Business, Management and Leadership

MPhil/PhD Leadership Studies

Research areas

A summary of our main areas of research focus is provided here. The Business School research webpages provide more comprehensive details about current research projects. Details on individual staff research interests and publications can be found on the Leadership staff profiles pages.

In Leadership, our staff specialise in the following areas:

  • personal challenges of leadership
  • new ways of thinking about leadership
  • how to improve leadership development
  • relationship between leadership and organisational performance

In Management, our staff specialise in the following areas:

  • ethics, policy and governance
  • marketing, consumer research and retailing
  • operations, information management and strategy
  • organisation studies

In Tourism, our staff specialise in the following areas:

  • tourism management; environment; planning; regulation; sustainability; marketing
  • tourism planning, governance and regulation
  • sustainable tourism management
  • tourism, retailing and shopping
  • tourism and property
  • tourism, transnationalism and mobilities

Typically research is undertaken wholly within one of these disciplines but it could be interdisciplinary involving another discipline in the School or another department in the University.