A-Z of research interests
The areas of expertise of our academics span a wide variety of topics from accounting to work design.
| Accountability | Bill Lee |
| Accountability | Sharif Khalid |
| Accountability of NGOs | Ataur Belal |
| Accountability of Nonprofit organisations | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Accounting and implementation of sustainable development goals | Ataur Belal |
| Accounting and local community | Jim Haslam |
| Accounting and local community | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Accounting education | Olga Cam |
| Accounting literature | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Accounting literature, analysis of | Jim Haslam |
| Accounting profession | Ataur Belal |
| Acculturation | Lien Monkhouse |
| Action research | Malcolm Patterson |
| Ageing and organisation | Diane Burns |
| Agent based modelling | Dermot Breslin |
| Agri-food supply chain | Sonal Choudhary |
| Alternative dispute resolution | Paul Latreille |
| Analysis of corporate disclosures | Jim Haslam |
| Analysis of corporate disclosures | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Anti- and pro-social employee behaviours | Malcolm Patterson |
| Anti-corporate campaigns | Jon Burchell |
| Application of Blockchain to accounting | Richard Bruce |
| Applications to management | Francesco Ciardiello |
| Asset management | Andrew Brint |
| Audience Management | Claire Burdfield |
| Auditing | Mostafa Abuzeid |
| Auditing expectations gap | Jim Haslam |
| Banking and financial markets | Lei Chen |
| Banks and financial markets | Sumon Bhaumik |
| Barriers and Enablers to the Adoption of New Technologies | Fraser Mcleay |
| Big data analytics | Lien Monkhouse |
| Bogus self-employment | Jason Heyes |
| Brand Communities | Fraser Mcleay |
| Brand Communities | Claire Burdfield |
| Brand Management | Claire Burdfield |
| Branding | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Branding | Ranis Cheng |
| Branding and sustainability | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Business and international development | David Littlewood |
| Business continuity | Martina McGuinness |
| Capabilities | Marian Jones |
| Capital allocation practices | Mirna Jabbour |
| Capital marketing | Shuxing Yin |
| Capital structure | Jonathan Jeffrey |
| Care cultures | Diane Burns |
| Care quality and job quality | Diane Burns |
| Career development | Laura Dean |
| Change and interventions | Diane Burns |
| Children and marketing | Caroline Oates |
| Circular economy | Sonal Choudhary |
| Civil society and accounting | Jim Haslam |
| Civil society and accounting | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Climate change | Hossein Olya |
| Cognition | Marian Jones |
| Collaboration | Kamal Birdi |
| Commemoration | Chris Stride |
| Communication | Alex Wright |
| Communication | Sarah Brooks |
| Communities of Consumption | Fraser Mcleay |
| Community studies | Colin Williams |
| Conflict and workplace resistance | Kirsty Newsome |
| Conflict management | Paul Latreille |
| Consulting | Andrea Ward |
| Consumer buying behaviour | Lien Monkhouse |
| Consumer perception | Lien Monkhouse |
| Consumer's perceptions of Robots and Artifical Intelligence | Fraser Mcleay |
| Corporate failure | John Brierley |
| Corporate finance | Shuxing Yin |
| Corporate finance | Tunyi Abongeh |
| Corporate finance and governance | Jiao Ji |
| Corporate governance | Sharif Khalid |
| Corporate responsibility | Stephen Allen |
| Corporate social responsibility (CSR) | David Littlewood |
| Corporate social responsibility (CSR) | Jiao Ji |
| Corporate social responsibility (CSR) | Sergej Ljubownikow |
| Corporate social responsibility (CSR) | Sharif Khalid |
| Corporate social responsibility (CSR) | Sonal Choudhary |
| Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability | Lei Chen |
| Corporate success | John Brierley |
| Corporate/business community engagement | Sergej Ljubownikow |
| Corruption | Martina McGuinness |
| Cost accounting | Juliana Meira |
| Council planning | Kevin Burrows |
| Counter and shadow accounting | Jim Haslam |
| Creative Industries | Claire Burdfield |
| Creativity | Dermot Breslin |
| Creativity | Kamal Birdi |
| Credit unions | Bill Lee |
| Critical accounting | Adam Leaver |
| Critical management | Diane Burns |
| Critical management | Penny Dick |
| Critical psychology | Penny Dick |
| Critical theory | Bill Lee |
