Lecturer in Accounting

Ahmad's current research interests include:
- NGO accountability
- Business ethics
- Counter accounts
- Social and environmental accounting
- Accounting and accountability in the local contexts of developing countries

Ahmad is interested in supervising qualitative research only and he is available to supervise PhD students in the following areas:
- NGO accountability
- Business ethics, accountability and communication
- Counter accounts
- Social and environmental accounting
- Accounting and accountability in the developing countries
- Accounting from an Islamic perspective

Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Lecturer in Organisation Studies

Socio-ecological sustainability is the central concern of my research. In the broadest terms my interdisciplinary researching explores how people make sense of and attempt to organise for socio-ecological sustainabilities. The attachment to Organisation Studies as my core disciplinary association, involves an attention to understanding how processes of organising and organisations are inherently political, and embedded in webs of social, ecological, political, cultural and economic relations of power. Originality is a key quality of my approach, by attempting to engage with voices, groups and perspectives that are usually silenced in dominant management and organisation orthodoxies, in order to raise awareness of alternative possibilities. The three intersecting focuses of my research are: (i) sustainable forms of organisation; (ii) reflexivity and learning; and (iii) critical leadership perspectives.

The focus of his recently published work includes:

- Understanding relations of power in non-hierarchical organisational contexts.
- Developing a more complex and nuanced understanding of scale in relation to sustainable organising.
- Offering new approaches to sustainability in management education.
- Exploring how whiteness can be understood in relation decolonising management knowledge and education.
- Considering how reducing air travel and resource consumption in higher education can be understood as part of possible pathways to decolonization.

Professor of Work Psychology

Research

Over the years, Carolyn has worked with a range of organisations within both the public and private sector. These research projects have broadly related to either evaluating the impact of new technologies and new ways of working or helping organisations develop new work practices. Carolyn’s core interests are in virtual/telework, employee well-being, work design and empathy/perspective taking. She has been invited to speak at conferences on the topic of virtual and mobile work. Carolyn is also on the editorial boards for the Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and the Journal of Business and Psychology.

Research Development Director for Accounting and Financial and Management

Research Interests

1. Ownership, corporate governance and firm performance
2. Banking and credit markets
3. Impact of economic reforms

Areas of Research Supervision

1. Corporate governance
2. Corporate finance
3. Financial sector regulations

His research interests including Science and Technology Studies based theorisations of public value, public accountability, and the public interest, via a range of empirical settings. These include the audit industry, local government, healthcare and higher education. His work on both local government and higher education finances has been widely cited in the media, including the Financial Times, The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, and ITV. 

Lecturer in Supply Chain Accounting

Lecturer in Accounting

I am particularly interested in the reasons for the complexity of the tax law and how tax practitioners cope with this, and the wealth of other extra statutory material and guidance, when providing advice to their clients.

Lecturer in Accounting

Olga's research investigates the teaching of accounting from the critical accounting angle.

Olga's research interest in this area has been driven by her work as an accounting lecturer and she is particularly interested in enquiring about the presence of social and environmental accounting dimension in the initial accounting education offered by a range of existing accounting education providers.

Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour

Research interests

Kristin is highly interested in the effect of leadership on employee well-being and work-family balance. She has conducted research at multiple levels of analysis (e.g., teams, diary). 

Professor of Health Management

Jeremy's research falls broadly into three areas, with plenty of crossover between them – management of health care organisations, team working, and statistics.

Recent projects in health care include:

• a study of the effects of NHS staff engagement and experience on patient outcomes
• a longitudinal evaluation of Schwartz Center Rounds in the NHS
• the development and implementation of a tool to measure effectiveness of general practices.

Current work includes a study on the Retention of Mental Health Staff (RoMHS), an evaluation of specialist clinics for people suffering from multiple, medically unexplained symptoms (MSS3), and the Behaviour in Teams (BiT) study examining the benefit on giving teams feedback on their behaviour in meetings.

Professor of Employment Relations

Research interests

Pauline's research focuses on employment security, with two main sub-themes. The first is employment security and the role of the trade unions in emerging economies. This research programme has considered different dimensions of work and employment and includes the development and analysis of large scale surveys in South Africa, Brazil and Mozambique in addition to in-depth qualitative research. The second is job security for those with disabilities and health conditions. Pauline continues to explore disability and employment, the dynamics of sickness absence and return to work, and the policies and practices surrounding this. Pauline has published in journals including British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Public Sector Management, Industrial Relations, International Journal of HRM, Journal of World Business, and Work Employment and Society.

