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Accounting and Finance
| Name | Role | Research Supervisory Interests Include: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Sameh Amer | Lecturer in Accounting & Finance | sameh.amer@manchester.ac.uk | Audit professional work decision making ESG social role of audit |
| Prof Kevin Aretz | Professor of Finance | kevin.aretz@manchester.ac.uk | Asset Pricing, Real Options, Derivatives Pricing, Alternative-Asset (i.e., non-stock) Pricing, Corporate Finance, Econometrics, and Causal Inference (e.g., DID) Designs. |
| Dr Christos Begkos | Senior Lecturer in Management Accounting | Christos.Begkos@manchester.ac.uk | Digital, Transformation, Practice Theory, Platforms, Evaluation, Management Accounting, Value, Datafication |
| Dr Sung Hwan Chai | Lecturer in Accounting | Sunghwan.chai@manchester.ac.uk | Digital Platform, Information Systems, Management Accounting, Surveillance, Digital Transformation, Ethics and Morality, Audit |
| Dr Sungjun Cho | Senior Lecturer in Finance | sungjun.cho@manchester.ac.uk | International Finance, Market Microstructure, Financial Econometrics |
| Dr George Christodoulakis | Senior Lecturer in Finance | george.christodoulakis@manchester.ac.uk | Credit Risk, Credit Ratings, Structured Finance; Sustainable Finance; Financial Crime, Behavioral Finance, Financial Econometrics, Forecasting |
| Prof Viet Dang | Professor of Finance | vietanh.dang@manchester.ac.uk | Empirical Corporate Finance, Capital Structure, Cash Holdings, Payout, Investment, Risk Taking, ESG (Environmental/Social/Governance) and Sustainability. |
| Prof Amedeo De Cesari | Professor of Finance | amedeo.decesari@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Payout Policy, Mergers, Executive Compensation, Innovation |
| Dr Mohammad Dehghani | Lecturer in Accounting & Finance | mohammad.dehghani@manchester.ac.uk | Empirical Finance, Asset Pricing, Empirical Macroeconomics, Business Cycle, and Times Series Econometrics |
| Dr Oluwatoyin Dosumu | Lecturer in Accounting & Finance | oluwatoyin.dosumu@manchester.ac.uk | Initial Public Offerings; Business History; Family Ownership |
| Prof Marie Dutordoir | Professor of Finance | marie.dutordoir@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Finance, Sustainability, Green Finance, Security Offerings, Convertible Bonds, Mergers and Acquisitions |
| Dr Chanaka Ganepola | Lecturer in Finance | chanaka.ganepola@manchester.ac.uk | Commodity Markets, Liquidity, Energy Finance, Speculation, Price Co-movement |
| Prof Ning Gao | Professor of Finance | ning.gao@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Finance, Sustainable Finance, (ESG) Environmental/Social/Governance Risks, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Innovation, Financial System Information. |
| Dr Spyridon Gkikopoulos | Lecturer in Accounting | spyridon.gkikopoulos@manchester.ac.uk | Stock Return Predictability, Financial Statement Analysis, Value-Relevance Of Accounting Information, Corporate Taxation, Corporate Tax Planning |
| Dr Yazhou He | Lecturer in Finance | yazhou.he@manchester.ac.uk | Institutional Investors, Shareholder Activism, Corporate Governance, ESG, Mutual Funds, Voting |
| Prof Christopher Humphrey | Professor of Accounting | chris.humphrey@manchester.ac.uk | Developing the Concept/Purpose of Auditing |
| Prof Stuart Hyde | Professor of Finance | stuart.hyde@manchester.ac.uk | Empirical Finance, International Financial Markets, Financial Crises and Contagion, Financial Market Integration and Comovement, Emerging Markets Finance, Market Microstructure |
| Dr Emiel Jerphanion | Lecturer in Finance | emiel.jerphanion@manchester.ac.uk | Household Finance, Corporate Finance, Banking |
| Dr Wei Jiang | Senior Lecturer in Accounting | wei.jiang-2@manchester.ac.uk | Market-Based Accounting Research, Corporate Governance, Loss-Making Firms, ESG, Accounting Anomalies, Dividends |
| Dr Julian Jones | Lecturer in Accounting & Finance | Julian.w.jones@manchester.ac.uk | Make or Buy, Decision Making Uncertainty |
| Prof Arif Khurshed | Professor of Finance | Arif.khurshed@manchester.ac.uk | Initial Public Offerings, Venture Capital, Payout Policy |
| Dr Nooch Kuasirikun | Senior Lecturer in Accounting | nooch.kuasirikun@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, GRI Reporting with a Focus on Developing Economies and Emerging Markets. |
| Prof Edward Lee | Professor of Accounting and Finance | edward.lee@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Dr Yifan Li | Lecturer in Finance | yifan.li@manchester.ac.uk | Financial Econometrics, Time Series, High-Frequency Finance, Asset Pricing |
| Prof Hening Liu | Professor of Finance | hening.liu@manchester.ac.uk | Macro-finance, Asset Pricing, Ambiguity Preferences, Long-run Risk, Uncertainty |
| Prof Maria Marchica | Professor of Finance | maria.marchica@manchester.ac.uk | Empirical Corporate Finance and Governance: Shareholders' and Managerial Incentives; Financial Contracting; Public vs Private Firms Decisions; Firm Digitalization |
| Prof Sven Modell | Professor | sven.modell@manchester.ac.uk | Management Accounting, Management Control, Public Sector Accounting, Sociology, Critical Realism, Institutional Theory, Mixed Methods Research |
