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.

Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Research

Erica is a member of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre, and the Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES), and the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC) here at the University of Sheffield.

Research interests include: Sustainable urban freight transport and logistics operations; city logistics; sustainable urban supply chains; and local authority freight transport planning and policy decision making. She welcomes exploring future collaborations with industry partners and research academics.

Prospective PhD candidates

Erica is interested in supervising doctoral students in the field of logistics, freight transport and supply chain management. In particular, she is keen to supervise students who have an interest in using qualitative methods in logistics related research. Prospective PhD students with related research interests are invited to send a research proposal and a CV for consideration.

Publications

Ballantyne, E.E.F., Lindholm, M. and Whiteing, A.W. (2013). A comparative study of urban freight transport planning: addressing stakeholder needs. Journal of Transport Geography, 32 93- 101.

Ballantyne, E.E.F. and Boodoo, A. (2010). Freight in an Eco-town: How does freight fit into eco-town planning? Logistics and Transport Focus, 12(6) 28-32.

Full list of publications

• Creativity and innovation in the workplace
• Evaluation of training and development activities
• Identifying factors influencing the effectiveness of workplace learning
• E-learning
• Organisational learning
• Inter-organisational collaboration

Lecturer in Supply Chain & Accounting and Finance

With a commercial background in global agri-food supply chains I specialise in two main areas of research. First, the inter-organisational apsects of supplier-retailer relations and how their supply chains operate and can be made to be more resilient. Secondly, I have expertise in the use and abuses of Supply Chain Finance, and how the use of that tool is treated in the players' accounts. The nature and reporting of the value of intangible assets flows from that work.

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.

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.

Research Development Director for Work, Employment and Organisations

Research interests

Penny´s research interests can be broadly described as critical management. She is interested in the relationships between social structures and individuals and how these create and perpetuate inequalities in employment and careers. She is also interested in how taken-for-granted ideas and practices influence how individuals understand their experiences at work, and whether and how these ideas change and evolve. She is particularly interested in the role of language in these processes, and much of her recent work utilises a discursive psychology approach in which close attention is paid to how individuals produce accounts of their experiences and what these accounts can tell us about power. She has published in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Work, Employment & Society, and the Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology.

Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Development

Carole's research interests lie at the intersection of disciplinary fields: management and leadership learning, organization studies and human resource development. Her early research interests developed in response to a curiosity about the development of the self for work, particularly among managers and leaders. The interpretive foundation for this body of research is located in critical theory, particularly as it has been applied to the management studies and human resource development fields.

Her early research focus on the individual learning experience provides a backdrop for continuing inquiries into the power dynamics of learning environments, including her interest in women’s leadership learning, and in teaching and learning within international management education settings. An examination of business schools’ visual representations of their claims to internationalisation has led to an innovative area of methodological work that adopts a visual semiotic framework as one stage of a hermeneutic analysis of webpages. She continues to develop and apply this methodological development to different contexts: examinations of women leaders’ visual representations; organisations’ representation of their corporate ‘historic’ web identity; and conceptual contributions around the implications for organizations in the light of the ‘visual’ and ‘digital’ turns.

Carol welcomes proposals using qualitative research in the following areas: Management and Leadership Learning; Gender and Leadership; Critical Management Studies; Critical Human Resource Development; Visual Approaches to Organisation Studies.

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.

Dean

Professor Finn’s research takes an organisation studies perspective, with a particular focus on policies and processes or organising in the health and social care context.

She has published extensively in the field of health care organisation, worked closely with external partners (including NHS and third sector), receiving grant funding from a range of funders (e.g. NIHR, ESRC, NHS and The Health Foundation) and taking an interdisciplinary approach (e.g. collaborating with colleagues from ScHARR, School of Nursing and Medical School). Current and recent research has included:

• Evaluation of the Flow Coaching Academy Quality Improvement programme (The Health Foundation)
• Retention of Mental Health Staff in the NHS (The Health Foundation)
• System Leadership role of Health and Wellbeing Boards in improving population health (National Institute for Health Research)
• The Role of Lived Experience in the Training and Education of Mental Health Professionals (Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust)

Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Research interests

• Facility Location Problems: models, methods, applications
• Applications of Spatial Interaction theory
• Multi-Criteria Decision Making problems
• Decision Support Models for Logistics Problems
• Green logistics and low carbon innovation for Supply Chains

Professor of Managerial Economics

Anthony is an economic data scientist and his work involves using large panel data sets for individuals, firms, cities and regions. Using such data Anthony primarily undertakes efficiency and productivity analysis, and the spatial analysis of spillovers.

Anthony’s research expertise is in three fields:

• Applied Microeconometrics (spatial econometrics; production econometrics, e.g., stochastic frontier analysis; panel data analysis; treatment effects/natural experiment analysis);
• Applied Microeconomics (efficiency and production economics; spatial economics);
• Banking and Finance (performance measurement; competition; network analysis).  

