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Prof Kevin Aretz, Professor of Finance

• Email: kevin.aretz@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Asset Pricing, Options Pricing, Real Options, Corporate Finance, Climate Finance.

Dr Christos Begkos, Senior Lecturer in Management Accounting

• Email: Christos.Begkos@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Digital, Transformation, Practice Theory, Platforms, Evaluation, Management Accounting, Value, Datafication.

Dr Sung Hwan Chai, Lecturer in Accounting

• Email: Sunghwan.chai@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Digital Platform, Information Systems, Management Accounting, Surveillance, Digital Transformation, Ethics and Morality, Audit.

Dr Sungjun Cho, Senior Lecturer in Finance

• Email: sungjun.cho@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: International Finance, Market Microstructure, Empirical Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics.

Dr George Christodoulakis, Senior Lecturer in Finance

• Email: george.christodoulakis@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Credit Risk, Credit Ratings, Structured Finance, Sustainable Finance, Financial Crime, Behavioural Finance, Financial Econometrics, Forecasting.

Prof Viet Dang, Professor of Finance

• Email: vietanh.dang@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Empirical Corporate Finance, Capital Structure, Cash Holdings, Payout, Investment, Risk Taking, ESG (Environmental/Social/Governance) and Sustainability.

Prof Amedeo De Cesari, Professor of Finance

• Email: amedeo.decesari@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Payout Policy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Innovation, Machine Learning.

Dr Mohammad Dehghani, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

• Email: mohammad.dehghani@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Empirical Finance, Asset Pricing, Empirical Macroeconomics, Business Cycle, and Times Series Econometrics.

Dr Oluwatoyin Dosumu, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

• Email: oluwatoyin.dosumu@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Initial Public Offerings, Business History, Family Ownership.

Prof Marie Dutordoir, Professor of Finance

• Email: marie.dutordoir@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Sustainable Finance, Intersection Between Finance and Other Business Domains, Mergers and Acquisition, Traditional Corporate Finance Topics, Intersection Between Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing.

Prof Aleksandr Ermakov, Lecturer in Finance

• Email: aleksandr.ermakov@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Asset Pricing, Investor Beliefs, Private Equity, Valuation under Uncertainty, Market Frictions, International Finance.

Dr Chanaka Ganepola, Lecturer in Finance

• Email: chanaka.ganepola@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Commodity Markets, Energy Finance, Market Manipulation, Speculation, Issues Associated with Market and Funding Liquidity, Financial Derivatives, Market Microstructure.

Prof Ning Gao, Professor of Finance

• Email: ning.gao@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Finance, Sustainable Finance, ESG Risks, Mergers and Acquisitions, Information in the Financial System, Corporate Governance.

Dr Spyridon Gkikopoulos, Assistant Professor of Accounting

• Email: spyridon.gkikopoulos@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Taxation, Tax Planning, Accounting Tax Research, Tax Economics.

Dr Yazhou He, Lecturer in Finance

• Email: yazhou.he@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Institutional Investors, Shareholder Activism, Corporate Governance, ESG, Mutual Funds, Voting.

Prof Christopher Humphrey, Professor of Accounting

• Email: chris.humphrey@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Developing the Concept/Purpose of Auditing.

Prof Stuart Hyde, Professor of Finance

• Email: stuart.hyde@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Empirical Finance, International Financial Markets, Financial Crises and Contagion, Financial Market Integration and Co-movement, Emerging Markets Finance, Market Microstructure.

Dr Emiel Jerphanion, Lecturer in Finance

• Email: emiel.jerphanion@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Household Finance, Corporate Finance, Banking.

Dr Wei Jiang, Senior Lecturer in Accounting

• Email: wei.jiang-2@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Market-Based Accounting Research, Corporate Governance, Loss-Making Firms, ESG, Accounting Anomalies, Dividends.

Dr Julian Jones, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

• Email: Julian.w.jones@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Make or Buy, Decision Making Uncertainty.

Prof Arif Khurshed, Professor of Finance

• Email: Arif.khurshed@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Initial Public Offerings, Venture Capital, Payout Policy.

Dr Nooch Kuasirikun, Senior Lecturer in Accounting

• Email: nooch.kuasirikun@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, GRI Reporting with a Focus on Developing Economies and Emerging Markets.

Prof Edward Lee, Professor of Accounting and Finance

• Email: edward.lee@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Disclosure, Capital Market Research in Accounting, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance.

Dr Yifan Li, Lecturer in Finance

• Email: yifan.li@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Financial Econometrics, Asset Pricing, Derivatives Market.

Prof Hening Liu, Professor of Finance

• Email: hening.liu@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Macro-finance, Asset Pricing, Ambiguity Preferences, Long-run Risk, Uncertainty.

Dr Yuekun Liu, Lecturer of Finance

• Email: yuekun.liu@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Investment, ETFs, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Empirical Asset Pricing.

