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 and The Careers Research Centre. 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 Management Science research group together with the related group on Management of Innovation consists of a Professor, three Senior Lecturers and four Lecturing posts and covers a wide range of applications of managment science. Professor Thomas, together with Dr Ken McKinnon from the Mathematics Department have been solving large scale strategic and operational management problems in the power and water industries and they have also been investigating the possibilities of parallelising linear programmes. Professor Thomas and Mr Crook have been active in developing OR models for credit and behavioural scoring and have run three successful international conferences in the area. Dr Glen applies mathematical programming models to natural resource management in the agriculture and fisheries industries. Dr Ansell's expertise in risk management is applied both in the reliability and maintenance of complex production systems and more recently in investing financial risk in the insurance industry as well as investigating the use of indices in that industry.