Management and Business Student Profiles

Ahmed, Muhammed Alamgir

Start date:
October 2014
Research Topic:
The Financial Consumption of Muslims in Wales
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr. Ahmad Jamal
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

This PhD project aims to look at the Muslim consumers’ points of view when making financial decisions about savings, investments and borrowings. This research intends to explore personal meanings, functional, emotional and symbolic values that arise in relation to financial consumption, economic welfare, religious ideals and salient market concerns. It will look at geopolitical issues and movements impact consumption patterns of Muslims in the UK in general and in Wales in particular as they experience a heightened sense of religious, cultural and ethnic identities given issues relevant to the ‘stigma’ attached with being a Muslim in the Western world.

Begum, Hushneara

Hushneara Begum
Start date:
September 2011
Research Topic:
Thinking about the future: The consideration of carbon within the procurement process in Wales
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Prof. Ken Peattie, Prof. Helen Walker, Dr Anne Touboulic
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

My main research interest lies in sustainability, corporate social responsibility, sensemaking and stakeholder engagement The research explores how a governmental network of actors engage with and make sense of low carbon procurement within the context of Wales (UK).

Bowkett, Cassie

Cassie Bowkett
Start date:
October 2013
Research Topic:
Industrial Policy and routes out of poverty
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Peter Turnbull, Deborah Hann, David Nash
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

My research project will utilise mixed methods. The underlying research interests centre around routes out of poverty, and how industrial policy, institutions and actors can impact this.

Brown, Virginia

Start date:
October 2017
Research Topic:
Neuroscience in business
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dirk Lindebaum
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC
Research keywords:
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My research focuses on neuroscience and organisational behaviour, and particularly how research from the neurosciences is being applied within organisational settings. Although there is a dearth of empirical research directly addressing the contribution that neuroscience can make to our understanding of organisational behaviour, and our ability to effectively intervene to bring about behavioural change, enthusiasm for it is running high, both in the academy and amongst practitioners. A range of potential implications arise from this, ranging from the ethical to the commercial, and including questions about the underlying validity and generalisability of some neuroscience research. My research will seek to understand why neuroscience holds such an appeal and what contribution it can legitimately make to management and organisational science.

Cook, Rachel Emma

Rachel Emma Cook
Start date:
October 2015
Research Topic:
Is ‘Head of Well-being’ an essential post in UK secondary schools?
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Keith Whitfield, Dr David Nash
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

This study aims to assess the current levels of well-being amongst teachers in UK secondary school; research into well-being in education often focuses on pupils, meaning that the well-being of teachers is overlooked.

It will investigate the impact of the Nuffield Health ‘Head of Well-being’ programme on the physical and mental well-being of teachers in a UK secondary school in Oxford and whether any positive outcomes of this programme can be replicated in other UK secondary schools.

It will also consider the impact that trade unions have had on well-being in education to date, and the potential for future impact.

LinkedIn:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/rachelcookcipd

Davies, James

James Davies
Start date:
October 2017
Research Topic:
Labour entry and Skill formation in the UK TV industry
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Prof Jonathan Morris
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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A number of barriers to entry to the TV industry exist for young people trying to get make a career in this sector. Aspects of social class, ethnicity and gender, as well as level of education, can serve to disadvantage certain groups before they even try to gain entry. With a workforce so heavily based on freelance work, operating on a project-to-project basis via closed networks, those who do not have a personal contact to someone already ‘inside’ can find their only route to work through unpaid internships and work experience. This, in itself, can serve to exclude those without the financial support and foundation to survive for prolonged periods without an income.

In addition, the difficulty in gaining access to those established industry professionals, operating in closed social networks, raises questions over how new entrants are able to supposed to learn and develop new skills, especially in an industry where vacancies need to be filled fast, and there is no sense in taking a risk on an unproven worker, when deadlines are so tight.

The role of technological change also needs considering. Previously technical and craft jobs have been increasingly replaced with technology requiring proficiency in ICT and computing, and an increased focus on aesthetic, rather than technical, considerations. There has been a democratisation of technology, that can see the several roles (e.g. editing, sound, colouring etc.) in the production process performed by a single individual.