Prof Maria Marchica, Professor of Finance

• Email: maria.marchica@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Empirical Corporate Finance: Any Aspect of Private v Public Firms, SMEs, Financial Contracting: Bankruptcy and Collateral, Labour and Finance.

Prof Sven Modell, Professor of Management Accounting

• Email: sven.modell@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Management Accounting, Management Control, Public Sector Accounting, Sociology, Critical Realism, Institutional Theory, Mixed Methods Research.

Prof Roberto Mura, Professor of Finance

• Email: roberto.mura@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Finance, Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance, Financial Decisions, Gender Differences, Motherhood Penalty.

Prof Brian Nicholson, Professor of Business Information Systems

• Email: brian.nicholson@mbs.ac.uk
• Research interests: Information Systems, Digitalisation, Digital Transformation, Developing Countries, Audit, Accounting Information Systems.

Prof Brendan O'Dwyer, Professor of Accounting

• Email: brendan.odwyer@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Sustainability Accounting, Sustainability Assurance, Sustainability Reporting, Neo-institutional Theory, Financial Audit, Regulation of Professions, Climate-related Risk, Human Rights Accounting.

Dr Stefan Petry, Lecturer in Finance

• Email: stefan.petry@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Governance, Textual Analysis, NLP, Machine Learning, Social Media, ESG, Climate Finance.

Dr Ser-Huang Poon, Professor of Finance

• Email: ser-huang.poon@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Natural Language Processing with Transformer and Embedding, Machine Learning (Quantitative, Text, Voice, Image), Large Language Model, AI ChatBots, Corporate Disclosure and Reputation Risks, Sustainability and Human Rights, Modern Slavery in Supply Chains, Social Media Influencers and Retail Investors, Volatility Forecasting and Extreme Values.

Dr Ahmed Prapan, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

• Email: ahmed.prapan@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Finance, Behavioural Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Cash Holdings.

Dr Vlad-Andrei Porumb, Reader of Accounting

• Email: vlad-andrei.porumb@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Auditing, Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability Assurance,  Banking, Business Groups.

Prof Paolo Quattrone, Professor of Accounting, Governance and Society

• Email: paolo.quattrone@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Decision Making, Ambiguity and Uncertainty, Materiality and Data Visualisations, Governance, Major Programmes and Grand Challenges, History of Management and Accounting Practices, Accounting for Nature and Common Good.

Dr Patrick Ryu, Lecturer in Accounting

• Email: patrick.ryu@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Disclosure, Regulation, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance.

Prof Brahim Saadouni, Professor of Accounting and Finance

• Email: brahim.saadouni@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: The Compensation of the Underwriters of Initial Public Offerings and Seasoned Equity Offerings, Incentive Fees, Issuers and Underwriters, Role Anchor Investors, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Green (including Faith) vs Conventional Bonds.

Dr Thomas Schleicher, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

• Email: thomas.schleicher@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Communication, Earnings Guidance, Narratives, Investor Communication, Trading Statements.

Prof Javed Siddiqui, Professor of Accounting

• Email: javed.siddiqui@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Audit, CSR, Sustainability, Emerging Economies, Corporate Governance.

Dr Paul Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Finance

• Email: p.simpson@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Mergers and Acquisitions, Cross Border Deals, Merger Policy.

Prof Konstantinos Stathopoulos, Professor of Accounting and Finance

• Email: k.stathopoulos@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, ESG, Institutional Investors, Corporate Finance, MBAR.

Dr Chi-Yang (Ben) Tsou, Lecturer in Finance

• Email: chi-yang.tsou@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Asset Pricing, Macro-finance, Corporate Finance.

Dr Jonathan Tweedie, Lecturer in Accounting

• Email: jonathan.tweedie@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Critical Accounting, Environmental Accounting, Transparency, Accountability, Performance Measurement.

Dr Sze Nie Ung, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

• Email: sze-nie.ung@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Return Prediction, Investor Sentiment, Empirical Asset Pricing.

Dr George Voulgaris, Senior Lecturer in Accounting

• Email: georgios.voulgaris@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Corporate Disclosure, Institutional Ownership, Executive Pay, Corporate Taxation, Mixed Methods, Agency Theory.

Dr Alice Liang Xu, Senior Lecturer in Accounting

• Email: liang.xu@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Market-based Accounting, Corporate Finance, Debt Contracting, ESG, Disclosure, Generative AI.

Dr ChunLei Yang, Senior Lecturer in Accounting

• Email: chunlei.yang@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Accounting, Informational Uncertainty, Space, Place, Ambivalence, People-place Relationships, Organisational Identification.

Dr Sofia Yasmin, Senior Lecturer in Accounting

• Email: sofia.yasmin@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: NGO Accountability, Sustainability Reporting, Public Sector Auditing, Auditing and Assurance, Qualitative/ Critical Accounting.

Dr Sarah Zhang, Lecturer in Finance

• Email: sarah.zhang@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Market Microstructure, FinTech, Experimental Finance, High-frequency Trading.

