Our research students
Economics and Finance research
| Student name | Student research field | Supervisor(s) | Thesis title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Konstantinos Adamopoulos | Economics | Zacharias Psaradakis Walter Beckert | |
| Alexander Bowyer | Economics | Alastair Ball Arina Nikandrova | |
| Federico Corrado | Economics | Yunus Aksoy Pedro Gomes | |
| Angelos Diamantopoulos | Economics and Finance | Emanuela Sciubba | |
| James Eustace | Economics and Finance | Stephen Satchell Zacharias Psaradakis David Schroder | |
| Lisette Alfaya Frias | Economics | Helyette Geman | |
| Brian Gorst | Economics | Pedro Gomes Ronald Smith | Essays on fiscal policy and the macroeconomy |
| Charisios Grivas | Economics | Zacharias Psaradakis Walter Beckert | Bootstrap and subsampling in econometrics |
| Ioanna Lachana | Economics | David Schroder Roald Versteeg | Sentiment analysis and financial markets |
| David Latto | Economics | Kenjiro Hori Arupratan Daripa | |
| Rene Levesley | Economics | Emanuela Sciubba Brad Baxter | |
| Shahzeb Mohammed | Economics | Pedro Gomes Stephen Wright | Macroeconomic model with heterogenous agents and financial frictions |
| Sofia Philippou | Economics | Helyette Geman Zacharias Psaradakis | Natural gas and LNG markets |
| Filipe Pires De Albuquerque | Economics | Yunus Aksoy Ronald Smith | The preferred habitats of fixed income investors |
| Charmaine Portelli | Economics and Finance | Stephen Wright Ronald Smith | |
| Hiba Sameen | Economics | Walter Beckert | |
| Thomas Spencer | Economics | Zacharias Psaradakis | Extensions of non-stationary factor models |
| Di Zhu | Economics | Arupratan Daripa |
Management research
| Student name | Supervisor(s) | Thesis title |
|---|---|---|
| Emad Alchikh Saleh | Kevin Ibeh | How is FDI into the UK affected by recent regional and global developments? The perspective of foreign investors in the manufacturing sector |
| Konstantinos Athanasiadis | Geoffrey Walters Dimitrios Koufopoulos | Looking through the process lens: Unpacking the CEO succession planning |
| Olayinka Bandele | Kevin Ibeh Sorin Piperca | An exploration of the drivers and influences on firms’ innovative practices in the Kenyan agribusiness export sector |
| Sebastian Boo | Pamela Yeow Almuth McDowall | Kind and compassionate leadership in times of crisis |
| Jacinth Boudier | Ioanna Boulouta Suzanne Konzelmann | |
| John Diamondopoulos | Klaus Nielsen | |
| Conrad Zinenuba Dumbah | Emmanuel Mamatzakis Lorenzo Neri | The impact of the quality of public financial management systems on institutional legitimacy and corruption in Ghana |
| Serpil Erdogan-Altuncevahir | Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick Horen Voskeritsian | |
| Maryam Ghorbankhani | Federica Rossi Marion Frenz | Exploitation of public sector R&D and the open innovation paradigm: Governance of Knowledge transfer and commercialisation within public research organisations (PROs) |
| Maximilian Giehrl | Federica Rossi Muthu De Silva | Success Factors in the Collaboration with Innovation Intermediaries - A study in the Context of Digital Technologies |
| Ibrahim Haidar | Julian Sims Karin Shields | The value relevance of Integrated Reporting |
| Karine Harutyunyan | Sorin Piperca Pamela Yeow | The impact of Project Managers' emotional intelligence and political skills on project performance and work relationships |
| Yangyang He | Xiaming Liu Grace Bo Peng | The Acceptance of Chinese Technology Products in Global Markets |
| Md Uzzal Hossain | Muthu De Silva Federica Rossi | Organizational approach to circular innovation: the role of creative process engagement and creative self-efficacy |
| Richard Irving | Geoffrey Walters Richard Tacon | |
| Muhammed Jamil | Pamela Yeow Sorin Piperca | Exploring the relationship between adaptive leadership and project success |
| Yunwen Jiang | Xiaming Liu | What matters in the process of cross-border acquisitions for Chinese MNEs? |
| Stephen Kataya | Lorenzo Neri Ellen Yu | The impact of corporate social responsibility on firm market performance: An examination from the United Kingdom & selected continental European economies |
| Jingjing Liang | Xiaming Liu | The export behaviour of Chinese firms and their networks evolution |
| Ming Liu | Xiaming Liu Qizhi Tao | Tripartite collusion in M&As with performance commitment contracts in China |
| Barbara Mason | Federica Rossi Richard Tacon | |
| Guilherme Matoso Macedo | Frederick Guy Odile Janne | Essays on labour specialization: Evidence on Brazilian micro-data |
| Adedoyin Olorunfemi | Muthu De Silva Helen Lawton Smith | Entrepreneurial Learning in women engaged in Interconnected Selling |
| Emma-Jane Palmer Foster | Helen Lawton Smith Frederick Guy | |
| Benedikt Andreas Pietsch | Sorin Piperca | |
| Louise Redmond | Suzanne Konzelmann Arron Phillips | Governing corporate culture: Board practices for long term corporate success and greater public trust in business |
| Julia Schober | Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick Horen Voskeritsian | Labour mobility in the European Union: Brexit and the location choice of highly skilled young Europeans |
| Zehra Serman | Julian Sims | The effect of bloggers on consumer purchase |
| Sana Inam Shah | Amy Hackley Wendy Hein | Brand storytelling: An interpretive exploration of how beauty brands co-create emotion-evoking narratives by the use of influencer marketing on social media, and its impact on Generation Z's self and social identities in the UK |
| David Stroll | Klaus Nielsen Federica Rossi; Julian Sims | An empirical case study of productivity measurement and growth capital reporting |
