FBL directory of expertise
The Faculty of Business and Law has many experts. If you have any questions, please contact the relevant person.
Accounting and Finance
Eleanor Dart
Corporate Governance - specifically Auditor independence and the role of institutional investors. The changing role of management accountants.
Daniela Gabor
Shadow banking activities and the implications for central banking, sovereign bond markets and regulatory activity; transnational banks involvement in policy deliberations around capital controls.
Eleimon Gonis
Credit ratings, trade credit, working capital, credit risk, default prediction, empirical finance.
Cherif Guermat
Empirical finance, asset pricing, financial markets, strategic management, human resource management.
Robert Luther
Comparative European management accounting, Intellectual capital, Investment appraisal recognising environmental effects and cognitive behaviour, management control systems in innovation network companies.
Ismail Ufuk Misirlioglu
International financial reporting, financial accounting, pensions accounting, inflation accounting, money laundering, value relevance of financial information.
Phaik Tan
Business and accounting education (undergraduate, postgraduate, professional): work-based learning, critical thinking and developing a capacity to engage in critical reflection.
Jon Tucker
Corporate finance, financial markets, banking, equity analysis, financial statement analysis, corporate financial reporting.
Osman Yukselturk
International financial reporting standards, financial reporting, money laundering, analysts' research reports, financial analysis, market based accounting research, earnings management.
Economics
Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal
iris.biefang-frisanchomariscal@uwe.ac.uk
Monetary economic policy, applied econometrics, financial risk management.
Peter Bradley
My principal research interest is to understand the transition required to bring about more sustainable economies at local and global levels. To investigate this I apply approaches from the New Institutional Economics (both qualitative and quantitative) and input - output economics – institutional economics; ecological economics.
Lois Duff
The economics of well-being, happiness and income; happiness and the meaning of life; applied microeconomics; widening participation activities.
Tim Hinks
Labour economics in developing countries, economics of happiness and job satisfaction, economics of corruption, labour economics.
Artjoms Ivlevs
Migration, ethnicity, education, transition and development, Eastern Europe, corruption, happiness.
James Korovilas
The economics of labour migration, the economics of migrant remittances and development economics.
Andrew Mearman
Economics education, economics of the environment, economic evaluation, economic methodology.
Jo Michell
Macroeconomics; Money, banking and finance; Financialisation; Development; Income distribution; History of economic thought. For further information please visit Jo Michell's profile page.
Anthony Plumridge
Green jobs and the Environmental Goods and Services Sector, environmental, social and economic evaluation, integrating social and environmental costs and benefits into investment appraisal.
Laura Povoledo
International macroeconomics, exchange rates, business cycles.
Felix Ritchie
Government data, data confidentiality, data access, statistical disclosure control, labour economics, industrial economics, alcohol consumption, applied policy analysis, behavioural economics, Eastern European migration, statistics in popular use, low pay/minimum wages.
Kobil Ruziev
Economic transformation in former centrally planned economies (central Asian economies in particular), and financial sector development in emerging economies.
Don Webber
Local and regional economy. Employment and productivity.
Damian Whittard
National accounts, international economics, regional economics, well-being, applied policy.
Human Resources Management
Paul Bennett
Gender and identity, gendered organisational culture, Police service, Ethnographic research methods.
Harriet Bradley
Women's employment; housework and family arrangements; BME women's employment; motherhood and childcare; young people's employment; class relations in contemporary; gender and ethnicity in trade unions; change and the labour market.
Jie Chen
Organisational socialisation, leadership, performance management, along with a general interest in social exchange theory.
Mike Clark
Varieties of generativity and psychological growth, especially in the context of career.
Andrew Danford
Work restructuring and the employment relation in the private and public sectors.
Hilary Drew
German employment relations.
Susan Durbin
Gender and employment, women managers, women in non-traditional employment, women in science and engineering, equalities, part-time work.
Sue Hutchinson
Line managers and HRM (recognised as one of the few academic experts in field), HRM/performance link, involvement/consultation.
Graeme Mather
UK public sector employment relations and performance management.
Janet Miller
Industrial relations in the small firm, concentrating on worker voice and worker resistance; informal employment/working for free, employment law and trade union representation.
Sian Moore
The relationship between gender and class, social care, worker representation and activism, statutory recognition.
Dominic Page
Arts based inquiry, critical reflexivity, organisation learning. Practices, meanings and interpretation of equality/diversity in organisations.
Vlasios Sarantinos
Human Resources Management, Public Sector, Financial Crisis.
Stephanie Tailby
Employment and employment relations restructuring, public sector restructuring (in particular NHS reform), agricultural work, employment and employment relations.
Horen Voskeritsian
History and theory of industrial relations, Greek employment relations, crisis and collective employment relations regulation, crisis and young employee, labour history.