Dr Yafei Zhang, Assistant Professor in Finance

• Email: yafei.zhang@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Financial Intermediation and Banking, Securitisation, Securities Issuance, Information Economics, Industrial Organisation.

Dr Matthew Alford, Senior Lecturer in International Business and Management

• Email: matthew.alford@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Global Value Chains, Governance, Globalisation, Sustainability, Global Production Networks, Labour, Decent Work, Environment, Upgrading.

Dr Murod Aliyev, Senior Lecturer (International Business)

• Email: murod.aliyev@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Innovation, Global Innovation Strategy, Patent Data, Inventor Teams, Firm performance, Institutional Theory, Institutional Economics, Compeittive Advantage, Knowledge-based View (KBV), Resource-based View (RBV), Dynamic Capabilities, Multinational Enterprises (MNEs).

Dr Mercedes Bleda, Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation

• Email: mercedes.bleda@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Behavioural Strategy, Managerial Cognition, Strategic Decision Making, Organisational Adaptation to Climate Change, Innovation and Innovation Policy.

Prof Peter Buckley, Professor of International Business

• Email: peter.buckley-2@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: International Business, Multinational Enterprise, Globalisation, Emerging Market Multinationals Multinationals and Grand Challenges, Global Value Chains.

Dr Catherine Casson, Lecturer

• Email: catherine.casson@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: History of Entrepreneurship, Long Run Perspectives on Sustainability, Business History, Economic History.

Dr Zibang Chen, Lecturer in International Business

• Email: zibang.chen@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: OFDI, Emerging Market, Location Choice, Entry Mode, Institutions, Political Risk.

Dr Elaine Clark, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management

• Email: elaine.clark@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Narrative, 'Leadership as Performance', Mental Well-being, Confidence, Reflection, Patient involvement, Student voice.

Dr Adam Frost, Senior Lecturer, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability

• Email: adam.frost@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Entrepreneurship Education/Pedagogy, Start-Ups, New Venture Growth, Entrepreneurs.

Dr Dimitri Gagliardi, Senior Lecturer, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability

• Email: dimitri.gagliardi@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Science, Technology and Innovation, Medical Innovation, Diffusion of Medical Knowledge and Technologies, Translational Research, Pharmaceutical innovation, MedTech, Digital, AI, Diffusion of Innovation.

Dr Renfei Gao, Presidential Fellow (Academic)

• Email: renfei.gao@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Business Leaders' Role in Strategic Decision-making, Non-market Strategy, Family Business and Entrepreneurship, Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance, Emerging Market Firm Strategy.

Prof Axele Giroud, Professor of International Business

• Email: axele.giroud@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: International Business, Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Investment, Global Strategy, Inter-firm collaboration, Sustainable Development, Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Emerging Markets.

Dr Chris Golding, Lecturer in Innovation and Strategy

• Email: christopher.golding@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Behavioural Strategy, Strategy Process, Innovation Process, Emotion.

Dr Gianluigi Giustiziero, Senior Lecturer

• Email: gianluigi.giustiziero@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Scaling, Strategy, Digital Technologies.

Prof Niron Hashai, Professor of International Business

• Email: Niron.Hashai@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: International Business, Strategy, Entrepreneurship.

Prof Mark Healey, Professor of Strategic Management

• Email: mark.healey@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Behavioural Strategy, Managerial and Organisational Cognition, Strategic Leadership, Strategic Decision Making.

Prof Mike Hodson, Professor and Research Director of the SCI

• Email: michael.hodson@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Urban Sustainability Transitions, Urban Experimentation, Urban (Socio-technical) Innovation, Urban Platforms and Platformisation.

Prof Andrew James, Senior Lecturer IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability

• Email: Andrew.James@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Innovation Management, Adoption of Digitalisation and AI, Policy Entrepreneurship, Technological Sovereignty, China-UK Research Collaboration, Public Procurement and Innovation, Aerospace, Defence and Security Sector.

Prof Mario Kafouros, Professor of International Business

• Email: marios.kafouros@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Global Innovation, Global Strategy, Internationalisation, Firm performance, Institutions.

Dr Dimitrija Kalanoski, Lecturer in International Business

• Email: dimitrija.kalanoski@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Competitive Dynamics, Competition, Cooperation, Coopetition, Institutional Theory (Economic view), Institution-based View, Firm Non-market Strategy, Corporate Political Activity, M&As, Joint Ventures, Alliances, Spinouts.

Dr Aarti Krishnan, Lecturer in Innovation and Sustainability

• Email: aarti.krishnan-2@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Value/Supply Chains, Sustainable Innovations, Environmental Governance, Small-medium Enterprises, Green Finance, Green and Digital Transformation, Social Network Analysis, Impact Evaluation.