This project aims to explore the experiences and perceptions of those who have gained entry to the TV industry, or are trying to do so. It focuses on the routes taken to start careers, whether they be through higher education courses, corporate training schemes or unpaid internships. It will also consider the issue of skill formation. Where does this new cohort learn their skills? Do the skills they have align with the expectation of those making the decision to allow them entry? What impact has digitisation had on the expectations of the flexibilities and proficiencies of those entering into the industry?

Though the exact methodology is yet to finalised, a qualitative approach (such as in-depth interviewing) would seem to be best suited to exploring the experiences and perceptions of individuals.

Davies, John Edward

Davies, John Edward
Start date:
October 2019
Research Topic:
Co-Creation in Rail-Services
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Mirella Yani-De-Soriano
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESCR Studentship
Research keywords:
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My project will entail an exploration of Welsh passenger’s experiences as they engage with Transport for Wales’s (TFW) services, an analysis of how these experiences relate to activites of co-creation and a final evaluation of how TfW can systematically support passenger engagement through leveraging co-creation.

The project aims to create a systematic framework designed specifically around the experiences of Welsh passengers to create a sustainable approach for TfW to leverage co-creation and increase passenger engagement with its services.

Demougin, Philippe

Philippe Demougin
Start date:
October 2015
Research Topic:
Employers’ Organisations and their Codes of Conduct targeting Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Business in the Community
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Marco Hauptmeier
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

Employers organisations (EO) in the UK were generally defined as an under researched topic by Barry and Wilkinson in 2011. Relatively recently some EOs have begun to propagate codes of conduct to their member firms – targeting their corporate social responsibility (CSR). However until present, this relationship remains unexplored. Two of my research questions may therefore be:

  1. What are the functions, workings and effects of codes of conduct from EOs in the UK that address the CSR performance of their member firms?
  2. What are the “determinants of success” of EOs’ CSR codes, and the conditions under which these codes tend to be successful/unsuccessful?

I intend to explore this topic with the help of a case study of a large EO called Business in the Community (BitC). My principle research methods my include interviews with representatives of the BitC and discourse analysis of the BitC documents.

Doyle, Charlotte

Charlotte Doyle
Start date:
October 2014
Research Topic:
Impulse Purchasing
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Gordon Foxall
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

Consumer Psychology is a fairly modern research area especially when looking more deeply into impulse purchasing.

The research will be looking at interpreting these Consumer Impulse Choices using the Behavioural Perspective Framework.

Behaviour analysis and consumer research is vital to the development of marketing strategies.

Fuseini, Mutala

Mohammed, Mutala
Start date:
October 2021
Research Topic:
Supply chain resilience and food waste reduction in the UK food supply chains
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues, Dr Laura Purvis and Professor Maneesh Kumar
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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My research interests include supply chain resilience, sustainability, risk management, logistics and transport management, and the overlap between them.
Before coming to Cardiff University, I completed BA Honours in Logistics and Transport Management and an MA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at University of Greenwich.
In my PhD research, I am looking to investigate how to develop supply chain resilience to effectively mitigate the impact of disruptions while preventing and/or mitigating food waste in food supply chains.
The central contribution of the thesis is to shed light on how to utilize supply chain resilience capabilities to create resilience at the same time mitigating food waste.

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mutala-f-33b63149/

Galazka, Anna Milena

Start date:
October 2012
Research Topic:
Organisational remembering in temporary work
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Tim Edwards, Dr Kelly Page, Dr Joe O’Mahoney
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

I am interested to find out about the challenges posed to organisational memory by temporary work and how non-standard workers overcome those in the execution of daily tasks.

Ganasan, Shalini

Ganasan, Shalini
Start date:
October 2021
Research Topic:
Evaluation of characteristics of RESILIENce for patient safeTy in care delivery by the Rapid Response System in a Welsh Health Board, a mixed methods study
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Maneesh Kumar and Dr Andrew Carson-Stevens
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC
Research keywords:
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My research interest revolves around appreciation of complexity of healthcare organisations whereby outcomes are often emergent and dynamic in nature. I am particularly interested in understanding system resilience employing a systems approach, to understand why decisions made sense at the time and what resilience characteristics are beneficial for patient safety.

