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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

Research interests:

  • Credit Risk
  • Financial Regulations
  • Sustainability
  • Systemic Risk

Research interests:

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.

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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:

Asset pricing and high frequency trading.

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

Research interests:

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:

Comparative social policy analysis.

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

Research interests:

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:

  • Digital CSR Communication
  • SMEs
  • Social media

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:

  • Digital transformation
  • ESG
  • Sustainability

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

Research interests:

  • Social care
  • Long-term care
  • Policy process

Research interests:

Digital nomads; New ways to work