Dr Elisabeth Krull, Lecturer in Innovation

• Email: elisabeth.krull@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Strategy (Strategising and / or Innovating) Climate Change Mitigation and / or Adaptation, Use of Strategy Tools, Innovation Processes / Management, Strategy-as-Practice, Paradox Theory / Navigating Tensions, Knowledge Integration / Coordination, Heterogeneous Knowledge for Innovation and Strategy, Insurance industry.

Dr William il-kuk Kang, Lecturer in International Business and Management

• Email: williamil-kuk.knag@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Social Responsibility, Culture and Institution Dynamics, Stakeholder Management and Process, Organisational Structure in Digital Age.

Dr Cornelia Lawson, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

• Email: cornelia.lawson@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: AI in Science, Evaluation of Research, Diversity in Science, Female Entrepreneurship, Science-based Startups, Team Science, AI in Health, Econometrics.

Dr Yajing Li, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

• Email: yajing.li@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Quantitative, Academic ENT, Female ENT, Innovation Broadly, China.

Dr Khaleel Malik, Senior Lecturer, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability

• Email: khaleel.malik@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Innovation strategy in firms, Digitalisation in R&D, University and industry collaborations, International technology transfer in MNCs.

Dr Rob Martin, Lecturer (Enterprise and Entrepreneurship)

• Email: rob.martin@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Enterprise Entrepreneurship Corporate Social Responsibility Innovation Sport Football Sustainability Economic Social Governance (ESG).

Prof Silvia Massini, Professor of Economic and Management of Innovation

• Email: silvia.massini@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Innovation Management, Digital Technologies for Sustainability, AI, 3D Printing, Skills.

Dr Matthew McCaffrey, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise

• Email: matthew.mccaffrey@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Judgment, Uncertainty, Video Games, Institutions, History of Economic Thought, Austrian Economics.

Prof Philip McCann, Chair of Urban and Regional Economics

• Email: philip.mccann@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Cities, Regions, Productivity, Investment, Innovation, Labour Markets

Prof Andrew McMeekin, Professor of Innovation

• Email: andrew.mcmeekin@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Sustainability Transitions (Sociotechnical Perspectives), Urban and Digital Transitions, Qualitative, Process Methodology, Case Studies.

Dr Shukhrat Nasirov, Lecturer in Innovation

• Email: shukhrat.nasirov@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Innovation, Technology Management, Intellectual Property Rights, Strategy.

Dr Adrian Nelson, Lecturer in Health Management

• Email: adrian.nelson@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Healthcare Management, Leadership, Stress,Psychology, Statistics,Research Methods.

Dr Duc Nguyen, Lecturer in Comparative and International Business

• Email: duc.nguyen@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Qualitative Research Methods, Text Analysis, Contextual Analysis, Context Theorising, Organisational Identity, Cross-sector Social Partnerships.

Dr. Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman, Lecturer

• Email: nuruzzaman.nuruzzaman@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Emerging Economies, Innovation, Sustainability, Tech-based Start-ups from Emerging Economies.

Prof Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Chair Regional Economic Development

• Email: raquel.ortega-argiles@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Regional Innovation, Regional Entrepreneurship, Industrial Relatedness and Complexity, Productivity, Knowledge Diffusion, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policy, Levelling Up, Econometric Analysis and Economic Modelling.

Dr Kassandra Papadopoulou, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise

• Email: kassandra.papadopoulou@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Innovation Management, Risk Management, Technology Development, Blockchain, Acoustic Reflectometry, Pipeline Inspections, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Oil and Gas.

Dr Adrien Querbes, Lecturer, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability

• Email: adrien.querbes@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Digital/Platform Industries, Computational Modelling, Evolutionary Modelling, Strategic / Collective Decision-making, Collective Innovation, New Product Development.

Dr Mina Rezaeian, Lecturer in Innovation

• Email: mina.rezaeian@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Sustainability Transitions, Transition Policies, Policy Mix, Business Model Adaptation.

Dr Marianna Rolbina, Lecturer in Digital Innovation

• Email: marianna.rolbina@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Creative Industries, Digital Innovation, Co-creation, Open Innovation, Brokerage, International Business.

Dr Asmund Rygh, Senior Lecturer in International Business

• Email: asmund.rygh@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: International Business, Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Inequality, State Ownership, Entrepreneurship, Politics.

Dr Fatemeh Salehi, Lecturer

• Email: fatemeh.salehi@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Education, Start-ups, SMEs, Commercialisation, Business Networks, Emerging Technologies.

Mrs Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo, Senior Lecturer in Science Policy and Innovation

• Email: Msbarrioluengo@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: University-society Relationship, Digital Transformation and Changes in Firms Business Models, Digital Technologies, Human Capital and Skills.

Prof Philip Shapira, Professor of Innovation Management

• Email: pshapira@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Emerging Technologies and Governance, Responsible Research and Innovation, AI in Science and Manufacturing, Regional Innovation, Policy Evaluation.

