The University of Sheffield
Management School

Research Centres

The Management School has established research centres including the Centre for Regional Economic & Enterprise Development (CREED), our joint venture with the Institute of Work Psychology (IWP), Logistics & Supply Chain Management Group (LSCM) Research Centre, Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES), and a South-East European Research Centre in a joint venture with Thessaloniki´s City College. As research centres, IWP, CREED, LSCM and CEES are the key vehicles for perpetuating research culture in the School, along with the high-quality research publications and research grant applications in core research areas.

Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES)

The Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES) is to be a leading world class centre of excellence in multi-disciplinary research, development and deployment of innovative ways to advance the understanding of energy, environment and sustainability for a low carbon future. CEES will also act as a nucleus feeding into the University of Sheffield cross cutting energy and environment theme, Science-led Project Sunshine and Engineering-led AMRC, NAMRC, KROTO and Siemens Wind. In addition, CEES will also act as the integrated platform to link research at Sheffield with the Centre for Low Carbon Futures (CLCF).

The director of CEES is Professor Lenny Koh.

Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED)

The Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development is a Research Centre in the Management School at the University of Sheffield and its focus is the increasingly important areas of regional development and entrepreneurship. The vision of the Centre is to become a leader in these areas of research and education.

Institute of Work Psychology (IWP)

Founded in 1994 by the Management School and the University’s Department of Psychology, the Institute of Work Psychology is world-renowned. Four Human Resources Management/Organisational Behaviour research clusters involve collaboration between the School and the IWP.

Logistics & Supply Chain Management Group (LSCM)

The Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre focuses on research, development and application of leading edge work on logistics and supply chain management, nationally and internationally.The LSCM Research Centre comprises of members and partners institutions/centres/universities from both national and international countries. The LSCM Research Centre is linked with a core mirror group at the South East European Research Centre (SEERC), 3 consortia, and 25 international partners and member institutions partners.