Alice Stephenson
Management and Business Studies
University of Bath
School of Management
September 2025
Signalling Authenticity in an Unequal Profession: Visual Cues, Identity and Evaluation in Law Firms
My PhD investigates how legal professionals signal authenticity through visual and behavioural non-conformity, and how these signals are interpreted within a profession marked by entrenched inequalities. By analysing appearance, self-disclosure and material artefacts, I will explore how some individuals can deploy authenticity advantageously while others encounter heightened scrutiny or risk. Using multimodal qualitative methods, my research seeks to deepen understanding of how authenticity is negotiated and governed in law-firm settings, and to show how competence and trust judgments are shaped not only by signalling strategies but also by the unequal structures that determine who is permitted to “be authentic.”
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Edward Dooley
Management and Business Studies
University of Exeter
Business school
September 2024
Valuing the Future: How Blockchain Technology Can Aid in Valuation of FinTechs
Using the context of the FinTech sector, my research aims to investigate how blockchain technology contributes to value creation, considering the regulatory framework that shapes this process. It also aspires to extend beyond FinTech to enhance our understanding of how digitalisation impacts value creation through evolving business models and the implications of relevant regulations, including accounting standards.
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Michelle Tjahjono
Management and Business Studies
University of Bristol
Business School
September 2024
Unravelling Social Commerce’s Design Elements and Its Role in the Cycle of Fashion Overconsumption
My research explores how social commerce (an integration of social media and e-commerce) contributes to the overconsumption of fast fashion, despite growing awareness of its environmental impact. Platforms like Instagram and TikTok integrate entertainment with shopping, driving impulsive, trend-focused purchases among young consumers. This sociocultural phenomena highlights a disconnect between environmental concerns and actual behaviors, rooted in societal pressures and normalised fast fashion consumption. By investigating social commerce’s design elements, I aim to understand how social commerce perpetuates fast fashion and identify what these ingrained consumption norms are that inhibit more sustainable shopping practices.
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Billy Greville
Management and Business Studies
University of Bristol
Business School
September 2022
Investing or Gambling? Understanding online retail investor culture in the UK.
My research will explore recent changes to consumer behaviour, technology and online culture related to retail investing, to reopen fundamental questions about the nature and meaning of investing in light of increased participation in the financial markets since the pandemic. Specifically, I will examine if this has become more speculative and high-risk, and thus, showing evidence of an evolving relationship with gambling culture.
As a Consumer Culture Theory scholar, I will investigate the area holistically, meaning a view from both production (Industry/state) and consumption (consumers) will be pursued, principally using qualitative digital methods (i.e Netnography; WalkThrough Method; interviews).
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Di Liu
Management and Business Studies
University of Bristol
Business School
September 2022
Estimating the Effectiveness of Internal Carbon Pricing: Evidence from Companies and Higher Education Organizations
My research intends to explore the impact of different types of internal carbon pricing methods on different types of organizations, such as companies in different industries and higher education organizations. The research will support the decision-making process for the selection of internal carbon pricing methods and provide target references for different types of organizations to maximize the benefits of internal carbon pricing.
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Marta Staff
Management and Business Studies
University of Exeter
Business School
October 2020
An Investigation into Operations Research (OR) Methods for the Demand and Supply-side Modelling of Donor Human Milk Banks
I will be looking into Operations Research in the healthcare setting, using the field of human milk banking as a case study, which is an area of particular interest to me. This will include examining the full-cycle of human milk donation, milk banking, and hospital use in the UK.
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Clodagh Murphy
Management and Business Studies
University of Exeter
Business School
October 2019
Corporate Governance and Gender Diversity
Looking to better understand, through research, the role that stakeholders play in creating and sustaining gender diversity in the boardroom. In addition, seeking to contribute to the research on the impact gender diversity has on a firms’ financial and non-financial performance metrics.
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Joseph Harrison
Management and Business Studies
University of Bath
School of Management
October 2019
An assessment of the impact of front end project initiation activities on the long-term deliverability of major projects.
Since the evolution of project management as a research discipline, the field has suffered from chronic lack of understanding surrounding the complexity and challenges facing the initiating phase (i.e. project front-end) of major projects. This research addresses that gap through an investigation into the activities completed at the front-end of large-scale projects in order to help better understand, and provide reasoning behind, why this under-researched stage in the project life-cycle can have such a significant impact upon a projects end result.
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Katherine Wall
Management and Business Studies
University of Bristol
School of Economics, Finance and Management
September 2018
Organising for change: Understanding the relationship between prefigurative practice and strategic focus in social movement organisations’ theorisation of social change.
My name is Katherine Wall. I am a PhD student at the University of Bristol exploring the relationship between land and racial justice in England. I am interested in uncovering the interconnected histories of land and racial injustice; desires and imaginings of a more just future; and questions of what can be done in the present that takes into account these histories and builds towards reparative futures.
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Social movement facilitator with Resist+Renew and Organising for Change.
Simon Wilde
Management and Business Studies
University of Bath
School of Management
September 2014
Risks and returns from infrastructure investing
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