| Prof Roberto Mura | Professor of Finance | roberto.mura@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Finance, Ownership Structure, Links Between Ownership Firm Decisions, Capital Structure, Financing Constraints, Portfolio Choice Related to Firm Risk Taking. Banking and Various Aspects of Behavioural Finance - Role of Gender and the Motherhood Penalty |
| Prof Brian Nicholson | Professor of Business Information Systems | brian.nicholson@mbs.ac.uk | Accounting Information Systems; Digital Platforms; IT in Development; Outsourcing; |
| Prof Brendan O'Dwyer | Professor of Accounting | brendan.odwyer@manchester.ac.uk | Sustainability Accounting, Sustainability Assurance, Sustainability Reporting, Neo-institutional Theory, Financial Audit, Regulation of Professions, Climate-related Risk, Human Rights Accounting. |
| Dr Yoichi Otsubo | Lecturer in Finance | yoichi.otsubo@manchester.ac.uk | Social Finance and Economics, Narrative Economics, Textual Analysis, Options Implied Information, Market Microstructure, Financial Time Series Analysis, Behavioural Finance, Machine Learning. |
| Dr Stefan Petry | Lecturer in Finance | stefan.petry@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Governance, Textual Analysis, NLP, Machine Learning, Social Media, ESG, Climate Finance |
| Dr Ser-Huang Poon | Professor of Finance | ser-huang.poon@manchester.ac.uk | Natural Language Processing with Transformer & Embedding; Machine Learning (Quantitative, Text, Voice, Image), Large Language Model, AI ChatBot; Corporate Disclosure & Reputation Risks, Sustainability & Human Rights; Modern Slavery in Supply Chains; Social Media Influencers & Retail Investors; Volatility Forecasting & Extreme Values; |
| Dr Ahmed Prapan | Lecturer in Accounting & Finance | ahmed.prapan@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Cash Holding |
| Dr Vlad-Andrei Porumb | Reader of Accounting | vlad-andrei.porumb@manchester.ac.uk | Auditing, Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability Assurance, Banking, Business Groups |
| Prof Paolo Quattrone | Professor of Accounting, Governance & Society | paolo.quattrone@manchester.ac.uk | Decision Making, Ambiguity and Uncertainty, Materiality and Data Visualizations, Governance, Major Programmes and Grand Challenges; History of Management and Accounting Practices; Accounting for Nature and Common Good |
| Dr Patrick Ryu | Lecturer in Accounting | patrick.ryu@manchester.ac.uk | Financial Accounting, Disclosures, Regulations, Executive Compensation, Institutional Investors, Insider Trading |
| Prof Brahim Saadouni | Professor of Accounting & Finance | brahim.saadouni@manchester.ac.uk | The Compensation of the Underwriters of Initial Public Offerings and Seasoned Equity Offerings, Incentive Fees, Issuers and Underwriters, Role Anchor Investors, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Green (inc Faith) vs Conventional Bonds |
| Dr Thomas Schleicher | Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance | thomas.schleicher@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Communication, Earnings Guidance, Narratives, Investor Communication, Trading Statements |
| Prof Javed Siddiqui | Professor of Accounting | javed.siddiqui@manchester.ac.uk | Audit, CSR, Sustainability, Emerging Economies, Corporate Governance |
| Dr Paul Simpson | Senior Lecturer in Finance | p.simpson@manchester.ac.uk | Mergers and Acquisitions; Cross Border Deals; Merger Policy; |
| Prof Konstantinos Stathopoulos | Professor of Accounting and Finance | k.stathopoulos@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, Corporate Finance, Market Based Accounting |
| Dr Chi-Yang (Ben) Tsou | Lecturer in Finance | chi-yang.tsou@manchester.ac.uk | Asset Pricing, Macro-finance, Corporate Finance |
| Dr Jonathan Tweedie | Lecturer in Accounting | jonathan.tweedie@manchester.ac.uk | Critical Accounting, Environmental Accounting, Transparency, Accountability, Performance Measurement |
| Dr Sze Nie Ung | Lecturer in Accounting & Finance | sze-nie.ung@manchester.ac.uk | Investor sentiment; Return prediction; Empirical asset pricing |
| Dr George Voulgaris | Senior Lecturer in Accounting | georgios.voulgaris@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Governance; Financial Accounting; Corporate Disclosure; Institutional Ownership; Executive Pay; Corporate Taxation; Mixed Methods; Agency Theory |
| Dr Alice Liang Xu | Lecturer in Accounting | liang.xu@manchester.ac.uk | ESG, ESG Reporting, Climate Change, Climate Reporting, Debt Contracting, Debt Covenants, Syndicated Loan |
| Dr ChunLei Yang | Senior Lecturer in Accounting | chunlei.yang@manchester.ac.uk | Accounting, Informational Uncertainty, Space, Place, Ambivalence, People-place Relationships, Organizational Identification |
| Dr Sofia Yasmin | Senior Lecturer in Accounting | sofia.yasmin@manchester.ac.uk | Qualitative Accounting Research, NGO Accountability and Governance, Audit, CSR, Developing Economies |
| Dr Sarah Zhang | Lecturer in Finance | sarah.zhang@manchester.ac.uk | Market Microstructure, FinTech, Experimental Finance, High-frequency Trading |
| Dr Yafei Zhang | Lecturer in Finance | yafei.zhang@manchester.ac.uk | Financial Intermediation and Banking, Securitization, Securities Issuances, Information Economics, Industrial Organization |
Innovation Management and Policy