PhD supervision:

Pauline would be interested in supervising students who wish to investigate disability and employment.

Associate Professor (Senior lecturer) in Marketing & Research Director for MCCI

• Service Recovery and Complaint Management (e.g., service failure, service recovery, coping mechanisms and the service recovery paradox).
• Relationships in Services (e.g., customer loyalty, customer satisfaction, service quality, customer commitment, trust and perceived switching costs).
• International Marketing in Services (e.g., service customers’ attitudes and behaviours across cultures).
• Transformative Services (e.g., the impact of service interactions and servicescape on consumers’ well-being).
• Tourism Services (e.g., medical tourism and online travel communities).

Head of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business Subject Group

My research focuses on strategic and institutional change, organization legitimacy, and working and learning across organizational boundaries.

I work at the intersection of organization theory, strategy and international business. Much of my research takes discursive and practice-based approaches that attend to both the ‘micro’ practices in organizations and fields and to the broader institutional structures and practices that engender, enable, and constrain strategic, organizational and institutional change.

My current projects deal with emotions in institutional work and temporal structuring in coordinating geographically distributed work.

Senior Lecturer

Sam is a Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology at Sheffield University Management School. He is particularly interested in the Dark Side of workplace behaviour, including bullying, cyberbullying and incivility. Within this field, his interests include the measurement of bullying, perpetrators of bullying and methods of preventing and addressing bullying in organisational life. Prior to working at Sheffield, Sam worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds Business School.

Senior Lecturer

Katy's research interests include global trade unionism and international solidarity; the theoretical foundations of worker power; and labour in the logistics industry.

Her current project draws on case studies of recent dockworker union labour disputes in Greece, Portugal, England, Sweden, Chile and Colombia to formulate a novel theory of worker power as grounded simultaneously in the economy, state and society.

A second research project investigates the global 'Block the Boat' protests which brought together labour and community activists at ports in solidarity with Palestine.

Additional domestic research projects in partnership with UNISON and Unite the Union have investigated trade union organising in public services and in UK freeports respectively.

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Ali's research interests primarily focus on exploring a variety of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues. For instance, Ali is a leading figure in the realm of research exploring the causes and outcomes of corporate environmental disclosure in both developed and emerging markets. Additionally, Ali leads research initiatives that examine the influence of various gender diversity-related criteria on improving the pro-sustainable performance of companies. Furthermore, his research interests extend to include Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), ethical accounting, global sustainability initiatives, Corporate Governance, and other relevant subjects.

Ali is available to supervise PhD students in the following areas:

• Corporate Environmental, Social and Ethical Disclosure and Performance.
• Climate Change Risk Management disclosure
• Corporate Sustainability and Governance.
• R&D and Eco-innovation.
• Corporate Energy Efficiency Policy and Renewable Energy Consumption

Richard’s research interests lie in the interaction between finance, social reproduction and urban space, exploring how these combine to shape housing geographies. His PhD, submitted in 2017, analysed financialisation’s impact on social housing regulation. Richard’s other roles included the Urban Institute’s Housing Futures project, and exploring the interaction between housing, race and debt with colleagues at the Universities of Nottingham and Manchester.

Richard has an interdisciplinary background. His undergraduate and Masters degrees were based in Politics at the University of Manchester and his PhD was based in Sheffield’s School of Law. Before academia he volunteered with asylum and refugee charities and was a freelance journalist for publications including Red Pepper magazine.

Richard's current research interests include:

• Using “follow the money” techniques to analyse the connections between financial networks and urban space.
• Exploring the instabilities and frictions generated within the financialisation of housing and social care, and the implications for tenants and residents.
• Developing a relational comparative perspective for analysing state capitalist investment in real estate, and how these investments are materialised through urban geo-politics and geo-economics.
• Drawing on qualitative methodologies to explore gentrification, displacement and anti-racist approaches to housing.

Senior Lecturer in Organisational Studies

Lecturer in International Business

Research

My research interest lies in internationalization strategies, particularly cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As), post-acquisition socio-cultural integration and organisational change, emotions and cultural differences, as well as sustainability. My research focuses on the human side, such as emotions and change management, in international business strategy (M&A) and more recently in SME internationalisation.