Nick Wilton
Graduate careers and career decision-making, relationship between HE and the labour market, skills, competencies and employability, labour market inequality and disadvantage.
Law
Richard Ball
EU, IP and Discrimination Law.
Sophie Billing
Law of Torts, Business and Insolvency Law, Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Professional Conduct and Regulation.
Ed Cape
Procedural rights in criminal proceedings, criminal defence lawyers, police powers, criminal legal aid and access to justice, fair trial rights - nationally and internationally.
Clare Chambers-Jones
Banking and Finance Law, Cyber Law, Virtual Economies, Virtual World Legal Education, Commonwealth Law, Financial Regulation, Financial and Economic Crime and virtual education.
Georgina Dance
Team entrepreneurship using experiential and active learning processes (coaching-based).
Onita Das
International Law, International Environmental Law, Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict, Sustainable Development, International Humanitarian Law, Security, Environment and Human Rights.
Lauren Devine
Law and legal theory, child protection and safeguarding, state intervention into private life, Human Rights.
Richard Edwards
Human Rights Law (European and domestic): principally criminal justice, free speech and related aspects of constitutional/public law.
Jessica Elliott
Human trafficking, identification of trafficked victims, sexual exploitation, prostitution, consent, regular/irregular migration, trafficking and technology.
Rachel Fenton
Women's bodies and law in form of assisted reproduction and motherhood, sexual offences in particular rape and sexual assault.
Evadne Grant
International Human Rights Law especially Social and Economic rights and human rights and the environment.
Sabine Hassler
Collective Security and Use of Force; UN (Institutional) Reform; Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility; Non-human Personhood Rights; Company Law.
Diana Johnson
Business Law and Practice, Corporate law, Competition Law, Commercial Law, Legal Drafting.
Edward Johnston
The role of the defence lawyer, neuroscientific evidence and its impact on the criminal justice process.
Jackie Jones
Gender and the law, international human rights, dignity, sexualities, same-sex marriage, criminal justice.
Marcus Keppel-Palmer
Marcus.keppel-palmer@uwe.ac.uk
Media and Entertainment Law; Law relating to the music industry; Copyright Law.
Zainab Khan
Participatory decision making, barriers affecting representation, access to environmental justice, the equality myth, social rights.
Elena Merino Blanco
Global Trade, Foreign Investment and natural resources, dispute resolution, child protection.
Mark O'Brien
The criminal justice and civil liberties implications of cyberspace and also counter-cultural groups.
Robert Owen
Land, property law, practice and legal process.
Ben Pontin
Environmental Law, Tort Law, Constitutional Law, Law and Industrialisation.
Noelle Quenivet
International Law encompassing international humanitarian law, human rights and use of force.
Jona Razzaque
Environmental law and governance, human rights and the environment, natural resources law.
Nicholas Ryder
White collar crime, the relationship between the credit crunch and white collar crime.
Lachmi Singh
My research interests include: Contract, Commercial, International Trade and Shipping Law.
Dagmar Steffens
Legal Education and Training; Social Media and Solicitors’ Professional Conduct; UWE Partnerships and Knowledge Exchange with Legal Profession; Company Law; Private Equity.
Stephen Thacker
The development, application and effectiveness of: data protection, privacy and consumer protection laws in an information society.
Umut Turksen
Financial Crime and Compliance in the EU, European Union Energy Law, Virtual Asset Inheritance, International Trade and Investment.
Emma Whewell
Civil litigation and dispute resolution, family law practice and procedure and professional conduct of solicitors.
Mary Young
Offshore finance and offshore banking centres; Banking confidentiality v confiscation laws; The relationship of the West with offshore financial centres; Financial crime - particularly money laundering and its predicate crimes (transnational organised crime); Anti-money laundering frameworks at the global level -UN, FATF; Alternative remittance systems and informal banking sectors of least developed countries; Operations of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs).
Marketing
Janet Carruthers
Services Marketing, Marketing Communications, Fashion marketing and Social Marketing.
Christine Comrie
International Marketing. The impact of culture on Marketing, Fast Moving Consumer Goods Marketing and the International student experience.
Heather Dodd
Body image, social comparison, exercise behaviour and social marketing which is the basis of my PhD (part-time study).
Tim Gale
Decline and restructuring of UK seaside resorts, 'new' tourism destinations (e.g. urban beaches, virtual worlds), tourism and events education.
Beverley Hill
Marketing, language and communication. Language use in marketing, corporate and institutional communication. Critical marketing and consumer culture: consumer choice, consumption and identity.
Jane Hudson
Non-profit marketing, fundraising, charity marketing and branding.
Tim Hughes
Academic practitioner engagement and research impact, cocreation of value (Service-Dominant Logic).
