Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study

  1. Marco Nutta (Assistant Professor, HIAS) and Hiromi Kamata (Professor, School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University) have been invited to serve as Guest Editors for an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Foodservice Business Research titled “Beverage Experiences and Tourism in the Asia Pacific: A Consumer Focus.”

  2. 8 January, The HIAS Brown Bag Seminar #23: Savu Rovanto (Assistant Professor, HIAS), “Navigating authenticity and legitimacy in meaningful work: Repair professionals’ experiences in Finland” (onsite)

  3. Hamza Umer (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor) delivered a guest seminar titled “Applications of Religious Nudging in Economics” at the College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman on Dec.16th.

  4. Hamza Umer (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor) delivered a guest lecture titled “Research Methods: Surveys” to graduate students at the Jinnah School of Public Policy and Leadership (JSPPL), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan.

  5. 4 December, The 22nd Brown Bag Seminar: “Can AI Identify Crucial Health-related Research Questions – and, if so, What AI Tool Might We Best Use?”, Dr. Maria Lohan (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS / Professor, Queen’s University Belfast) [onsite]

  6. 13 November, The 21st Brown Bag Seminar: Mandy Ryan (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS), “Public preferences and trade-offs for government interventions during a pandemic in the UK: a discrete choice experiment” (The 82nd HIAS Health Regular Seminar, In Person/Zoom)

  7. Hamza Umer (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor) gave 2 invited lectures as part of the “Ethics, Values & Public Policy” course on 2 October at the Department of Public Policy, College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in the US.

  8. 30 October, The 20th Brown Bag Seminar: D.S. Prasada RAO, FASSA (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS), “Asia and the World Economy: Real Incomes, Price Levels, Growth, Inequality, and Productivity over the Last Fifty Years” (hybrid)

  9. A paper by Dr. Maria Lohan (HIAS Visiting Researcher) titled “The implementation of compulsory relationships and sex education in English secondary schools: qualitative research in the 2022–23 school year” has published in “Sex Education”

  10. 11 September, The 19th Brown Bag Seminar: Simon Deakin (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS), “Language evolution and case outcomes in British and Irish Workmen’s Compensation cases, 1907-1947: A preliminary analysis” (onsite)