My research expertise also lies in research methods, particularly qualitative research methods, longitudinal, case study and mixed method approaches. This is reflected in a book, namely “Handbook in Longitudinal Research Methods in Organisation and Business Studies”, published by Edward Elgar in 2013, as well as an article on time, which was published in Management International Review in 2016 “TEMPUS FUGIT – A hermeneutic approach to internationalization process”. I am the co-editor in recently published Special Issue on “When Time Matters: Rethinking the Role of Time in IB Theory and Practice” in the Journal of World Business.

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

• International mergers and acquisitions
• Post-acquisition integration and socio-cultural integration
• Internationalisation (SMEs and MNEs)
• Emotions, social capital, informal networks in the context of internationalisation and/or mergers and acquisitions

Publications

Hurmerinta, L., Paavilainen-Mantymaki, E. and Hassett, M. E. (2016). TEMPUS FUGIT: A hermeneutic approach to the internationalization process. Management International Review, 56(6) 805-825.

Hassett, M., Vincze, Z., Urs, U. and Angwin, D. (2016), “Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions from India: Motives and Integration Strategies of Indian Acquirers”, in Marinova, S., Larimo, J. & Nummela, N., Value Creation in International Business, Palgrave Macmillan-SpringerDegbey, pp. 109-139.

Degbey, W. and Hassett, M.E. (2016), “Creating value in cross-border M&As through strategic networks”, in Heinz Tüselmann, Stephen Buzdugan, Qi Cao, David Freund and Sougand Golesorkhi, Impact of International Business: Challenges and Solutions for Policy and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 158–177.

Nummela, N. and Hassett, M. (2016), “Opening the black box of acquisition capabilities”, in Risberg, A., King, D. and Meglio, O., The Routledge Companion of Mergers and Acquisitions, Routledge Companion Series, Routledge: Oxon, pp. 74–91.

Associate Dean for Impact and Engagement

Research interests

My main research interest is in the connections between employment relations and HRM, the labour market and public policy. My research has examined the relationship between collective bargaining and vocational training activity and outcomes in the UK and Europe, the impact of the UK's National Minimum Wage legislation on pay, employment and training, and forms of trade union support for migrant workers.

I would be interested in supervising doctoral work in the broad fields of Employment Relations and HRM. I would be particularly interested in supervising doctoral work in the following areas: vocational education and training; the state and employment relations; employment and social protection policy and outcomes; governance of the labour market; low-paid work and minimum wages; trade unions; social dialogue; vulnerable workers (e.g. migrants, work in the informal economy)

Lecturer in Organisational Studies

Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Chair in Accounting

Lecturer in Finance

Research

Corporate Finance and Governance, Empirical Finance, Financial Disclosure using Text Analysis, Emerging Market Economies, Corporate Social Responsibility

PhD Supervision

Jiao welcomes PhD applications in the areas of her research interests.

Lecturer in Financial Management

Paraskevi’s primary research interests include Financial Econometrics, Time Series Analysis, Forecasting, Spillover effects, Cryptocurrencies, Commodities, House prices, and Financial Crises, among others.

Her secondary research interests include Pedagogy in Higher Education. She is also interested in interdisciplinary research projects involving quantitative methods.

She regularly acts as a reviewer for several refereed academic journals, such as Annals of Operations Research, Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Finance and Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, and Research in International Business and Finance, among others.

Paraskevi would welcome proposals from potential doctoral students wishing to work in any of the fields of her research interests.

Lecturer in Work Psychology

Research Interests

I have two established streams of research. Both streams aim to further our knowledge of socially responsible and sustainable practices. One focuses on individual level practices and the other focuses on organisations and industry.

At the individual level, I focus my research on building our understanding of how individuals’ roles and experiences outside of work influence their work lives, and vice versa. To do this I examine the impacts of leisure activities, idiosyncratic deals (‘i-deals’) and interpersonal emotion regulation on employees work and non-work lives. My research contributes to the literature on work-life enrichment by providing a more nuanced understanding of the roles individuals fulfil, beyond the traditional focus on family. It sheds light on broader mechanisms that facilitate individual success and productivity in the workplace. I do this through intensive longitudinal quantitative methods- often referred to as diary studies.

At the organisational and industry level, my research deals with how businesses and public bodies can positively impact wider society.