Healthcare related harm has failed to reduce significantly over the last three decades. Resilience in healthcare provides a proactive lens to learn from when things go right, equally. I hope that my research into characteristics of system resilience in an environment ripe with uncertainty and complexity, can contribute towards operationalisation of resilience, for a safer healthcare system, for the 21st century.

The outputs of this research may be of interest to healthcare leaders, multi-disciplinary healthcare staff, managers, patients and their family, carers, academics, policy makers and the government.

ResearchGate:
ShaliniGanasan

Greening, Leanne

Leanne Greening
Start date:
October 2015
Research Topic:
An investigation into the management of change within a voluntary sector organisation.
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Deborah Foster Professor Emmanuel Ogbonna
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

The focus of this project is the voluntary sector which is an emerging field of research. The increased interest in the field is a result of the progressively important role that the sector is playing in the provision of public services as well as its contribution to the financial economy. However, the voluntary sector faces a bleak future if it fails to effectively change and adapt to the changing economic landscape. Changes to funding, fears for the sectors independence and fraying public trust are just some of the challenges that the sector must tackle in order to thrive.

The aims of this project are:

  • To establish what changes have taken place in the case study charity as a result of austerity and changes in the global political economy
  • To investigate how the changes have been managed and to what avail
  • To identify any challenges and implications that have occurred as a result of these change initiatives
  • To explore how stakeholders have responded to the changes
  • To explore whether the findings from this study can offer other organisations within the sector initiatives for overcoming problems with managing change
LinkedIn:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/leannegreening

Housein, Soma

Start date:
October 2016
Research Topic:
Board Diversity and CSR Performance
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Qingwei Wang
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

Due to the widely known corporate scandals such as Enron, as well as the financial crisis collapses, the trust in large firms are drastically reduced and have provoked discussion on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and gender diversity on corporate boards.

Corporatations around the world aim to enhance their board diversity practices and disclosure of these exercises.

Therefore, this study aims to analyze the effect of board gender diversity on Corporate Social Responsibility performance in the U.S.

Hughes, Richard Kenneth

Hughes, Richard Kenneth
Start date:
September 2023
Research Topic:
Reconstructing knowledge management: A radical modernisation of maintenance and capital expenditure risk modelling for a North Wales Hydro Power Station
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Clair Doloriert and Dr Sara Closs-Davies
Supervising school:
Bangor Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC
External Sponsor:
First Hydro, ENGIE UK
Research keywords:
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Currently Masters year of a 1+3 ESRC DTP studentship.

Research title: Reconstructing knowledge management: A radical modernisation of maintenance and capital expenditure risk modelling for a North Wales Hydro Power Station.

– Participatory Action Research (PAR) strategy working within First Hydro (hydroelectric power plant), North Wales.
– Data collection through a mixed methods approach in the form of surveys, interviews, collection of data from management systems (inc engineering and process management systems)
– Data will be used to develop the implementable solutions as part of the iterative PAR strategy.

Research outcomes:
1. Develop and implement a new future proof KM system and risk modelling capability, which will influence business decision-making
2. Develop new knowledge utilising AR though mixed methods approach, bridging academia and industry in an area lacking research.
3. Contribute towards internal policy development based on research outcomes.
4. Establish and develop KM strategy and best-practice for Hydroelectricity plants facilitating progress towards national/international sustainability goals.
5. Advancing and disseminating academic knowledge creation and its potential impact through business/stakeholder networking events, conference presentations and quality peer-reviewed journal publications.

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-k-hughes/?originalSubdomain=uk

Hughes, Sarah

Start date:
October 2016
Research Topic:
Consumer Behaviour
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Gordon Foxall and Dr Peter Morgan
Supervising school:
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

The societal, economic and personal impact of addiction is a topic that long been considered important amongst researchers, policy makers and service providers alike.

My research hopes to explore gambling addiction as an extreme form of consumer behaviour, particularly in relation to levels of impulsivity demonstrated by “Disordered Gamblers”

Ivanova, Mila

Start date:
October 2011
Research Topic:
Shareholder activism, corporate governance and the ethical politics of finance
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr M Marinetto
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

My main research interest lies in the sphere of shareholder activism on social, ethical and environmental issues. More specifically, my study examines the role of non-governmental organisations in the shareholder activist arena, the strategies they use to advance their goals via the financial market, as well as the relationships between them and investors, companies and individual supporters. The research aims to develop a better understanding of the factors that limit NGOs’ ability to engage in effective shareholder activism. It also seeks to identify a theoretical framework for the advancement of activism and stakeholder democracy. The research objectives will be met with the use of qualitative methodology (semi-structured interviews, analysis of relevant documents and participant observation).