| Name | Role | Research Supervisory Interests Include: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Mercedes Bleda | Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation | mercedes.bleda@manchester.ac.uk | Behavioral Strategy, Managerial Cognition, Strategic Decision Making, Organisational Adaptation to Climate Change, Innovation and Innovation Policy |
| Dr Catherine Casson | Lecturer | catherine.casson@manchester.ac.uk | History of Entrepreneurship; Long Run Perspectives on Sustainability; Business History; Economic History |
| Dr Elaine Clark | Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management | elaine.clark@manchester.ac.uk | Narrative. 'Leadership as Performance', Mental Well-being, Confidence, Reflection, Patient involvement, Student voice. |
| Dr Adam Frost | Senior Lecturer, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability | adam.frost@manchester.ac.uk | Entrepreneurship Education/Pedagogy, Start-Ups, New Venture Growth, Entrepreneurs |
| Dr Dimitri Gagliardi | Senior Lecturer, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability | dimitri.gagliardi@manchester.ac.uk | Science, Technology & Innovation; Medical Innovation; Diffusion of Medical Knowledge and Technologies; Translational Research; Pharmaceutical innovation; MedTech, Digital, AI; Diffusion of Innovation; |
| Dr Chris Golding | Lecturer in Innovation & Strategy | christopher.golding@manchester.ac.uk | Behavioural Strategy, Strategy Process, Innovation Process, Emotion |
| Prof Mark Healey | Professor of Strategic Management | mark.healey@manchester.ac.uk | Behavioural Strategy, Managerial and Organisational Cognition, Strategic Leadership, Strategic Decision Making |
| Prof Mike Hodson | Professor and Research Director of the SCI | michael.hodson@manchester.ac.uk | Urban Sustainability Transitions, Urban Experimentation, Urban (Socio-technical) Innovation, Urban Platforms and Platformisation |
| Prof Andrew James | Senior Lecturer, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability | Andrew.James@manchester.ac.uk | Innovation Management; Adoption of Digitalisation and AI; Policy Entrepreneurship; Technological Sovereignty; China-UK Research Collaboration; Public Procurement and Innovation; Aerospace, Defence and Security Sector |
| Dr Aarti Krishnan | Lecturer in Innovation & Sustainability | aarti.krishnan-2@manchester.ac.uk | Value/Supply Chains, Sustainable Innovations, Environmental Governance, Small-medium Enterprises, Green Finance, Green and Digital Transformation, Social Network Analysis, Impact Evaluation |
| Dr Elisabeth Krull | Lecturer in Innovation | elisabeth.krull@manchester.ac.uk | Strategy (esp. strategising and / or innovating) Climate Change Mitigation and / or Adaptation; Use of Strategy Tools, Innovation Processes / Management, Strategy-as-Practice, Paradox Theory / Navigating Tensions, Knowledge Integration / Coordination, Heterogeneous Knowledge for Innovation and Strategy, Insurance industry |
| Dr Cornelia Lawson | Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) | cornelia.lawson@manchester.ac.uk | AI in Science; Evaluation of Research; Diversity in Science; Female Entrepreneurship; Science-based Startups; Team Science; AI in Health; Econometrics |
| Dr Yajing Li | Lecturer | yajing.li@manchester.ac.uk | Quantitative, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Industry-academic Interaction (Academic Entrepreneurship, Firm Publication, University-firm Alliance), Diversity (Gender & Race), Family Firms, Chinese Context |
| Dr Khaleel Malik | Senior Lecturer, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability | khaleel.malik@manchester.ac.uk | Innovation strategy in firms, Digitalisation in R&D, University and industry collaborations, International technology transfer in MNCs |
| Dr Rob Martin | Lecturer (Enterprise & Entrepreneurship) | rob.martin@manchester.ac.uk | Enterprise Entrepreneurship Corporate Social Responsibility Innovation Sport Football Sustainability Economic Social Governance (ESG) |
| Prof Silvia Massini | Professor of Economic and Management of Innovation | silvia.massini@manchester.ac.uk | Innovation Management, Digital Technologies for Sustainability, AI, 3D Printing, Skills |
| Dr Matthew McCaffrey | Senior Lecturer in Enterprise | matthew.mccaffrey@manchester.ac.uk | Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Judgment, Uncertainty, Video Games, Institutions, History of Economic Thought, Austrian Economics |
| Prof Philip McCann | Chair of Urban and Regional Economics | philip.mccann@manchester.ac.uk | Cities, Regions, Productivity, Investment, Innovation, Labour Markets |
| Prof Andrew McMeekin | Professor of Innovation | andrew.mcmeekin@manchester.ac.uk | Sustainability Transitions, Urban Sociotechnical Change, Imaginaries and Futures, Platformization |
| Dr Shukhrat Nasirov | Lecturer in Innovation | shukhrat.nasirov@manchester.ac.uk | Innovation; Technology Management; Intellectual Property Rights; Strategy |
| Dr Adrian Nelson | Lecturer in Health Management | adrian.nelson@manchester.ac.uk | Healthcare Management, Leadership, Stress,Psychology, Statistics,Research Methods |
| Prof Raquel Ortega-Argilés | Chair Regional Economic Development | raquel.ortega-argiles@manchester.ac.uk | Regional Innovation, Regional Entrepreneurship, Industrial Relatedness and Complexity, Productivity, Knowledge Diffusion, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policy, Levelling Up, Econometric Analysis and Economic Modelling. |