I have worked on multidisciplinary projects such as:

• Comparative Police Studies in the EU (COMPOSITE), a European project examining policing processes across countries.
• Mainstreaming Assisted Living Technology (MALT), a TSB funded project aiming to facilitate the large scale introduction of telehealth technology.
• Active Workforce Initiative (AWI), a BOHRF funded project examining the impact of positive psychology interventions on the well-being of police and health workers.
• Business Driven Social Change, an NBS funded review of literature on the techniques and outcomes of business driven social change.

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD students who would like to examine issues to do with the interface between work and other life domains - this can include work-life balance, enrichment and conflict pertaining to family and leisure domains as well as the impact of supportive supervisor behaviours on work-life balance.

Lecturer in Accounting

Research Interest

• Stakeholder engagement, accountability, transparency, social and responsible investments, ethical and environmental concerns of the extractive industry
• Corporate governance and CSR surrounding the Sino-Africa 'barter', where Africa's mineral resources feed China's demand for raw materials in exchange for infrastructure, concessionary loans and grants.
• Political accountability and transparency. I.e., IMF, World Bank and other international interventions in the developing world, manifestos, engagement and delivery by political parties; as well as accountability, transparency an engagement within institutional structures of the state.
• In effect, sustainable development, social and critical accounting resonates around his research interest.

PhD Supervision

• Extractive sector accountability
• Corporate governance in emerging and frontier markets
• CSR practices in emerging and frontier market

Senior Lecturer in Accounting/Financial Accounting

Danson's research interests lie at the intersection of accounting and corporate governance. He studies “how”, and “why”, gaps arise between accounting/corporate governance regulations and their actual implementation. Some of his recent works have attempted to explain (i) what contributes to the waning of accountability in organisational settings, (ii) how corporate governance codes are implemented by practitioners, and (iii) more broadly the factors that influence accountability and corporate governance practices in various organisational settings (i.e., private, public and third sectors) and across countries. He is also presently researching how accounting can be mobilised, as an emancipatory tool, towards addressing various social and environmental problems, such as species loss and climate change-related threats (i.e., biodiversity accounting).

Danson is also interested in supervising PhD research that looks at the impact of emerging and/or disruptive technologies within the domain of accounting and finance.

Professor Lenny Koh is Crosscutting Chief of Resource Sustainability, Founder and Director of the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC) and Co-Head of the flagship Energy Institute at The University of Sheffield. Her work contributes to advancing the understanding and resolution of complex supply chains using interdisciplinary approaches crossing supply chain management and information systems domains. Her research is world leading and is recognised for its scientific novelty and has generated significant impacts for societies, governments and industries from manufacturing to services globally. She is also the pioneer of SCEnAT Cloud based suites supported by Microsoft including SCEnAT, SCEnAT+, SCEnATi and SCEnAT 4.0; and the FPSCRS tool supported by Rolls-Royce.

Research interests

Prof. Koh's expertise lies in logistics/supply chain management, particularly in; low carbon futures/industries, low carbon supply chain, energy supply chain, environment and sustainability science, energy efficiency, and uncertainty management. She has also produced a considerable amount of research in production planning and control, enterprise resource planning, and information science. Life cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, circular economy, sustainable manufacturing, negative emission technology, system modelling, climate change, decision science, and energy, food, material and resource sustainability and resiliency are some of the main themes of her research and innovation.

Chair in Accounting and Society

Adam's current research interests include:

• using social network analysis methods to map the social relationships that underlie certain complex securities markets
• developing a relational theory of the firm to understand the impact of financialization in the corporate sphere
• exploring the inter-temporal transfers and tensions that arise as a consequence of financialization
• theorising the relations between accounting and the built environment.

Research Development Director for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business

PhD Supervision

I am currently supervising six PhD students at Sheffield University Management School:

• Valentina Varbanova (2nd supervisor, start date May 2017)
• Dian Eka Mayasari (Joint 1st supervisor, start date February 2017)
• Zara Seini (Joint 1st supervisor, start date April 2017)
• Yiren Wu (2nd supervisor, start date October 2019)
• Muhamad Rizaldy (1st supervisor, start date October 2022)
• Yiqun Han (2nd supervisor, start date October 2023)

Recent completed PhD students:

• Irene Garnelo Gómez. ‘I Live Sustainably’: Exploring sustainable narratives through the lens of identity expression and motivational drives (Second supervisor). Henley Business School, University of Reading Scholarship.
• Bala Auwalu. Exploring the Financial Resources of Entrepreneurs in the Informal Economy: Insights from North West Nigeria. (Joint first supervisor)