Jones, Alexander

Jones, Alexander
Start date:
October 2018
Research Topic:
Tackling food poverty: Building resilience into alternative food supply chain provision
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Yingli Wang
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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My research will aim to aid in tackling the growing issue of food poverty throughout Wales by attempting to identify how resilience can be built into the supply chains of those that provide food for the disadvantaged.

A mixed methods approach towards research will be adopted. This will see qualitative data collected through case studies of social supply chains and focus groups with stakeholders and beneficiaries. In addition to this, quantitative data will be collect through surveys with end customers.

From undertaking this research it is hoped that food provision supply chains for the disadvantaged will be able to tackle their issues surrounding long-term economic viability and satisfying the social needs of those they aid.

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-james-jones-b82229167/

Jones, Emma Louise

Emma Louise Jones
Start date:
October 2013
Research Topic:
The nature of skill in knowledge work: an ethnography of the creative industries.
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr. Sarah Jenkins
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

I intend to conduct ethnographic research to examine the experience of work within the creative industries.  In particular the research will focus on notions of skill and job quality for knowledge workers located in the sector.

LinkedIn:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/emmalouisejones1610

Jones, Jill

Jones, Jill
Start date:
October 2019
Research Topic:
Gender and business angel investment
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Tim Edwards
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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Business angels are private individuals who invest time and money in early stage business ventures in exchange for equity in that business. They are recognised as being vital to supporting an entrepreneurial economy as they bring not only finance, but also valuable skills and networks of contacts to a venture.

It has been found that male investors tend to invest in male business founders and female investors have expressed a preference to invest in female founders. The UK Business Angel Association, however, reports that only 14% of business angels in the UK are female. Female founders can thus be missing out on early stage funding and female investors are missing the opportunity to be involved in the early stage investment community.

My research aim is to explore the opportunities and barriers to female business angel investors and also their motivation to invest. I intend to conduct three comparative case studies in Wales, London and Scotland.

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-jones-3188063/

Kim, Jihee

Jihee Kim
Start date:
October 2014
Research Topic:
Supply Chain Integration in Humanitarian Aid Supply Chain Management
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr. Stephen Pettit, Dr. Irina Harris, Prof. Anthony Beresford
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

The main purpose of the thesis is to develop an optimal model of Supply Chain Integration for the humanitarian sector, which has not been vigorously explored hitherto. The subject of this paper, in particular, seeks to apply the key assumptions of B-SCI and determine the suitability for the analysis of H-SCI. Therefore, in research field, this will provide useful analytical approaches designed to understand and to transform the quality of modal optimisation in humanitarian SCM and, in practice, help field staff to establish better systems for efficient humanitarian relief operations.

LinkedIn:
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jihee-kim/48/656/a39/

Leder, Nadine

Nadine Leder
Start date:
October 2016
Research Topic:
The Impact of Sustainable and Innovative Practices on Supply Chain Performances
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Maneesh Kumar and Dr Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

Industrialised countries are currently in the age of digitalization. Technological change, digitalised processes, real-life data and a high growth of sensible data influence daily business operations more than ever. It is predicted that disruptive innovations will significantly change business models of many organisations within the following years. Disruptive innovations will likewise affect supply chains. Future supply chains have to be cost-effective and innovative while also minimizing the environmental impact. Specifically, the transformation towards sustainable operations implicates many challenges. Besides the common criteria, upcoming trends have to be considered. New innovative technologies, such as Industry 4.0, will influence existing supply chains. Additionally, supply chains should not neglect the idea of collaborations to become resistant and resilient to a continuously changing business environment. My research will focus on the influence of these new technologies and their interaction with the fundamental idea of sustainability on supply chain performances.

