Postgraduate researchers

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Auditors' Professional Scepticism and Moral Reasoning Impact on decision-making.

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Approved mental health professionals and the compulsory detention of Black service-users under the Mental Health Act: An Institutional Ethnography.

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Financial Inclusion.

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The disclosure of eco-justice in Saudi firms' reports.

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An investigative study into child protection legal framework and training provision to social workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Sociomateriality/Work-life balance/Professional Services Firms/Digital Transformation/Work-intensification.

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Hybrid entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship motivation; self-employment; transition to full-time entrepreneurship; transition intention.

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Resources and capabilities in ecosystems.

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The Policy Process in Mexico: Development of Obesity Policy and Sugar Tax.

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The socio-economic relationships within government subsidised housing policy and consider the social implications of recent changes in policy direction.

Siobhan Callaghan

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A comparative analysis of OECD countries' drug policy typologies, welfare regimes and socio-economic characteristics in shaping drug related outcomes.

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Climate change adaptation by the private sector and the impact of digital sustainability.

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The decline of rail transported UK seasonal produce, the growth of road transport and the dominance of retail over suppliers.

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Contributions to understanding criminal career paths and homelessness in Uruguay.

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Welfare benefits, low pay, corporate welfare, business influence on social policy.

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Management, organisational culture and social support impacting staff.

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UK Multinational Strategy: Corporate Political Activity in a Post Pandemic Market.

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Home and homelessness, housing and homelessness policy, street-level bureaucracy.

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Differential treatment in the workplace of employees from racialised ethnic groups.

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Youth policy in the post-Anti-Extradition Bill movement era in Hong Kong.

Senior Lecturer

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Everyday organisational life: organisational secrecy, (confidential) gossip, silence, and temporality.

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Driving collaboration across the entrepreneurial ecosystem to achieve food system transformation, enabling and scaling hybrid business models, cross-sector partnerships, social equity.

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The transnational home: the experience around the meaning and making home for Grenadian transnational households.

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Dementia research, research methods and innovative approaches to measuring outcomes.

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The universal two-child policy and gender inequality in mainland China.

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Concepts of masculine and feminine, perceptions and imbalances in today's leadership model, and their impact on innovation, diversity and sustainability.

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Vine copulas, backtesting.

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Precarious work; digitalisation of work, particularly of adult entertainment; atypical employment relations, including platform work and false self-employment; the sex and adult industries; stigmatised works.

Samuel Hinrichs

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Contracting of control: how do bouncers police drugs in a nightclub setting.

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Fabian Hoeft is particularly interested in capabilities of incumbent car manufacturers and shifts in automotive global value chains.

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Open innovation and Political tie in China.

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Asset pricing and high frequency trading.

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Gender equality in the workplace, work and diversity, inclusive, fertility policy and family policy, two-child and three-child policy.

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Electronic word-of-mouth on social networking sites.

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A Comparative Perspective on the Framing of Apprenticeships in Their Cultural and Historical Context.

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Cryptocurrencies, FinTech, Monetary Policies, Macroeconomics, Stock Markets, DeFi, Digital Moneys, Central Banks.

Alison Inceu

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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.

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Behavioural biases in the stock market.

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Is ethical consumerism an oxymoron?

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Consumer behaviour, consumer psychology, social marketing, healthy eating, social media impact, social and learning difficulties.

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Organising the digital economy; body work and body labour; gender; space and time; power relations at work.

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Food insecurity, just transition to net zero, corporations and food insecurity, comparative policy.

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Child Sexual Exploitation within the South Asian Community: Exploring the support available, implemented and required by victims from frontline services in order to help equip them with confidence to report the abuse.

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Social marketing, pro-environmental behaviour, water conservation, moral decision making, social norms influence, ethical consumption.

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Child and youth's participation in Thailand social policy.

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Comparative social policy analysis.

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Internationalisation of Professional Associations and Global Relevancy of their Certification.

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To study the causal links between technological progress and the minimum wage policy change.

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Corporate sustainability; social marketing; corporate social responsibility in controversial industries; Organisational strategies for wellbeing and social change.

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Market efficiency, cryptocurrencies and asset pricing.

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Employment relations in Chinese state-owned enterprises; guanxi; trade unions; employee voice; employee resistance.