Prof Pei Sun, Professor and Chair of International Business

• Email: pei.sun@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: International Business Strategy, Corporate Governance, Non-market Strategy (Including Corporate Political Activity and Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility), Emerging Markets.

Dr Karl Taeuscher, Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship

• Email: Karl.taeuscher@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Entrepreneurial Framing, Strategic Positioning, Cultural Entrepreneurship, Pivoting, Startup Growth and Performance, Legitimation and Resource Acquisition of New Ventures, Strategic Categorisation, Quantitative Methods.

Prof Bruce Tether, Professor of Innovation Management

• Email: bruce.tether@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Innovation Management, Design, Strategy, Economic Geography, Professional Services, Innovation Policy, Law and Economics, Political Economy.

Prof Elvira Uyarra, Professor of Innovation Studies

• Email: elvira.uyarra@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Place-based Innovation Policy, Transformative Innovation Policy, Public Procurement, Clusters, Innovation Districts, University-industry Links.

Prof Kieran Walshe, Professor of Health Management

• Email: kieran.walshe@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Health Services Research, Organisation and Delivery of Healthcare, Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Organisational and Professional Regulation, Healthcare Workforce, Public Inquiries and Investigations, Research Policy and Strategy in Government, Healthcare Innovation.

Dr Lee Webster, Lecturer in Enterprise

• Email: lee.webster@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interest: Information Literacy.

Prof Stefan Zagelmeyer, Reader in Comparative and International Business

• Email: s.zagelmeyer@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: International HRM, Comparative HRM, Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions, Business and Human Rights, Comparative Institutional Analysis, Labour Market Institutions, Personnel Economics, Comparative Employment Relations.

Dr Qingna Zhou, Lecturer in International Business

• Email: qingna.zhou@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Digital Transformation, Digital Multinational, China's Digital Expansion in the Global South.

Prof Richard Allmendinger, Professor of Applied AI

• Email: richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: AI Algorithm Development and Application, Heuristic Optimisation, Reinforcement Learning, Generative AI, Algorithms for Non-standard Problems, Bayesian Optimisation, Application Domains Including Finance, Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, Private Equity, Biochemical Engineering, Music, Sports, Privacy.

Prof Emma Banister, Professor of Consumption And Society

• Email: emma.banister@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Consumer Culture, Consumption, Identity, Social Impact, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Gender, Parental Leave Policies.

Prof Jamie Burton, Professor of Marketing

• Email: jamie.burton@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Services Marketing, (B2B and B2C) Customer Experience and Engagement, Servitisation/Service Infusion, Digitalisation, Digital Service Innovation, Tensions and Territoriality, Networks/Ecosystems, Sustainability and Circularity.

Prof Michelle Carter, Professor of Information Systems, Management Sciences

• Email: michelle.carter@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: IT Identity, Identity Theories, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Information Systems, Individual IT Use Behaviour, Information Systems Management, Behavioural Research.

Dr Kam Ho Tommy Chan, Senior Lecturer in Management Science

• Email: tommy.chan@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Technology Use and Wellbeing, Digital Business and Online Consumer Behaviours, Digital Communities and Social Media.

Dr Simos Chari, Senior Lecturer in Marketing Management and Strategy

• Email: simos.chari@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Strategy Implementation, Responsiveness, Improvisation, Strategic Change, Strategic Renewal, Performance Analytics, Corporate Sustainability.

Prof Yu-wang Chen, Professor in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics

• Email: yu-wang.chen@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Data-Driven Decision Making, Data Analytics and AI, Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, Risk Analysis, Intelligent Reasoning, Optimisation and Decision.

Dr Ilma Nur Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing

• Email: ilma.chowdhury@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Sustainability and Services Management, Digital Services and Digital Responsibility, Transformative Service Research, Social Innovation, Social Business, Vulnerable Customers, Meeting Net-Zero Targets.

Dr Arijit De, Lecturer in Management Science

• Email: arijit.de@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Supply Chain Management, Freight and Maritime Logistics, Port and Shipping Operations, Sustainable and Risk Management within Supply Chain, Operation Research Based Mathematical Model, Advance Machine Learning Techniques, Problem-based Heuristics and Approximation Algorithm, Agent-Based Simulation Model.

Prof Heiner Evanschitzky, Professor of Marketing

• Email: heiner.evanschitzky@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Retailing, Technology in Retailing, Retail Marketing, Customer Inspiration, Multilevel-modelling, Quantitative Research, Field Experiments.

Dr Leandro Galli, Lecturer in Marketing

• Email: leandro.galli@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Prosocial Behaviour, Charitable Giving, Consumer Psychology, Cause-related Marketing, Morality, Emotions, Sustainability.

Dr Alex Gunz, Senior Lecturer in Marketing

• Email: alex.gunz@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Social Psychology, Consumer Behaviour, Self, Identity, Wellbeing, Self-determination Theory.

Prof Julia Handl, Professor in Decision Sciences

• Email: julia.handl@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Graph Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Multi-criterion Optimisation, Multi-criterion Decision Making, Clustering, Unsupervised Learning.