| Dr Kassandra Papadopoulou | Senior Lecturer in Enterprise | kassandra.papadopoulou@manchester.ac.uk | Innovation Management, Risk Management, Technology Development, Blockchain, Acoustic Reflectometry, Pipeline Inspections, Reliability & Maintenance Engineering, Oil & Gas |
| Dr Adrien Querbes | Lecturer, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability | adrien.querbes@manchester.ac.uk | Digital/Platform Industries, Computational Modelling, Evolutionary Modelling, Strategic / Collective Decision-making, Collective Innovation, New Product Development |
| Dr Mina Rezaeian | Lecturer in Innovation | mina.rezaeian@manchester.ac.uk | Sustainability Transitions, Transition Policies, Policy Mix, Business Model Adaptation |
| Dr Marianna Rolbina | Lecturer in Digital Innovation | marianna.rolbina@manchester.ac.uk | Creative Industries; Digital Innovation; Co-creation; Open Innovation; Brokerage; International Business |
| Dr Fatemeh Salehi | Lecturer | fatemeh.salehi@manchester.ac.uk | Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Education, Start-ups, SMEs, Commercialisation, Business Networks, Emerging Technologies |
| Mrs Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo | Senior Lecturer in Science Policy and Innovation | Msbarrioluengo@manchester.ac.uk | University-society Relationship, Digital Transformation and Changes in Firms Business Models, Digital Technologies, Human Capital and Skills |
| Prof Philip Shapira | Professor of Innovation Management | pshapira@manchester.ac.uk | Science, Technology and Innovation Policy; Emerging Technologies and Governance; Responsible Research and Innovation; AI in Science and Manufacturing; Regional Innovation; Policy Evaluation |
| Dr Karl Taeuscher | Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship | Karl.taeuscher@manchester.ac.uk | Entrepreneurial Framing, Strategic Positioning, Cultural Entrepreneurship, Pivoting, Startup Growth & Performance, Legitimation and Resource Acquisition of New Ventures, Strategic Categorization, Quantitative Methods |
| Prof Bruce Tether | Professor of Innovation Management | bruce.tether@manchester.ac.uk | Innovation Management, Design, Strategy, Economic Geography, Professional Services, Innovation Policy, Law and Economics, Political Economy |
| Prof Elvira Uyarra | Professor of Innovation Studies | elvira.uyarra@manchester.ac.uk | Place-based Innovation Policy, Transformative Innovation Policy, Public Procurement, Clusters, Innovation Districts, University-industry Links |
| Prof Kieran Walshe | Professor of Health Management | kieran.walshe@manchester.ac.uk | Health Services Research, Organisation and Delivery of Healthcare, Quality and Safety in Healthcare., Organisational and Professional Regulation, Healthcare Workforce, Public Inquiries and Investigationsc, Research Policy and Strategy in Government, Healthcare Innovation |
| Dr Lee Webster | Lecturer in Enterprise | lee.webster@manchester.ac.uk | Information Literacy |
Management Sciences and Marketing
| Name | Role | Research Supervisory Interests Include: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Richard Allmendinger | Professor of Applied AI | richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk | AI Algorithm Development and Application, Heuristic Optimisation, Reinforcement Learning, Generative AI, Algorithms for Non-standard Problems, Bayesian Optimisation, Application Domains Including Finance, Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, Private Equity, Biochemical Engineering, Music, Sports, Privacy |
| Prof Emma Banister | Professor of Consumption And Society | emma.banister@manchester.ac.uk | Consumer Culture, Consumption, Identity, Social Impact, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Gender, Parental Leave Policies |
| Prof Jamie Burton | Professor of Marketing | jamie.burton@manchester.ac.uk | Services Marketing; (B2B and B2C) Customer Experience and Engagement; Servitization/Service Infusion; Digitalization; Digital Service Innovation; Tensions and Territoriality; Networks/Ecosystems; Sustainability and Circularity. |
| Prof Michelle Carter | Professor of Information Systems, Management Sciences | michelle.carter@manchester.ac.uk | IT Identity, Identity Theories, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Information Systems, Individual IT Use Behavior, Information Systems Management, Behavioral Research |
| Dr Kam Ho Tommy Chan | Senior Lecturer in Management Science | tommy.chan@manchester.ac.uk | Technology Use and Wellbeing, Digital Business and Online Consumer Behaviors, Digital Communities and Social Media |
| Dr Simos Chari | Senior Lecturer in Marketing Management & Strategy | simos.chari@manchester.ac.uk | Strategy Implementation, Responsiveness, Improvisation, Strategic Change, Strategic Renewal, Performance Analytics, Corporate Sustainability |
| Prof Yu-wang Chen | Professor in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics | yu-wang.chen@manchester.ac.uk | Data-Driven Decision Making; Data Analytics and AI; Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis; Risk Analysis; Intelligent Reasoning, Optimization and Decision |
