Management PhD and MPhil Supervisors

The School of Management offers PhD and MPhil supervision in areas that are compatible with the research interests of its academic staff.

Use the list below to identify one or two members of staff whose interests cover the area you would like to work in:

Dr Maria Boutchkova 

  • Complex Corporate Ownership Structures
  • Executive Compensation
  • Financial Development in Emerging Markets
  • Privatisation

Professor Jo Brewis 

  • Sex and Sexuality in Organisations
  • The Body and Organisations
  • Identity, Subjectivity, and the Workplace
  • Popular Culture and Organisations
  • Consumption, Identity, and Subjectivity

Mr Paul Brook

  • Emotional Labour and Emotion Work
  • Sociology of Service Work and Customer Service
  • Labour Process Theory and Analysis
  • Trade Unions and Employment Relations 

Professor Steve Brown 

  • Critical Management Studies
  • Critical Social Psychology
  • Science and Technology Studies

Professor Alan Bryman 

  • Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Research
  • Disneyisation and McDonaldisation
  • Effective Leadership in Higher Education

Professor Gibson Burrell 

  • Social Theory
  • Organisation Theory
  • Space, Place, and Architecture

Mr Mark Burridge

  • Industrial Economics
  • Finance and European Economies 

Dr Angus Cameron 

  • Spatial Theory
  • Boundaries
  • Utopics
  • Money, Bodies, and States
  • Performativity and Materiality

Professor Catherine Casey

  • Critical Analysis of Organisations in relation to Other Social Institutions, in particular Labour Markets, Education, Governance, and Civil Society Actors 

Dr Robert Cluley 

  • Marketing of Knowledge
  • Manipulation, Persuasion, and Psychoanalysis

Dr Andrea Davies 

  • Contemporary and Historical aspects of Consumer Behaviour in particular:
    • Consumer Vulnerability
    • Authenticity and Consumption Groupings
    • The Family
    • Brand Consciousness
    • Inter-Generational Aspects to Consumption
    • Cross-Cultural Behaviour
  • Research Methodology - including Mixing Methodology, Oral History, Advances in Qualitative and Quantitative Technique
  • Brand Theory

Dr Stephen Dunne 

  • Social Theory and Consumption
  • Academic and Intellectual Labour
  • Political Philosophy and Corporate Philanthropy

Dr Meryem Fethi 

  • Economics of Industry
  • Production Analysis, Performance Measurement, and Data Envelopment Analysis

Dr James Fitchett 

  • Consumer Culture
  • Post Industrial Society
  • Marketing Theory
  • Qualitative Methodologies

Dr Valerie Fournier 

  • Alternative Organisations - e.g., Cooperatives, Communes - and Exchange
  • Rural Economies
  • Sustainable Development
  • Anarchist Theory and Practice

Dr Richard Godfrey 

  • Military, Militarism, and Organisation
  • Masculinities, Markets, and Organisation
  • Popular Culture and/in Organisation Studies
  • Critical Readings of Strategic Management

Dr Jo Grady 

  • Trade Unions
  • Labour History
  • Resistance Movements
  • Aging Populations
  • Neo-Liberalism
  • Marxist Ideology
  • Government Workplace Legislation
  • Gender Inequality and the Employment Relationship

Dr William Green

  • Information Technologies and Knowledge Management
  • Innovation, Theory, and Practice
  • Socio-Digital Systems, Design, Implementation and Adoption
  • Personalisation 

Dr David Harvie 

  • Value Theory and its Relationship to the Problematic of Measure
  • Political Economy of Education
  • Globalisation
  • Social Movements and Anti-Capitalism
  • Finance and Ethics
  • Financial and Economic Crisis

Professor Emmanuel Haven 

  • Interdisciplinary Applications in Economics and Finance

Dr Bruce Hearn 

  • Corporate Governance and Ownership Structures
  • Empirical Pricing and Valuation Models and Costs of Equity
  • Portfolio Analysis
  • Emerging Markets Finance and Valuation (Africa, Middle East, and Asia)

