Management and Business Studies

Alison Harper

PhD Researcher in Management and Business Studies (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, Business School

Start date: September 2015

Research topic: Hybrid methodology in healthcare operations research

The aim of my masters’ dissertation is to project future demand from all sources for diagnostic endoscopy services in one Clinical Commissioning Group in the south of England.  This will use shifting population demographics and the effect of an older population on demand for this service.  Theories of population aging are used to explain why rising life expectancy overstates the effect of population ageing.

Research supervisors: Dr Nav Mustafee, Professor Martin Pitt

Professional memberships/Positions held: HSPC registered, CIEHF member, OR Society UK member

Email: ah596@exeter.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-harper-3ab89050?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile

Chris Dimos

PhD Researcher in Management and Business (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, School of Management

Start date: September 2017

Research topic: The effectiveness of innovation policy and its implications for industrial strategy; a behavioural approach

The research focuses on innovation policy and industrial strategy. More specifically, I am interested in the effectiveness of public R&D support measures in promoting private R&D and innovation and the associated implications for industrial strategy. Beyond the effects on R&D and innovation outputs, the study will attempt to capture firm-level behavioural changes due to the receipt of public support.

Research supervisors: Dr Phil Tomlinson , Professor Hugh Lauder

Professional memberships/Positions held: Meta-Analysis of Economic Research Network (MAER-Net), Hendrix College (since 2013) The Open Review (TOR) journal

Email: c.dimos@bath.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdimos0

Clodagh Murphy

PhD Researcher in Management and Business Studies (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, Business School

Start date: October 2019

Research topic: 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.

Research supervisors: Prof. Ruth Sealey, Prof. Ilke Inceoglu, Dr. Johanne Ward-Grosvold

Email: cr539@exeter.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clodaghmurphy/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClodaghFMurphy

Hugh Waters

PhD Researcher in Management and Business Studies (ESRC +3)
University of Exeter, University of Exeter Business School

Start date: September 2015

Research topic: Organisational identity challenges during major change

The research focuses on the challenges organisations face within the realms of the Third Sector, particularly in response to socio-political driven change for the continued deliverance of public services. Identity evokes questions concerning ‘who we are in relation to others?’ and ‘what makes us different?’. Organisations encompass a collective sense of this, but how does identity initially form and become accomplished by actors over time? The turbulence of both changing environments and institutions introduces a multitude of tensions and interactions between actors seeking to negotiate the challenges of organisational identity.  Particular challenges for organisations include confusion of identity across multiple sectors, the internal and external tensions this elicits, and the positive and/or negative consequences.

Research supervisors: Dr Will Harvey , Dr Beverley Hawkins

Professional memberships/Positions held: Chair of Great Ideas Start with Discussion (GISWD), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Associate Member, British Academy of Management, Voluntary Sector Studies Network

Email: h.waters@exeter.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/hughwaters1

Joseph Harrison

PhD Researcher in Management and Business (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, School of Management

Start date: October 2019

Research topic: 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.

Research supervisors: Prof. Michael Lewis , Prof. Jens Roehrich

Email: jwh65@bath.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-harrison-860219bb/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/harrison_jw

Katherine Wall

PhD Researcher in Management and Business Studies (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bristol, School of Economics, Finance and Management

Start date: September 2018

Research topic: 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.

Research supervisors: Dr Patricia Gaya, Prof Keri Facer

Professional memberships/Positions held: Social movement facilitator with Resist+Renew and Organising for Change.

Email: kat.wall@bristol.ac.uk

Kayleigh Neal

PhD Researcher in Management and Business Studies (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, School of Management

Start date: September 2016

Research topic: Overeducated and Underemployed: A Psychoanalytic Study

My research offers a psychoanalytic conception of underemployment in relation to the graduate labour market in the UK. It specifically adopts a critical Lacanian perspective to consider the affective nature of underemployment discourse within this context. For example, an important question that my research asks is: why might individuals desire to define themselves as over-educated / underemployed? I am particularly interested in the unconscious, paradoxical desires which might be at play here, and the role of fantasies in facilitating such desires.

Research supervisors: Professor Russ Vince, Professor Mairi Maclean

Email: k.neal@bath.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayleighneal

Margaret Roberts

PhD Researcher in Management and Business (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, School of Management

Start date: September 2011

Research topic: Identifying crucial points in healthcare team collective learning

Research supervisors: Professor Russ Vince, Dr Katharina Chudizikowskiv

Email: m.roberts@bath.ac.uk

Marta Staff

PhD Researcher in Management and Business Studies (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, Business School

Start date: October 2020

Research topic: 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.

Research supervisors: Professor Navonil Mustafee, Professor Gianluca Veronesi (Bristol)

Professional memberships/Positions held: OR Society Student Member SWDTP Student Rep

Email: ms670@exeter.ac.uk

Melinda Szocs

PhD Researcher in Management and Business Studies (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, Business School

Start date: September 2014

Research topic: Social innovation within the context of social enterprises (hybrid organisations)

The aim of the research project is to study social innovation within a social enterprise context. Following the findings of my masters’ dissertation, as part of my MRes degree in Management at the University of Exeter, the study will investigate how social enterprises innovate in light of limited resources. One of the central questions for the study is to explore how innovation contributes to social impact within a social enterprise context.

