Our research students

Economics and Finance research

Student name	Supervisor(s)	Thesis title
Lisette Alfaya Frias	David Schroeder
Umer Bin Ameen	Yunus Aksoy Pedro Gomes
Lakh Bhakar	Yunus Aksoy Pedro Gomes	Unconventional Monetary Policy
Zakaria Bouamara	Emmanuel Mamatzakis Pegy Makrychoriti	Natural Resource Dependence and Long-Term Economic Growth: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
Alexander Bowyer	Dr Walter Beckert Dr Daniel Kaliski
Mohamed El Habib Chenguiti Ansari	Yunus Aksoy Camille Boudot-Reddy	Endogenous Capabilities, Spatial Dynamics, and the Robustness of Spatial Economic Models
Federico Corrado	Yunus Aksoy Pedro Gomes
Natalie Fothergill	Walter Beckert Yunus Aksoy	The UK pension system and pensioner poverty: The impact of lifecycle shocks, labour market changes, and demographic pressures on retirement adequacy.
Paul Maximilian Gelbhaar	Arup Daripa Sandeep Kapur
Brian Gorst	Pedro Gomes Ron Smith	Essays on fiscal policy and the macroeconomy
Mehedee Hasan	Stephen Wright Pedro Gomes	UK Stock Market, Monetary Policy, and the Real Economy
Colin Higgins	Alastair Ball Ron Smith
Omar Khodr	Walter Beckert Daniel Kaliski	The Relationship between Mental Health Disorders, Substance Abuse, and Socioeconomic Dynamics: Implications for Poverty and Income Inequality
Chris Larkin	David Schroeder Tinghua Yu
David Latto	Kenjiro Hori Arup Daripa
Marcel Lee	Emmanuela Sciubba David Schroeder
Rory MacQueen	Stephen Wright Ron Smith
Darren Maddox	Emmanuel Mamatzakis Pegy Makrychoriti	The Rise of Financial Social Media: Modelling Social Mood Volatility for Financial Opportunities
Kapila Malawwethanthri	Stephen Wright Sandeep Kapur
Peter Millington	Emmanuela Sciubba Ilaria Peri	Agent-based models (ABMs) employ Monte Carlo methods to simulate interactions among autonomous agents, shedding light on system behaviors.
Joshua Mutio	Sandeep Kapur Tinghua Yu
Iyanuoluwa Onafadeji	David Schroeder Ilaria Peri
Ah Hyun Park	Sandeep Kapur Alastair Ball	Environmental Economics
Alan Patrick	Haris Psaradakis Daniel Kaliski
Magdalena Pietrzykowska	Walter Beckert Daniel Kaliski	Investigating how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming core domains of microeconomics, particularly Industrial Organisation and Competition Policy.
Gerard Presto	Emmanuel Mamatzakis Pegy Makrychoriti	Distributed ledger technology
Mo'Az Shehata	Pegy Makrychoriti Emmanuel Mamatzakis	Corporate Finance, Investments, Valuation, Venture Capital, Start-up Financing, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics.
Cornel Todirica	Emmanuela Sciubba Arup Daripa