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)

Professor of Organisational Studies

Damian's research focuses on issues of power, knowledge, identity and control in complex organisations and on the management of experts/professionals in these settings. He has developed these interests through research in a range of industries including financial services, creative industries, R&D and engineering. However, his primary research interest is on the transformation of health and care, with a particular focus on the organisational and policy dimensions of this transformation. He is committed to engaged research which is pragmatic but theory-driven, with a focus on supporting and informing real change in practice.

Damian is currently supervising several PhD students. He is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

• Organisation and policy change in health and care
• The devolution of health and care
• Workforce challenges in health and care
• Professional and managerial identity work in healthcare
• Critical analyses of project management and project organising
• Power and identity in the workplace

Lecturer in Information Sciences

Lecturer in Accounting

Dr Mirna Jabbour's current research interest lies within management accounting, particularly risk management, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), capital allocation practices, and institutional theory applications into management accounting and risk management. She has one successful PhD completion as a second supervisor in the area of environmental performance. Mirna has supervised a doctoral student in the area of risk management.

Lecturer in Business Analytics and Technology Management

Su Jung's research focuses on innovation and intellectual property management, with a particular interest in the context of open innovation, industrial dynamics of AI, and climate change. She is also broadly interested in developing frameworks and measures to support decision-making in relation to innovation management and policy, leveraging various analytics approaches including patent analytics, bibliometrics, and agent-based simulation.

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.

Senior Lecturer in International Business

Research interests 

• International trade
• International development
• Foreign direct investment
• Privatisation
• Firm performance
• Entrepreneurship
• Development finance (e.g. fintech, sovereign debt, saving, credit)

Lecturer in Operations Management and Decision Sciences

My research interests are modelling optimisation problems, especially in the field of transportation and logistics, and applying operational research methodologies to solve them. I have worked on planning the activities of electric vehicles in urban transportation and I am keen to continue exploring new research areas related to green logistics and increasing the use of electric vehicles in the transportation sector.

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 Cultural and Creative Industries

Lecturer in Management Accounting

Juliana’s research interests range from management accounting to inter-disciplinary accounting.

PhD supervision:

Juliana would be interested in supervising students with projects on:

• supply chain and accounting,
• managing reverse logistics, retails returns, and circular economy
• performance measurement and balanced scorecard
• strategic management accounting, including beyond budgeting
• accounting and human resource management, including HR monitoring in the supply chain and cost-benefit analysis of adaptations for people with disabilities at work

She is interested in all three aspects of sustainability: people, profits and planet. Juliana has also an interest in extending her research to include environmental accounting, closing the sustainability loop. Her research is based on mixed methods, utilising mainly case studies and surveys as methodological approaches.

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.

Associate Dean Research

Research

Kirsty’s research interests are focussed around three interconnected core themes: the changing character of employment regulation; the shifts and transformations in the politics of production; and the dynamic interplay of global value chains and the labour process. In recent years the empirical focus of her research has been two-fold. First with Professor Paul Thompson and Johanna Commander (University of Strathclyde), she has been concerned with exploring labour process change in the supermarket supply chain. Second, funded in part by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation, Kirsty has focussed on examining the interplay of internal and external forces in the restructuring of the employment relationship, the labour process and value chains in retail distribution and logistics. She is currently co-editing a book entitled ‘Putting Labour in its Place’: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains with Professor Phil Taylor, Dr. Jennifer Bair and Professor Al Rainnie published by Palgrave Macmillan. Kirsty’s current research focus is to explore changing work and employment within the logistics sector.

Kirsty is a member of the team (with Professor Paul Stewart, Professor Dora Scholarios and Ms Claire Scott, University of Strathclyde) which co-ordinates the research network "The changing nature of employment in Europe in the context of challenges, threats and opportunities for employees and employers". This is an international comparative European FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and Experienced Researchers (ERs). It is amongst a small number of multi-disciplinary social science programmes to be awarded funding in the current Marie Curie awards under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP7). The ITN, brings together new and recent post graduate researchers working on an international post graduate research programme supervised by internationally renowned senior academics.
http://www.changingemployment.eu/Home/tabid/2066/Default.aspx.

PhD Supervision

Kirsty is currently supervising a number of PhD students. She is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas;

• Factory work and the politics of production
• Labour process change in retail and retail supply chains
• Work and Employment in the logistics sector
• Labour and Global Value Chains.

Lecturer in Finance

Thach welcomes PhD applications in the areas of his research interests including Empirical Banking, Corporate Finance, Financial Technology.

Professor of Organisational Psychology

Reader in Responsible Marketing

Research interests

My main research efforts are focused on challenges in marketing, including sustainable marketing and marketing to children. My particular interests are centred on consumer behaviour, for instance how individuals make choices around sustainable consumption. My current research with colleagues from Scotland and Ireland investigates influences on sustainable consumer behaviour. My other research interest is marketing to children and here I am interested in what children understand when encountering marketing episodes across different media and in different contexts. I mainly work with qualitative methods.

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

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.

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.

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

My research looks into practices and processes of accountability across different contexts, including NGOs, public service organisations, and within processes of human relatedness. I also am interested in university governance, accounting/management education and the use of playful learning and gamification techniques within education.