I would be interested in supervising PhD or postgraduate taught students in the areas of:

• Social entrepreneurship, social innovation and hybrid organisation
• CSR in both the developed and developing country context
• The informal economy
• Business and society relationships, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa"

Lecturer in Resource Efficiency

Research

My research is focused in the areas of Problem Structuring Methodologies and Behavioural Operations Management. I am interested in exploring methodological developments which allow us to understand what we don't know about a problematic situation so that we can facilitate inquiry to bring about appropriate and relevant real world changes that work. I have a particular interest in participatory methodologies for engaging stakeholders in a problematic system, to ensure a human-centred, holistic analysis and understanding can be achieved

Senior Lecturer in Risk Management and Strategy

Research interests

My research focuses upon two broad, but overlapping areas, namely business risk and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). More particularly, these can be broken down into distinct research strands: the influence of corruption upon organisational strategic decision-making in multinational enterprises; organisational preparedness and business continuity practice; strategy practice in SMEs.

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

• organisational risk and resilience
• business continuity management
• flood risk management
• corruption

Associate Dean Education

Fraser joined Sheffield University Management School in 2018, as Professor and Chair in Marketing. Fraser has received research funding from numerous external businesses or organisations as well as research councils such as the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (ESPRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and has won prizes globally for his research and contribution to practice. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Emerald Citations of Excellence Award for an article on electronic word of mouth. Fraser’s research is habitually interdisciplinary; with his current focus on sustainability, hedonic consumption, digital marketing, branding, entrepreneurship and co-creativity. He has recently been chair of the prestigious Academy of Marketing annual conference and co-chair the Global Branding conference held at Newcastle in 2018. Prior to joining Sheffield University Management School Fraser was Professor of Strategic Marketing Management at Newcastle Business School and also held roles as Associate Pro Vice Chancellor of Strategic Planning and Engagement, Associate Dean of Business and Engagement and Head of Corporate Development for the Faculty of Business and Law at the Faculty of Business and Law.

Fraser also has over ten years of practitioner experience, holding senior management and leadership positions globally. While working in industry, Fraser has assisted over 250 businesses in more than 60 countries to implement successful start-up, commercialisation, business expansion, marketing, branding, strategic planning and new product/service introduction strategies in industry sectors that vary from education to renewable energy, engineering, agri-food and graphene. His clients range from SMEs to MNEs and have included Nestlé, Royal Numico, Parker, Thomas Swan, Bank of Montana, Sage, UKTI, Nexus and Greggs, plus organisations such as the World Bank, USDA, and EU. Fraser has also held academic positions at Lincoln University (New Zealand); Newcastle University (UK); Northumbria University (UK), Macquarie University (Australia) the University of Montana (US), and Peter the Great St Petersburg University (Russia).

Lecturer in Marketing

Research interests

Following the achievement of an MBA degree (with Distinction) from the University of Leeds, Lien carried out her PhD research in consumer behaviour of East Asian luxury goods market. She has conducted peer review for a few marketing journals and conferences (for e.g. Journal of International Marketing, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Research, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, AIB South East Asia conference, Academy of Marketing conference). Lien has a few papers in 3* journals and has presented at different international conferences in her research area.

Lien has supervised a number of PhDs to completion at the Management school. When she has capacity to take on more students, she welcomes those applicants who would like to research especially in the following areas: quantitative methods, East Asian culture, acculturation, sustainable consumption, luxury goods buyer behaviour, and consumer research in general.

Dr Najafi-Tavani's research interests include buyer-supplier relationships, collaborative networks, and supply chain collaboration, with a particular focus on external stakeholder involvement in product development and innovation. His work has been published in international journals, such as the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, and more. Notably, his research prowess extends beyond publications to successfully securing Management KTP projects, worth over £358,000.

Saeed is currently accepting new doctoral candidates and is interested in supervising students in areas related to B2B relationships and innovation.

Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Alice's research is interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating theories and insights from the economic geography of innovation, strategic management, entrepreneurship, and international business literature. Alice's research interests include but not limited to:
- The interaction of multiple sources of knowledge leading to innovation and entrepreneurship outcomes
- The role of gender in innovation and entrepreneurship outcomes
- Clusters and entrepreneurial support organizations (accelerators/incubator)
- Ambidexterity
- Digital entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial ecosystem, and others

Professor of Organisational Psychology

Senior Research Fellow

PhD Supervision

I am currently supervising PhD students in the following areas:

• destructive leadership
• emotions, moods and innovative work behaviour
• knowledge sharing
• organisational interventions to enhance employee engagement
• start-up journeys of entrepreneurs
• participative action research interventions to improve quality of patient care

I would welcome applications and inquiries in these areas and related areas corresponding to my areas of expertise listed above.

