9 May 2012
A University of Bristol student has won a prestigious scholarship, beating off competition from hundreds of students across the country to win the opportunity to learn from top entrepreneurs in the United States and the UK.
8 May 2012
The Financial Reporting and Business Communication Research Unit's Conference is to be held in Bristol on 5/6th July 2012
20 April 2012
The CMPO is seeking to appoint economics students for summer internships.
20 April 2012
The Bristol Festival of Ideas will include some interesting talks from leading economists. Ruchir Sharma will talk on "Breakout Nations: In Search of the Next Economic Miracle", whilst Robert Shiller will talk on "Finance and the Good Society".
23 March 2012
Shirley Hume, a teaching fellow within the department of Accounting and Finance has been selected as a torchbearer for the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, which will be watched by millions of people across the world.
20 February 2012
Students and staff enjoyed the annual social event of a formal dinner. This year the dinner was in the Royal West Academy and the evening was accompanied by music from the university's big band
9 February 2012
CMPO members Lindsey Macmillan, Jack Britton along with Professor Paul Gregg (of the University of Bath) have contributed towards a new report published by the Commission on Youth Unemployment finds that youth unemployment has reached emergency point. With 1 in 5 young people not in employment, education or training and a quarter of a million unemployed for over a year, the Commission says youth unemployment is not only one of the greatest challenges facing the country in human terms, but is also a £28bn timebomb under the nation’s finances.
11 January 2012
Mergers are unlikely to be the most effective way of dealing with poorly performing NHS hospitals, according to new research from the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO). The study by Professor Carol Propper and colleagues finds that the wave of hospital consolidation in the late 1990s and early 2000s – in which around half the acute hospitals in England were involved in a merger – brought few benefits.
5 December 2011
New Research from Professor Simon Burgess and Dr Steven Proud, of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation, with Dr Robert Metcalfe of the University of Oxford has been widely reported in the news. Their research has shown that children who sit high stakes examinations during major football tournaments perform worse than if they sat them in a football-free summer.
27 October 2011
Dr Helen Simpson has been awarded a £70,000 Philip Leverhulme Prize. Around 30 prizes are awarded annually to “outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study.”