| Dr Ilma Nur Chowdhury | Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing | ilma.chowdhury@manchester.ac.uk | Sustainability and Services Management, Digital Services and Digital Responsibility, Transformative Service Research, Social Innovation, Social Business, Vulnerable Customers, Meeting Net-Zero Targets. |
| Dr Arijit De | Lecturer in Management Science | arijit.de@manchester.ac.uk | Supply Chain Management, Freight and Maritime Logistics, Port and Shipping Operations, Sustainable and Risk Management within Supply Chain, Operation Research Based Mathematical Model, Advance Machine Learning Techniques, Problem-based Heuristics and Approximation Algorithm, Agent-Based Simulation Model |
| Prof Heiner Evanschitzky | Professor of Marketing | heiner.evanschitzky@manchester.ac.uk | Retailing; Technology in Retailing, Retail Marketing, Customer Inspiration, Multilevel-modelling, Quantitative Research, Field Experiments |
| Dr Leandro Galli | Lecturer in Marketing | leandro.galli@manchester.ac.uk | Prosocial Behaviour, Charitable Giving, Consumer Psychology, Cause-related Marketing, Morality, Emotions, Sustainability |
| Dr Alex Gunz | Senior Lecturer in Marketing | alex.gunz@manchester.ac.uk | Social Psychology, Consumer Behaviour, Self, Identity, Wellbeing, Self-determination Theory |
| Prof Julia Handl | Professor in Decision Sciences | julia.handl@manchester.ac.uk | Graph Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Multicriterion Optimisation, Multicriterion Decision Making, Clustering, Unsupervised Learning |
| Prof Lloyd Harris | Professor in Marketing | lloyd.harris@manchester.ac.uk | Customer Misbehaviour, Dysfunctional Service, Service Marketing, Employee Misbehaviour, Tourism Service, Service Dynamics, Customer Complaining and Orientation |
| Dr Magda Hassan | Lecturer in Marketing | magda.hassan@manchester.ac.uk | Marketing Strategy, SDGs, Inequality, Micro-entrepreneurship, Emerging Markets, ESG, Sustainability, Better Marketing for a Better World (BMBW), Quantitative Analysis |
| Dr Ali Hassanzadeh | Lecturer in Management Science | ali.h@manchester.ac.uk | Mathematical Modeling and Optimization, Stochastic Programming, Simulation, Machine Learning and AI, Sports Analytics, Transportation and Logistics, Algorithm Design/Metaheuristics |
| Prof Hongwei He | Professor of Marketing | hongwei.he@manchester.ac.uk | CSR, Sustainable Consumption, Pro-social Behavior, Pro-environmental Behavior, AI, Explainable AI, Business Ethics |
| Prof Fahian Huq | Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management | fahian.huq@manchester.ac.uk | Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Risk Management in Supply Chains, Supply Chain Configuration, Innovative Operations and SCM Practices in Emerging Economies, Challenges in Procurement, Technological Impact on Operations and SCM: Technology Automation, AI, and Data Analytics, Supply Chain and Operations Management |
| Dr Abbie Iveson | Lecturer in Marketing | abbie.iveson@manchester.ac.uk | Consumer Brand Relationships, Social Media Branding, Social Media Internationalisation, Brand-love |
| Dr Matti Jaakkola | Senior Lecturer in Marketing Management and Strategy | matti.jaakkola@manchester.ac.uk | Strategic Marketing, Marketing Resources, Organisational Capabilities, Marketing Performance Measurement, Marketing Analytics, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Experience, Service Quality |
| Dr Sumin Kim | Lecturer in Marketing | sumin.kim@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Social (ir)responsibility, Corporate Digital Responsibility, Brand Activism, Emotion, Consumer Behavior |
| Dr Andrea Lagna | Senior Lecturer in Financial Technology | andrea.lagna@manchester.ac.uk | Fintech and the Future of Finance; AI and Data-driven Technologies; Financialization and Financial Innovations; Digitalization and Digital Innovations; Institutionalism; Socio-technical Perspective and Sociomateriality; Power and Information Systems; Qualitative Research |
| Dr Manuel López-Ibáñez | Senior Lecturer in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics | manuel.lopez-ibanez@manchester.ac.uk | Optimisation, Scheduling, Routing, Machine Learning, Reproducible Research, Machine (virtual) Decision-makers, Behavioural Aspects of Interactive Decision-making, Operational Research |
| Prof Bryan Lukas | Professor of Marketing | bryan.lukas@manchester.ac.uk | Marketing Management, Marketing Strategy, Consumer Behaviour, Digital Marketing, Brand Management, Market Research, Product and Services Innovation, Advertising & Sales |
| Dr Tatiana Martinez | Lecturer in Management Science | tati.martinez@gmail.com | Information Systems, e-Government, Data, Open Data, Transparency and Accountability, Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Open Government, GovTech, Smart Cities, Technology Governance, Cognitive IS, Artificial Intelligence |
| Prof Nikolay Mehandjiev | Professor of Enterprise Information Systems | n.mehandjiev@manchester.ac.uk | Adoption of Intelligent Enterprise Systems; Explainable Artificial Intelligence; Immersive 3D Visualisations and Decision Support in MetaVerse; Digital Transformation |
| Dr Fanlin Meng | Lecturer in Data Science | fanlin.meng@manchester.ac.uk | Machine Learning, Privacy-preserving, Operational Research, Data-driven Optimisation, Game Theory, Smart Energy, Energy Market, Transportation and Logistics |