Management research

Student name	Supervisor(s)	Thesis title
Emad Alchikh Saleh	Kevin Ibeh	How is FDI into the UK affected by recent regional and global developments? The perspective of foreign investors in the manufacturing sector
Konstantinos Athanasiadis	Geoffrey Walters Dimitrios Koufopoulos	Looking through the process lens: Unpacking the CEO succession planning
Olayinka Bandele	Kevin Ibeh Sorin Piperca	An exploration of the drivers and influences on firms’ innovative practices in the Kenyan agribusiness export sector
Sebastian Boo	Pamela Yeow Almuth McDowall	Kind and compassionate leadership in times of crisis
Jacinth Boudier	Ioanna Boulouta Suzanne Konzelmann
John Diamondopoulos	Klaus Nielsen
Conrad Zinenuba Dumbah	Emmanuel Mamatzakis Lorenzo Neri	The impact of the quality of public financial management systems on institutional legitimacy and corruption in Ghana
Serpil Erdogan-Altuncevahir	Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick Horen Voskeritsian
Maryam Ghorbankhani	Federica Rossi Marion Frenz	Exploitation of public sector R&D and the open innovation paradigm: Governance of Knowledge transfer and commercialisation within public research organisations (PROs)
Maximilian Giehrl	Federica Rossi Muthu De Silva	Success Factors in the Collaboration with Innovation Intermediaries - A study in the Context of Digital Technologies
Ibrahim Haidar	Julian Sims Karin Shields	The value relevance of Integrated Reporting
Karine Harutyunyan	Sorin Piperca Pamela Yeow	The impact of Project Managers' emotional intelligence and political skills on project performance and work relationships
Yangyang He	Xiaming Liu Grace Bo Peng	The Acceptance of Chinese Technology Products in Global Markets
Md Uzzal Hossain	Muthu De Silva Federica Rossi	Organizational approach to circular innovation: the role of creative process engagement and creative self-efficacy
Richard Irving	Geoffrey Walters Richard Tacon
Muhammed Jamil	Pamela Yeow Sorin Piperca	Exploring the relationship between adaptive leadership and project success
Yunwen Jiang	Xiaming Liu	What matters in the process of cross-border acquisitions for Chinese MNEs?
Stephen Kataya	Lorenzo Neri Ellen Yu	The impact of corporate social responsibility on firm market performance: An examination from the United Kingdom & selected continental European economies
Jingjing Liang	Xiaming Liu	The export behaviour of Chinese firms and their networks evolution
Ming Liu	Xiaming Liu Qizhi Tao	Tripartite collusion in M&As with performance commitment contracts in China
Barbara Mason	Federica Rossi Richard Tacon
Guilherme Matoso Macedo	Frederick Guy Odile Janne	Essays on labour specialization: Evidence on Brazilian micro-data
Adedoyin Olorunfemi	Muthu De Silva Helen Lawton Smith	Entrepreneurial Learning in women engaged in Interconnected Selling
Emma-Jane Palmer Foster	Helen Lawton Smith Frederick Guy
Benedikt Andreas Pietsch	Sorin Piperca
Louise Redmond	Suzanne Konzelmann Arron Phillips	Governing corporate culture: Board practices for long term corporate success and greater public trust in business
Julia Schober	Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick Horen Voskeritsian	Labour mobility in the European Union: Brexit and the location choice of highly skilled young Europeans
Zehra Serman	Julian Sims	The effect of bloggers on consumer purchase
Sana Inam Shah	Amy Hackley Wendy Hein	Brand storytelling: An interpretive exploration of how beauty brands co-create emotion-evoking narratives by the use of influencer marketing on social media, and its impact on Generation Z's self and social identities in the UK
David Stroll	Klaus Nielsen Federica Rossi; Julian Sims	An empirical case study of productivity measurement and growth capital reporting
Irina Sukiasyan	Wendy Hein Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick	Discursive production and consumption of gendered humour in Post-Soviet Russia
Bethan Taylor	Richard Tacon	You got chicked: Representations and identities of women in ultra running
Mark Thurgood	Marion Frenz Sorin Piperca	Service innovation adoption and integration - people first
Philip Turbutt	Geoffrey Walters Bruno Schivinski
George Robert Wills	Richard Tacon Francesco Addesa	The value of elite clubs and star players in the European football industry
Zhixin Xu	Fred Yamoah Amy Hackley	Urban sustainability and City of Culture
Silin Ye	Xiaming Liu Jing Zhou	Social media, top management team characteristics, and corporate governance in China
Ruocheng Zhao	Xiaming Liu Bruno Schivinski	Guanxi consumption
Yilin Zhao	Xiaming Liu	Institutional entrepreneurship of China's inward foreign direct investment policy system

Organizational Psychology research

Student name	Supervisor(s)	Thesis title
Isabel Beydag	Vanessa Iwowo Rebecca Whiting Alexandra Beauregard	How intellectual activism and academic agency is shaped by the evolution of intellectualism and neoliberalism
Shakyra Campbell	Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya Mark Stringer	The Liminal Crossing: Neurodivergent workers’ lived experience of navigating the workplace
Jessica Dark	Almuth McDowall Harriet Tannenbaum*	'We Make Work, Work for Us': Understanding inclusive work environments as informed by autistic business owners
Nikita D'Souza	Lukas Wallrich Alexandra Beauregard	Examining the affective, behavioural, and cognitive components of inclusion that enable change and promote equity and belonging in organisations
Carolann Edwards	Caroline Kamau-Mitchell Lukas Wallrich	Envied in the workplace: envy attribution and response
Jessica Hobbs	Alexandra Beauregard Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya	Exploring paternal leave journeys with particular focus on fathers' mental wellbeing
Sara Khalil	Yi-Ling Lai* David Gamblin	Towards ideal-self clarity through coaching
Dominika Mazurek	Rebecca Whiting Alexandra Beauregard	Body Matters: Examining how the working lives of professional women in mid-life are shaped by discursive constructions in organisations of the menopause
Margaret Ochieng	Vanessa Iwowo Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya	Examining the undertaking of anti-racism work in UK organisations
Doris Pearce-Niederwieser	Rebecca Whiting David Gamblin	Examining how working past pension age affects one's identity narrative over time
Megan Ramsell	Rashpal Dhensa- Kahlon Kevin Teoh	An investigation of the relationships between stigma, psychosocial working conditions and post-traumatic growth following extra-organisational trauma
Meredith Scott Jones	Rebecca Whiting Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya Vanessa Iwowo	Exploring the impact of diversity discourses on the knowledge production of employees
Jane Setten	Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya Katrina Pritchard*	The changing role of public sector accountants in the UK
Lucinda Soon	Almuth McDowall Kevin Teoh	Identity and meaningfulness at work on lawyers' career motivations and well-being
Greg Swaysland	Almuth McDowall Rebecca Whiting	Disability Confidence - what is it and how can we achieve and measure it? A dyadic model that replaces the social and medical models of disability
Gintare Visockaite	Kevin Teoh Andreas Liefooghe*	Negative behaviour, workplace bullying and outcomes in Russian workplaces: The contextual role of collectivist values and autocratic leadership
Shireen Walker	Libby Drury Alexandra Beauregard	Workplace incivilities affecting older, childfree, working women

*External supervisor