Academia.edu:
https://cardiff.academia.edu/NadineLeder
LinkedIn:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nadine-leder-9045a5bb

Lilley, Richard

Richard Lilley
Start date:
October 2012
Research Topic:
Implications for the future of fisheries in the creation of sustainable places
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Leanne Cullen-Unsworth
Supervising school:
Sustainable Places Research Institute,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

I am investigating the social, economic and ecological flows that occur within and between ecosystems and the resultant impacts of these flows on social, economic and environmental sustainability.

I am interested in the threats posed to livelihoods and the economy, food security and lifestyles from a changing global environment as well as mitigation, adaptation and human behavioural changes within coupled physical, social and ecological systems.

My previous research has focused on the value of seagrass meadows as valuable nursery habitat for commercially important fish species.

Lo Re, Chiara

, Chiara Lo Re
Start date:
November 2020
Research Topic:
Convergence Clubs in Sovereign Bond Yield Spreads and the Impact on Bank Lending
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Owain Ap Gwilym Professor Rasha Alsakka
Supervising school:
Bangor Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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The proposed research will investigate how the presence of convergence clubs in the Euro Area countries’ sovereign bond yield spreads affects credit supply. From the early 2000s, academic literature showed how the European Monetary Union (EMU) resulted in convergence of sovereign bond yield spreads across the member countries. However, after the Great Recession in 2007- 2009 and, more importantly, the Euro Area sovereign debt crisis in 2011-2013, the presence of convergence in the sovereign bond yield spreads was intensely questioned. The full convergence hypothesis must be rejected based on this time period. An alternative hypothesis of convergence clubs exists, i.e., the presence of different groups of Euro Area countries demonstrating convergence in sovereign bond yield spreads to different steady-states.

The proposed research questions are:
Does the presence of convergence clubs affect the credit supply through different bank lending standards?
Do the banks headquartered in the countries converging to the same club reveal similar bank lending activity?

LinkedIn:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/chiara-lo-re-682125163/en-us

Lyons, Matthew

Matthew Lyons
Start date:
October 2016
Research Topic:
Managing Agglomeration and city-region dynamics in Wales
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Prof Calvin Jones and Dr Annette Roberts
Supervising school:
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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The PhD project will examine the dynamics of city-regions in Wales and make comparisons with those in England and those globally that are governed at multiple levels. The approach will fuse the insights of cultural political economy and agglomeration economics in combination with economic modelling techniques innovative at this spatial scale to shed light on the following research questions:

Why have city-regions been introduced in Wales and can they improve economic growth?

What is the relationship between city-regions and their hinterland geographies?

What is the relationship of a city’s material-physical structure to its economic performance?

How to intra-city region flows of workers, wages, goods and services, as well as the flow of exogenous capital, impact on the (un)eveness of economic outcomes across space

In what ways does the conceptual paradigm underlying economic policy drive uneven outcomes across space and society?

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattlyons442/

Mackintosh, Catherine

Catherine Mackintosh
Start date:
October 2016
Research Topic:
The impact of idiosyncratic deals on feelings of psychological contract fulfilment in peers
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Aoife McDermott
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

Theoretically, my research aims to enhance our understanding of the impact of peers on the psychological contract. This will be achieved by integrating psychological contract theory, the Leader-Member exchange model and research into idiosyncratic deals (i-deals). Substantively, I will be examining the balancing act between offering flexibility and maintaining fairness in the workplace.

Mohammed, Omar Jamal

Mohammed, Omar Jamal
Start date:
October 2019
Research Topic:
Green Technology Consumption: Examining the Role of Pride and Extended Self in he Context of Battery Electric Vehicle Adoption
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Carolyn Strong, Dr Zoe Lee, Professor Gordon Foxall
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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The continuous growth of global human population has seen a rise of ongoing concerns about climate change and rising greenhouse gas emissions and how our planet will cope with this in the future. It is believed to tackle these challenges we need to be consuming more ‘Green Technology’. Green technology has been recognised by organisations such as the UN and European Commission as a central component to meet carbon free goals with emphasis on reducing the level of carbon being emitted from transport use. Simply stated, the more green technology being consumed across society the more likely we as a global society become carbon free. Subsequently the introduction of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) i.e cars powered entirely by electric battery power, not only coincides with the goal of green technology but directly addresses the carbon emission concerns and wider environment impacts.

