Potential Supervisors
Our members of staff are particularly interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
Accounting and Finance
- Sheila Ellwood - stakeholder approaches to financial reporting; public sector accounting, financial management and audit; whole of government accounts; accounting conceptual frameworks; creative accounting compliance.
- Steve Lyne - management accounting and performance evaluation, in particular, activity-based techniques, budgeting, balanced scorecard
- Richard Payne - empirical asset pricing; applied market microstructure; exchange rate determination; volatility modelling; financial econometrics.
Economics
- Sonia Bhalotra - applied microeconomics/econometrics and welfare issues in developing countries. Research on child health, including mortality and malnutrition; fertility, child labour, women's labour supply, education, household decision-making, gender-differences in outcomes, inequality. Labour economics, including work on wage determination, employment/unemployment, productivity. Applications using panel data and household survey data
- Simon Burgess - empirical labour economics; labour reallocation, search and unemployment dynamics; empirical modelling in education; empirical work on incentives and pay; economic analysis of poverty and demography in developed countries; neighbourhood and peer group effects
- Edmund Cannon - empirical analysis of development, especially historical development; finance and growth; pension provision
- Nigel Duck - expectations formation and macroeconomic dynamics; monetary policy theory; empirical monetary economics
- Francesco Giovannoni - theoretical political economics. Any subject but especially the following issues: special interests; constitutional issues; politicians and bureaucrats
- Paul Gregg - empirical studies of poverty, wage determination, intergenerational mobility, welfare design and worklessness
- Paul Grout - privatisation, regulation, competition law, public-private partnerships, the public-private interface
- Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka - the property rights theory of the firm and its applications; institutions and reforms of the public sector; foreign aid
- In-Uck Park - theoretical analysis of industrial organization and regulation issues; contract theory; intellectual property; network industry
- Fabien Postel-Vinay - applied labour economics; job search, labour reallocation; wage formation, wage inequality, wage dynamics; equilibrium labour market performance and labour market policy.
- Andrew Pickering - empirical and theoretical macroeconomics, especially output volatility and macroeconomic persistence; political economy, including properties and economic outcomes of alternative political institutions; natural resource economics and the oil industry
- Carol Propper - the economics of health and health care; the economics of family formation and dissolution; the impact of neighbourhoods on economic and social outcomes
- Sarah Smith - applied microeconomics, especially pensions and retirement, and fertility
- Jonathan Temple - empirical studies of economic growth and output volatility; two sector growth models; the political economy of less developed countries
- Frank Windmeijer - Microeconometrics, theory and applications; dynamic panel data models, causal inference, health econometrics.
- David Winter - the housing market and applied public economics.
Management
- Leroy White - Operational Research, public management, networks and organisation, strategic alliances and partnerships, diversity and inclusion management
- Andy Friedman - Professionalism, professionalisation and the management of professional bodies, including subjects around professional ethics, continuing professional development, governance of professional bodies, relations with members, the role of volunteers in professional bodies and strategic operations of professional bodies and long-term future prospects for particular professions
- Ann Rippin - Gender and organisation, and in particular, in the subtle ways that organisations are gendered and the effects this has on men and women. Aesthetics in organisation and in particular, the ways in which aesthetics are used in management development or strategic interventions. Management history, and in particular, the ways that organisations use their histories for strategic purposes, particularly the foundation and origin stories they tell.
- Mark Hall - Project management, with particular interests in the management of risk and knowledge management within and between projects. Public sector productivity, with a particular interest in the interpretation and delivery of value. The impact of New Public Management on the public sector culture and particularly Public Private Partnerships and their impact on operational delivery and culture. Sustainability, with a special interest in the implementation of environmental and social sustainability policy with organizations.
- Humphrey Bourne - Values in and around organisations, including topics around: organisational and/ or personal values and decision-making, performance, identity, and strategy; the management of organisational values; and values and organisational change.
- Mary Phillips - Issues around identity in organisations and entrepreneurial identity, particularly in green and social enterprise. Explorations of the representation of gender (organisational and individual), particularly in popular culture Women in management and organisational history The application of critical and cultural theory to organisations and organising.