| Irina Sukiasyan | Wendy Hein Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick | Discursive production and consumption of gendered humour in Post-Soviet Russia |
| Bethan Taylor | Richard Tacon | You got chicked: Representations and identities of women in ultra running |
| Mark Thurgood | Marion Frenz Sorin Piperca | Service innovation adoption and integration - people first |
| Philip Turbutt | Geoffrey Walters Bruno Schivinski | |
| George Robert Wills | Richard Tacon Francesco Addesa | The value of elite clubs and star players in the European football industry |
| Zhixin Xu | Fred Yamoah Amy Hackley | Urban sustainability and City of Culture |
| Silin Ye | Xiaming Liu Jing Zhou | Social media, top management team characteristics, and corporate governance in China |
| Ruocheng Zhao | Xiaming Liu Bruno Schivinski | Guanxi consumption |
| Yilin Zhao | Xiaming Liu | Institutional entrepreneurship of China's inward foreign direct investment policy system |
Organizational Psychology research
| Student name | Supervisor(s) | Thesis title |
| Jonathan Bailey | Almuth McDowall Kevin Teoh | Understanding work intensity in emergency care |
| Nicola Bentham | Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya Vanessa Iwowo | Re-examining organizational change and the role of the ideal worker - an intersectional approach to inclusivity in the UK not-for-profit sector |
| Isabel Beydag | Vanessa Iwowo Rebecca Whiting Alexandra Beauregard | How intellectual activism and academic agency is shaped by the evolution of intellectualism and neoliberalism |
| James Brook | Almuth McDowall Helen Lawton Smith | How digital technology entrepreneurs experience their start-up journey |
| Manista Cooshna | Kevin Teoh Alexandra Beauregard | Well-being of healthcare workers in the private healthcare sector |
| Jessica Dark | Almuth McDowall Harriet Tannenbaum* | 'We Make Work, Work for Us': Understanding inclusive work environments as informed by autistic business owners |
| Eduardo Deiss Dias | Julie Dickinson* Caroline Kamau-Mitchell | The psychological determinants of job application dishonesty |
| Ebere Dike-Ugwu | George Michaelides* Almuth McDowall | How social and organisational factors can influence the quality of knowledge sharing |
| Adrian Eagleson | Martin McCracken* Rebecca Whiting | Investigating Human Resource Development (HRD) value in a post-crisis context: Stakeholder perceptions following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) |
| Carolann Edwards | Caroline Kamau-Mitchell Christopher Dewberry* | Envied in the workplace: envy attribution and response |
| Roger Fagg | Katrina Pritchard* Rebecca Whiting | Investigating the experience and identity of volunteers managing/supervising other volunteers |
| Paula Fitzgerald | Almuth McDowall Katrina Pritchard* | Turning pointe: The lived experience of an embodied occupational identity |
| Verity Hannell | Almuth McDowall | Investigating mental health in the workplace, focusing on the clinically untrained employee, using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis |
| Jessica Hobbs | Alexandra Beauregard Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya | Exploring paternal leave journeys with particular focus on fathers' mental wellbeing |
| Aly Kelleher | George Michaelides* Libby Drury | Employees' Eudaimonic and Hedonic motives: Explaining their task perceptions, autonomous motivation, and persistence in their daily actions |
| Sara Khalil | Yi-Ling Lai David Gamblin | Towards ideal-self clarity through coaching |
| Meg Kiseleva | Christopher Dewberry* Kevin Teoh | Individual differences in decision making and their relevance to career outcomes |
| Ben Morris | Almuth McDowall Nancy Doyle | The Neuro-Divergent Concept of ‘Fit’ |
| Margaret Ochieng | Vanessa Iwowo Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya | Examining the undertaking of anti-racism work in UK organisations |
| James Priestley | Andreas Liefooghe* Alexandra Beauregard | The other side of paradox: Lacan and the manager's desire |
| Megan Ramsell | Rashpal Dhensa- Kahlon Kevin Teoh | An investigation of the relationships between stigma, psychosocial working conditions and post-traumatic growth following extra-organisational trauma |
| Meredith Scott Jones | Rebecca Whiting Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya Vanessa Iwowo | Exploring the impact of diversity discourses on the knowledge production of employees |
| Jane Setten | Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya Katrina Pritchard* | The changing role of public sector accountants in the UK |
| Marianna Sidiropoulou | Almuth McDowall Susie Orbach* | Women in leadership: An internal glass ceiling? |
| Lucinda Soon | Almuth McDowall Kevin Teoh | Identity and meaningfulness at work on lawyers' career motivations and well-being |
| Aishwarya Srinivasan | Almuth McDowall Nancy Doyle | Coaching as a reasonable adjustment for neurodivergence in the workplace |
| Mark Stringer | Andreas Liefooghe* Alexandra Beauregard | What do you want from me? Understanding jouissance, desire and lack in employee engagement |
| Greg Swaysland | Almuth McDowall Rebecca Whiting | Disability Confidence - what is it and how can we achieve and measure it? A dyadic model that replaces the social and medical models of disability |
| Gintare Visockaite | Kevin Teoh Andreas Liefooghe* | Negative behaviour, workplace bullying and outcomes in Russian workplaces: The contextual role of collectivist values and autocratic leadership |
| Shireen Walker | Libby Drury Alexandra Beauregard | Workplace incivilities affecting older, childfree, working women |
*External supervisor