Our people

Research interests:

Corporate governance, Social network analysis, corporate disclosure/narratives, Diversity, CSR, Sustainability, Shared economy, Public audit, and Accountability.

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My research focus is concerned with developing understanding in the area of entrepreneurship and context, and I am particularly interested in sociological and institutional theoretical lenses. 

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• Welfare reform
• Welfare conditionality and sanctions
• Gender citizenship

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Empirical finance, behavioural finance, bubbles, investment.

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Financial Regulation, Financial Services, Competition. My research examines financial services and utility industries, sustainability, the pricing of financial services, mis-selling and cross-subsidies. Underlying all these studies I am interested in how we might enhance the regulatory approaches to oversee these markets. This interdisciplinary work has involved a diversity of policy work to improve how these markets operate. I have examined these areas using unique proprietary data sets and try to innovate using statistical approaches.

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Modelling and simulation, sustainable manufacturing practices, industrial eco-efficiency, energy modelling, performance improvement, environmental practice diffusion, productivity, resource efficiency.

Research interests:

Human-AI Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Social Media, Experimental Design, Eye-tracking.

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• People who pay for their social care (self-funders)
• Social care in later life
• Service improvement and innovation

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Managing change, gender, qualitative, privatisation, technology, corruption.

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• Disabled or chronically ill children and adolescents and their families
• Service provision and multi-agency working
• Developing methodologies for research with children

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• Family support
• Adoption; foster care
• Family reunification

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• Adult social care
• Older people
• Self Funders
• Dementia
• Capacity Building in social care 

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• Poverty and social exclusion
• Comparative research
• Child wellbeing

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• Homelessness and housing exclusion
• Social enterprise service models
• Service evaluation

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• Global development 
• Technology and agrarian change
• Philanthropic foundations

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• Vulnerable young people
• The concept of 'vulnerability'
• The sex industry

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His PhD research focusses on Climate Change (CC), digital technologies and innovative business models to tackle CC, where he is looking into the value proposition of emerging highly innovative companies from the UK and the rest of Europe, looking into the barriers and opportunities they face, the way they measure their positive impact on the planet and how their offering is, in some cases, closely connected to ecosystem services. His research aims to contribute to management theory and provide useful recommendations for practitioners in this sector.

He also collaborates in research projects related to Net Zero developed by the SBS and other institutions in the UK.

Research interests:

• Labour markets, self-employment and welfare reform
• Comparative social policy
• Political economy of welfare states

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• Social work and child neglect
• Gender and child neglect
• Evaluation of social intervention

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• Public policy
• Comparative social policy
• Governance

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Current research interests and projects

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the voluntary sector

Public service management

Widening participation in education

Role of interest groups in policy development

Privatisation of public services and mixed economy of welfare

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History, Management, Strategy, Industry.

Research interests:

• Impact of donor assisted conception and surrogacy
• Women and children in Uganda and Pakistan
• Use of human rights approaches

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Design innovation, organisational capabilities, creative industries, digital technologies.

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Research interests:

• Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people
• Refugee and migrant youth
• Care leavers

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Quantitative risk modelling; multivariate analysis; actuarial science; empirical asset pricing.

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• History of social policy
• Comparative social security
• Governance of public institutions 

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• Outcomes for children and adolescents in and on the edges of care
• Leaving care
• Innovative approaches to working with vulnerable young people

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• Social citizenship
• Welfare conditionality
• Qualitative methods

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Employee networks; bullying, harassment and discrimination; critical diversity management; inclusion/exclusion; LGBTQI+ workplace experiences.

Research interests:

Organization Theory, Critical Management Studies, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Methods, Secrecy, Organizational Communication, Gossip, Silence, Temporality, Transparency, Liminal Space.

Research interests:

• Political economy of welfare state
• The power and influence of business on social and public policy
• Corporate welfare

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• Comparative social policy
• Gender and the welfare state
• Family policy

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Knowledge, wisdom, management history, railways, how people learn, public services.

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Modelling and simulation of organisational behaviour, data mining and analytics, impact of Big Data analytics on privacy and liberty.

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Employee wellbeing, personal development

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Marketing, projects, history.

Research interests:

Talent Management, Comparative and International HRM, Institutional Theory and Logics, Outsourcing and HR Transformation.

Research interests:

• Social services, paying for care
• Older people
• Disabled people 

Research interests:

• Victimisation
• Illicit drug use
• Administration of justice

Research interests:

• Adult safeguarding
• Personalisation
• Social care workforce

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Calling, mission, cause, Volunteer Management, Volunteering, Creative Industries, Women-only spaces, Emotions Management, Emotional Labour, Art and activism, Care ethics, Collective organising, Arts based methods.