Publications

Knight, C;, Patterson, M.G, Dawson, J and Brown, J (2017). Building and sustaining work engagements- a participatory action intervention to increase work engagement in nursing staff. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26(5) 634-649.

Knight, C;, Patterson, M. and Dawson, J. (2017). Building work engagement: A systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of work engagement interventions. Journal of Organizational Behavior Education, 38(6) 792-812.

Madrid, H.P. and Patterson, M.. Creativity at work as a joint function between openness to experience, need for cognition and organisational fairness. Learning and Individual Differences, forthcoming 2016.

Stephan, U., Patterson, M., Kelly, C. and Mair, J. (2016). Organizations driving positive social change: A reveiw and an intergrative framework of change processes. Journal of Management, 42(5) 2016.

Madrid, H., Patterson, M. and Leiva, P. (2015). Negative core affect and employee silence: How differences in activation, cognitive rumination and problem-solving demands matter. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(6) 1887-1989.

Madrid, H.P., Patterson, M.G., Birdi, K.S. and Leiva, P.I. (2014). The role of weekly high-activated positive mood, context, and personality in innovative work behavior: A multilevel and interactional model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35(2) 234-256.

Full list of publications

Lecturer in Operations Management

My areas of research interests include transportation and logistics systems, sustainable transport planning, electromobility, and applied optimization and operations research, particularly vehicle routing problems and their variants, facility location, and distribution systems, and network optimization.

Senior Lecturer in Management Science

Diego Ruiz-Hernandez holds a PhD in Operational Research from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Catalonia.

He developed his academic career at the following institutions: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1998-2009), Universidad de Navarra (2006-2009), and the University College for Financial Studies (2009 to 2018).

He has been visiting scholar at the universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Lancaster in the United Kingdom. He has been visiting lecturer at Kedge Business School in Bordeaux for several years.

Diego's research interests are mainly focused on the wide area of facility location and related problems. He has particular interest in network restructuring, facility delocation (closing), and applications of facility location models and techniques to problems that are not necessarily locational.

Diego is also interested in the problem of proliferation in the market place. This problem (associated with the existence of numerous products, markets and channels) is a consequence of the quest for growth in highly competitive and slow growing markets, and introduces severe and costly complexities in the firms organisation's fabric, and has important effects in the its operations and its supply chain, while simultaneously raises important sustainability concerns. Diego and his co-authors have proposed an entropy-based measure for complexity and have established its empirical relevance and practical relevance in collaborations with renowned forms of global presence. Their work is now is heading towards the identification of mechanisms for controlling complexity and lessening its impact on the firm's finances.

Finally, Diego continues his previous work on stochastic scheduling and dynamic resource allocation. He is currently working on the problem of scheduling preventative maintenance interventions for systems consisting in a large number of independently deteriorating equipment. he has special interest on applications to off-shore wind farms.

Students interested in further exploring the problem of complexity in the supply chain, and its implications on resilience and sustainability, are encouraged to send their proposals. Diego is also keen on working with students with interests in facility location, distribution, routing, scheduling, and other problems in supply chain and operations management, as well as more generic problems in management science.

Chair in Entrepreneurship and Enterprise

Lecturer in Work Psychology

Rose’s research focuses primarily on understanding and managing crowd events. In particular, she is interested in exploring how local event management practices are influenced by wider contextual factors, such as current financial or political constraints.

As part of her research, Rose established the 'Crowd Behaviour Network' - an international forum for researchers and professionals involved with managing crowd events to share knowledge and expertise, helping enhance crowd safety and event success.

She hosts a Crowd Behaviour Network discussion group on LinkedIn - please feel free to join if you are interested!

Rose also has research interests in organizational safety and disasters, socio-technical systems thinking, and technology in the workplace.

Rose has developed strong links with many leading public and private sector organizations, including the Cabinet Office, the Emergency Planning College, Arup, London Metropolitan Police Service, South Yorkshire Police, Liverpool City Council, Yorkshire Ambulance Service and York Racecourse. She is also a member of the Sheffield University Policing Research Group (SUPRG).

