RESEARCH THEME GROUPS
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Enterprise Creativity and Innovation
Lincoln Business School
There is a growing focus on enterprise and entrepreneurship within Lincoln Business School. The rapid growth of the Enterprise Research and Development Unit (ERDU) has created a focus for project-based research in this area. There are also researchers with a particular focus on entrepreneurship in the Departments of Business and Finance and Marketing, Advertising and PR. There is also a growing research community around the rural enterprise agenda.
Contact: David Rae drae@lincoln.ac.uk
Management and Leadership/Critical Management
Lincoln Business School
Principles and practices of organisational behaviour and development underpin the research activities and focus of this Group. Critical approaches to organisational development, including HRM, are used to develop insight into processes of management. This group has a growing interest in and output related to the philosophies of management, both theoretical and applied. The group run a regular series of external seminars in collaboration with business.
Contact: Sam Agyeman sagyman@lincoln.ac.uk
Marketing in Services as Practice
Lincoln Business School
The Marketing Group has a publication record in:
1) Services marketing / experiential consumption
2) Marketing education
3) PR, marketing and market development in SMEs
4) Branding and the deployment of novel channels of marketing.
Contact: Barry Ardley bardley@lincoln.ac.uk
Research Methods and Methodologies
Lincoln Business School
The development of the Lincoln Business School PhD programme has generated a growing interest across the Faculty in research methodologies and method. Of particular interest and concern are (1) the extent to which quantitative methods, especially those from the ‘hard’ sciences, can be applied to social scientific considerations of business and management (2) the relationship and interactions between qualitative and quantitative approaches to data analysis and (3) the development of robust methods for qualitative analysis.
Contact: David Gray dgray@lincoln.ac.uk
Community and Operational Research
Lincoln Business School
Operational Research and systems theory underpin the distinctive approaches adopted by CORU in its work with community and social groups and networks. The Community and Operational Research Theme Group seeks to encourage research within communities and the theoretical development of the field.
Contact: Rebecca Herron rherron@lincoln.ac.uk
Tourism
Lincoln Business School
The research interests of the staff are pursued independently within a broad context of social and cultural change. Individuals are active in research networks embracing the humanities and social science. Foci of interest include the evolution of coastal tourism, the history of tourism, and the consumer psychology of the visitor experience. Recent engaged projects in Lincolnshire include coastal management, heritage interpretation, and the visitor experience at a major visitor attraction.
Contact:
Adrian Bull
abull@lincoln.ac.uk
Heather Hughes
hhughes@lincoln.ac.uk
Richard Voase
rvoase@lincoln.ac.uk
Law and European Governance
Lincoln Law School
The Law and European Governance (LEG) Research theme group was established in the Faculty of Business and Law in 2005 to support research activity in the two cognate areas of Law and European Policy research. There has long been a record of research active staff of the University, and the LEG Research Theme Group supports the continued collaboration of these researchers. A research seminar series, a number of publications, conference papers and journal articles on citizenship, Europeanisation of policy, enlargement of the EU, conditions for EU membership have been the result. The development of the School of Law in 2006 and more recently appointed staff has enabled new dimensions of research in European human rights, European consumer law, International trade law.
Contacts:
Pamela Barnes
pbarnes@lincoln.ac.uk
John Peysner
jpeysner@lincoln.ac.uk
International Business and the Economy
Lincoln Business School
Staff undertaking research in this area have carried out their advisory work for the European Commission and UK Government on international benchmarking sessions. Research focuses on modelling the dynamics of EU expansion as a self organising process with a special focus on the entry of the New Accession Countries into the Union. Another strand within this theme is globalization of markets.
Contact: David Floyd dfloyd@lincoln.ac.uk