Research Expertise
Policy research and analysisThe following highlights our research expertise in this area:
Applied Macroeconomics:
Macroeconomic modelling of the UK economy; global economic institutions;
modelling exchange rates and exchange rate regimes; European economic
integration; European economic policy.
Development Economics:
Studies on trade, industrialisation and policy regimes; technology
evaluation, indigenous technological capacity and technology policy; developing
countries; transition economies of Eastern Europe.
Economic Development
and the Environment:
Policy options for strategic environmental assessment.
European Employment
Research:
Employer and the trade union organisation; collective bargaining;
labour relations in multinational companies in Europe; European-wide collective
bargaining arrangements and procedures.
European Policies
Research:
Regional development policies of Western European countries; EU structural
and cohesion policies; internationalisation and European integration;
regional restructuring and technology transfer; economic development and
the environment; regional restructuring in the transition countries; competition
and subsidy discipline; regional development in central and East Europe
and Russia; mainstreaming gender equality in public policy and mainstreaming
equality.
Health Economics:
Evaluation of health services; economics of day surgery and stroke rehabilitation;
measurement of health-related quality of life.
International
Business and Economic Development:
Industrial and economic development policies; inward investment; multilateral
foreign investment policy; multinational subsidy strategies and EU integration.
International Planning: Europe and North America.
Local Economic
and Urban Regeneration:
Small firm support policies and the impact of community enterprises; credit
unions; community development; community regeneration; public-private
partnerships.
Local Government:
Local government reorganisation and impacts on strategic management;
organisation design; financial and human resource management; measurement
and corporate communications during periods of transformational change;
public sector finance; public sector management; local and regional government;
local economic policy; local government and devolution.
Politics:
Elections, parties and political behaviour; British government and
public policy; European Union; comparative public policy; local and regional
governance; political theory; public employment; public finance in Scotland.
Post-Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Post-communism and democratisation; social transformation and change; cross-national, cross-time representative sample surveys of mass response to transformation.
Public Sector
Management and Social Policy:
Privatisation and regulation of the utilities; policy analysis; voluntary
organisations and the non-profit sector; local government management.
Regional Economic
Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe:
Analysis of the regional and local dimensions of Eastern European countries
and several ex-Soviet States in the transition to market economies; socio-economic
problems and disparities and advising on policy options; evaluation of
policy measures and institutions; design and implementation of policy.
Skill Formation
and Training:
Labour market and labour process trends in skill formation; employer,
government and trade union policies on training and human resource development.
Sociology:
Gender, sexuality and the body; civil societies and social change;
social movements and collective action; sociology of gender and women's
studies; nations, states and civil societies in transition; crime, deviance
and violence; sociology, race and ethnicity.
The Scottish Economy
and Regional Economics:
Modelling of the Scottish and other regional economies; input-output analysis;
business surveys; regional economic development; enterprise and industrial
policy; labour market analysis; short and medium term forecasting of the
Scottish economy.
Departments and Specialist Centres:
These areas of research
represent the activities of a number of University Departments and Specialist
Centres including:
Centre for Public Policy
Environmental
Planning
European
Policies Research Centre
Fraser of Allander
Institute
Human Resource Management
Government
Strathclyde
Centre for European Economies in Transition
Strathclyde
International Business Unit