Dr Matthew Higgins

  • Marketing Education and Ethics
  • Waste, Disposal, and Corporate Social Responsibility 

Professor Peter Jackson 

  • Public Sector Financial Management
  • Public Expenditure Analysis
  • Thinking about Time and Uncertainty
  • Economic Analysis of Organisations and Bureaucracy
  • Public Policy Analysis

Dr Mihalis Kavaratzis

  • Place/City Marketing
  • Place/City Branding
  • Tourism Destination Marketing
  • Hospitality Marketing
  • Tourism Management and Planning
  • Corporate Marketing
  • Non-Profit Marketing 

Dr Ai-Ling Lai 

  • The Body in Consumer Culture
  • Identity and Subjectivity
  • Consumption and Culture
  • Advertising and Marketing Communications

Dr Geoff Lightfoot 

  • Smaller and Family Businesses
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Microfinance
  • Ethics and Finance
  • Social Studies of Finance
  • Financial History and Accounting Practice

Professor Simon Lilley 

  • Experience and Practice of Derivatives Traders, particularly 'Locals' in the Light of Changes to the Technological Platforms on which Trading is Enacted
  • Impact of Large Scale Information Systems Projects, with a particular focus on understanding derived from Post-Structural Approaches to Representation
  • Ethics and Finance
  • Quasi-Objects of Organisation, such as Strategic Models of Organisation
  • Relationships between Evolution and Organisation, particularly the ways in which Versions of Darwin are enrolled in Organisational Legitimation

Dr Ming Lim 

  • Marketing Theory and the Philosophy of Science
  • Branding and Communications
  • Technology and Services Marketing
  • Critical and Literary Theory
  • Continental Philosophy
  • Sociology of Science and Technology

Dr Sandra Nolte 

  • Empirical Finance
  • Financial Econometrics
  • Micro Econometrics
  • Qualitative Survey Data
  • Behavioural Finance
  • Sentiment and Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models

Dr Dimitris Papadopoulos 

  • Culture and Organisation
  • Governance, Politics, and Social Movements
  • Social Theory
  • Labour Studies
  • Critical Psychology

Dr Maria Puig de la Bellacasa 

  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Alternative Organising and Ethics
  • Ecology and Sustainability
  • Feminist Theory

Professor Mike Saren 

  • Consuming the Body
  • Computer-Mediated Marketing
  • Material Culture and Market Relations
  • Service Logic and Consumer Empowerment

Dr Mohamed Shaban

  • Banks’ Efficiency and Performance
  • Regulation and Supervision in the Banking Industry
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Capital Structure and Market Risk Analysis 

Professor Mark Stein 

  • Leadership
  • Risk
  • Customer-Employee Relations
  • Organisational Learning
  • Psychoanalytic Study of Groups and Organisations

Dr Olga Suhomlinova 

  • Institutionalism
  • Organisational Ecology
  • Leadership
  • Identity

Dr Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto

  • Consumer Behaviour/Marketing and Organisation Theory
  • Institutional Economics 

Dr Elke Weik 

  • Institutionalist Theory
  • Organisation Theory
  • Approaches linked to Social Theory and Philosophy
  • Issues encompassing discussions in the Natural Sciences or Literature Studies

Dr Kenneth Weir 

  • Critical Accounting Research, more specifically including Critical and Social Analysis of Accounting and Related Practices
  • Accounting History
  • Management Accounting Theory and Related Practices
  • Financial Accounting Theory and Recent Developments
  • Social and Environmental Accounting
  • Emancipatory Accounting

Dr Tomasz Wisniewski 

  • Empirical Finance
  • Asset Pricing
  • Portfolio and Investment Analysis
  • Financial Risk Management

Professor Stephen Wood 

  • Employment Relations
  • Human Resource Management

What if my research interests do not match the staff interests listed?

It is important that the area you want to work in is broadly compatible with our research interests - otherwise we may not be able to accept your application.

However, please do not feel we will not be interested if there is not an exact match. It is sometimes possible to be flexible, so please contact us.

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