Supervisors
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Dr Sa'ad Ali
Expertise: Expertise and research interest: cross-cultural in business research, human resources and business practices in the Middle East and China.
Dr Holly Andrews
Expertise: Psychopathy and other dark side traits in the workplace, coaching, occupational psychology, quantitative methodologies.
Dr Scott Andrews
Expertise: Leadership, case study research methodologies, case based teaching & participant centred learning in management education
Dr Robin Bell
Expertise: Entrepreneurship/small business; international business and management; cross cultural communication.
Dr Kay Emblen-Perry
Expertise: Sustainable management including environmental management and justice, social responsibility and economic sustainability.
Professor Jan Francis-Smythe
Expertise: Occupational psychology and HR: selection and assessment; career development and appraisal; training; employee relations and motivation; organisational development and change; leadership; counselling and personal development.
Dr Laila Kasem
Expertise: International business; international marketing; strategy; organisational learning and cross-cultural consumer behaviour.
Self-funded project: Exploring the Career Choices of Recently-Arrived Refugees in the UK
Dr Paulo Mora-Avila
Expertise: Consumer psychology, corporate reputation, branding, and cross-cultural & cross-generational behaviour.
Dr Pamella Murray
Expertise: Leadership; teamwork; coaching and mentoring.
Dr Lynn Nichol
Expertise: Work based learning; professional identity; narrative research/ethnography; psychological contract/survivor syndrome/downsizing; learning and development; careers; employee relations; faith based organisation.
Dr Richard Nicholls
Expertise: Services marketing; customer-to-customer interaction; ageing service customers; customer misbehaviour.
Dr Ria Wiid
Expertise: Contemporary marketing communications, authenticity and inside out branding.
Dr Catharine Ross
Expertise: Diversity in organisations; workplace culture and politics; sociology of the professions; workplace diversity and equality; employee relations; management development; careers.
Self-funded project: Exploring the Career Choices of Recently-Arrived Refugees in the UK
Dr Abdulmaten Taroun
Expertise: Project management; operations management; decision making and risk analysis; risk management; enterprise risk management (ERM); quality management; construction management; performance management; sustainability and sustainable development.
Dr Vessela Warren
Expertise: Innovation management; knowledge management in innovation; new service development (NSD) processes; innovation and sustainability; barriers and enablers to service innovation; strategic innovation; the role of the networks into the innovation process; service design; service co-creation; servitization.
Dr Helen Watts
Expertise: Customer retention, membership services, consumer psychology, occupational psychology, quantitative methodologies, qualitative methodologies, mixed method designs.