| Cross cultural research in accounting | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Cross-border mergers and acquisitions | Melanie Hassett |
| Crowd management | Rose Shepherd |
| Cultural Industries | Claire Burdfield |
| Cultural studies | Lien Monkhouse |
| Culture change | Malcolm Patterson |
| Curiosity and serendipity in information systems | Elaine Toms |
| Customer Experience | John Wilson |
| Decision sciences | Antonino Sgalambro |
| Decision support | Jonathan Linton |
| Decision support systems for complex logistics and supply chain management problem | Andrea Genovese |
| Decision-marking | Chantal Cantarelli |
| Development | Kamal Birdi |
| Development of new measures/metrics | Elaine Toms |
| Deviance and ethical behaviour | Malcolm Patterson |
| Digital Marketing | Fraser Mcleay |
| Disability | Paul Latreille |
| Disability | Pauline Dibben |
| Discourse | Penny Dick |
| Diversity | Jeremy Dawson |
| Drought | Martina McGuinness |
| E-Business | Lenny Koh |
| E-learning | Paul Latreille |
| E-Organisations | Lenny Koh |
| Earnings management | Tunyi Abongeh |
| East Asian consumers | Lien Monkhouse |
| Economic development | Colin Williams |
| Economic restructuring | Colin Williams |
| Education | John Wilson |
| Education and sustainability | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Emerging market economies | Jiao Ji |
| Emerging market multinationals | Sumon Bhaumik |
| Emotion at work | Malcolm Patterson |
| Empirical finance | Jiao Ji |
| Empirical finance | Tunyi Abongeh |
| Employability | Paul Latreille |
| Employee wellbeing | Carolyn Axtell |
| Employee wellbeing and motivation | Malcolm Patterson |
| Employees of one-child generation in China | Huiping Xian |
| Employment protection legislation | Jason Heyes |
| Employment relations | Kirsty Newsome |
| Employment rights | Jason Heyes |
| Employment tribunals | Paul Latreille |
| Energy industry | Andrew Brint |
| Enterprise risk management (ERM) | Mirna Jabbour |
| Enterprise search | Elaine Toms |
| Entrepreneurial behaviour | Dermot Breslin |
| Entrepreneurship | Abbi Kedir |
| Entrepreneurship | Andreana Drencheva |
| Entrepreneurship | Chay Brooks |
| Entrepreneurship | Marian Jones |
| Environmental issues in SMEs | Mike Simpson |
| Environmental management systems | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Environmental performance | Mirna Jabbour |
| Environmental strategy | Jon Burchell |
| Equality at work | Laura Dean |
| Escalation of commitment | Chantal Cantarelli |
| Evaluation | Kamal Birdi |
| Evaluation of information systems | Elaine Toms |
| Experiential Marketing | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Extraction sector | Sharif Khalid |
| Factory work | Kirsty Newsome |
| Family business | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Family supportive supervisor behaviours | Ciara Kelly |
| Fashion Marketing | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Fashion Marketing | Ranis Cheng |
| Financial crisis | Adam Leaver |
| Financial disclosure using text analysis | Jiao Ji |
| Financialisation | Kevin Burrows |
| Financialisation of care | Diane Burns |
| Financialization | Adam Leaver |
| Firm or company performance | Abbi Kedir |
| Flexicurity | Jason Heyes |
| Flooding | Martina McGuinness |
| Followership | Anna Topakas |
| Forecasting | Andrew Brint |
| Foreign direct investment | Abbi Kedir |
| Foreign direct investment (FDI) | Shuxing Yin |
| Formality | Sarah Brooks |
| Freight fleet operator recognition schemes | Erica Ballantyne |
| Game theory | Francesco Ciardiello |
| Gender | Penny Dick |
| Gender in accounting education or profession | Olga Cam |
| Generally quantitative dissertations on international business or entrepreneurship | Abbi Kedir |
| Gentrification | Kevin Burrows |
| Global value Chains and labour | Kirsty Newsome |
| Governance case study on Tesla or Snap | Jonathan Jeffrey |
| Green Bonds | Jonathan Jeffrey |
| Group behaviour | Dermot Breslin |
| Health and social care organising | Diane Burns |
| Health organisations | Malcolm Patterson |
| Healthcare (re) organisation - quality, teamwork, leadership, patient and public involvement | Rachael Finn |
| Healthcare management | Jeremy Dawson |
| History - accounting/administrative | Jim Haslam |
| History - accounting/administrative | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Housing market | Andrew Brint |
| HR strategy | Andrea Ward |
| Human factors/systems thinking | Rose Shepherd |
