Research expertise
- Leadership and organisational behaviour
- Entrepreneurship and small business development
- International business and cross-cultural management
- Marketing, consumer psychology, and branding
- Sustainable and responsible business practices
- Project and operations management
- Innovation and knowledge management
- Human resource management and workplace wellbeing
- Strategic management and corporate governance
- Digital marketing and intelligent systems
- Customer interactions and service design
Research supervisors
Dr Scott Andrews
Expertise: Leadership, case study research methodologies, case based teaching & participant centred learning in management education
Prof. 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.
Dr Muhibul Haq
Microbusiness performance, sustainability, and competitive advantage; Ethnic minority microbusinesses; Knowledge management; Customer relationship management; Human Resource Management.
Dr Rebecca Jarrett
Expertise: Inclusive Organisational Practices, Recruitment and Selection, Personal construct theory.
Dr Laila Kasem
Expertise: International business; international marketing; strategy; organisational learning and cross-cultural consumer behaviour.
Dr Jane Keenan
Expertise: Accounting and Financial Management, Corporate Finance and Employment legislation and how this affects companies competitiveness.
Dr Barbara Menara
Expertise: employee engagement, job satisfaction, turnover, workplace wellbeing, professions, quantitative methods, panel data analysis.
Dr Marwa Mohamed
The general themes of my research include: management and organizational learning, leadership and leadership development, change management, paradox management, creativity and creative organisations, and emotion in organizations, and group relations/ system psychodynamics.
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.
Prof. 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 Sajad Rezaei
Expertise: Interactive & Digital Marketing; Sustainability and Responsible Business; Business Innovation and Strategy; Consumer Behaviour.
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.
Dr Ria Wiid
Expertise: Contemporary marketing communications, authenticity and inside out branding.
Research groups
Postgraduate Research Students are encouraged to join Research Groups at the University. The Business School hosts the following Research Groups:
MPhil and PhD applications that align with these groups' interests are particularly welcome.