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Processes, experiences and outcomes for older adults who self-fund housing adaptations.

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My research interests are: Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Lean Product and Process Development, Advance Manufacturing Technology, Sheet metal forming, Organisational behaviour and theory, Business strategy.

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Crowding-out or crowding-in? Re-examining the roles of the state and family in providing for the aged in China.

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Stock volatility, high frequency data, high frequency trading and asset pricing.

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Performance measurement and management in the NHS.

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Supply chain resilience, sustainability, operation management.

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Gender inequity, marriage and family policy.

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To investigate overcoming the constraints to effective supply chain management practices in the healthcare sector of developing countries.

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Extracting Sectoral Equity Risk Premia from CDS Spreads.

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UK Agricultural Public Policy implications for primary production.

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An analysis on whether women working in universities face gender inequality and glass ceiling phenomenal in their workplace? Case study of UK universities.

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Characterising the structure and nature of social connectedness in populations living with impairment.

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Investment funds, systemic risk, risk management, econometrics, macroprudential supervision.

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Gender policy implementation and emerging outcomes in the pathway towards organisational change.

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Occupational Trauma Psychology, Disaster and Emergency Services work, Employee mental wellbeing.

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The connection between body image and eating behaviour while considering the role of a consumer's mood and self-esteem.

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Empirical Asset Pricing, Factor Models and Financial Econometrics.

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Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Strategies for Multinational Corporation.

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Corporate governance, family governance, family companies, organisational conflict.

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Lab-Grown/Cultivated Meat, Climate Change Mitigation, Food Systems Sustainability.

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Impact investing, SMEs, agriculture, forestry, developing countries.

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Sustainability, sustainability marketing, digital marketing, consumer behaviour, reputation and brand management.

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Policing mental health: A realist evaluation of street triage.

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Human resource management, discriminatory practices at work, diversity management, promotion of inclusive organisational culture, migration experiences and high performance teams. 

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Social enterprise (SE), social value, network analysis, multiple stakeholders.

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Sustainable supply chain management and non-governmental organisations.

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Crisis management; social media analytics; big data analytics; text mining; customer social media behaviours; social-media driven decision-making.

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Leadership, new materialism and affect.

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Utilising the ‘Cultural Theory of Risk' to establish whether there is a dominant cultural bias within FinTech institutions.

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Decision making, leadership teams, adult education, organisational design and behaviour, strategy and planning.

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1970s British megaprojects cancelled before completion.

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Work-life balance and its issues that have an impact on professional women at work, the idea of maternal bodies for professional women particularly post-maternity leave.

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International business, competitiveness, cross-border trade, foreign direct investment and emerging markets.

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Social marketing, marketing, social change, behaviour change, public policies, stakeholder marketing, value co-creation.

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City branding, international brand communication.

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A longitudinal study into the views of alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour on the definition of anti-social behaviour and the success or otherwise of related interventions.

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The dignity of older people in long-term care service: perspectives from Taiwan.

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Unweaving the web: Using a mixed methods approach to understand the role and contribution of mental health social work to the delivery of mental health services in England and Wales.

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The inclusivity of community social care - experiences of staff and LGBTQ+ people who use services.

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International business, operation management, international joint venture, emerging market multinationals.

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Comparative social housing policy, social policy analysis, housing inequality and poverty.

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The role of social media abuse in gender-based violence: the challenge of vituperative communication in the age of new technology.

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In light of the 'Prison Crisis', what are the explanations of, and solutions to, violence within prison? A qualitative study of prisoners' and prison staffs' perceptions of the current prison environment within England and Wales using a GST theoretical framework.

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Stock market, oil market.

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Constructing a gendered welfare typology of six East Asian societies.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

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Equality, diversity and inclusion, workforce gender equality, males in the female-dominated workplace.

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The influence of eWOM on purchase intention, CSR communication.

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Inequality in China’s current pension system: analysing urban-rural difference and the gender gap.

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Sustainable supply chains in the manufacturing industry.

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Cultural change and long-term care in China: transition of the role of family for care provision.

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Human resource management, international human resource management, overseas assignment, expatriates, multinational companies, qualitative research, self-leadership, flexible working arrangements, occupational segregation.