| Human resource management in China | Huiping Xian |
| Human resources and innovation of Chinese firms | Huiping Xian |
| Hybrid organisations | Andreana Drencheva |
| Hybrid organisations | Sergej Ljubownikow |
| Hybrid organising | Andreana Drencheva |
| Identity | Penny Dick |
| Illegitimate work tasks | Ciara Kelly |
| Imagination | John Wilson |
| Inequalities | Penny Dick |
| Informal economy | Colin Williams |
| Informal economy | David Littlewood |
| Information goods | Francesco Ciardiello |
| Information systems and management | Shuyang Li |
| Informational interfaces | Elaine Toms |
| Innovation | Chay Brooks |
| Innovation | Kamal Birdi |
| Innovation in social care systems and local provision | Diane Burns |
| Innovation process | Jonathan Linton |
| Institutional abuse and mistreatment | Diane Burns |
| Institutional change and maintenance | Penny Dick |
| Institutional theory | Penny Dick |
| Institutional theory applications into management accounting and risk management | Mirna Jabbour |
| Institutions | Chay Brooks |
| Institutions and political economy | Sumon Bhaumik |
| Insurance and disaster | Martina McGuinness |
| International development | Emanuela Girei |
| International marketing | Lien Monkhouse |
| International trade | Abbi Kedir |
| Internationalisation | Marian Jones |
| Internationalisation strategies | Melanie Hassett |
| Internet of things | Francesco Ciardiello |
| Interventionist research | John Cullen |
| Italian Business Economics | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Job design | Carolyn Axtell |
| Job quality | Kirsty Newsome |
| Knowledge Management | John Wilson |
| Knowledge management | Lenny Koh |
| Knowledge sharing | Kamal Birdi |
| Labour administration | Jason Heyes |
| Labour inspection | Jason Heyes |
| Labour markets | Jason Heyes |
| Labour process theory | Kirsty Newsome |
| Language and translation | Huiping Xian |
| Leader development | Anna Topakas |
| Leader humour | Anna Topakas |
| Leader identity | Anna Topakas |
| Leadership | Anna Topakas |
| Leadership | Malcolm Patterson |
| Leadership | Stephen Allen |
| Lean | Andrew Simpson |
| Lean in service environments | Andrew Simpson |
| Lean Six Sigma | Sonal Choudhary |
| Learning | John Wilson |
| Learning | Kamal Birdi |
| Learning and reflection | Stephen Allen |
| Location models and problems | Andrea Genovese |
| Logistics | Antonino Sgalambro |
| Logistics | Lenny Koh |
| Logistics and reverse logistics | Juliana Meira |
| Logistics workers and labour process | Kirsty Newsome |
| Low carbon supply chain innovation | Andrea Genovese |
| Luxury fashion and sustainability | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Luxury goods | Lien Monkhouse |
| Management & Leadership | Andrea Ward |
| Management accounting and change | Bill Lee |
| Management and social change | Emanuela Girei |
| Management Education | Andrea Ward |
| Managing absence | Pauline Dibben |
| Managing diversity | Pauline Dibben |
| Manual work | Kirsty Newsome |
| Market efficiency | Shuxing Yin |
| Market-based accounting | Tunyi Abongeh |
| Marketing to children | Caroline Oates |
| Measurement and management of intangible assets | Lei Chen |
| Media Industries | Claire Burdfield |
| Media Management | Claire Burdfield |
| Mediation | Paul Latreille |
| Mergers & Acquisitions | Tunyi Abongeh |
| Mission-driven arts organisations | Andreana Drencheva |
| Mission-driven organisations | Andreana Drencheva |
| Multi-criteria decision making problems | Andrea Genovese |
| Natural resource extraction | David Littlewood |
| Natural resource management (water, land) | Sonal Choudhary |
| Network design | Antonino Sgalambro |
| New ventures | Marian Jones |
| Non-governmental organisations and sustainability | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Nonprofit organisations | Sergej Ljubownikow |
| Nostalgia | Chris Stride |
| Occupational psychology | Kamal Birdi |
| On-line reviews/EWOM | Fraser Mcleay |
| Online auctions | Andrew Brint |
| Open book accounting | Richard Bruce |
| Operations management | Andrew Simpson |
| Operations management | Mike Simpson |
| Operations research | Antonino Sgalambro |
| Operations strategy | Andrew Simpson |
| Optimisation | Andrew Brint |
| Optimisation | Antonino Sgalambro |
| Organisational adaptation | Dermot Breslin |
| Organisational ambidexterity | Dermot Breslin |
| Organisational change | Malcolm Patterson |