| Dr Luis Ospina-Forero | Lecturer in Data Science | luis.ospina-forero@manchester.ac.uk | Network Analysis, Statistics, Prediction Models, Causal Analysis, Time Series Forecasting |
| Prof Nadia Papamichail | Professor of Management Sciences | n.papamichail@manchester.ac.uk | Decision Behaviour, Decision Analytics, Decision Support, AI Ethics, Responsible AI, Digital Strategy, Knowledge Management, Environmental Decision Making, Crisis Management |
| Dr Grigory Pishchulov | Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Supply Chain Management | grigory.pishchulov@manchester.ac.uk | Contracting in Supply Chains, Supply Chain Coordination Under Asymmetric Information, Partial integration in Supply Chains via Equity Holding, Closed-loop Supply Chains Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Digital Platforms and Supply Chain Management |
| Prof Antony Potter | Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and Head of Management Sciences and Marketing Division | antony.potter@manchester.ac.uk | Toyota Production System (TPS), Lean Manufacturing, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management |
| Prof Joao Quariguasi Frota Neto | Chair in Operations Management | joao.quariguasifrotaneto@manchester.ac.uk | Close-loop Supply Chains and the Interface Between Operations, Analytics and Finance |
| Dr Eghbal Rahimikia | Assistant Professor in Financial Technology | eghbal.rahimikia@manchester.ac.uk | Financial Technology, Quantitative Finance, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Big Data, Financial Forecasting, Large Language Models. |
| Dr Pedro Sampaio | Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Information Systems and Data Science | p.sampaio@manchester.ac.uk | Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Information Systems, Decision Support, Digital Platforms, Design Theories, Complex Systems Design, Collaborative Intelligence |
| Dr Panagiotis Sarantopoulos | Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing | p.sarantopoulos@manchester.ac.uk | Substantive: Retailing and Pricing, Digital Marketing (broadly defined), Consumers and AI, Methodological: Experiments (Online, Lab, Field, Quasi-), Regression Models |
| Prof Duncan Shaw | Professor of Operational Research and Critical Systems | duncan.shaw-2@manchester.ac.uk | Societal Resilience, Soft Operational Research, Systems Thinking, Problem Structuring Methods, Community Operational Research |
| Dr Chris Smith | Senior Lecturer in Operations and Critical Systems | christopher.smith@manchester.ac.uk | Soft OR; Systems Thinking; Qualitative, Supply Chain Management, Socially Responsible Supply Chain Management, Resilience |
| Dr Hai-Anh Tran | Lecturer in Marketing | hai-anh.tran@manchester.ac.uk | Consumer Psychology, Marketing Communication, Service Marketing, CSR, Text Mining |
| Prof Dong-Ling Xu | Professor of Decision Science and Systems | ling.xu@manchester.ac.uk | Evidential Reasoning, Bayes Reasoning, Evidence Based Decision Making, and Their Applications in Business, Engineering and Professional Services |
| Dr Xian Yang | Lecturer in Data Science | xian.yang@manchester.ac.uk | Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Learning |
| Prof Jian-Bo Yang | Professor of Decision and System Sciences | jian-bo.yang@manchester.ac.uk | Evidential Reasoning, Probabilistic Rule-based Modelling and Learning, Bayes Inference, Evidence-based Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, and Their Applications in Business, Engineering and Professional Services |
| Prof Judy Zolkiewski | Professor of Marketing | judy.zolkiewski@manchester.ac.uk | Business-to-business Relationships and Networks, Business-to-business Services, Servitization |
People, Management and Organisations
| Name | Role | Research Supervisory Interests Include: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Matthew Alford | Senior Lecturer in International Business and Management | matthew.alford@manchester.ac.uk | Global Value Chains, Governance, Globalisation, Sustainability, Global Production Networks, Labour, Decent Work, Environment, Upgrading |
| Dr Francisca Alvarez Figueroa | Lecturer in Employment Studies | francisca.alvarezfigueroa@manchester.ac.uk | Organizational Citizenship Behaviours, Organizational Justice, HRM, EDI, Employee Voice |
| Dr Cassandra Bowkett | Lecturer in Human Resource Management | cassandra.bowkett@manchester.ac.uk | New Technology (robotics, automation and AI), Impacts on Future of Work/Skills, Skill Systems, Changes in Skill Investment, Skills Policy, Firm Training Investment, Cross National Studies, Human Resource/Employer Strategies in Workforce Skills, Development and Planning |
| Prof Peter Buckley | Professor of International Business | peter.buckley-2@manchester.ac.uk | International Business, Multinational Enterprise, Globalization, Emerging Market Multinationals Multinationals and Grand Challenges, Global Value Chains |
| Prof Naomi Chambers | Professor of Health Management | naomi.chambers@manchester.ac.uk | Healthcare Policy; Non-profit Board Level Governance; Public Leadership; Healthcare Management |
| Dr Zibang Chen | Lecturer in International Business | zibang.chen@manchester.ac.uk | OFDI, Emerging Market, Location Choice, Entry Mode, Institutions, Political Risk |