Research interests:

• People with dementia and their carers
• Research methods involving people with dementia
• Social care self-funders

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Ethnography, analysis of workplaces where there are mixed species, human-animal relations, ethics of food production, animal welfare and care.

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Agribusiness, agrifood, sustainability, strategy, entrepreneurship, risk management.

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• Youth and adult offending
• Social work and criminal justice
• Risk assessment and management

Research interests:

• Clinical psychology and mental health
• Dementia (personhood and positive approaches)
• Charity, international development and volunteering

Research interests:

• Unpaid caregiving
• Social security, employment and disability
• Bereavement 

Research interests:

• Biomarkers and behaviour
• Sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Gender and generations 

Research interests:

• International and global social policy
• Global health policy
• Corporate influence on health and social policy

Research interests:

Business History; fraud; entrepreneurship; family business.

Research interests:

• International Development
• Local nongovernmental organisations
• Community level programme delivery
• Creative postcolonial methods within international development research
• Development as freedom and capability approach
• Theory of Justice

Research interests:

• Comparative social policy
• Political economy of welfare
• The policy process

Research interests:

Family business

Social entrepreneurship

Family entrepreneurship

Small business

Research interests:

Sustainable supply chains, management of disruptions to distribution/logistics, high value manufacturing and complexity in the supply chain.

Research interests:

Real Options, Optimal Stopping, Game Theory, Theoretical Economics, Industrial Organisation, Corporate Finance, Investment under Uncertainty, Mechanism Design.

Research interests:

• Comparative social policy analysis
• The policy making process
• Political economy of welfare

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Study of fun, humour and happiness at work, precarious work in the creative industries.

Research interests:

• International, global and comparative social policy
• Austerity and welfare state change
• Gender, work and social policy

Research interests:

Epistemology, Politics, Lived experience, Cross disciplinary learning, Philosophy of language, Reflexive approaches to learning.

Research interests:

• Adult social care
• Mental health
• Older people, dementia, long-term conditions, self-funders

Research interests:

Sustainability; supply chain management; resilience.

Research interests:

Migrant workers, trade unions, employment relation, ethnography, art activism, participatory research, social movement, emotional labour, art-based research methods, social justice, sociology of work.

Research interests:

• Mental health law, policy and practice
• Social Work with young people
• The policy-practice relationship

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I make use of historical methods and historical sources to understand contemporary problems, mainly focusing on British business or British owned business operating internationally. My previous research has focused on how organisations use their pasts to achieve their contemporary goals, with much of my research focusing on the British banking industry. I am also interested in corporate archives, concepts of authenticity, organisational memory, sensemaking and sensegiving and am currently conducting research on the wrestling industry and the video games industry.

Research interests:

Social marketing, food, food waste, healthy eating, alcohol consumption, behaviour and social change, food policies, ethical consumption, consumer culture and sociology of food, practice theory, ethnographic research, experimental research and eye-tracking.

Research interests:

Marketing and Sales Alignment, B2B Marketing and Sales, Value and Value Propositions, Competitive Advantage, Differentiation, Marketing Competencies.

Research interests:

• Poverty
• Child wellbeing
• Fiscal welfare and inequality
• Quantitative research methods

Research interests:

• Families and inequalities
• Family environments and child wellbeing in the early years
• Family change in developed countries

Research interests:

Professions, Professional Regulation, Professional Firms (Law and Consulting), Public Management, Outsourcing, Comparative Institutions impacting on the workforce, Flexibility and Temporary Employment.

Research interests:

• Communication in social work
• Applied conversation analysis
• Systems theory and group work practice 

Research interests:

Gender, Diversity, Postcolonialism, Feminist, employment relations, global south, cross-cultural.

Research interests:

Qualitative, employee wellbeing, diary studies, human resources, experience of older workers, role of technology on wellbeing, social media and wellbeing, future of work, work life balance, psychological contract.

Research interests:

• Comparative and global social policy analysis
• Social investment and productive welfare policy
• Child wellbeing and benefit stigma 

Research interests:

• Health inequalities
• Housing and home
• Online research methods

Research interests:

• Research involving older people with cognitive impairment
• Conversation Analysis
• Ethnography

Research interests:

Mary Douglas, risk, risk reporting.

