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Economics and Finance research

Student name Supervisor(s) Thesis title

Lisette Alfaya Frias

David Schroeder

Umer Bin Ameen

Yunus Aksoy
Pedro Gomes

Lakh Bhakar

Yunus Aksoy
Pedro Gomes

Unconventional Monetary Policy

Zakaria Bouamara

Emmanuel Mamatzakis
Pegy Makrychoriti

Natural Resource Dependence and Long-Term Economic Growth: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Alexander Bowyer

Dr Walter Beckert
Dr Daniel Kaliski

Mohamed El Habib Chenguiti Ansari

Yunus Aksoy
Camille Boudot-Reddy

Endogenous Capabilities, Spatial Dynamics, and the Robustness of Spatial Economic Models

Federico Corrado

Yunus Aksoy
Pedro Gomes

Natalie Fothergill

Walter Beckert
Yunus Aksoy

The UK pension system and pensioner poverty: The impact of lifecycle shocks, labour market changes, and demographic pressures on retirement adequacy.

Paul Maximilian Gelbhaar

Arup Daripa
Sandeep Kapur

Brian Gorst

Pedro Gomes
Ron Smith

Essays on fiscal policy and the macroeconomy

Mehedee Hasan

Stephen Wright
Pedro Gomes

UK Stock Market, Monetary Policy, and the Real Economy

Colin Higgins

Alastair Ball
Ron Smith

Omar Khodr

Walter Beckert
Daniel Kaliski

The Relationship between Mental Health Disorders, Substance Abuse, and Socioeconomic Dynamics: Implications for Poverty and Income Inequality

Chris Larkin

David Schroeder
Tinghua Yu

David Latto

Kenjiro Hori
Arup Daripa

Marcel Lee

Emmanuela Sciubba
David Schroeder

Rory MacQueen

Stephen Wright
Ron Smith

Darren Maddox

Emmanuel Mamatzakis
Pegy Makrychoriti

The Rise of Financial Social Media: Modelling Social Mood Volatility for Financial Opportunities

Kapila Malawwethanthri

Stephen Wright
Sandeep Kapur

Peter Millington

Emmanuela Sciubba
Ilaria Peri

Agent-based models (ABMs) employ Monte Carlo methods to simulate interactions among autonomous agents, shedding light on system behaviors.

Joshua Mutio

Sandeep Kapur
Tinghua Yu

Iyanuoluwa Onafadeji

David Schroeder
Ilaria Peri

Ah Hyun Park

Sandeep Kapur
Alastair Ball

Environmental Economics

Alan Patrick

Haris Psaradakis
Daniel Kaliski

Magdalena Pietrzykowska

Walter Beckert
Daniel Kaliski

Investigating how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming core domains of microeconomics, particularly Industrial Organisation and Competition Policy.

Gerard Presto

Emmanuel Mamatzakis
Pegy Makrychoriti

Distributed ledger technology

Mo'Az Shehata

Pegy Makrychoriti
Emmanuel Mamatzakis

Corporate Finance, Investments, Valuation, Venture Capital, Start-up Financing, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics.

Cornel Todirica

Emmanuela Sciubba
Arup 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

Isabel Beydag

Vanessa Iwowo
Rebecca Whiting
Alexandra Beauregard

How intellectual activism and academic agency is shaped by the evolution of intellectualism and neoliberalism

Shakyra Campbell

Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya
Mark Stringer

The Liminal Crossing: Neurodivergent workers’ lived experience of navigating the workplace

Jessica Dark

Almuth McDowall
Harriet Tannenbaum*

'We Make Work, Work for Us': Understanding inclusive work environments as informed by autistic business owners

Nikita D'Souza

Lukas Wallrich
Alexandra Beauregard

Examining the affective, behavioural, and cognitive components of inclusion that enable change and promote equity and belonging in organisations

Carolann Edwards

Caroline Kamau-Mitchell
Lukas Wallrich

Envied in the workplace: envy attribution and response

Jessica Hobbs

Alexandra Beauregard
Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya

Exploring paternal leave journeys with particular focus on fathers' mental wellbeing

Sara Khalil

Yi-Ling Lai*
David Gamblin

Towards ideal-self clarity through coaching

Dominika Mazurek

Rebecca Whiting
Alexandra Beauregard

Body Matters: Examining how the working lives of professional women in mid-life are shaped by discursive constructions in organisations of the menopause

Margaret Ochieng

Vanessa Iwowo
Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya

Examining the undertaking of anti-racism work in UK organisations

Doris Pearce-Niederwieser

Rebecca Whiting
David Gamblin

Examining how working past pension age affects one's identity narrative over time

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

Lucinda Soon

Almuth McDowall
Kevin Teoh

Identity and meaningfulness at work on lawyers' career motivations and well-being

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