Issue 261 - December 2016

The CCED Bake Off Inspired by the BBC Bake-Off, the people of CCED decided to see what culinary talents lay dormant in their team. 16 people entered a gruelling series of rounds, more challenging than the Hogwarts Tri-wizard tournament, which culminated in a grand final last week. Five master bakers presented beautiful creations which had a large invited audience drooling, oohing and aahing. But there could only be one winner, and as Dr John Glen awarded the first prize to Kristy McCrindle he said "It's

Trafalgar Day Our MBA students marked the annual Trafalgar Day with a formal dinner with special guests from the Royal British Legion…and a human tug of war! The evening was hosted by Stu Slowther (left) and Dan Bleasdale (right).

Welcome to…

Stefan Hemel Research Fellow Anurag Tewari Research Fellow - Complexity Science for Complex Engineering Systems Marco Amaral Feris Lecturer in Programme and Project Management Maria Pearson PA/Administrator Orly Levy Reader in International Organisational Behaviour Elisabeth Guenther

wonderful to see the level of skill and creativity we have here in CCED. What will they come up with next?"

Research Fellow Pauline Scoins Business Development and Commercial Manager (Maternity Cover) Avni Thakrar Projects Officer (pictured)

Amalfi Lemon Cake

Best poster session MSc Logistics and Supply Chain students went head-to-head in a poster competition, focusing on key challenges, covering CSR, humanitarian logistics, omni-channel retailing, increasing servitisation of products, big data analytics, 3D printing and the use of drones. Congratulations to the red stream, who took home the champagne and chocolates for their poster entitled Big Data Analytics in the Supply Chain.

Farewell to…

Eugene Butans Research Fellow Silvia Rossi Tafuri Lecturer Huainan Zhao Professor of Corporate Finance

Tazeeb Rajwani Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management (pictured) Peter Yallup Senior Lectureship in Finance Carole Hutchings Client Liaison Officer

Caron McLaughlin Client Administrator Ian Speakman Senior Lecturer in Key Account Management

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Charity fundraising Thanks to all who supported our recent charity dress down days. October’s Wear It Pink day raised £80 and November’s fundraising for Children In Need made a whopping £318.52.

Operation Christmas Child Many thanks to those who donated a gift-filled shoebox for Operation Christmas Child, a charity that delivers presents to disadvantaged children in over 100 countries. Coordinated by Gislene Robertson in Executive Education Services, 66 boxes were collected for this excellent cause.