Research interests:

Gender, post-feminism, masculinity; Culture, change, continuity; Aesthetics, affect, symbolism; Poetics, language, story; Humanizing organization; Critical management, reflexivity, learning, development; Creativity and creative work and occupations.

Research interests:

• Criminal justice responses to drug use: prisons, probation and police
• Drug policy
• Stigmatisation and recovery of people who use drugs

Research interests:

• Housing policy
• Comparative welfare states
• Policy analysis 

Research interests:

Social marketing; health behaviour change; transformative consumer and service research; food wellbeing; participatory methods; co-creation; community-based interventions; ethics and critical marketing.

Research interests:

• Health and social services management and delivery
• Welfare policy
• Medical tourism

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Yujia's research interest lies in investigating the relationship between supply chain resilience and sustainability. She has worked on research with a range of research methods: (a) panel data analysis, (b) social network analysis, (c) data envelop analysis (DEA), and (d) mathematical modelling.

Research interests:

• Social protection
• Social policy in fragile states
• Global governance of social policy

Research interests:

• Using people's experiences of adult social care to guide service improvements
• Innovation in adult social care
• Qualitative research methods

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Financial markets, behavioural finance, asset pricing and portfolio management, stock marketing trading, high frequency trading, cryptocurrency trading.

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Filippos’s research investigates the intersection of empirical labour economics, organisational practices, and family. His research primarily focuses on examining the connections between family dynamics, gender norms, workplace practices, and employment outcomes through microeconometric applications. Filippos is also interested in identifying potential public and social policy implications arising from his
research.

Research interests:

Organisational change; leadership; identity; qualitative methods.

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Sociology of Work; Critical Management Studies; Professionals and White-Collar Work; Uniformed Services; Emergency Services; History of Management; History of Universities; Military; Qualitative Methods; Ethnography.

Research interests:

Quantitative financial risk management, actuarial science. Projects of a highly mathematical nature.

Research interests:

Play, learning, ethics, pedagogy, serious games, culture, gamification, training.

Research interests:

Social studies of finance, imperialism, organisational modelling and complexity, business/management history, international business theory.

Research interests:

• Youth mental health
• Policing and mental health
• Budgets - outcomes for service users and informal carers

Research interests:

• The healthcare experiences of children and young people with life-limiting conditions; 
• The lived experiences and support needs of autistic people and their families across the lifespan;
• The prevention of stress and burnout in healthcare staff. 

Research interests:

Equality, wage outcomes, tenure, job satisfaction, networking.

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Professional occupations and organisations.

Research interests:

• Carers, mental health carers and young carers
• Loneliness and isolation
• Co-production of research and social care services

Research interests:

Airline pilots, gender issues, gender at work, women pilots, human factors.

Research interests:

• Long-term mental health conditions
• Social interventions in the community and prisons
• Quantitative and qualitative research

Research interests:

• Veterans and military welfare
• Scoping study methods
• Crime prevention and community safety

Research interests:

• Prisons
• Policing
• Third sector agencies in the CJS

Research interests:

Digital Marketing and Online Consumer Behaviour. I am interested to supervise projects focusing on enhancing technology-mediated user experiences, framing online marketing communications, understanding user-brand interactions, preserving brand's reputation from fake news, exploring peer-to-peer marketplaces, and investigating consumer journey as well as decision-making processes.

Research interests:

Tourism development, ecotourism, stakeholders, sustainability, pro-poor development, Central Asia, visitor economy.

Research interests:

Sustainability marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility, brand management, international marketing, marketing strategy, digital marketing.

Research interests:

• Boundaries in the health and social care system
• Models of health care 'closer to home'
• Research and policy-making 

Research interests:

• Poverty, social security and welfare reform
• Welfare conditionality, sanctions and welfare-to-work
• Participatory approaches

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My research interests are in the areas of public sector accounting and accountability, NGO accountability, financial reporting, and accounting quality.

Research interests:

Corporate Governance and executive compensation.

Research interests:

• Interdisciplinary research
• Comparative research
• Housing and social justice

Research interests:

Social enterprise, public management, services marketing, value co-creation, hybrid organizing, public service logic.

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• Housing, risk and safety nets, homelessness and support services
• Young people
• European perspectives

Research interests:

Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes, Markov Processes, Risk Theory, Levy Processes.

Research interests:

• Child wellbeing
• Child maltreatment
• Looked-after children

Research interests:

• Self-employment, labour market policies and social protection
• Democratisation of public services
• Politics of welfare

Research interests:

• Qualitative and ethnographic research methods
• Palliative care work
• Relationships at the end of life

Research interests:

Open and user innovation, co-creation, marketing & innovation, ecosystems.