In spite of the support expressed by governments and stakeholders to increase the consumption of green technology primarily by targeting wide spread BEV adoption, the act of adopting and consuming one or in some cases acceptance of them among consumers are not in resemblance with targeted levels of adoption (Biresselioglu et al. 2018; Singh et al. 2020; Higueras-Castillo et al. 2020). To address this matter, academic scholars and wider industry researchers have investigated to understand the possible causes for this. In other words, try to understand the how’s and why’s that drive consumers’ intention to adopt a BEV. Hence this study positions its research to examine consumers’ behaviour towards BEV adoption in Wales from a consumer behaviour perspective.

My research investigates why there is a lack of BEV adoption by seeking to understand how ‘the self’ may shape BEV adoption. The theoretical lens of Belk (1988) Extended Self (where this denotes that we deem our possession can be a physical or symbolic extension and representation of our identity) and consideration of human emotion such as pride is used to understand how this may shape BEV adoption. This study uses mixed methods approach where qualitative data in the form of interviews with current BEV consumers and quantitative data in the form of a questionnaire with non-BEV consumers are used.

This project intends to develop knowledge that will aid in increasing BEV adoption among welsh consumers and provide key information and recommendations to the Welsh Government and stakeholders concerning BEV adoption and other forms of green technology consumption.

Academia.edu:
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/research-students/view/2480087-mohammed-omar

Netana, Celia

Netana, Celia
Start date:
October 2020
Research Topic:
Exploring the Living Wage movement in Wales
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Deborah Hann, Dr David Nash, Prof Edmund Heery
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC
Research keywords:
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Work alone is no longer a guaranteed route of poverty (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2004) and one in seven users of food banks live in working households (Trussell Trust, 2019). In Work Poverty (IWP) is a major concern in the UK and the provision of quality jobs and a decent standard of living has become a key focus following reports such as the Taylor Review (2017).
In the UK, the Government’s National Wage (NW) and National Living Wage (NLW) are aimed to reduce risk of falling into poverty but are not considered to be sufficient especially in light of rise in the costs of living (Citizens Advice Bureau, 2019). The introduction of the voluntary “Real Living Wage” (RLW) by Citizens UK and the Living Wage Foundation is designed to address this insufficiency and offer a “decent pay” and has been introduced in some major cities in the UK.
The aim of the study is to explore how the Real Living Wage movement might help tackle issues around in work poverty in areas such as Wales and the South Wales Valleys region.
In collaboration with Citizens Cymru, a civil society organisation, I aim to explore:

  1. What factors contribute to the patterns of Living Wage accreditation in Wales
  2. What approaches are used in other regions that can be learnt from to further promote the RLW
  3. How can the tools and approaches used by civil society organisations be harnessed to promote voluntary regulation
  4. What a Living Wage economy might look like in the South Wales Valleys?

This project will contribute to knowledge on:

  • How RLW could be introduced in different areas
  • Potential benefits and challenges RLW from perspectives of regional stakeholders.
  • Enable a development of a Welsh regional specific model of RLW introduction.
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  • Feed in to the developing strategy for Cardiff’s Living Wage City and the Welsh Fair Wage Agenda.

Nortey, Ruth

Ruth Nortey
Start date:
September 2019
Research Topic:
Addressing the disability employment gap
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Deborah Foster
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:

The research is entitled ‘What Works in Wales? Developing an evidence base to inform a kitemark for employers to address the disability employment gap’. The aim of the project is to identify an evidence base of ‘what works’ for disabled people in employment, and to contribute to the creation of a Disability Standard for employers.

LinkedIn:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ruth-nortey-33678893

Oeppen, Jemma

Jemma Oeppen
Start date:
September 2012
Research Topic:
Multi-Perspective Study on Co-Branding with Fashion Brands
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Prof. Paul Bottomley, Dr Robert Angell, Dr Ahmad Jamal
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

This study aims to address limitations in current co-branding research with respect to high involvement brands such as luxury fashion. It will explore consumer and managerial perspectives of the strategy in practice.

Selected recent publications:

Academy of Marketing Conference 2013 – “Managerial Perspectives on Co-Branding in Fashion”. Awarded Best Paper in track of Brand and Corporate Reputation Management.

