support even during my undergraduate studies (through early engagement in funded research opportunities, funded conferences, etc) and this is why my belief that pursuing a PhD at SEERC would help me take the best out of this excellent environment has already been confirmed through this project. I am really looking forward to participating on the next two workshops where I will be able to present the progress of my PhD”.
27/08/2013
Congratulations to Ms. Dialechti Fotopoulou
Congratulations to Ms Dialechti Fotopoulou, PhD student at our research centre, SEERC, for successfully defending her PhD entitled ‘The Impact of Foreign Higher Education on Management Practices: The Case of MBAs in Greece’. Ms. Fotopoulou’s supervisors are Dr Alexandros Psychogios, Senior Lecturer at the International Faculty’s Business Department and Prof. Geoffrey Wood, Professor in Human Resource Management at the Management School of the University of Sheffield.
11/07/2013
Graduation party 2013
Graduation is a time to celebrate! On 21 June graduates of year 2013 celebrated the conclusion of their studies and said ‘goodbye’ with a party organised by our Students’ Union (CSU). The graduation party was held at ‘Les Zazous’ Bar restaurant in Thessaloniki.
02/07/2013
'Life is fun' VIDEO by our Students' Union (CSU)
Watch the video produced by our Students' Union (CSU) and see how fun it is to study with us! Congratulations to CSU for organising and producing this video and to all students who participated in it! You may view the video on vimeo or right-click here to download it.
28/06/2013
12th Students’ Spring Symposium
The 12th Students’ Spring Symposium took place successfully at the University of Sheffield International Faculty main campus in Thessaloniki, 24 May 2013. The event took place for the twelfth consecutive and was organised by students of all departments of the Faculty. In the frame of the symposium students presented very interesting papers on different scientific subjects and exchanged ideas. The event also included a workshop entitled ‘Teaching a robotic partner to dance’ propelling knowledge and innovation and attracting everyone’s attention. An interesting closing discussion themed ‘I have an idea’ gave the opportunity to both presenters and the audience to engage in a fruitful dialogue and draw interesting conclusions. The 12th Student Spring Symposium was sponsored by our research centre, the South East European Research Centre (SEERC), and the Greek ACM Student Chapter.
07/06/2013
Our student volunteers collect medicines for the Doctors of the World
For the third consecutive year student volunteers of CITY College’s ‘Sunrise Club’ run successfully a public collection of medicines in support of the Doctors of the World (DoW). The collection took place at the centre of Thessaloniki on Friday and Saturday, 24 and 25 of May 2013. The project was supervised by Ms. Panagiota Skoulariki , Lecturer at our Business Department . The public responded to our students’ call and supported the collection of medicines. Non-expired medicines, including sealed syrups and ointments, sealed and opened boxes of tablets and capsules, that were surplus to households in Thessaloniki, were collected. Instead of throwing them away causing pollution, people chose to donate these medicines to the Doctors of the World. Congratulations to Ms. Skoulariki and to our students on this initiative, showing that CITY College not only joins but also initiates and carries out charities. Story in the press: 23.05.2013 Makedonia Student Volunteers collect medicines for the Doctors of the world
29/05/2013
Career Fair 2013
Themed ‘Out There, Are They Looking for a Rockstar: Your Chance to Dazzle the World!’ the Career Fair 2013 was successfully organised by the Student Affairs and Career Planning Department on the 24th of April, bringing together students and alumni of the International Faculty with company representatives from a variety of industry sectors. The event took place at the Information and Learning Commons (ILC) at the main campus of the Faculty in Thessaloniki, creating a very special and warm atmosphere for all participants.
28/05/2013
Sheffield’s SURE scheme 2013
Congratulations to our students namely, Alexandra Cristina Patrascu, second level student at our Computer Science Department and Florenta Iuliana Solomon, second level student at our Business Administration and Economics Department , who received research funds through the University of Sheffield’s SURE (Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience) 2013. Alexandra won the research scholarship with her project entitled ‘Pre-college girls - perception about Computer Science’ while Iuliana’s winning paper is entitled ‘An Integrated Model for eHealth Implementation Analysis and Simulation in South Eastern Europe’. The scholarships came through ‘SURE - Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience’ , a scheme of the University of Sheffield which invites undergraduate students of the university to conduct research in subject areas of their interest and offers scholarships to the best research proposals submitted. Alexandra commented on her success: “My research area of interest focuses on women in computer science, since I am one of the founding members of ‘Muses, ACM-W Student Chapter’ at CITY College. This chapter mainly aims at increasing the number of women interested in studying computer science and building a career in IT. Unfortunately, women are underrepresented in the disciplines of Science, Technology and Engineering and this is a consequence of many factors such as the influence of society, the misconception that IT is only for men, which determine pre-college girls to avoid choosing Computer Science as field for studies. The project that I proposed for the SURE Scheme intends to reveal the actual perception of females about a possible career in IT. As an interdisciplinary project, during my research, related studies from other disciplines will also be used (e.g. Psychology for the study of human behaviour). The whole experience will help me in the final year project, where I intend to continue the work that I am starting now, but it will also help me better coordinate the activities of the ACM-W Chapter that will be more oriented towards the needs of the computing society.” Iuliana said: “I applied to SURE 2013 because I thought it was a good opportunity to explore other research areas except for business. SURE represents an interdisciplinary project and I chose my topic on eHealth Implementation and Simulation because it combines multiple areas of knowledge that I wish to explore. Nowadays there is an increase in the demand for online, low cost and user-friendly applications for personal care and monitoring health status. My research project will focus on the South-East European region and I intend to create a model of eHealth solutions for the population of this region. This project combines the disciplines of Psychology, Computer Science and Business, making it truly interdisciplinary. I plan to continue my research in this area even after SURE and I aim to publish it either as part of a conference or as an individual journal article. My supervisor for this project, Prof. Panayiotis Ketikidis, offers me great support and access to all the resources necessary for a successful research outcome. Finally, I believe that with all the support that I get from my supervisor and from the staff of the University of Sheffield International Faculty, my project conclude with positive outcomes. I believe that SURE offers a great opportunity for students to explore more options for their future careers.” Many students from the International Faculty have received funding from SURE in the past and produced quality research papers while gained experience in research at the same time.
28/05/2013
Our students claim satisfaction at the UK National Student Survey 2013
According to the recently released results of the UK National Student Survey (NSS) for Spring 2013 the overall student satisfaction for the International Faculty of the University of Sheffield almost reached the absolute 100%! The NSS was conducted at the International Faculty Departments in the period 19 March to 21 April 2013 for all 3rd year students. The participation was 63% for the overall Faculty. In 40 out of 44 questions the satisfaction was increased up to 27% compared to the NSS 2012 (on average 12%). An overall report for the University including all Departments and Faculties will be released in Autumn 2013. The National Student Survey is a national online survey open to over 400,000 final year undergraduate students across the UK. NSS provides an opportunity to give their opinions and assessment on the overall quality of courses within their institution. NSS provides an excellent opportunity for students’ voice to be heard in the benefit of academia. The International Faculty would like to thank all students who participated in the NSS survey and we welcome their feedback. We are happy to have happy students!
07/05/2013
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