Postgraduate researchers

Research interests:

  • 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.

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

Research interests:

  • Mixed communities and social control
  • Housing policy
  • Urban planning and livability
  • 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 

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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.

Research interests:

  • Generative AI
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Technology acceptance
  • Risk
  • Technology in healthcare

Research interests:

Organisational and Leadership Theories, Systems Innovation and Systemic Biomimicry, Responsible Innovation, Feminist Theory, Relational Theory.

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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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Asset pricing and high frequency trading.

Research interests:

Gender equality in the workplace, 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

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Consumer Behaviour; Perception; Branding; Ethical Consumerism

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

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vulnerabilities of blockchain ecosystems, impact on market dynamics and investor behaviour

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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.

Research interests:

  • COVID-19 waves
  • Firm-level characteristics
  • Firm’s performance during COVID-19

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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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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, Stock Market, High Frequency Data, Trade Friction, Hedge, Safe Haven

Research interests:

  • Family policy
  • Gender equality
  • Media Interaction in policy implementation

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Food consumption practices, food waste, practice based interventions & social marketing, sustainable consumption, ethical consumption.

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interplay between changing family dynamics and gender inequality; how gender inequality shapes and is shaped by marital behaviour

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UK Agricultural Public Policy implications for primary production.

Research interests:

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.

Research interests:

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

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:

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

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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:

  • Social enterprises
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Multiple stakeholders collaboration
  • Social value creation

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

Research interests:

  • Dementia
  • Care Homes
  • Family Dynamics in Dementia Care Planning
  • Early and Timely Diagnosis of Dementia 

Research interests:

  • Pension
  • Social policy
  • Social protection
  • Healthcare system

Research interests:

  • Restorative Justice
  • Victimology
  • Sexual violence
  • Policy transfer

Research interests:

1970s British megaprojects cancelled before completion.

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

City branding, international brand communication.

Research interests:

Decision making; Organizational structure & behaviour; Organizational learning; Adult education; Strategy; Planning; Organizational culture.

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

Runli Wang

Research interests:

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Social media marketing
  • Chinese enterprises
  • Sub-Saharan Africa markets

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

Research interests:

  • Improving the experiences of marginalised population in education and social care
  • Utilising co-design methodologies to improve the knowledge, skills and support of social care and educational professionals
  • Upskilling homecare workers to support and encourage the engagement of people living with dementia in social care
  • Mental health and well-being of family carers and adults with learning disabilities

Research interests:

The effects of identity in high commitment and high control organizations

Research interests:

  • Digital transformation
  • ESG
  • Sustainability

Research interests:

Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations Management, Sustainable innovation, International Business

Research interests:

Male nursery teachers; Female-dominated workplace; Intersectionality; Doing gender; Masculinity

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The influence of eWOM on purchase intention, CSR communication.

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

Research interests:

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

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