Applied Microeconomics (Labour and Agri-Environmental);

Areas of Interest

Economics

-Applied microeconomics (labour and agri-environmental);

-Quantitative macroeconomics;

-Econometrics and empirical economics;

-Development;

-Economic history;

-Transport;

-Behavioural and experimental economics;

-Economic development and emerging markets, in particular economics of institutions and economics of education and skill formation;

-Public economics and public policy, in particular spatial and urban economics, housing and regional policy, applied econometrics;

-Behavioural/Experimental Economics;

-Applied Microeconomics (labour & public);

-Macroeconomics / Finance;

-International financial economics;

-Public asset auctions;

-Energy economics;

-Sports economics;

-Relationship of business cycle to social problems.

Environment, Energy and Resilience

-Biodiversity conservation;

-Ecology;

-Human rights and the environment;

-Trade and the environment:

-Environmental land use;

-Conservation genetics;

-Conservation planning;

-Wild animal welfare;

-Environmental law and policy;

-Environmental economics;

-Political ecology;

-Environmental anthropology;

-Ethno-biology;

-Climate change -climate change policy, mitigation and adaptation strategies, biodiversity and agricultural land use in a changing climate;

-Environmental change -interactions between land use, biodiversity and ecosystem service delivery; multifunctional land use;

-Food Security – Resilience in food systems in the context of environmental change;

-Sustainability – Rural development and sustainable livelihoods, Planning resilient futures in developing and emerging economies; The governance and delivery of green infrastructure.

-Environmental Life Cycle Analysis;

-Sustainable consumption;

-Prosperity without growth;

-Environmental disaster management.

Human Geography

-Human impacts of environmental change;

-The political ecology of extractive industries;

-Sustainable development and resilience;

-Transnationalism and human development;

-The political economy of climate change;

-Qualitative Geography;

-Cultural Geography;

-Political Geography;

-Development and Environmental Geography

Management

-SME’s;

-Supply chain

-Value chain;

-Retail marketing;

-Employee engagement;

-Diversity management;

-Quantitative finance;

-Public accounting;

-Logistics;

-Distribution systems;

-Performance management;

-Enterprise;

-Strategic management;

-International business.

-Critical and historical perspectives on management;

-Entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership;

-Intercultural and international perspectives on management;

-Knowledge management & organisational learning;

-Public services and third sector management;

-Sustainability, responsibility and ethics;

-Tourism & hospitality management;

-Healthcare management;

-Incentives and regulation of executive remuneration;

-Environmental management.

Politics

-Conflict analysis and resolution (especially negotiation and mediation);

-International relations theory;

-Political thought (especially continental and post-liberal theory);

-Comparative and regional politics (including China, Japan, Latin America and Africa);

-Methods in political science;

-European politics (institutions, state-EU relations and global Europe); federalism;

-Strategic Studies;

-Applied Political theory;

-The United Nations and other international institutions;

-Political Communication;

-Media in Political Life;

-Global & Transnational Politics;

-Comparative Politics;

-German security & defence policy & German domestic politics;

-European integration;

-Security Studies;

-Cosmopolitanism;

-Methods in Political Science;

-Modern Political theory & Philosophy;

-International intervention;

-Military theory and war;

-Politics of the EU, including gender politics.

Psychology

-Experimental and applied social psychology with focus on group processes and intergroup relations, particularly research application to social issues such as social identity, prejudice,organizations, and environmental behaviours;

-Social development across the life span, including ageing and ageism, children's acquisition of group identity,social regulation ofprosocialand antisocial behaviour;

-Forensic Psychology, particularly focus on offenders’ treatment needs;

-Cognitive psychology, including eye-tracking and neuro-stimulation.

-Language Acquisition;

-Emotion and cognition across the lifespan;

-Adult and Child Cognition;

-Brain and Behaviour (Study of sensation, perception, cognition and motor behaviour using psychophysical and neuroscientific methods);

-Clinical, Health and Social Psychology;

-Neuroscience;

-Environmental psychology;

-Health psychology including recovery from stress, and obesity/eating disorders;

-Organisational and Work Psychology.

Social Anthropology

-Integration of conservation, biological and social anthropology;

-Visual anthropology resources and expertise;

-Particular expertise in issues around ethnicity, nationalism and identity, ethnobotany, medical anthropology, tourism, and urbanisation;

Social Work & Social Policy

-Advanced Quantitative Methods;

-Multilevel and Longitudinal modelling;

-Time Series Analysis;

-Qualitative Research methods;

-Family and Children;

-Risk and Uncertainty;

-Comparative Social Policy;

-International Social Policy;

-Health and Social Care;

-Work and Economic Life;

-Ageing;

-The Voluntary Sector;

-Philanthropy and Giving;

-Learning Disability and Community Care;

-The Welfare State.

Socio-Legal Studies

-Critical Commercial Law and Business Law and Regulation;

-Empirical Socio-legal Research;

-Environmental Law;

-Law Politics and Culture;

-Law and Political Economy;

-Gender, Sexuality and Law;

-Health Care, Law and Ethics;

-Law, History and Society;

-Law, Science and Society;

-Law Culture and Religion;

-Law and Development;

-Legal Theory and Feminist Theory;

-Regulation of consumer markets;

-Rights Theory;

-Regulation of Race/Gender Relations;

-The Legal Regulation of Social Problems;

-Theories and Methods of Socio-legal Research.

Sociology

-Visual Methods;

-Crime, Culture and Control;

-Drugs use and Drugs Policy;

-Civil Society;

-The Body;

-Cultural studies;

-Environmental Social Science;

-Migration and Ethnicity;

-Risk and Uncertainty;

-Social Theory;

-Globalisation;

-Sociology of Violence;

-Work and Economic Life;

-Social and Political Movements;

-Medical Sociology;

-Advanced and innovative social research methods;

-New technologies and society;

-Criminology & criminal justice;

-Youth, ageing, generations and the life course.