| Organisational climate | Malcolm Patterson |
| Organisational co-evolution | Dermot Breslin |
| Organisational communication | Sarah Brooks |
| Organisational culture | Malcolm Patterson |
| Organisational culture and change | Diane Burns |
| Organisational interventions | Karina Nielsen |
| Organisational learning | Kamal Birdi |
| Organisational routines | Dermot Breslin |
| Organisational safety | Rose Shepherd |
| Organisational sociology | Adam Leaver |
| Organisations | Andrea Ward |
| Organization theory | Penny Dick |
| Ownership, organisational structure and corporate governance | Sumon Bhaumik |
| Participatory organisational research methodologies | Diane Burns |
| Patient care | Malcolm Patterson |
| Pedagogy | Paul Latreille |
| People and Organisation Development | Andrea Ward |
| Perceived positive work impact | Andreana Drencheva |
| Perfectionism | Chris Stride |
| Performance appraisal | Pauline Dibben |
| Performance management | Juliana Meira |
| Performance measurement | John Brierley |
| Performance measurement | Jo Padmore |
| Performance related pay | Pauline Dibben |
| Philanthropy | Chay Brooks |
| Police studies | Penny Dick |
| Policing | Kamal Birdi |
| Political economy of financial services | Adam Leaver |
| Political violence and commerce | Martina McGuinness |
| Portfolio analysis | Tunyi Abongeh |
| Portfolio management | Jonathan Linton |
| Post-socialist societies | Sergej Ljubownikow |
| Post-socialist society | Colin Williams |
| Power and politics | Penny Dick |
| Precarious work | Kirsty Newsome |
| Price prediction | Andrew Brint |
| Pro- and anti-social employee behaviours | Malcolm Patterson |
| Production planning and control (MRP, MRPII, ERP, ERPII) | Lenny Koh |
| Professional development in accounting and finance | Olga Cam |
| Project performance | Chantal Cantarelli |
| Property | Kevin Burrows |
| Property developers | Kevin Burrows |
| Property Investment | Kevin Burrows |
| Prosocial motivation | Andreana Drencheva |
| Psychological well-being | Malcolm Patterson |
| Public accountability | Jim Haslam |
| Public policy | Colin Williams |
| Public private partnerships (PPPs) | Chantal Cantarelli |
| Public sector accounting and new public management | Bill Lee |
| Public sector effectiveness | Chantal Cantarelli |
| Public service delivery and organisation | Diane Burns |
| Qualitative methods | Alex Wright |
| Qualitative research | Rose Shepherd |
| Qualitative research methods | Bill Lee |
| Qualitative research methods | Diane Burns |
| Qualitative research methods | Huiping Xian |
| Qualitative research methods | Marian Jones |
| Qualitative research methods | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Quantitative research methods | Jo Padmore |
| Quantitative research methods | Lien Monkhouse |
| Quantitative research methods and statistics | Jeremy Dawson |
| Real Estate | Kevin Burrows |
| Real options | Jonathan Linton |
| Regional development | Chay Brooks |
| Regional development | Colin Williams |
| Regional economy | Colin Williams |
| Research practice | Bill Lee |
| Resilience | Martina McGuinness |
| Resilience | Sonal Choudhary |
| Resistance | Emanuela Girei |
| Resistance, power and identity | Stephen Allen |
| Responsible investment | Sharif Khalid |
| Restructuring and well-being | Karina Nielsen |
| Retail marketing | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Retail returns | Erica Ballantyne |
| Return-to-work | Karina Nielsen |
| Reverse logistics | Erica Ballantyne |
| Reverse logistics | John Cullen |
| Risk governance | Martina McGuinness |
| Risk Management | Jonathan Jeffrey |
| Routines | Alex Wright |
| Scale development and psychometrics | Jeremy Dawson |
| Selection and assessment | Laura Dean |
| Self-employment | Andreana Drencheva |
| Sensory marketing | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Servicescape | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Silence | Sarah Brooks |
| Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) | Jo Padmore |
| Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) | Mike Simpson |
| Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and business continuity | Martina McGuinness |
| Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and sustainability | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Smart meters | Andrew Brint |
| SME internationalisation | Melanie Hassett |
| SME marketing | Ranis Cheng |
| SMEs | Abbi Kedir |