Prof Lloyd Harris, Professor in Marketing

• Email: lloyd.harris@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Customer Misbehaviour, Dysfunctional Service, Service Marketing, Employee Misbehaviour, Tourism Service, Service Dynamics, Customer Complaining and Orientation.

Dr Magda Hassan, Lecturer in Marketing

• Email: magda.hassan@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Marketing Strategy, SDGs, Inequality, Micro-entrepreneurship, Emerging Markets, ESG, Sustainability, Better Marketing for a Better World (BMBW), Quantitative Analysis.

Dr Ali Hassanzadeh, Lecturer in Management Science

• Email: ali.h@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Mathematical Modelling and Optimisation, Stochastic Programming, Simulation, Machine Learning and AI, Sports Analytics, Transportation and Logistics, Algorithm Design/Metaheuristics.

Prof Hongwei He, Professor of Marketing

• Email: hongwei.he@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: CSR, Sustainable Consumption, Pro-social Behaviour, Pro-environmental Behaviour, AI, Explainable AI, Business Ethics.

Prof Fahian Huq, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management

• Email: fahian.huq@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Risk Management in Supply Chains, Supply Chain Configuration, Innovative Operations and SCM Practices in Emerging Economies, Challenges in Procurement, Technological Impact on Operations and SCM: Technology Automation, AI, and Data Analytics, Supply Chain and Operations Management.

Dr Abbie Iveson, Lecturer in Marketing

• Email: abbie.iveson@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Consumer Brand Relationships, Social Media Branding, Social Media Internationalisation, Brand-love.

Dr Matti Jaakkola, Senior Lecturer in Marketing Management and Strategy

• Email: matti.jaakkola@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Strategic Marketing, Marketing Resources, Organisational Capabilities, Marketing Performance Measurement, Marketing Analytics, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Experience, Service Quality.

Dr Sumin Kim, Lecturer in Marketing

• Email: sumin.kim@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Corporate Social (ir)responsibility, Corporate Digital Responsibility, Brand Activism, Emotion, Consumer Behaviour.

Dr Andrea Lagna, Senior Lecturer in Financial Technology

• Email: andrea.lagna@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Fintech and the Future of Finance, AI and Data-driven Technologies, Financialisation and Financial Innovations, Digitalisation and Digital Innovations, Institutionalism, Socio-technical Perspective and Sociomateriality, Power and Information Systems, Qualitative Research.

Dr Manuel López-Ibáñez, Senior Lecturer in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics

• Email: manuel.lopez-ibanez@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Optimisation, Scheduling, Routing, Machine Learning, Reproducible Research, Machine (virtual) Decision-makers, Behavioural Aspects of Interactive Decision-making, Operational Research.

Prof Bryan Lukas, Professor of Marketing

• Email: bryan.lukas@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Marketing Management, Marketing Strategy, Consumer Behaviour, Digital Marketing, Brand Management, Market Research, Product and Services Innovation, Advertising and Sales.

Dr Tatiana Martinez, Lecturer in Management Science

• Email: tatiana.martinez@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Information Systems, e-Government, Data, Open Data, Transparency and Accountability, Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Open Government, GovTech, Smart Cities, Technology Governance, Cognitive IS, Artificial Intelligence.

Prof Nikolay Mehandjiev, Professor of Enterprise Information Systems

• Email: n.mehandjiev@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Adoption of Intelligent Enterprise Systems, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Immersive 3D Visualisations and Decision Support in MetaVerse, Digital Transformation.

Dr Fanlin Meng, Lecturer in Data Science

• Email: fanlin.meng@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Machine Learning, Privacy-preserving, Operational Research, Data-driven Optimisation, Game Theory, Smart Energy, Energy Market, Transportation and Logistics.

Dr Luis Ospina-Forero, Lecturer in Data Science

• Email: luis.ospina-forero@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Network Analysis, Statistics, Prediction Models, Causal Analysis, Time Series Forecasting.

Prof Nadia Papamichail, Professor of Management Sciences

• Email: n.papamichail@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Decision Behaviour, Decision Analytics, Decision Support, AI Ethics, Responsible AI, Digital Strategy, Knowledge Management, Environmental Decision Making, Crisis Management.

Dr Grigory Pishchulov, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Supply Chain Management

• Email: grigory.pishchulov@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Contracting in Supply Chains, Supply Chain Coordination Under Asymmetric Information, Partial integration in Supply Chains via Equity Holding, Closed-loop Supply Chains
  Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Digital Platforms and Supply Chain Management.

Prof Antony Potter, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and Head of Management Sciences and Marketing Division

• Email: antony.potter@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Toyota Production System (TPS), Lean Manufacturing, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management.

Prof Joao Quariguasi Frota Neto, Chair in Operations Management

• Email: joao.quariguasifrotaneto@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Close-loop Supply Chains and the Interface Between Operations, Analytics and Finance.

