Faculty Research Interests
Accounting and Finance
Potential Supervisor
Broad Area of
Research
Current Interest Target
Area of Research
Abhay Abhyankar
Finance
Corporate Finance and
Asset Pricing
Andrew Adams
Finance
Pricing and risk assessment
of closed-end fund shares.
Market Efficiency.
Insurance companies. Direct
and indirect property
investment.
Seth Armitage
Corporate finance
Financial markets and
institutions. Equity offers by
listed companies. The role
of banks in funding
companies. A value-based
measure of the performance
of managed funds. Mutual
financial institutions. Cost
of Capital.
Iris Bosa
Accounting
Healthcare and social care
sector
Professional accountability
Tom Brown
Accounting
Financial statement
analysis;
Accounting history;
Auditing, accounting
history; Public sector
information system
development.
Yew-Ming Chia
Accounting
Public Sector Accounting;
Accounting education;
Behavioural accounting;
Management Accounting
Systems and Designs
Angelica Gonzalez
Finance
Asset Pricing,
Theoretical and applied
financial econometrics,
Non-Parametric Likelihood,
Bootstrap and related
sampling techniques.
Ingrid Jeacle
Accounting and
everyday life
‘Alternate’ sites of
management accounting
practice (both historical and
contemporary) such as the
role of accounting in the
areas of architecture,
furniture design, tea
drinking, shopping and
cinema
Gavin Kretzschmar CA (SA)
Finance and
Natural Resources
Market, liquidity and Credit
risks Financial Fraud
Detection Basel II Energy
Sector: Global Resource
Ownership Commodity
Market Structures Asset
pricing Oil price volatility
Real options
Irvine Lapsley
Accounting
Public sector accounting
and not-for-profit
organisations
Maria Michou
Finance -
Market efficiency and
Equity Return
Predictability, Market
Anomalies, Asset Pricing,
Behavioural Finance, Cost
of Capital
Falconer Mitchell
Managerial
accounting
Cost-management and
Japanese practice;
Practice in high technology
companies; Activity Based
Costing; Management
accounting change
processes and Management
Accounting in SMEs.
Peter Moles
Finance
Risk; Financial risk
management and risk
management; Asset
valuation; Financial
reconstruction; Foreign
exchange management.
William Rees
Financial Analysis
Accounting based valuation
models, international
accounting and international
financial management.
Pauline Weetman
Accounting
Corporate communication,
Comparative international
accounting
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Broad Area of
Research
Current Interest Target
Area of Research
Sarah Cooper
Entrepreneurship
and new venture
creation
Entrepreneurship,
innovation and growth in
technology businesses and
influences on individual
motivation and capability to
engage in entrepreneurial
behaviour. Learning and
knowledge transfer in
regional technology clusters.
Entrepreneurial self-efficacy
and intent.
Ian Graham
Sociology of
technology
IT standardisation;
sociology of operations
management.
Geoff Gregson
Technology
transfer and
academic
entrepreneurship
Creation and development of
intellectual capital;
Research-patent-innovation
relationship in university
systems; Patent regime
effects on public science;
Commercialisation
processes of high-growth
firms; Knowledge and
support networks;
Evaluation methodologies
for market intervention
programmes.
Ashley Lloyd
Application of
advanced
technologies to
business
processes in order
to improve
competitiveness
Grid Computing, Consumer
Behaviour Modelling,
Customer Relationship
Management, Model-driven
Innovation in New
Product/Service
Development, eBusiness in
Potential Supervisor
Sychronous Electronic
Markets and Virtual
(Synchronous) Industry
Clusters.
Craig Mackenzie
Business and
Climate Change
The drivers and barriers of
corporate climate change
performance
Benchmarking corporate
climate change performance
Corporate accounting and
reporting on climate change
Investment and climate
change
Nick Oliver
Manufacturing
performance and
product
development
Competitiveness in the
automotive industry, the
application of lean business
principles to sectors outside
of the manufacturing sector
and the relationship between
lean principles and brand
identity
Neil Pollock
Sociology of
technology
Information and
communication technologies
(ICT) and their social and
organisational implications;
Design and use of Generic
Software Packages Virtual
universities; Virtual
organisations; e-commerce;
e-government; consultancy
organisations;
Peter Rosa
Entrepreneurship
and economic
development
Developing economies;
Entrepreneurship and the
black economy in Africa;
Habitual entrepreneurship
and the formation of
business groups; Female
entrepreneurship particularly
the supply of female
academic entrepreneurs;
Entrepreneurship and family
businesses.
Strategy and International Business
Broad Area of
Research
Current Interest Target
Area of Research
Chris Carr
Global strategies in
the context of
globalisation;
Issues of market power
versus resource-based
approaches; Role of national
of European champions;
Role of international
strategic alliances and
acquisitions; World best
practice benchmarks in
manufacturing.
Simon Harris
The different ways
that CEOs
internationally
develop strategies
for their firms, and
develop their
operations in other
countries.
Who is involved in
international strategic
development: the CEO’s
relationships with others.
Ling Liu
Strategic
international
management
Emerging markets, Regional
economic integration in East
Asia, Big business and
global business revolution,
Industrial and competitive
policies in China
Development strategy in
developing economies.
Outward FDI from emerging
markets.
Brad MacKay
Strategic
phenomenon.
