A number of research clusters exist within the main management disciplines, including management science, marketing, finance, organisation studies, international business and industrial relations. The Centre for Financial Markets Research, The Credit Research Centre and TechMaPP . These centres act as foci for research incorporating alternative paradigms but having a common direction. Elsewhere in the Department research is undertaken at project level where a number of research themes exist again which combine activity from several disciplines. Other comparable themes exist in public sector management, technology management and the food industry.
Staff work collaboratively on such projects and also pursue their individual research activity.
The various projects form the basis of links into external, often international, research networks. An active programme of conference and workshop organisation is undertaken with support for conference organisation provided by a University support agency. Recent international conferences hosted and organised have been on search procedures, and risk. Conference participation by staff is encouraged with arrangements for re-organisation of teaching and with supporting finance. An academic visitor programme enables a number of scholars from other countries to be based in the Department for periods of up to a year.