| Prof Sharon Clarke | Professor of Organisational Psychology | sharon.clarke@manchester.ac.uk | Safety Culture/Climate, Health/Wellbeing, Occupational Stress/Resilience, Leadership, Psychological Aspects of Organisational Behaviour, Interventions to Improve Health, Wellbeing, Safety, Flexible Working, Occupational Health Psychology |
| Prof Cary Cooper | Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health | cary.cooper@manchester.ac.uk | Organisational Wellbeing, Workplace Stress |
| Dr Carlo Ludovico Cordasco | Lecturer in Management & Org Studies | carlo.cordasco@manchester.ac.uk | Ethics, Business Ethics, AI Ethics, AI Adoption |
| Dr Ian Crowther | Lecturer & Deputy Programme Manager | ian.crowther@manchester.ac.uk | Banking, Management in Firms re Sustainability, ESG & UN Development Goals, Financial Regulation, Financialisation, Cultural Economy, Corporate Governance, Risk Management |
| Prof Tony Dundon | Professor of Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | tony.dundon@manchester.ac.uk | Employee Voice, Worker Participation, Technology and Work, Future of Work, Trade Union Bargaining, Labour Process |
| Mr Ismail Erturk | Senior Lecturer in Banking | ismail.erturk@manchester.ac.uk | Financialisation, Financial Regulation, ESG, Green Finance, Socially Responsible Business, Corporate Governance |
| Prof Julie Froud | Professor of Financial Innovation | julie.froud@manchester.ac.uk | Foundational Economy, Social Innovation, Business Models Social Infrastructure, Social Enterprise |
| Dr Angelique Fu | Lecturer in Organisational Psychology | angelique.fu@manchester.ac.uk | Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Career Development, Gender |
| Dr Renfei Gao | Presidential Fellow (Academic) | renfei.gao@manchester.ac.uk | Business Leaders' Role in Strategic Decision-making; Non-market Strategy; Family Business and Entrepreneurship, Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance; Emerging Market Firm Strategy |
| Prof Axele Giroud | Professor of International Business | axele.giroud@manchester.ac.uk | International Business = Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Investment, Global Strategy, Inter-firm collaboration, Sustainable Development, Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Emerging Markets |
| Prof Niron Hashai | Professor of International Business | Niron.Hashai@manchester.ac.uk | International Business, Strategy, Entrepreneurship |
| Prof John Hassard | Professor of Organizational Analysis | john.hassard@manchester.ac.uk | Organization Theory, Organmization Culture, Managerial Work Future of Work Management and Organizational History Corporate and Organizational Change Heathcare, Public Sector, and Third Sector Management |
| Prof Simon Hayward | Professor of Practice | simon.hayward@manchester.ac.uk | Leadership, Development, Culture, Agile, Engagement, Stakeholder Capitalism |
| Prof David Holman | Professor of Organisational Psychology | david.holman@manchester.ac.uk | Job Design, Job Quality, Job Crafting, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Emotion Regulation |
| Prof Debra Howcroft | Professor of Technology and Organisation | debra.howcroft@manchester.ac.uk | New Technology, Work, Employment, Inequalities |
| Dr. David Hughes | Senior Lecturer, Organisational Psychology | david.hughes-4@manchester.ac.uk | Personality; Psychometrics; Individual Differences |
| Ms Ceri Hughes | Research Associate | ceri.hughes@manchester.ac.uk | Employment Precarity, Work-Welfare Interactions, Soft Regulation of Employers, Activation Policies, Inclusive Economy, Labour Market Participation and Inequalities |
| Prof Paul Irwing | Professor of Psychometrics | paul.irwing@manchester.ac.uk | Personality Structure, Adaptive Personality Regulation, Applications of Personality to Business |
| Dr Mathew Johnson | Senior Lecturer in HRM and Employment Studies | mathew.johnson@manchester.ac.uk | Comparative Industrial Relations, International HRM, Regulation, Decent Work, Trade Unions, Social Movements |
| Prof Sheena Johnson | Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing | sheena.johnson@manchester.ac.uk | Health and Wellbeing, Workplace Stress, Ageing Workforce, Violence and Aggression |
| Dr Ian Johnson | Lecturer in Business Law | ian.johnson-2@manchester.ac.uk | Inheritance and Succession Law, Wills and Trusts, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Landlord and Tenant Law |
| Prof Mario Kafouros | Professor of International Business and Innovation | marios.kafouros@manchester.ac.uk | Internationalization, Firm Performance, Innovation, Global Strategy, Institutions |
| Dr Dimitrija Kalanoski | Lecturer in International Business | dimitrija.kalanoski@manchester.ac.uk | Competitive Dynamics, Competition, Cooperation, Coopetition, Institutional Theory (Economic view), Institution-based View, Firm Non-market Strategy, Corporate Political Activity, M&As, Joint Ventures, Alliances, Spinouts |
| Dr William il-kuk Kang | Lecturer in International Business and Management | williamil-kuk.knag@manchester.ac.uk | Corporate Social Responsibility, Culture and Institution Dynamics, Stakeholder Management and Process, Organisational Structure in Digital Age |
| Prof Wing Lam | Professor in Organisational Psychology | wing.lam@manchester.ac.uk | Proactivity, Leadership, Team Dynamics, Emotions, Organisational Psychology |
