Management

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• Programme overview
• Entry requirements
• Staff research interests

Programme overview

The Department of Management comprises a group of academic staff with a variety of interests and a focus on practically relevant research.

The Department encourages interdisciplinary research, drawing on a range of theories and methodologies. We welcome students from a variety of backgrounds and experience. We encourage strong candidates from a discipline outside the Social Sciences/Management and Business Studies field, who wish to convert, and candidates with organisational or commercial experience to apply.

Research Groups

The Department of Management's research is organised along two dimensions:

Management Theory and Research Practice

The Department's research approach incorporates:

• Critical Management
• Operational Research (OR)
• Quantitative and Qualitative Research
• Stakeholder Theory

Management Domain

The Department's areas of application include:

• Organisation Studies
• Professional Associations
• The Public Sector

There are four research groups:

• Partnerships and Collaboration
• Studying the Professions
• Theorising and Understanding Organisations
• Values in Organisations

Key research interests

Key research staff within each theme include:

Partnerships and Collaboration

This group is a focus for research into inter-agency working, project management and evaluating complex programmes. The group draws on a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches including operational research and network theory and analysis.

• Dr Joseph Amankwah-Amoab
• Dr Christopher Durugbo
• Dr Mark Hall
• Professor Leroy White

Studying the Professions

This group focuses on research into stakeholders and stakeholder theories as applied to intermediary organisations such as the professions. This group also focuses on continuing professional development (CPD).

• Professor Andy Friedman
• Dr Mary Phillips

Theorising and Understanding Organisations

This group focuses on organisational theory development for understanding organisations, drawing on, for example, theories of aesthetics and gender and diversity and inclusion management.

• Dr Mary Phillips
• Dr Ann Rippin
• Dr Nick Rumens
• Professor Andrew Sturdy

Values in Organisations

This group provides a focus for research into the relationships between values and the impact of values on decision-making and behaviour. The group incorporates a range of methods from OR, problem-structuring and quantitative and qualitative methods.

• Dr Humphrey Bourne
• Dr Christopher Durugbo
• Professor Leroy White

Details of current staff research interests are available from the Department's website.

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Entry requirements

An upper second-class honours degree in a related subject (or international equivalent), and/or a Masters qualification in a related subject.

For information on international equivalent qualifications, please see our International Office website.

Admissions statement

Read the programme admissions statement for important information on entry requirements, the application process and supporting documents required.

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Key research interests

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