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Centre for Change, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
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Who we are

CENTRIM has 19 permanent members with strong records for publishing both journal and conference papers, securing research grants and supervising postgraduate students. We have a balance between established academics, mid-career and early career researchers, ably supported by a support team.

Contact CENTRIM

Miss Sofia Eleftheriadi

S.Eleftheriadi@brighton.ac.uk

+44 (0)1273 642344

CENTRIM
Mithras House 
University of Brighton
BN2 4HQ

Staff members

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Dr Jose Christian

Jose's primary research interest include emerging forms of entrepreneurship and innovation in the digital economy. This area of research includes the mapping of innovation systems active the digital workspace, new ICT-based business models, and digital platform strategies. Part of his research involves developing new methodological techniques for the study of online innovation networks. 

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Dr Nikos Daskalakis

Dr Nikos Daskalakis is Senior Lecturer in Finance and Financial Management at the University of Brighton. He obtained his PhD in Corporate Finance from Athens University of Economics and Business, earned his M.Sc. in Multinational Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Reading, UK and graduated in Business Administration from Athens University of Economics and Business, specialized in Accounting and Finance.  Dr. Daskalakis is an experienced researcher having published in numerous top-rated academic journals and his publications enjoy a high level of awareness with more than 700 citations. His current research interests lie on the scientific area of financial innovation, including crowdfunding and the crypto economy, capital structure determination and small firm financing.

Dr. Daskalakis has held consulting positions top European bodies for matters that regard financial services. He was a member of the European Crowdfunding Stakeholder Forum (ECSF), assisting the European Commission in developing policies for the area of crowdfunding (2014-2016). He served as a member of the Financial Services User Group (FSUG), consulting the European Commission on matters that refer to the users of financial services (2010-2016). Last, he was member of the Banking Stakeholder Group (BSG) of the European Banking Authority (2013-2018), consulting the Authority on actions concerning regulatory and implementing technical standards, guidelines and recommendations.  

Dr. Daskalakis combines academic research with practical experience. Before joining the University of Brighton he was Head of Market and Entrepreneurship Development Discipline in the Small Enterprises Institute of the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants (2008-2015). Part of his role was to design and implement several consulting projects for SMEs and to represent the Confederation in various domestic and international fora for matters that mainly regard SMEs access to finance. 

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Dr Aline Figlioli

Dr Aline Figlioli main research interests are in the field of (a) open innovation for SMEs, (b) innovation management and innovation policy, particularly related to traditional and new models of innovation habitats, such as science and technology parks, incubators, accelerators, and innovation hubs.

Currently, she is a researcher at the INSPIRE project (https://www.inspire-smes.eu/), Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 work programme, aiming to understand and support open innovation management in Europe’s SMEs.

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Dr Dave Francis

Current research interests include:

How Top Management Teams select an Innovation Strategy

The effectiveness of Innovation-Intensive Action Learning

Use of innovation management approaches to improve academic research practice

The use of M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) as a driver of innovation in development projects

Roles of Innovation Change Agents

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Dr Andrew Grantham

Climate change strategy - evaluation, policy, development and implementation

Design and design management

Creative industries - product, process and value

Continuous improvement in new product development

Railways

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Prof Andros Gregoriou

Market Microstructure, Financial Econometrics 

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Despina Kanellou

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Dr Tim Laing

My research is driven by my interest in understanding the twin challenges of environmental protection and economic development, especially where the two intersect. I am interested in questions of appropriate forms of natural resource management, including the economic and policy instruments that are required to incentivise such management.

I have extensive experience in the Latin America and Caribbean region focusing on the management of forest, mineral and water resources. I also have interests in understanding the impacts and effectiveness of global and regional emissions trading schemes and have undertaken research on both the European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). I am interested in how engagement with the private sector can help to address local, regional and global resource management issues.

I have experience in a range of primary data collection techniques includingsurvey design, interviewing and analysis of quantitative and qualitative datausing a range of software packages. I have worked as an independent consultantfor NGOs, industry associations and international research agencies on projectsin relating to climate change, policy design and low-carbon development. I havepublished on subjects including REDD+, energy investment and internationalclimate change mechanisms for engagement with developing countries

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Paul Levy

I have been a researcher in the fields of innovation management, creativity, change management and digital leadership for over twenty years.

I am chair of the Art of Management and Organisation Conference (AOMO), as well as an Associate of Warwick Business School.

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Dr Nick Marshall

My research focuses on the nature of knowledge and learning in organisations and seeks to link this to questions about innovation and change. I am particularly interested in the social practices of producing, negotiating, and using knowledge within varied organisational settings, but especially project-based, network, and temporary forms of organising. My research draws strongly on practice-based theories, emphasising knowledge and learning as active accomplishments emerging from specific social settings that have important implications for how practices are shaped. Investigating the boundaries between different knowledge communities and how these are constituted, reproduced, crossed, challenged, and redrawn is a key element of this. The settings for my research have been many and varied, ranging from car factories to sewage plants, power stations to animation studios, offshore oil and gas platforms to humanitarian aid projects, road maintenance depots to aerospace companies, big rail construction projects to small firm action learning networks. Despite (or maybe because of) this diversity, the thread running through my research has been an enduring interest in the social and political dynamics of knowledge and practice and how these unfold in different contexts.