Dr Eghbal Rahimikia, Assistant Professor in Financial Technology

• Email: eghbal.rahimikia@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Financial Technology, Quantitative Finance, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Big Data, Financial Forecasting, Large Language Models.

Dr Pedro Sampaio, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Information Systems and Data Science

• Email: p.sampaio@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Information Systems, Decision Support, Digital Platforms, Design Theories, Complex Systems Design, Collaborative Intelligence.

Dr Panagiotis Sarantopoulos, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing

• Email: p.sarantopoulos@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Substantive: Retailing and Pricing, Digital Marketing (broadly defined), Consumers and AI, Methodological: Experiments (Online, Lab, Field, Quasi-), Regression Models.

Prof Duncan Shaw, Professor of Operational Research and Critical Systems

• Email: duncan.shaw-2@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Societal Resilience, Soft Operational Research, Systems Thinking, Problem Structuring Methods, Community Operational Research.

Dr Chris Smith, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Critical Systems

• Email: christopher.smith@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Soft OR, Systems Thinking, Qualitative, Supply Chain Management, Socially Responsible Supply Chain Management, Resilience.

Dr Hai-Anh Tran, Lecturer in Marketing

• Email: hai-anh.tran@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Consumer Psychology, Marketing Communication, Service Marketing, CSR, Text Mining.

Prof Dong-Ling Xu, Professor of Decision Science and Systems

• Email: ling.xu@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Evidential Reasoning, Bayes Reasoning, Evidence Based Decision Making, and Their Applications in Business, Engineering and Professional Services.

Dr Xian Yang, Lecturer in Data Science

• Email: xian.yang@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Learning.

Prof Jian-Bo Yang, Professor of Decision and System Sciences

• Email: jian-bo.yang@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Evidential Reasoning, Probabilistic Rule-based Modelling and Learning, Bayes Inference, Evidence-based Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, and Their Applications in Business, Engineering and Professional Services.

Prof Judy Zolkiewski, Professor of Marketing

• Email: judy.zolkiewski@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Business-to-business Relationships and Networks, Business-to-business Services, Servitisation.

Dr Francisca Alvarez Figueroa, Lecturer in Employment Studies

• Email: francisca.alvarezfigueroa@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Organisational Citizenship Behaviours, Organisational Justice, HRM, EDI, Employee Voice.

Dr Cassandra Bowkett, Lecturer in Human Resource Management

• Email: cassandra.bowkett@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: New Technology (robotics, automation and AI), Impacts on Future of Work/Skills, Skill Systems, Changes in Skill Investment, Skills Policy, Firm Training Investment, Cross National Studies, Human Resource/Employer Strategies in Workforce Skills, Development and Planning.

Prof Naomi Chambers, Professor of Health Management

• Email: naomi.chambers@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Healthcare Policy, Non-profit Board Level Governance, Public Leadership, Healthcare Management.

Prof Sharon Clarke, Professor of Organisational Psychology

• Email: sharon.clarke@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Safety Culture/Climate, Health/Wellbeing, Occupational Stress/Resilience, Leadership, Psychological Aspects of Organisational Behaviour, Interventions to Improve Health, Wellbeing, Safety, Flexible Working, Occupational Health Psychology.

Prof Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health

• Email: cary.cooper@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Organisational Wellbeing, Workplace Stress.

Dr Carlo Ludovico Cordasco, Lecturer in Management & Org Studies

• Email: carlo.cordasco@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Ethics, Business Ethics, AI Ethics, AI Adoption.

Dr Ian Crowther, Lecturer & Deputy Programme Manager

• Email: ian.crowther@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Banking, Management in Firms re Sustainability, ESG and UN Development Goals, Financial Regulation, Financialisation, Cultural Economy, Corporate Governance, Risk Management.

Prof Tony Dundon, Professor of Human Resource Management & Employment Relations

• Email: tony.dundon@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Employee Voice, Worker Participation, Technology and Work, Future of Work, Trade Union Bargaining, Labour Process.

Mr Ismail Erturk, Senior Lecturer in Banking

• Email: ismail.erturk@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Financialisation, Financial Regulation, ESG, Green Finance, Socially Responsible Business, Corporate Governance.

Prof Julie Froud, Professor of Financial Innovation

• Email: julie.froud@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Foundational Economy, Social Innovation, Business Models Social Infrastructure, Social Enterprise.

Dr Angelique Fu, Lecturer in Organisational Psychology

• Email: angelique.fu@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Leadership, Events, Identity, Memory Capacity.

Dr Anita Greenhill, Senior Lecturer

• Email: a.greenhill@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Digital Arts and Creativity, Digital Technology, Community Engagement, Creative Industry Policy, and Education.

Prof John Hassard, Professor of Organisational Analysis

• Email: john.hassard@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Organisation Theory, Organisation Culture, Managerial Work Future of Work Management and Organisational History Corporate and Organisational Change Healthcare, Public Sector, and Third Sector Management.