Research interests:

• Public and project management
• The management of change
• Organisational learning

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• Comparative and international social policy
• Social research methods
• Employment, pensions and family

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Poverty, wealth, economic inequality, social security, tax systems

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Employment relations/HRM, MNCs, corporate social responsibility, international labour standards, employee voice and codetermination, atypical work, gig economy, emotional labour, international and national trade unions, union organizing.

Research interests:

• The private rented sector
• Housing assistance and the welfare system
• Landlord and tenant housing behaviours

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Şule's research interests lie in the area of stochastic investment models for long-term applications, mortality modelling and compensation for loss of earnings.

Research interests:

• Welfare reform and Universal Credit
• Employment and disability
• Comparative social policy 

Research interests:

• Practice-research relationship
• Qualitative methods
• History of social work and sociology 

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Corporate governance, political connection, family firm, earnings management.

Research interests:

• Foster Care
• Treatment foster care
• Residential care for children

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Research interests:

• Sustainable development
• Social inequality
• Environmental policy

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My current research interests lie the area of empirical finance. More specific, my interests include hedge funds, mutual funds, stock market behaviour and issues in corporate finance.

Research interests:

• Young people leaving care, including empirical, comparative and historical research
• Neglected and maltreated teenagers
• The history and rights of young people living in and leaving care

Research interests:

• Supporting families of children with disabilities
• Providing support services for carers
• Encouraging change in health behaviours

Research interests:

Managing workplace mental health, wellbeing, small business, line managers, presenteeism, work life balance, Healthcare workforce.

Research interests:

European Union; single European market; security and defence; HE internationalization; social capital; HE pedagogy.

Research interests:

• Practice education
• Learning disabilities, including transitions
• Palliative care

Research interests:

• Systemic Social Work with children and families
• Attachment and trauma informed parenting work
• Relationship based supervision practice

Research interests:

Currently, my core research interests are:

• Working class culture
• Politics
• Levelling Up ‘left behind’ places
• Social harm
• The Covid-19 pandemic

I am interested in supervising PhD students particularly in the areas above. If you are a student interested in undertaking a thesis in the areas above, please email me.

Research interests:

Management history, business history, corporate governance, sport management.

Research interests:

Real options, Stochastic control, Optimal stopping.

Research interests:

• Parenting
• Academic achievement
• Racial and economic inequality

Research interests:

• Public policy and administration
• Regulation
• Integrity policies

Research interests:

Psychoanalysis, leadership, skills, identity, emotions, mental health / wellbeing, small businesses.

Research interests:

• Mental health social work
• Professional roles in mental health
• Social interventions in mental health

Research interests:

• Social housing
• Neighbourhoods
• Inequality

Research interests:

Business in society, Context, Cross-cultural studies, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), Global North, Global South, Human Resource Management, Qualitative methods, Social identity.

Research interests:

• Youth justice
• Risk and professional decision making
• Probation and youth offending team practices

Research interests:

International Marketing, entrepreneurial/small-business marketing, consumer behaviour, food and drink sector.

Research interests:

• Sustainable homeownership
• Low cost homeownership
• Housing markets

Research interests:

I am now working on several projects studying follower survival strategies, follower-leader distance, indirect leadership, follower/employee silence and employee struggles of (semi-)professional working life in finance industry. I am particularly interested in exploring these within virtual/ digitalized workplaces, temporary/non-standard work relations and non-western contexts.

Research interests:

• Mental health social work
• Development and evaluation of social interventions
• Social capital and social inclusion

Research interests:

Consumer, consumer behaviour, sustainability, pro-environmental behaviour, social marketing, pubs, public houses, alcohol, consumer co-operatives, foraging.

Research interests:

• Youth and social policy
• Teenage pregnancy and parenthood
• Qualitative research methods

Research interests:

• Social care in later life
• Social work and mental health
• Measurement and psychometrics

Research interests:

Critical Management Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Critical Research Methodologies, Archival Research, Discursive practices - especially concerning heroes and heroism.

Research interests:

• Corporate Philanthropy
• Cross-sectoral Partnerships
• SMEs’ resilience
• Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
• Temporary Organisations
• SunTze’s the Art of War: Implications for Resilient Leadership
• Adversity in Space and Time
• Transformative Value Creation: A Stakeholder Perspective

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Research Interests
• Comparative social policy
• Family policy
• Research involving support for older people