Business and management PhD

My main research and supervisory interests are internationalization of start-ups in a digital world, demarketing and sustainability marketing strategies, cross-cultural consumer behaviour, teaching case study method and marketing education. 

Jose supervises PhD students in the following areas: Open innovation, digital entrepreneurship, emerging digital technologies, open source innovation, online communities, and user innovation.Jose has an interest to supervise PhD students focusing on alternative forms of digital innovation. Of particular interest are those that explore the evolution of digital technologies and their development and propagation through informal innovation group.

Aline has the interest to supervise PhD students that explore entrepreneurial ecosystems builders (EEB) design, role, business models and impacts. All types of EEBs are of interest: business incubators, science and technology parks, accelerators, innovation hubs.

The innovation journey and the management of open innovation in startups and scaleups are also of interest.

I'm interested in supervising students who are exploring areas of employability, the use of LinkedIn (and LinkedIn Learning), as well the implementation of wellbeing in HE curricula. I am also particularly interested in qualitative research methods, including phenomenography and Grounded Theory.

Dave is an enthusiastic supervisor who believes that the analytical skills developed whilst undertaking academic research will be of great value whatever career the student undertakes in the future. His orientation is sociological and he has specialised in systematic use of qualitative methods, especiallly those using Layder's adaptive theory. In a supervisory role Dave views PhD research as an opportunity to develop a capacity to undertake a variety of scholarly tasks with professional competence.

Specific areas in which Dave specialises in providing supervision include: organisation development, agility-intensive organisations, action-learning, management development, innovation management and ecosystem development.

I am very interested in supervising students in the fields of liquidity, financial modelling, SMEs and cryptocurrencies. In particular, I am keen on developing new measures of financial stability that can be applied to the impacts of Brexit and the Coronavirus on financial markets. Panel econometrics and computational finance including bootstraping and monte carlo simulations are also of interest. 

I am interested in supervising PhD students interested in sustainability related to tourism, marketing, and corporate social responsibility. I am also interested in those wanting to research behaviour change, especially related to the environmental crisis. Recently completed research and publications include those concerning behaviour change and travel demand management, destination planning and management and information overload on the internet. I specifically welcome projects that adopt innovative qualitative methodological approaches to creating new knowledge.

I currently supervise students in the fields of renewable energy, sustainable production and technology innovation. I am interested in supervising students in the fields of environmental economics, natural resource management, the extractive industries and the material implications of low-carbon development. 

Gillian has experience supervising graduate and post-graduate students in Human Resouces related subjects. She is able to supervise students on similiar projects.

I am particularly interested in the economic and social aspects of labour migration, focusing on three areas: undocumented migration; precarious and atypical forms of employment; and, migration, remittances and regional development.  

• Quasirat Hasnat, 'An exploration of employee engagement and employee commitment in the London hotels: the perspectives of migrant housekeeping workers and their managers.' PhD awarded in February 2022 (lead supervisor)
• Vlora Berbatovci-Sojeva, 'The impact of employment skills support and inequalities at work on incentives to migrate: A case study of Kosovo', PhD awarded in February 2022 (external supervisor). 
• Christopher Monks,' Stakeholder involvement in the selection of biodiversity - focused voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) standards within the food/agri-business industry'. PhD awarded in July 2019 (lead supervisor)

• George Szamuely, PhD by Prior Output,'Bombs for Peace: the war in Yugoslavia'. PhD awarded in December 2016 (lead supervisor)

• Eda Gemi, 'Socio-economic Integration of Immigrants in Greece: The Case of the Greater Athens Area'. PhD awarded in July 2015 (lead supervisor)           

• Maria Elfani, ‘The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on the Non-Wage Benefits of Labour Migrants – Evidence from the UK’. PhD awarded in July 2014 (lead supervisor)

I am interested in supervising PhD candidates who are drawn to topics of corporate environmental sustainability practices in developing countries, inclusive marketing, and corporate social responsibility. I am also interested in those wanting to explore institutional paradoxes of sustainablity, especially in the cultural and environmental contexts. 

I welcome projects that would like to explore innovative qualitative and mixed methodological approaches.

I welcome students' research projects in the following areas: Consumer psychology and behaviour; Customer relationship marketing; Marketing for families; Gender and sexuality in marketing

Sushil is an active PhD supervisor and welcomes students that wish to work in the areas of trade and international development such as trade policy, trade barriers, global commodity markets, environmental economics, migration, FDI, ethical trading (e.g. Fairtrade, organics, CSR, social enterprises), SMEs and international macroeconomics.

He has a rich experience in the PhD process and helping students in successful completion of PhD and pursuing their career goals. His most recent and current PhD researchers include topics in the area of trade and economic growth, environment, global oil market, Islamic business, CSR, exchange rate regimes, and areas related to international development.    

My most recent doctoral student successfully passed her viva in January 2019. Her doctorate assesses the impact of cuts to Legal Aid on the administration of immigration law and asylum cases.

I am now supervising a student examining issues around anonymity for both complainants and defendants in rape trials.

I would be interested in supervising other doctoral students with interests in Legal Aid, or in research areas covering crime, criminal justice, restorative justice, or youth offending.

She is currently supervising three PhD students.

She would like to hear from potential postgraduate students interested in legal corporate accountability, corporate social responsibility, dispute resolution systems and sustainable development areas.

I am interested to supervise projects in the area of public economics and international economics, specifically environmental policies/ externalities/ international cooperation on environment and trade issues. 

Antonios would be delighted to supervise students in the areas of his research interests, namely Comparative Law, International Law, Commercial Law, European Law and Legal Theory.  He holds experience in supervising PhD projects to completion in the MPhil/PhD register, whilst he has also examined PhD work internally and externally.

PhD Supervisions/Academic Sponsorships

• G Erol, PhD, First Supervisor (School of Business and Law) 1/10/21 → …
• Z Luo, Visiting Research Fellow Sponsor (School of Business and Law) Academic Year 2021/2022

Steve is an active supervisor and currently supervises 3 PGR students. He has supervised 10 students to completion and provides mentoring support to supervisory staff based on a wealth of experience as a School Director of Postgraduate Studies; Social Sciences Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies, and Postgraduate Student Research Coordinator. He has extensive experience as Examiner and Chair at viva examiination stage. Although specifically interested in the field of Change Management and Leadership, Steve is keen to collaborate with other supervisors on areas including partnership more generally defined; arts-commerce-public arena; and the politics of governance and assurance.

Interested in Supervising PhD students in the field of human rights law in particular those with an interest in social and economic rights

I am interested to supervise students with research topics in welfare policies, education and the labour market, and effectiveness of policy and programmes.  Here, I have a specific interest in computationally efficient algorithms to improve econometric designs, which improve robustness of applied econometric analysis.  Related to this is the use of innovative, large data sources (“Big Data”) in econometrics, where I can support students gaining proficiency using relevant methodical and technical approaches.

George has supervised several PhD students on topics including among others: Building innovation capabilities in SMEs through learning networks; the contribution of people with learning conditions to the innovation activities of small businesses; innovation skills and behaviors of employees in high-growth SMEs in the digital technology sector; the role of innovation coaching for innovative SMEs; and the  develoment of technology-based start-ups in a developing economy.

George has an interest to supervise PhD students that explore the development of innovation activities and innovation capabilities within SMEs. All types of SMEs (technology-based, high-growth, low-and-medium tech etc.) are of interest. Both challenges of managing the innovation activities and their support are of interest.