| Social accounting | Bill Lee |
| Social and environmental accounting | Jim Haslam |
| Social and environmental accounting | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Social business behaviour | Sergej Ljubownikow |
| Social care workforce and labour arrangements | Diane Burns |
| Social enterprise | Andreana Drencheva |
| Social enterprises | Sergej Ljubownikow |
| Social entrepreneur | Andreana Drencheva |
| Social entrepreneurship | Andreana Drencheva |
| Social entrepreneurship | David Littlewood |
| Social innovation | David Littlewood |
| Social media marketing | Yichuan Wang |
| Southern NGOs and social movements | Emanuela Girei |
| Spatial interaction theory | Andrea Genovese |
| Sport | John Wilson |
| Sports organisations | Malcolm Patterson |
| Stakeholder engagement | Sharif Khalid |
| Statistical methods in management | Jeremy Dawson |
| Strategic management | Sergej Ljubownikow |
| Strategy | Alex Wright |
| Strategy | John Wilson |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | David Littlewood |
| Supply chain accounting | John Cullen |
| Supply chain accounting | Juliana Meira |
| Supply chain accounting | Richard Bruce |
| Supply chain contracts | Andrew Brint |
| Supply chain decision support tools | Andrea Genovese |
| Supply chain management | John Cullen |
| Supply chain management | Lenny Koh |
| Supply chain management | Mike Simpson |
| Supply chain management | Sonal Choudhary |
| Supply chain management | Erica Ballantyne |
| Supply chains and employment | Kirsty Newsome |
| Supply chains and logistics globally | Richard Bruce |
| Sustainability | Sonal Choudhary |
| Sustainability | Stephen Allen |
| Sustainability accounting and accountability | Ataur Belal |
| Sustainability accounting and accountability | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Sustainability claims and certifications | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Sustainability in accounting | Olga Cam |
| Sustainability in services and retail | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Sustainability labelling | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Sustainability marketing | Caroline Oates |
| Sustainability marketing | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Sustainable careers | Ciara Kelly |
| Sustainable cities | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Sustainable Entrepreneurship | Ranis Cheng |
| Sustainable fashion | Panayiota Alevizou |
| Sustainable Fashion | Ranis Cheng |
| Sustainable freight transport | Erica Ballantyne |
| Sustainable tourism management | Hossein Olya |
| Sustainable versus Hedonic Consumption | Fraser Mcleay |
| Takeover prediction | Tunyi Abongeh |
| Taxation | Lynda Burkinshaw |
| Team-working | Jeremy Dawson |
| Teamworking | Anna Topakas |
| Technology in the workplace | Rose Shepherd |
| The dark side of social media | Fraser Mcleay |
| Trade unions | Pauline Dibben |
| Training | John Wilson |
| Training | Kamal Birdi |
| Training | Paul Latreille |
| Training & Development | Andrea Ward |
| Training transfer | Karina Nielsen |
| Transformational leadership and well-being | Karina Nielsen |
| Transistion and emerging economy contexts | Sergej Ljubownikow |
| Transparency | Sharif Khalid |
| Transport and technology | Erica Ballantyne |
| Transport planning | Erica Ballantyne |
| Triple top approach | Olga Cam |
| UK and EU social policy | Jason Heyes |
| Uncertainty modelling and management | Lenny Koh |
| Undeclared work | Colin Williams |
| Under-employment | Jason Heyes |
| Universities | Maria-Teresa Speziale |
| Urban freight/city logistics | Erica Ballantyne |
| Urban metabolism | Sonal Choudhary |
| Varieties of capitalism | Jason Heyes |
| Virtual/telework | Carolyn Axtell |
| Voice and silence | Sarah Brooks |
| Voluntary sector | Colin Williams |
| Women's careers | Huiping Xian |
| Work conditions | Malcolm Patterson |
| Work design | Malcolm Patterson |
| Work design | Rose Shepherd |
| Work intensification | Kirsty Newsome |
| Work psychology | Kamal Birdi |
| Work-family balance | Kristin Hildenbrand |
| Work-life balance | Ciara Kelly |
| Work-life balance | Huiping Xian |
| Work-life balance | Kristin Hildenbrand |
| Workgroup diversity and faultlines | Jeremy Dawson |
| Working carers | Jason Heyes |
| Working-time | Kirsty Newsome |
| Workplace conflict | Paul Latreille |
| Workplace learning initiatives | Bill Lee |
| Workplace management | Paul Latreille |