Competitive strategy, green
strategy, scenario planning
and strategy, strategic
foresight, strategy and risk
and strategic futures
planning.
Monia Mtar
Strategic and
organisational
aspects of
managing
multinational firms
Globalization vs.
localisation; international
expansion; design of
corporate structures and
control; cross-border
mergers and acquisitions;
cross-border transfer of
practices; global learning;
change management.
Impact of national identity
Potential Supervisor
on multinationals'
competitiveness.
Xiaobai Shen
Socio-technical
analysis of
biotechnology and
ICT in China,
focusing on.
The issues of policy,
governance and strategies
Richard Woodward
Knowledge-Based
Entrepreneurship
in new EU member
states
Enterprise networks,
knowledge transfer and
innovation Employee
ownership and other forms
of financial and nonfinancial participation
Management Science and Business Economics
Potential Supervisor
Broad Area of
Research
Current Interest Target
Area of Research
Galina Andreeva
Management Science
Credit scoring and retail
credit risk assessment,
legislative environment of
credit scoring models,
generic scoring models in
EU, cross-country
differences in retail credit
risk patterns, purchase
propensity modelling,
small business risk
assessment.
Thomas Archibald
Management Science
Operations management
policies for start-up
companies;
Parallel computing and
the application of
stochastic dynamic
programming to reservoir
operation; Portfolio
management;
Management of
multilocation inventory
systems; Models for
inventories of perishable
goods; Operation of
networks of water
reservoirs; Maintenance
models for roads, bridges
and buildings.
John Banasik
Management Science
Multi-sectoral
macroeconometric
analysis of the inter-war
British economy and
related issues of historical
national income
accounting;
Business forecasting and
credit scoring models.
Jonathan Crook
Business Economics
Acquisitions and mergers;
Economics of the
consumer credit industry;
Demand and supply of
credit; Credit constraints;
Credit scoring and credit
control.
John Glen
Management Science
Mathematical
programming models for
livestock production;
Models for manpower
planning; Models of
agricultural systems;
Location of facilities;
Models for fisheries
managementMathematical
programming; Models for
discriminant analysis;
Portfolio selection.
Jamal Ouenniche
Management Science
Design & operational
management of
production and
distribution systems;
Production planning &
scheduling; Inventory
management; Routing &
scheduling of vehicles
and crews; Co-ordination
of decisions along the
supply chain; Forecasting;
Design & implementation
of flexibility in uncertain
environments;
Performance
Measurement and
Evaluation; Operations
research & its
applications to business.
Marketing
Current Interest
Target Area of
Research
Potential Supervisor
Broad Area of Research
Jake Ansell
Risk Management
Economic statistics and
indices;
Housing market
research; Reliability;
Expert systems; Risk
management and
assessment.
Tina Harrison
Marketing
Financial services
marketing: market
segmentation;
Consumer behaviour and
loyalty; the internet;
pensions.
Essam Ibrahim
Marketing strategy
Market orientation,
strategy formulation,
implementation and
performance
measurement.
Competitive behaviour
modelling; International
marketing. Online-based
marketing strategy in the
UK banking industry.
David Marshall
Consumer behaviour and
marketing
food industry, health
issues and change,
marketing to children,
consumption and music.
Stephanie O'Donohoe
Advertising production
and consumption
Theories and practices of
advertising consumption,
particularly in relation to
young people's
advertising literacy and
views of advertising as
texts to be read.
Children's relationship
with advertising and
marketing
communications.
Consumers' interactions
with the marketplace as
their family
circumstances change.
Angela Tregear
Marketing in small
businesses
Market orientation and
behaviour in small firms
(particularly in craft
firms; co-operation and
collective action).
Marketing in agrifood
and rural contexts.
Origin as a marketing
resource.
Organisation Studies
Current Interest
Target Area of
Research
Potential Supervisor
Broad Area of Research
Colin Duncan
Employment Relations
James Hine
Business and Organizational Ethical theory,
Ethics
managerial ethics and
the impact of corporate
social responsibility.
Tony Kinder
Public Sector Management
Wage determination;
Pay systems
Low pay; Age
discrimination, ageism;
equal opportunitism;
"Fattism" and
discrimination on
grounds of personal
appearance Payment
systems; IR development
in the public sector.
Service innovation and
learning
Innovation in China
Product and service
innovation (especially eServices) Lean services
Public Administration
mangement and
modernisation Learning
organisations, learning
regions and value flows
in supply chains
Wendy Loretto
Industrial
Relations/Organisation
Studies
The effects of
organisational change on
employee health and
wellbeing; investigation
of age-based
discrimination in
employment, and
changing approaches to
managing diversity and
equal opportunities.
Brian Main
Business Economics
Top Executive Pay;
New Economics of
Personnel; Corporate
Governance.
Sandra Nutley
Public Management
The use of research,
evidence-based policy
and practice, public
service audit and
inspection, public
management reform,
managing change and
human resource
management.
Stephen Osborne
International Public
Management
Partnership, Public
Management Reform,
Voluntary and NonProfit Organizations,
Services Management,
Public Policy
Jill Schofield
Health Care Management
Management of Public
Services, specifically in
respect of Health Care
and particularly with
reference to how
Government strategic
policies impact upon the
operational lives of
public sector workers.