| Prof Ann Mahon | Professor of Health Leadership | ann.mahon@manchester.ac.uk | Leadership, Leadership Development, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Leadership, Health Policy, Programme Evaluation |
| Prof Robin Martin | Professor of Organisational Psychology | robin.martin@manchester.ac.uk | Causal Methodology |
| Prof Miguel Martinez Lucio | Professor in International HRM and Comparative Industrial Relations | miguel.martinezlucio@manchester.ac.uk | Trade Unionism, Regulation of Employment, The State and Employment Relations, Comparative Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, Critical International HRM, Transnational Worker Representation, Equality and Politics, Social Inclusion and Employment Relations, Worker and Employee Involvement and Participation |
| Prof Eunice Maytorena Sanchez | Professor of Project Management | eunice.maytorena-sanchez@manchester.ac.uk | Project Management, Risk, Uncertainty, Complexity, Stakeholders, Paradox, Managerial and Organisational Cognition |
| Dr John McCormack | Senior Lecturer in Project Management | john.mccormack-2@manchester.ac.uk | Public Management, Defence, Procurement, Workplace Identity |
| Dr Stephen Mustchin | Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies | stephen.mustchin@manchester.ac.uk | Industrial/Employment Relations, Human Resource Management, The Regulation of Work and Employment, Public Sector Employment Relations, Migration and Employment, New Technology and Employment, Conflict at Work and Industrial Action |
| Dr Kara Ng | Presidential Fellow in Organisational Psychology | kara.ng@manchester.ac.uk | Organisational Psychology, Occupational Psychology, Organisational Behaviour, Workplace Mistreatment, Workplace Bullying, Behavioural Ethics, Bystanders, Relationships at Work |
| Dr Duc Nguyen | Lecturer in Comparative and International Business | duc.nguyen@manchester.ac.uk | Qualitative Research Methods; Text Analysis; Contextual Analysis; Context Theorizing; Organizational Identity; Cross-sector Social Partnerships |
| Dr. Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman | Lecturer in Comparative and International Business | nuruzzaman.nuruzzaman@manchester.ac.uk | Foreign Direct Investments in Renewable Energy, Environmental Sustainability Practices and Policy in Emerging Economies, Green Innovation, Corporate Social Irresponsibility |
| Prof Elinor O'Connor | Professor of Work Psychology | elinor.oconnor@manchester.ac.uk | Occupational Stress, Wellbeing at Work, the Veterinary Profession |
| Dr Courtney Owens | Lecturer in Management Leadership | courtneyelizabeth.owens@manchester.ac.uk | Leadership, Personality, Teaching Leadership Development Programmes |
| Dr Jenny Rodriguez | Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies | jenny.rodriguez@manchester.ac.uk | Intersectionality, Transnational/Translocational Identity, Highly-skilled Migrant Mobility (Self-initiated Expatriation), Globally Mobile Professionals, International HRM, Regulation of Work & Employment, Global South (Latin America, Hispanic Caribbean & Middle East), Decolonial Approaches (Decolonial Feminism, Otherwise, Epistemic Otherness) |
| Prof Jill Rubery | Professor / Director of the Work and Equalities Institute | jill.rubery@manchester.ac.uk | Employment, Pay, Working Time, Labour Market Segmentation, Comparative Employment Systems, Work Futures, Gender Equality, Welfare States |
| Dr Asmund Rygh | Senior Lecturer in International Business | asmund.rygh@manchester.ac.uk | International Business, Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Inequality, State Ownership, Entrepreneurship, Politics |
| Dr Lina Siegl | Lecturer in Organisational Psychology | lina.siegl@manchester.ac.uk | Workplace Health and Wellbeing, Work Stress, Technostress, Work emails, Burnout, Workplace Interventions, Work-home Processes, Organisational Culture, Safety |
| Prof Pei Sun | Professor and Chair of International Business | pei.sun@manchester.ac.uk | International Business Strategy, Corporate Governance, Emerging Markets, Strategic Management, Nonmarket Strategy |
| Dr Usman Talat | Lecturer in Human Resource Management | usman.talat@manchester.ac.uk | Organization theory , Philosophy of Organization Theory and Entrepreneurship, Behavioural Sciences Interventions in Healthcare, Digital Interventions and Executive Coaching, Mental Health and Addiction, Emotion, Imagination and the Workplace, Organizational Change |
| Prof Graham Winch | Professor of Project Management | graham.winch@manchester.ac.uk | Organization of Projects, Owner Role in Project Shaping and Delivery, Complex Project Organizing, New Build and Retrofit Housing Innovation, Infrastructure Development |
| Prof Stefan Zagelmeyer | Reader in Comparative and International Business | s.zagelmeyer@manchester.ac.uk | International HRM, Comparative HRM, Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions, Business and Human Rights, Comparative Institutional Analysis, Labour Market Institutions, Personnel Economics, Comparative Employment Relations |
| Dr Qingna Zhou | Lecturer in International Business | qingna.zhou@manchester.ac.uk | Digital Transformation, Digital Multinational, China's Digital Expansion in the Global South |
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