Senior Lecturer in Management Sciences

Research interests

Mike's current research interests are in the area of Marketing and Operations Management and particularly concentrates on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) but not entrepreneurship.. Mike has published 3 books, 3 book chapters, over 140 articles and conference papers in both scientific and management areas. He supervises a number of PhD students mainly investigating topics in small and medium sized enterprises but not entrepreneurship. He welcomes PhD applications in any area of small and medium sized enterprise research but not entrepreneurship. He is particularly interested environmental issues in SMEs, issues of achieving a competitive advantage in SMEs, marketing in SMEs, success factors in SMEs and measuring the performance of SMEs.

Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations and Human Resource

Senior Lecturer (Statistician)

Research interests

Specific projects that Chris is currently working on include:

• The effects of perfectionism on well-being
• Cheating in sport; is it a team, individual or circumstantial act?
• From pitch to plinth; a study of statues of sportsmen and sportswomen (see http://www.sportingstatues.com)
• The psychology of nostalgia and the use of nostalgia branding
• The effect of the built environment and residential outdoor space upon well-being in older people

Lecturer in Marketing

Shilpa has earned a doctorate in management and a postdoctoral fellowship in marketing. Her research interests include sustainability, digitalization, marketing, strategy, branding, sustainable business and consumerism, the digital platform ecosystem, behavioural operations, and FinTech.

Her research has appeared in high-impact and internationally reputed journals, including Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, among others. Along with this, she has a strong pipeline of research to her credit. She is serving as a reviewer for reputed high-impact journals, including the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Business Strategy and the Environment, International Journal of Consumer Studies, International Journal of Bank Marketing, to name a few, and global conferences, namely the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meetings and the Academy of International Business (AIB) conferences, among others.

She is a professional member of reputed bodies including the Academy of Marketing Science, the Association for Consumer Research, IEEE, the MIS Quarterly (MISQ) Insider Community, and the Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN) Community.

Currently, she is actively engaged in different research projects aimed at promoting sustainable consumption, such as working as a Fellow in the COMFOCUS project funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme.

Lecturer in Work Psychology

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Senior Lecturer in Finance

I have obtained significant research experience by conducting research in the area of empirical finance and in particular in the fields of financial risk measurement, market efficiency, asset pricing, and the risk-taking behaviour of investment funds. My research aims are to (i) sustain research excellence in empirical finance, (ii) publish in high quality journals, including AJG 4*, (iii) attract research funding, (iv) attract and supervise promising doctoral students, and (v) engage with the public, local businesses and government agencies.

Lecturer in Work Psychology

The effectiveness of leadership processes is not only dependent on leader-related and situational factors, but also on follower characteristics and attitudes. Anna is particularly interested in investigating the characteristics and cognitive processes of followers that are involved in forming leadership perceptions, and on the effects of follower leadership perceptions on individual and group outcomes.

Lecturer in Leadership

Lecturer in Sustainable Supply Chain Managment

Focusing on sustainable/circular supply chain management applied with carbon neutrality and blockchain, Jason’s work has been published in leading international journals, including the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, and International Journal of Production Economics.

He is Editorial Review Board member of Journal of Supply Chain Management, Guest Editor of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, and Senior Editor (Operations Research, Information & Technology) in Cogent Business & Management.

Jason’s core research focuses on two broad themes:

Sustainable/circular supply chain management, with a particular focus on customer-driven supply chain sustainability practices and their impacts on supplying firms. This includes using carbon neutrality practices, circular product design, business model innovation, and supply chain redesign to improve economic and environmental benefits in sustainable development.

The application of blockchain technology in supply chain management, exploring its contributions to supply chain transparency, visibility, and traceability, and thus the development of supply chain resilience and robustness.

Jason also works on manufacturing and sustainability innovation in the construction sector, such as prefabricated construction, to develop sector-specific sustainability strategies.

Jason welcomes PhD applications with a particular interest in using quantitative methods to study the following research areas:

#1 -The applications of blockchain technology in sustainable/circular supply chain management

#2- Innovative use of blockchain technology in supply chain finance

Professor of Managerial Economics

Although Don has a background in applied economics, he is better described as a researcher of policy-relevant, social science issues. Specifically he is interested in research that puts people and social issues (rather than money) at the core of economic concern.

