Business
The Business School undertakes research across a wide range of management issues in the private, public and non-profit sectors. We adopt a flexible, practice- based approach derived from the experience and expertise of our staff.
We offer the following research degrees:
- MPhil
- PhD
- Doctor of Coaching and Mentoring.
Support
You can expect:
- Supervision from top-class academics
- Research training and development of your transferable skills, from giving presentations to using quantitative data
- A vibrant interdisciplinary perspective
- A lively programme of seminars, lectures, workshops and other events
- Excellent library facilities including support from subject librarians
- Support from the Business School’s dedicated Research Office.
Research Areas
You can undertake research degrees in the following areas:
Accounting, Finance and Economics
- Corporate governance: how companies are directed and made accountable to stakeholders
- Influence of government policies on the governance of organisations
- Internal organisational accountability processes
- Ethical, social, historical and international perspectives on governance
- External financial reporting and audit mechanisms
- International trade and investment
- International income distribution and international development.
Business and Management
- Coaching and mentoring
- Entrepreneurship and organisational creativity
- Cross-cultural management
- Individual and organisational learning
- Employment relations and human resource management
- Occupational psychology
- Diversity management
- Business history
- Business strategy, including mergers and acquisitions
- International business.
Marketing
- The concept and practice of gifting within the context of tourism
- Consumer dissatisfaction with continuous service providers such as utilities and banks
- Management of multiple channels
- Non-standard marketing channels such as farmers' markets and channels for passing on used goods such as books
- Customer selection criteria for choosing discount retail outlets
- Electronic marketing from the perspective of services and the wine industry
- The internationalisation of SMEs and public policy.
Pedagogy
- Quality management in higher education
- Student learning
- Assessment and feedback strategies
- Internationalisation of the curriculum and multi-cultural learning.
Research Centres
- The Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice
- ASKe (Assessment Standards Knowledge exchange) Governance and Accountability Research Group.
Funding
Sponsors who have funded the Business School’s research include:
- British Academy
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Economic and Social Research Council
- VisitEngland (English Tourism Council)
- European Union
- Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
- Learning Skills Councils
- Leverhulme Trust
- National Health Service Trusts
- Wellcome Trust.