Adam Joinson
Technology and Behaviour Change, Privacy and New Technology, Cyber Security.
Simon Jones
Sport, health and leisure participation.
Dan Knox
Cultural Tourism, Events Management, Heritage.
Edward Little
Co-creation of value (Service Dominant Logic), Student perceptions of/attitudes to higher education, Inquiry-based learning.
Jenny Lloyd
Drivers of civic and political participation, political communication, political branding, marketing education and employability, student engagement.
Alan Tapp
Social and critical marketing, behaviour change, road safety, travel mode shift, ecological models.
Mario Vafeas
Buyer-seller relationships and the co-creation of value. Also, marketing education at undergraduate level.
Organisation Studies
Graham Baker
Power and Politics, Identity, Leadership and TEL.
Richard Bolden
Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership in Higher Education.
Gareth Edwards
I am interested in patterns of distributed leadership in practice and transference of knowledge between leadership development theory and practice.
Amy Fraher
Leadership; Sense-making, processes of organising; Occupational identity; Workplace studies using discourse analysis; Psychodynamics of workplace survival; Effects of 'New Capitalism'.
Hugo Gaggiotti
Mobility, nomadism and work. Connections between international professional culture, imagination, memory and project culture. Corporate anthropology and organisational ethnography.
Carol Jarvis
Professional development for leaders and managers. Practitioner-oriented research from a complex responsive processes perspective into leadership (learning and development, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship), coaching and mentoring, team entrepreneurship.
Emir Kullar
Coaching, strategic leadership, combining theory and practice, critical reflection and contracting.
Margaret Page
Disability, Employment, Discrimination, Employment Law, Health and Well-being, Mental Health.
Olivier Ratle
Three strands: 1) Methodological debates in organisation studies; 2) Communication and the study of organisations and change; 3) Early-career academics.
Doris Schedlitzki
My research interest in leadership includes cross-cultural studies, discourse, identity, psychoanalytic approaches and national language within cultural leadership studies.
Harriet Shortt
Research interests include organisational space, the materiality of work, aesthetics, identity, and the use of creative and visual methodologies.
Peter Simpson
Professional development for leaders and managers, strategic leadership, leadership in conditions of uncertainty, complexity theory, spirituality and leadership practice, psychodynamic theory applied to working in groups.
Nadine Riad Tchelebi
Psychodynamic approaches to increasing effectiveness of group work in turbulent times, especially in multicultural contexts. Psychodynamic and ethnographic research methods.
Strategy and Operations Management
Elizabeth Alexander
elizabeth2.alexander@uwe.ac.uk
Effects of institutional phenomena, including regulatory, normative and cultural-cognitive dimensions, managerial decisions in strategy, social responsibility and ethics, international contexts.
Charles Booth
Management and Organisational History; Memory and Commemoration; Thanatourism; Sociology of the Organisational Sciences.
Svetlana Cicmil
Socio-political studies of project-based work, organising management, complexity, processual and critical approaches to global operations (sustainability, collaboration, risk), pedagogy and ethics in management eduction, international transfer of management knowledge.
Andrew Douglas
All aspects of Public and Private sector Procurement (Purchasing). Particular interest in supplier sustainability measurement, organisational development, talent management, use of technology and supplier relationships.
Amit Mitra
Knowledge management, strategies in information systems development for multinational corporations, digital supply chain, cloud computing, critical theories in IS research.
Akin Ojolo
Team entrepreneurship approach to business education. Leadership and managerial competencies in post 16 education. Public sector strategy.
Glenn Parry
Specialises in Service, Supply chain, Costing, Strategy and Operations Management. Research includes firm transformation, development of practical tools for management of complex systems, big data analysis and design of service for customer experience. His work is practically focussed and he has sector expertise in Aerospace, Automotive, Music and Publishing. Also practical aspects of University knowledge exchange and business engagement. For further information please visit Glenn Parry's profile page.
Guru Prabhakar
CEO study, leadership & culture in India, and project management.
Wendy Phillips
Management of innovation, discontinuous innovation, Systems of Innovation, public procurement, supply chain relationships; social innovation.
Ximing Ruan
Knowledge management and its applications in project context, Inter-organisational coordination and control in project context Social network and social capital.
Mohammed Saad
Innovation management, procurement and more global policy-related issues of knowledge development, knowledge transfer, organisational learning and institutional collaborative learning.
David Sarpong
Strategy, strategic foresight, practice theory , creativity and innovation.
Pam Seanor
Specialises in exploring social entrepreneurship, critical entrepreneurships and making sense of collective narratives in networks and how people accomplish their work contextualising everyday practice. Interdisciplinary focus and recent works have examined third sector organisations and infrastructure support agencies utilising narrative (stories, drawings, images) and boundary work to offer insights to negotiating power, trust and control.