Don has written over 90 academic peer-reviewed articles and led or collaborated on £2.2m of externally funded research. His work has been discussed at the United Nation's International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Welsh Government and elsewhere. He is part of a consortium that recently completed an AHRC-sponsored project investigating the influence of design on the Bristol and Bath economy.

Prospective PhD students who wish to study productivity (very broadly defined), health, education and/or geographically-related issues are encouraged to contact him for further discussion. He is very open to qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research.

Professor of Public Policy

Research interests

Colin's broad research interests are in re-theorising the nature of economic development and investigating the implications for public policy. Spatially, his interests range across the full spectrum from local and regional economic development in the UK through to the restructuring of western economies, post-socialist societies and the third (majority) world. Much of his work focuses upon rethinking the meanings of 'economic' and 'development,' which directly feeds into the work of the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED).

Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development

Colin's particular research interest is in studying the magnitude and character of the informal economy and evaluating different public policy approaches and initiatives for tackling this sphere.

Programme Director for Creative and Cultural Industries Management

Primarily interested in how people engage with material culture in museums (the encounter between a person and a thing), not least through developing collaborative creative projects with artists, Alex is also interested in how the museum workforce is supported to flourish. To that end, she initiated and is currently working with the UK Museums Association to undertake the first ever piece of research on bullying in the museums sector. In addition, she is involved in object-based research in heritage tourism sites in India, particularly in the City Palace Museum in Jaipur and in Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh, where she has collaborated with Professor Sandra Dudley (University of Leicester), Professor Manvi Seth (National Museum Institute, New Delhi) and an international team of researchers.

Alex's research methods are qualitative, often including reflexive interview, participant observation and visual methods. 

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Finance

Junhong welcomes PhD applications in the areas of his research interests including Corporate finance (e.g. ESG, Innovation and M&As), Financial Technology, Social Finance (e.g. Social Media), the Economics of Transition in China, Financial Inclusion, Financial Economics, Political Finance and Behavioral Finance and PhD applicants with strong backgrounds in Data Science, Text Analytics, Statistical Computing and Machine Learning.

Lecturer in Employment Relations

Edward Yates is a Lecturer in Employment Relations in the School of Management at the University of Sheffield.

Edward is a member of the Centre for Decent Work (CDW) located within the Management School.

Edward’s research explores the relationship between processes of political economy, state regulation, employment relations and labour market outcomes. He is particularly interested in the behaviour of local labour markets, in particular for young workers. Edward’s current research is organised into four main areas:

1. Local labour markets. Specifically how processes of capitalist accumulation manifest in and through local labour markets and how this is expressed in the behaviour of local state actors, local employers, and workers.
2. State regulation of work, employment, and labour markets. In particular how shifts in the global economy in the last 50 years have impacted upon state policy for labour market regulation and what this means for workers.
3. Young workers. Edward’s research examines central and local government policy regarding young workers, wage-rates for young workers, conditions of work and employment, skills and training provision, and the theoretical development of a ‘political economy of youth’.
4. Work, employment and labour markets in the NHS. This strand of research explores contemporary conditions of work and employment in the NHS for different staff groups and occupations.
   • The research examines: the intensification of working conditions in the NHS, processes of churn and attrition, pension changes, the role of trade unions and professional organisations in the NHS, and NHS financing.

In addition to these four research areas Edward is interested in the theoretical development of critical, global political economy, and in research methodologies.

Head of Accounting & Financial Management Subject Group

Research interests

Shuxing's research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, market efficiency and anomalies. She has acted as referee for Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, British Accounting Review, European Journal of Finance.

She welcomes PhD applicants in the field of corporate finance, particularly focusing on Chinese (mainland and Hong Kong) markets, initial public offerings and market efficiency.

Dr Mengyu Zhang serves as a Lecturer in Finance at the Sheffield University Management School. Prior to joining the university, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kent.

Mengyu graduated with a PhD in Finance from University of Essex. He holds a master’s degree in International Finance at University of Sussex and a bachelor’s degree in Business and Finance at De Montfort University.

Mengyu’s research interests lie on empirical market microstructure, with a focus on high-frequency trading, market liquidity, and information asymmetry. In addition, he also takes interest in firm innovation, behavioural finance, and sustainable finance.

Mengyu welcomes applications from PhD candidates interested in undertaking financial research in the following areas:

• High-frequency trading
• Firm innovation
• Sustainable finance