• Information about Lincoln Business School

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LINCOLN BUSINESS SCHOOL

Academic research at Lincoln Business School is organised around key themes that link business and academic disciplines with real-world impact.

The School has two specialist units and a number of core research groups.  Our ethos seeks to encourage academic staff, students and other stakeholders to ‘co-create knowledge for responsible futures’.

Each research unit and group benefits from a close alignment with the Faculty’s PhD programme.  This programme currently has Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) recognition for its doctoral training and was described in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) as an ‘internationally excellent’ component of the Faculty’s research environment.

Enterprise Research and Development Unit (ERDU)

Director: Professor David Rae

ERDU focuses on research and development relating to small and medium enterprise development and entrepreneurship.  It has become an innovative and grounded provider of solutions and insights into ‘real-world’ problems based on rigorous research and the close involvement of stakeholders.

Areas of activity and expertise within the unit include:

• Enterprise and SME policy, analysis and development
• Enterprise development services and support strategies
• Business start-up, incubation, pre-start and education
• Enterprising learning and education
• Local and regional economic development and regeneration

Community Operational Research Unit (CORU)

Director: Dr Rebecca Herron

CORU has an extensive record on working on community development and research projects, locally, regionally and nationally. 

It is recognised for the leading role it plays in third sector development, with research focussed on assisting community groups and voluntary organisations to become more effective by providing expertise in problem-structuring and decision-making.  It thus develops and applies management science, operational research and systems knowledge relevant to community organisations.  The emphasis is on frameworks that support participation, empowerment and transparency.

Researchers within CORU have developed a national presence in community empowerment and active citizenship, and the Unit has recently received funding to take the lead in an ESRC Capacity Building Cluster covering these areas.  This consists of a research partnership between Lincoln, Goldsmiths and Manchester Metropolitan Universities and forms one of three major national research clusters in the new ESRC/Barrow Cadburys/OTS Third Sector Research Initiative.

Research Theme Groups

The Business School has seven Research Theme Groups as follows:

• Enterprise, Creativity and Innovation
• Management and Leadership/Critical Management
• Marketing in Services as Practice
• Research Methods and Methodologies
• Community and Operational Research
• Tourism
• International Business and the Economy

LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL

Director of Research: Professor Richard Stone

Centre for Dispute Resolution, Compensation and Risk

Director: Professor John Peysner

The Lincoln Law School’s Centre for Dispute Resolution, Compensation and Risk examines the financial and societal implications of access to civil justice at both a strategic and an operational level, and how access to justice is viewed by society and the media.

Current projects include:

• The development of a contingency legal aid fund for Northern Ireland
• A Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) project on ‘Improving Dispute Resolution: Transforming Policy and Practice in Dispute Resolution in HEIs’
• Cross-disciplinary work on the media response to an alleged compensation culture in the UK

Research Theme Groups

Lincoln Law School has one Research Theme Group:

• Law and European Governance

 

More information about all of our Research Units and Theme Groups, as well as some specific projects, can be found by following the links in the navigation bar on the left of this page.