Postgraduate researchers
Research interests:
- Enterprise Risk Management
- International Business
Research interests:
Statistical machine learning for asset management; Time‑series momentum and trend‑following strategies; Cost‑aware portfolio optimisation and execution; Market regime-specific financial investment strategies; Robustness and parsimony across assets, horizons and market regimes and Reinforcement learning for sequential investment decisions
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- Credit Risk
- Financial Regulations
- Sustainability
- Systemic Risk
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An investigative study into child protection legal framework and training provision to social workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Research interests:
Sociomateriality/Work-life balance/Professional Services Firms/Digital Transformation/Work-intensification.
Suzan Bezant
Research interests:
- Mental health policing
- Multi-agency partnerships
- Lived experience perspectives
- Emergency mental health care
Research interests:
- Mixed communities and social control
- Housing policy
- Urban planning and liveability
- Social connections
Research interests:
- Professionalisation
- Development of the paramedic profession
- Strategic leadership
- Legal aspects of paramedic practice
Research interests:
- Vulnerability
- Racialisation and ethnicity in relation to policing
- Islamophobia
- Social control and its expansion
- Surveillance Studies
- Policy alternatives to Prevent
- Policy approaches to police abolition
Research interests:
The decline of rail transported UK seasonal produce, the growth of road transport and the dominance of retail over suppliers.
Research interests:
Trauma; Adverse experiences; Child protection; Parenting; Child and family social work
Research interests:
Welfare benefits, low pay, corporate welfare, business influence on social policy.
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Management, organisational culture and social support impacting staff.
Research interests:
- Climate justice
- Environmental justice
- Global social policy
- Eco-social policy
Research interests:
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Sustainable finance
Research interests:
- Healthcare
- Systems and networks
- Inequalities
- Leadership
- Partnership work
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Youth policy in the post-Anti-Extradition Bill movement era in Hong Kong.
Research interests:
Health and social care; Policy process theories; Policy learning and experimentation; Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) methods
Research interests:
- Food system transformation
- Hybrid business
- Social innovation
Research interests:
Dementia research, research methods and innovative approaches to measuring outcomes.
Research interests:
The universal two-child policy and gender inequality in mainland China.
Research interests:
Organisational and Leadership Theories, Systems Innovation and Systemic Biomimicry, Responsible Innovation, Feminist Theory, Relational Theory.
Research interests:
Gender, Work and Organisation; Public Policy; Organisational Behaviour; Interdisciplinary Study; Visual Storytelling; Work and Diversity; Inclusive; Fertility Policy and Family Policy & Two-Child and Three-Child Policy
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A Comparative Perspective on the Framing of Apprenticeships in Their Cultural and Historical Context.
Research interests:
Cryptocurrencies, FinTech, Monetary Policies, Macroeconomics, Stock Markets, DeFi, Digital Moneys, Central Banks.
Alison Inceu
Research interests:
The Barriers to Higher Education Faced by Care Leavers: A Focus on the Mental Health Provision Available to Care Leavers in the Transition to Higher Education.
Research interests:
Earnings Prediction, Machine Learning, Arbitrage Opportunities, Liquidity Trends, Inefficient Market, Behavioural Finance
Research interests:
- Power
- Food systems
- Livestock
- Climate change
- Animal welfare
Research interests:
Internationalisation of Professional Associations and Global Relevancy of their Certification.
Research interests:
Corporate sustainability; social marketing; corporate social responsibility in controversial industries; Organisational strategies for wellbeing and social change.
Research interests:
vulnerabilities of blockchain ecosystems, impact on market dynamics and investor behaviour
Research interests:
Employment relations in Chinese state-owned enterprises; guanxi; trade unions; employee voice; employee resistance.
Research interests:
Processes, experiences and outcomes for older adults who self-fund housing adaptations.
Research interests:
- Supply chain management
- Digital supply chain
- Sustainable supply chain
Research interests:
- COVID-19 waves
- Firm-level characteristics
- Firm’s performance during COVID-19
Research interests:
Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Lean Product and Process Development, Advance Manufacturing Technology, Organisational behaviour and theory, Business strategy
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Analysing the impact of investor sentiment on market volatility in the Chinese stock market using behavioural finance and economic theories.
