Wednesday 26 August 2015

DUBS International Champion Ian Whitfield will be travelling in Hong Kong at the end of August and we have organised an informal drinks event for all the DUBS alumni based in the area. The event will take place from 6:45 - 8:45pm on Wednesday 26 August at the Metropark Hotel Wanchai.

Monday 31 August 2015

DUBS International Champion Ian Whitfield will be travelling to Malaysia at the end of August and we have organised an informal drinks/nibbles event for all the DUBS alumni based in the area. The event will take place from 6 - 8pm on Monday 31st August at Gazebo Poolside bar the Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel.

Thursday 3 September 2015

DUBS International Champion Ian Whitfield will be travelling in Singapore at the begining of September and we have organised an informal drinks event for all the DUBS alumni based in the area.

The event will take place from 7 - 9pm on Thursday 3rd September at the Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay.

Wednesday 9 September 2015

The alumni association is looking into establishing an enterprise network for entrepreneurs and those thinking about starting businesses.  We are planning to meet in London on 9th September to discuss how best to organise this.  If you are interested in participating, or have thoughts about how to approach this, please email the alumni team.

Tuesday 15 September 2015

DUBS Alumni are invited to attend a networking event in the Ballroom at the Crown Plaza Wangfujing in Beijing on Tuesday 15 September from 5 - 7:30pm. This event will provide an opportunity meet with those students just completing their studies at Durham.

Thursday 15 September 2015

DUBS Alumni are invited to attend a networking event in the Galerie Room at the Hilton Hotel Shanghai on Thursday 17th September from 5:30 - 8pm. This event will provide an opportunity meet with those students just completing their studies at Durham.

Plans are underway for a workshop with our partners at the European Business School in Frankfurt at the end of September.

To register your interest, please email the alumni team.

Many thanks to all of our alumni who acted as mentors to our students last year.  We are now looking for our mentor of the year, so if you feel you did a good job, please remind your mentee that they can nominate you by emailing the alumni team.  If you haven’t already completed the mentor survey, please access it here.
 

Supporting current students through our mentoring programme can be one of the most rewarding ways of keeping in touch and continuing to support DUBS.  If you can spare the time to be a mentor in next year’s programme please would you register your interest by emailing the alumni team? We will then be in contact in the autumn with the link to register for the Scheme formally. A mentoring workshop will be held at Durham and by webinar in early October.  If you are interested, but want to know more, please email the alumni team.

Alumni who knew Dr Graham Dietz may wish to support the ‘Trust Pathways’ project, designed to commemorate his enthusiasm for cycling.  The project aims to create a fully integrated cycle pathways network across Durham City to encourage more people to cycle in safety (off-road). 

The initial stages are being planned by Dr Karen Elliott’s Project Management students as part of the Master Programme directed by Graham.  You can support the project by signing a petition to encourage Durham County Council to integrate the project with its new traffic management system here.

Congratulations to our alumni whose contributions were recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours. Keith Johnson (Business Administration, 1996) received a MBE for services to the community and charity in Durham and Peter Millican (Management Studies, Graduate Society, 1970) was awarded an OBE for services to the Arts.

Further congratulations to all our alumni who graduated on June 25th.  

If you listen to music as you run, you may be interested in this research Durham University Business School has been involved in on how runners use music to ease or improve their running.

Like many other DUBS alumni, Southern UK chapter chairman, Ugo Isiadinso has launched a start up company Ugoeye.  Current students on internships are helping him to expand the business.

To find out more click here, or if you think your business, like Ugoeye, Virgin Money or Castrol has an issue that could benefit from an intern or free consultancy through our business projects, contact the School.

Current students pitched their start up ideas for £1000 of funding in DUBS’s annual Dragons’ Den competition.  Ideas included an app for Muslim students, a robotic bar tender, giant cards and a concept to make airline travel more comfortable.  To find out how they got on, click here.

If you are interested in participating in Dragons Den and supporting the student enterprise fund at the School, please email us.

We are delighted to welcome entrepreneur Howard Kingston (MBA, 2009) to our MBA advisory board.  As CMO and co-founder of adludio, Howard will bring insights into entrepreneurialism and creativity.

Alumni who were involved with Durham University's Small Business Centre may be interested in a symposium on 15th and 16th September in Durham.  It will provide a platform for practitioners, entrepreneurs, policy-makers and academics who share our passion for enterprise and small business development to come together and exchange experiences, build on them to imagine future scenarios and debate the challenges that face us.  

The US-UK Fulbright Commission is pleased to announce a call for applications for its 2016-17 Postgraduate and Scholar Awards. Fulbright Awards provide generous grants for study, research and teaching in the United States. Applications for the 2016-17 awards competition will be open 1 August until 6 November 2015. For more information on the whole list of available Awards, deadlines, eligibility and how to apply visit the Awards section of the Fulbright website.

Current MA student Vladislav Davarashvili is developing a business networking website, Treewer.  Users will benefit from access to companies, people, supply and demand for products and services, investment projects, news, analytical reports and trends along with increasing social sales and growth.

The Business Whisperer

Looking for some inspirational summer reading?  Tom Mullen (MBA, 2009) reviews the latest book by Peter Wilcock (MBA, 2013)