Prof Simon Hayward, Professor of Practice

• Email: simon.hayward@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Leadership, Development, Culture, Agile, Engagement, Stakeholder Capitalism.

Prof David Holman, Professor of Organisational Psychology

• Email: david.holman@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Job Design, Job Quality, Job Crafting, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Emotion Regulation.

Prof Debra Howcroft, Professor of Technology and Organisation

• Email: debra.howcroft@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: New Technology, Work, Employment, Inequalities.

Dr. David Hughes, Senior Lecturer, Organisational Psychology

• Email: david.hughes-4@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Personality, Psychometrics, Individual Differences.

Ms Ceri Hughes, Research Associate

• Email: ceri.hughes@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Employment Precarity, Work-Welfare Interactions, Soft Regulation of Employers, Activation Policies, Inclusive Economy, Labour Market Participation and Inequalities.

Prof Paul Irwing, Professor of Psychometrics

• Email: paul.irwing@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Personality Structure, Adaptive Personality Regulation, Applications of Personality to Business.

Dr Mathew Johnson, Senior Lecturer in HRM and Employment Studies

• Email: mathew.johnson@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Comparative Industrial Relations, International HRM, Regulation, Decent Work, Trade Unions, Social Movements.

Prof Sheena Johnson, Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing.

• Email: sheena.johnson@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Health and Wellbeing, Workplace Stress, Ageing Workforce, Violence and Aggression.

Dr Ian Johnson, Lecturer in Business Law

• Email: ian.johnson-2@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Inheritance and Succession Law, Wills and Trusts, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Landlord and Tenant Law.

Prof Wing Lam, Professor in Organisational Psychology

• Email: wing.lam@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Proactivity, Leadership, Team Dynamics, Emotions, Organisational Psychology.

Prof Ann Mahon, Professor of Health Leadership

• Email: ann.mahon@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Leadership, Leadership Development, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Leadership, Health Policy, Programme Evaluation.

Prof Robin Martin, Professor of Organisational Psychology

• Email: robin.martin@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Causal Methodology.

Prof Miguel Martinez Lucio, Professor in International HRM and Comparative Industrial Relations

• Email: miguel.martinezlucio@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Trade Unionism, Regulation of Employment, The State and Employment Relations, Comparative Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, Critical International HRM, Transnational Worker Representation, Equality and Politics, Social Inclusion and Employment Relations, Worker and Employee Involvement and Participation.

Prof Eunice Maytorena Sanchez, Professor of Project Management

• Email: eunice.maytorena-sanchez@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Project Management, Risk, Uncertainty, Complexity, Stakeholders, Paradox, Managerial and Organisational Cognition.

Dr John McCormack, Senior Lecturer in Project Management

• Email: john.mccormack-2@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Public Management, Defence, Procurement, Workplace Identity.

Dr Stephen Mustchin, Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies

• Email: stephen.mustchin@xmanchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Industrial/Employment Relations, Human Resource Management, The Regulation of Work and Employment, Public Sector Employment Relations, Migration and Employment, New Technology and Employment, Conflict at Work and Industrial Action.

Dr Kara Ng, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

• Email: kara.ng@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Unethical Behaviour at Work, Workplace Bullying, Workplace Mistreatment, Negative Experiences at Work, Behavioural Ethics, Organisational Psychology, Organisational Behaviour.

Prof Elinor O'Connor, Professor of Work Psychology

• Email: elinor.oconnor@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Occupational Stress, Wellbeing at Work, the Veterinary Profession.

Dr Courtney Owens, Lecturer in Management Leadership

• Email: courtneyelizabeth.owens@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Leadership, Personality, Teaching Leadership Development Programmes.

Dr Jenny Rodriguez, Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies

• Email: jenny.rodriguez@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Intersectionality, Transnational/Translocational Identity, Highly-skilled Migrant Mobility (Self-initiated Expatriation), Globally Mobile Professionals, International HRM, Regulation of Work and Employment, Global South (Latin America, Hispanic Caribbean and Middle East), Decolonial Approaches (Decolonial Feminism, Otherwise, Epistemic Otherness).

Prof Jill Rubery, Professor / Director of the Work and Equalities Institute

• Email: jill.rubery@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Employment, Pay, Working Time, Labour Market Segmentation, Comparative Employment Systems, Work Futures, Gender Equality, Welfare States.

Dr Lina Siegl, Lecturer in Organisational Psychology

• Email: lina.siegl@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Workplace Health and Wellbeing, Work Stress, Technostress, Work emails, Burnout, Workplace Interventions, Work-home Processes, Organisational Culture, Safety.

Prof Graham Winch, Professor of Project Management

• Email: graham.winch@manchester.ac.uk
• Research interests: Organisation of Projects, Owner Role in Project Shaping and Delivery, Complex Project Organising, New Build and Retrofit Housing Innovation, Infrastructure Development.