PhD Student Profiles

Inclusion on the web pages below is on a purely opt-in and self-selection basis, so this section only shows a small subset of all registered PhD students.

Accounting and Finance

  • Ahmad Alshehabi
    The side-effects arising from the implementation of IFRS goodwill Impairment
  • Athanasios Dimos
    Financial reporting, international accounting, market-based accounting research, accounting and capital markets
  • Qing Wei Meng
    Corporate investment; Capital structure; Dividend policy
  • Xin Qian
    Debt and equity, capital structure, credit rating, corporate governance
  • Zulnurhaini Zolkaply
    Public Sector Accounting, Accounting and Budget Reformation
  • Dan Zhou
    Corporate finance, Event study, Abnormal operating performance, Propensity score matching
  • Josette Caruana
    Public Sector Accounting, in particular, the accounting reforms (being) effected by governments in various countries. Josette’s research concerns changes in government accounting in Malta.
  • Inya Egbe
    Management accounting and controls, Accounting research in developing and less developed countries (LDCS), Corporate governance
  • Chowdhury Saima Ferdous
    Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Psychology
  • Adamu Godwin Anya
    Management accounting change and Bank Mergers

Economics

  • Kemal Bagzibagli
     Structural (factor-augmented) vector autoregressions, Panel data models, Bayesian analysis, Monetary policy, Macroeconomics, Cost-benefit analysis
  • Hyun Chang Yi
    Game Theory and Decision Theory
  • Naoki Funai
    Decision Theory, Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory
  • Saptarshi P. Ghosh
    Economic Theory, Game Theory, Voting, Theory of Information, Cheap Talk, Herding.
  • Sonali Sen Gupta
    Game Theory, Mediation in games, Industrial Organisation, Environmental Economics, Experimental Economics.

Management

  • Amir Qamar
    Kaizen Methods, Total Quality Management, Productivity, Innovation, Technological Progress
  • Bersisa Berri
    Knowledge sharing and Integration, Knowledge management strategies and organisational performance, Intellectual Capital, Human Resources Development
  • Muntasir Shami
    Lean Operations, Lean Construction, Business Improvement, Operations Research in Supply Chains, Supply Chain development in SMEs in Emerging Markets
  • Pei Ling, Liao
    Creative clusters, Cultural clusters, CCI cluster policy, Eastern Asian cities
  • Ibrahim Rufai
    Communication Technologies, Social Shaping, SMEs Business Performance
  • Vasilisa Takoeva
    Leadership, Leadership development and managerial learning, Organisational development
  • Bushra Al-Busaidi
    Culture, Globalisation
  • Jagdeesh Singh Dhaliwal
    Comparative research looking at UK general practice and management
  • Ali Esfahbodi
    Technology Management and Sustainable Development, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Industrial Systems and Industrial Sustainability
  • Xiaocong Yang
    Pension issues, Aging issues in China, Aging health and conomic policy
  • Jen Nie Chan
    Export Management, Strategy Flexibility, Cross Cultural Management and International Business Management
  • Peter Adetunji
    Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Creativity, Strategy and Development
  • Wu Wei
    Microfinance, Inclusive Finance, Social Enterprise, Community Development
  • Shaker Aladwan
    Total Quality Management (TQM), Excellence Management (EM), Institutional Development (ID), Service Quality (SQ), Human Resource Management (HRM)
  • Lea Samek
    Productivity, Health, The role of women in economic growth
  • Kai Zhao
    The distribution of creative economy and its economic impact in EU, The interactive and combined effects of creative class, human capital and other intangible assets to regional economic growth.
  • Christian Darko
    Wage inequalities in the labour market particularly developing countries, FDI in developing countries

Marketing

  • Linh Truong
    Social Marketing, Multi-cultural Marketing
  • Mohammed Alhashem
    Prosumption,  Value co-creation,  Consumer empowerment,  Online communities
  • Doga Istanbulluoglu
    Consumer Complaining Behaviour, Electronic /Online WOM, Online Consumer Behaviour/, User Created Content/ Social Networks, Online Brand Communities, Social Capital
  • Ekaterina Chernaya
    Relationship marketing; Interorganisational relationships; Buyer-seller partnerships in business markets, their meaning, nature and types; The importance of personal trust in buyer-seller partnerships
  • Nasir Salari
    Innovation; High-tech products; Innovation Management; New product development
  • Nora Ramadan
    Headquarters-subsidiary relationships; MNC knowledge transfer; Social capital
  • Nicola Gittins
    eWOM, Digital marketing communications, Power of social media to influence reputational value
  • Divya Lakshmi Mahalingam
    Retail Innovation and Business in Indian Market Driven Economy, Trends in Consumerism and Buying Behaviour of Modern Indian Consumers, Marketing Strategies of Organised Retail Sector in Emerging Indian Market Segment
  • Paulo Mora-Avila
    New technologies and interactive communication media; Global brands marketing strategies; Multicultural Marketing
  • Rose Narooz
    International Business; Strategic Management; International Marketing
  • Tawfeeq M. AlAnazi
    SMEs and Entrepreneurship; Growth Strategies; Branding; Private Health Insurance
  • Yeshika Alversia
    Consumer behaviour, role model effects, customer engagement, shopper marketing, impulse buying behaviour
  • Yun Zhao
    Internationalisation of firms; Issues of institutional perspective; Emerging markets; Corporate strategies in the context of globalisation
  • Zhi Li
    Technology Transfer; Marketing; Innovation; Engineering Business