Research interests:
- Volatility Spillover Effect
- Prediction
- Hedge
- Safe Haven
- ICO
Research interests:
- Family policy
- Gender equality
- Media Interaction in policy implementation
Research interests:
Food consumption practices, food waste, practice based interventions & social marketing, sustainable consumption, ethical consumption.
Research interests:
Dynamics of gender inequality within the contexts of family; marriage; childcare; gendered patterns in household labour; caregiving responsibilities & marriage outcomes and decisions
Research interests:
- Multiple disadvantage
- Feminism (care ethics)
- Arts-based participatory research methods
- Social work
Research interests:
Investment funds, systemic risk, risk management, econometrics, macroprudential supervision.
Research interests:
Gender policy implementation and emerging outcomes in the pathway towards organisational change.
Research interests:
Inclusive HRM Policies, Human Rights, Managing Gender Identity at workplace, Transgender Employees at workplace, Feminism, Gender Equality etc.
Research interests:
Lab-Grown/Cultivated Meat, Climate Change Mitigation, Food Systems Sustainability.
Research interests:
- Postcapitalism
- Alternative Organisations
- Social Enterprises
- Diverse Economies
- Public Service Ecosystems
Research interests:
Policing mental health: A realist evaluation of street triage.
Research interests:
Human resource management, discriminatory practices at work, diversity management, promotion of inclusive organisational culture, migration experiences and high performance teams.
Research interests:
- Homelessness and Housing
- Social Mobility
- Social Enterprise
Research interests:
- Social enterprises
- Social entrepreneurship
- Multiple stakeholders collaboration
- Social value creation
Research interests:
- Dementia
- Care homes
- Older adults social care
- Decision making
- Transitions in social care
Research interests:
- Welfare State
- Gendered and Racialised Inequalities
- Poverty Stigma
- Role of the Voluntary Sector in Welfare Provision
- Welfare Rights Advice
Research interests:
Analysing cyclical behaviour in financial markets; Risk management practices; Momentum strategies; Macroeconomic indicators; Sectoral variables; Dow Theory; The Efficient Market Hypothesis & Behavioural Finance
Research interests:
- Pension
- Social policy
- Social protection
- Healthcare system
Yucheng Qian
Research interests:
- Carbon Emissions
- Environmental Policy
- Real Earnings Management
- Corporate Environmental Accountability
Research interests:
- Restorative Justice
- Victimology
- Sexual violence
- Policy transfer
Research interests:
1970s British megaprojects cancelled before completion.
Research interests:
- Education
- Sustainable development
- Poverty Alleviation
- Equality
- Skills development
Research interests:
- Comparative Policy Analysis
- Labour Market and Social Security Policies
- East Asian Welfare
- Precarity Work and Employment
Research interests:
- Healthcare
- Cross-border collaboration
- Qualitative methods
- Computational social science
Research interests:
International business, competitiveness, cross-border trade, foreign direct investment and emerging markets.
Research interests:
Decision making; Organizational structure & behaviour; Organizational learning; Adult education; Strategy; Planning; Organizational culture.
Research interests:
The inclusivity of community social care - experiences of staff and LGBTQ+ people who use services.
Research interests:
- Applied research, which aims to make a practical difference to the lives of those delivering and receiving care.
- Co-production methodologies to improve the implementation success of resources and training.
Research interests:
The effects of identity in high commitment and high control organizations
Research interests:
Male nursery teachers; Female-dominated workplace; Intersectionality; Doing gender; Masculinity
Research interests:
The influence of eWOM on purchase intention, CSR communication.
Research interests:
- Unpaid care
- Care policy
- Feminism
- Social justice
- Reproductive justice
Research interests:
Menopause in the Workplace; Migrant Workforce Experiences; Cross-Cultural Health Perceptions (UK/China); The Common-Sense Model (CSM) of Self-Regulation; Workplace Equity and Inclusive Policy (HRM and IHRM) & Intersectional Discrimination (Gender, Age, Race, Migration Status)
Research interests:
- Financial Modelling
- Market Microstructure
- Quantitative Finance and Econometrics
- Sustainable and Responsible Investing