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Peter McCullen

I teach and research in the area of Supply Chain Managment. Research interests include the 'bullwhip effect' in supply chains and supply chain improvement.

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Dr Sushil Mohan

Dr Sushil Mohan is the lead for the CENTRIM Research Group on ‘Enterprise, Trade and Sustainable Development’.

The focus of his research is on the interaction between international trade, ethical trading and economic development – it is mostly applied and issue-driven with a strong policy focus. It covers broadly: (i) Trade in primary commodities such as coffee and tea, with a focus on problems faced by commodity producers in developing countries. (ii) Agricultural trade, with focus on consequences of trade barriers for developing countries’ agricultural exports and climate change for food security (iii) International development issues such as Fair Trade and environmental improvement initiatives. The research has been supported by FAO, UNCTAD, International Coffee Organisation and Institute of Economic Affairs. 

The research has been published widely in high ranking refereed journals. His Hobart Paper on Fair Trade presents an interesting perspective on socially responsible trading; it has been discussed on radio programmes and reviewed in newspapersincluding the Financial Times, Independent and Guardian.  Development’.He is on the Editorial Board of Emerald Journal ‘Qualitative Research in Financial Markets’ and member of European Trade Study Group, Development Study Association and UNCTAD Group on Non Tariffs Measures in Trade.

Ongoing projects include social enterprises, voluntary social standards, market concentration in coffee markets, non-tariff trade barriers, trade openness and health.

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Dr Nasos Poulis

I am a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton, United Kingdom. I hold a PhD in the field of branding and an MBA degree with emphasis in Marketing from the University of Stirling. My research interests involve brand management, digital marketing communications, integrated marketing communications and marketing research. I have published in such journals as: Information Technology and People, Journal of Strategic Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Product & Brand Management. I have made several presentations for the European, American and World Marketing Academies, and for many recognized international academic conferences, such as ICORIA, ICMC etc. and also acted as track chair. I have been a marketing consultant in various sectors for the past 10 years.

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Steve Reeve

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Asher Rospigliosi

I research the history and role of higher education, graduate employability and how graduates might best be served by university; as well social media, big data and digital entrepreneurship. I’m an economic sociologist excited by the impact of technology. My joint research project into the Fully Functioning University was awarded Researchers of the Year 2017 by Professor Mark Cowling, Brighton Business School Head of research. As Principal lecturer at BBS I developed successful modules in e-commerce, digital transformation, big data and digital marketing.

*Chair of BBS School Board

* Union representative

*On Cross-School Research Ethics Committee for Social Sciences

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Dr George Tsekouras

George has led research on innovation and entrepreneurship. His research includes themes such as

  • managing open innovation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs);
  • SMEs linkages with research organisations; 
  • enabling business development and innovation activities through peer-to-peer learning networks; 
  • empower SME evolution through innovation coaching;
  • innovation management for non-high tech SMEs;
  • new product development strategies for SMEs;
  • managing and supporting innovation in Social Enterprises;
  • life stages for SMEs. 

George has also worked in various other innovation management fielscenatio foresightds such as innovation policies benchmarking, business processes rengineering for SMEs and scenario foresight for innovation.

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Dr Arvind Upadhyay

Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Practices, Procurement, Operations Management, Project Management, Project Based Innovation and Learning.

PGR student members

NameThesis

 Mehabad S Ali

Institutional Perspective on the Case of Kurdistan Region

 Hanin Alshaikh

Mapping Efficient Strategy Plans of Social Media Marketing tailored for Charitable Organisations

 Motaz Alsolaim

Why most of small start-up businesses fail within 3 years in Saudi Arabia?

 Katy Beckett 
 Visiting student

 

 Kimberley Belle

Dyslexia as a Modifiable Formal and Informal Learning Influence in SMEs

 Ben Brindle

An analysis of labour market adjustment mechanisms induced by immigration to the United Kingdom
in the decade following the financial crisis

 Ronald Davidson

Innovation within Private Finance Initiative projects: the influence of governance throughout the first stage of
post-contract implementation

 Dicle Kortantamer

Understanding leadership in the context of organisational change projects: Exploring social, political
and cognitive aspects of project leadership framing in practice

 Anita Nusselt

 Technological learning beyond the traditional frame of reference: Disruptive technology innovation at BMW.

 Akinyo Ola

 Improving project capability in the public sector: A case study within the UK government

 Joseph Shuaibu

What is the experience of being a black African entrepreneur in the UK in the last 20 years?

 Wei Yue

Platform Guarantee and Credit Allocation Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from China's
Peer-to-Peer Lending Market

 Sijia Zhang

Financial Policy of Zero-leverage Firms in UK

 Erika Wong

Creating Spaces for Memories: Sustaining Cultures in a Global Economy

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