Research
Our experts welcome postgraduate research proposals across a broad range of topics. Click on the links below to find out more about these areas and look for a potential supervisor.
Accounting
Accounting research examines how accounting information is identified, measured, valued, and disclosed. It covers a broad range of topics, including:
- Theoretical designs and laboratory experiments that aim to show how decision makers use accounting information
- Empirical tests of market reactions to publicly available accounting information
- Analytical models illustrating how owners and managers resolve conflicts including public and private sectors
- Empirical research related to taxation policy
- Culture, religion, and ethical and trust systems in auditing
- The development of experimental markets
Economics
Economics has a strong research culture and an established reputation in several fields, including:
- Applied microeconomics
- International economics
- Economic development
- Macroeconomics
- Environmental economics
Finance
Our enthusiastic and committed Finance group conducts research on the social, economic, and organisational aspects of financial reporting, corporate finance and governance, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, banking, risk management, accountability and governance. Major research strands include:
- Behavioural finance
- Agent-based models in finance
- Corporate finance and investment
- Corporate governance
- Banking and financial intermediation particularly in emerging markets
- Financial exclusion
- Risk management and disclosure
- Real estate finance and investment
- International finance and investment
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
The Logistics and Supply Chain group supervises PhD students across a broad range of logistics and supply chain research themes including:
- Sustainable supply chains
- Supply chain security
- Port logistics
- Circular economy
- Social media and supply chain
- Digital supply chain
- Supply chain management and Industry 4.0
- Big data
- Socially responsible supply chain
- SMEs supply chain
- Global and local supply chain
- Food, manufacturing and service supply chain
Marketing
Our dynamic team of research-oriented individuals have expertise in a number of key areas within marketing including:
- Electronic/mobile marketing and social media
- Services marketing including service evaluation
- Ethical, social, non-profit and political marketing
- SMEs and B2B marketing
- Brand management and internal branding
- Corporate social responsibility
- Relationship marketing
- Advertising and social media
Regional and International Business
The Regional and International Business research group of Hull University Business School critically examines the processes of market liberalisation and regulation from a global perspective. They examine areas including:
- The strategic role of SMEs
- The evolution and remit of international trade organisations
- Economic rationales for regulation, including market liberalisation, the control of monopolies and the encouragement of competition
- Intellectual property regulation, financial services regulation and multinationals regulation
- The relationship between large and small enterprises
- Privatisation, outsourcing and public-private partnerships
The Centre for Systems Studies
The Centre for Systems Studies is an international centre of excellence for ground breaking research on systems thinking and practice with strong links to other research institutes and with practitioners in public, private and third-sector organisations.
Research is concerned with advancing the understanding of systems and systemic phenomena in complex socio-economic systems at all scales – from the emergence of local community action and business ecosystems through to the impact of global policy interventions. This work is critical for addressing complex situations and anticipating the - often unintended - consequences of interventions, and for designing structures, actions and strategies for innovation, resilience, and sustainability in dynamic contexts.
Organisation, Ethics and Society
We employ social theory to better understand the various ways in which organising takes place in its social, ethical and political dimensions. Specific topics of interest are:
- Organising in social movements, civil society and other alternative forms of organisation
- Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
- Institutional change and development in Eastern Europe
- The ethics and politics of management and organisation
- Democracy in organisations
- Power, privilege and exploitation in the workplace
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Work and human relations: the role of ethnicity, culture, migration, family and intergenerational relations
- Gender and sexuality in organisations
- Labour process theory, employment relations and trade unions
- Public sector organisation and governance
- Critical management studies
- Age management, work and retirement