Research interests:

• Governance of hybrid organisations and management
• Social enterprise and innovation
• Value creation through co-production
• Public service innovation
• Bottom of the pyramid innovations and social outcome
• Value measurement in hybrid organisation

Research supervisors: Dr Adrian Bailey, Professor Tim Coles

Professional memberships/Positions held: • Associate Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy since August 2017. • Visiting PhD researcher University of Roskilde, Department of People and Technology, Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Denmark (2017). • Member of the EMES network researching social innovation and social economy, International Research Society in Public Management (IRSPM) and of the British Academy of Management. • Former SWDTC student rep • Great Ideas Start with Discussion Committee member, University of Exeter Key publication: Dudau, A., Kominis, G. and Szocs, M., 2018. Innovation failure in the eye of the beholder: towards a theory of innovation shaped by competing agendas within higher education. Public Management Review, 20(2), pp.254-272. Past professional experience includes doing research and teaching at University of Exeter, as well as University of Glasgow. During February- May 2018 worked with the Welsh Government, as part of Knowledge and Analytics services on a project studying employability amongst older adults in Wales.

Email: melinda.szocs@exeter.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/melindaszocs

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelindaSzocs

Website/Blog: https://eprofile.exeter.ac.uk/melindaszocs/

Melissa Treen

PhD Researcher in Management and Business Studies (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, School of Management

Start date: October 2017

Research topic: Multiple Foci of Commitment and Tacit Knowledge Sharing in the Knowledge Economy: A Theory Towards the Multi-Focality of Knowledge Sharing

My research will employ qualitative research methods to explore the interrelationship between multiple foci of commitment and tacit knowledge sharing in Professional Services Firms (PSFs). With the shift towards the knowledge economy, employees now work within as well as across organisational boundaries, throwing up a plethora of challenges and moving the spotlight away from the traditional dyadic employer-employee relationship. Arguably, the personal nature of tacit knowledge sharing has now become the most valuable form of capital for PSFs, which calls into question individual agency in the knowledge sharing process, as influenced by multiple foci of commitment.

Research supervisors: Professor Juani Swart, Dr Nina Hansen

Professional memberships/Positions held: TOR- Social Media

Email: mct36@bath.ac.uk

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/melissatreen

Michael Rogerson

PhD Researcher in Management and Business (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, School of Management

Start date: September 2018

Research topic: Modern slavery, the Modern Slavery Act, organizations, and supply chains

My research centres on how institutions affect firm behaviours around modern slavery in the UK and Russia, with a particular focus on the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. Why have so many companies not yet reported as legally required by the law? Why is modern slavery so prevalent in modern business?

Research supervisors: Professor Andy Crane, Dr Johanne Ward-Grosvold

Email: mr900@bath.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerogerson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSR_Michael

Sarah Bailey

PhD Researcher in Management and Business (ESRC +3)
University of Exeter, Business School

Start date: September 2014

Research topic: Cross-sector partnerships: The value of collaboration for social enterprises

Research supervisors: Dr Anne O'Brien, Dr Adrian Bailey

Email: S.E.Bailey@exeter.ac.uk

Sarah Bloomfield

PhD Researcher in Management and Business (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, School of Management

Start date: September 2015

Research topic: Impact of paradoxical tensions within organisations operating with multiple objectives

My research is an ethnographic study of the impact of multiple objectives within the operational arm of the UK forestry commission.

Research supervisors: Professor Russ Vince, Professor Nancy Harding

Professional memberships/Positions held: Fellow of Higher Education Authority  

Email: s.bloomfield@bath.ac.uk

Simon Wilde

PhD Researcher in Management and Business (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, School of Management

Start date: September 2014

Research topic: Risks and returns from infrastructure investing

Research supervisors: Professor Ian Tonks, Professor George Bulkley

Email: sgw31@bath.ac.uk

Violet Broadhead

PhD Researcher in Management and Business Studies (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bristol, School of Economics, Finance and Management

Start date: October 2019

Research topic: Salvage and sustainability: the impact of professionalisation on the sustainability potential of UK charity shops

My research interests include sustainable consumption and second-hand economies, with a specific focus on the charity retail sector. My doctoral research explores the ambiguous status of charity shops in relation to the goal of sustainable resource use, examining the extent to which they are embedded in critical consumer cultures, and how the fundraising imperative of charity retailers influences their inclination and capacity to maximize the reuse of donated goods. I favour qualitative methods, particularly ethnographic ones, and am interested in approaches which allow close attention to the material and its interplay in social relations.

Research supervisors: Professor David Evans, Professor Dale Southerton

Email: v.broadhead.2019@bristol.ac.uk

Zoe Sanderson

PhD Researcher in Management (ESRC +3)
University of Bristol, School of Economics, Finance and Management

Start date: October 2017

Research topic: Developing critical perspectives in work and organizational psychology

I’m curious about the construction and management of ideology in non-profit organisations, and issues of meaningful work and identification in these contexts.  I expect my work to use qualitative and participatory methodologies.

Research supervisors: Dr Humphrey Bourne, Dr Patricia Gaya

Professional memberships/Positions held: Member of the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology

Email: zoe.sanderson@bristol.ac.uk

Twitter: https://twitter.com/zoesander