Ou, Yi

Ou, Yi
Start date:
October 2021
Research Topic:
Can financial intermediation mitigate climate change
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Rhys ap Gwilym and Professor Owain ap Gwilym
Supervising school:
Bangor Business School,

Firms are profit maximizers. So charging companies for the costs associated with the societal and environmental carbon pollution they cause would disincentivize their high carbon emission. Banks credit represents the main source of funding for firms. Thus, imposing higher financing costs to polluting as opposed to non-polluting firms should encourage lowering carbon emission. Within this scenario, it would be then the government responsibility to adopt policies which regulate banks’ financing of firms. Using sequential game model, system dynamics model, and panel data method, the project investigates how government could reduce firms carbon emissions through financial intermediation.

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yi-ou-86b421a9/?originalSubdomain=uk

Oufan, Sarah

Oufan, Sarah
Start date:
October 2015
Research Topic:
Exploring the impact of big data technologies on organisational outcomes using an affordance actualisation lens
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Luigi M De Luca
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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Big data technologies (e.g. smart meters; smartphones, smart watches) are advanced technologies that enable data to be collected in real time at large volume and at low cost. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the insights derived from big data have the potential to transform business strategies and business models and thereby improve marketing, product and service development, human resources (HR), operations, and other core business functions. Much of the previous research have neglected the role of the rich and convoluted user experiences in understanding the relationship between users and new information technologies. Since 2012, the concept of affordance has become the predominant way to theorize about IT-associated organizational change by leading researchers in the field of information systems. Against this backdrop, my PhD research aims to explore the notions of affordances and affordances actualization using the timely and relevant ‘smart meter revolution’ as the focal big-data technology. Using qualitative research methods, I aim to explore the notions of affordances and affordances actualization in the context of smart meters.

Academia.edu:
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/research-students/view/1266066-oufan-sarah
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/

Parsons, Katherine

Start date:
September 2018
Research Topic:
Building start-up teams around challenges: a relational study of entrepreneurial identity EI and entrepreneurial opportunity construction and their interplay
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Rick Delbridge
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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This project aims to understand:

  • How are entrepreneurial identities (EI) and entrepreneurial opportunities (EO) relationally constructed within early-stage start-up teams that are formed to address social and commercial challenges? and;
  • What is the nature of the interplay between the two constructs of EO and EI? within challenge-orientated start-up teams

This thesis, through its organisational ethnography of six nascent start-up teams develops a novel conceptual framework of new venture creation (NVC), understanding this as a collective, relational and contested process through which the entrepreneurial opportunity and entrepreneurial identity co-emerge recursively and iteratively as the teams transition from aspired ideas and ideals to actualized products and realised entrepreneurial identities as a start-up company. The novel conceptual framework has practical implications for nascent founders and those supporting entrepreneurial innovation in response to societal challenges through the explication of a number of sense-making strategies that can be employed by nascent start-up teams when legitimising their opportunity and identity as a start-up team to themselves and others when seeking resources and support to progress their idea into a reality.

ResearchGate:
KATHERINEPARSONS
LinkedIn:
https://linkedin.com/in/Katherineparsons1

Poole, Adam

Adam Poole
Start date:
October 2012
Research Topic:
Trust and the Financial Adviser
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Shumaila Yousafzai, Dr Ahmad Jamal
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

I will be using qualitative and quantitative methods to research trust and the formation of trust between consumers and financial advisers.

Pugh, Emma

Emma Pugh
Start date:
October 2013
Research Topic:
Performance Measurement and Managers’ Temporality
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Aoife McDermott, Professor Keith Robson
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

The research will consider the relationship between the utilisation of a balanced scorecard (BSC) and managers’ temporal orientations to determine the extent to which the utilisation of a BSC is associated with an absence of short-termism.

Rayner, Mark

Start date:
October 2020
Research Topic:
Public sector innovation in Wales: Developing a Welsh way of doing tax
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Doris Merkl-Davies, Helen Rogers, Sara Closs-Davies
Supervising school:
Bangor Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC-WDTP
Research keywords:
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In April 2018, two new Welsh-specific taxes came into effect, the first taxes to be introduced by a Welsh Government in nearly 800 years. The Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA) was established to administer the new taxes, with the mission of “working together to deliver a fair tax system for Wales”.

Using the WRA as a case study, the project aims to explore public sector innovation in the context of fiscal devolution in the first five years of a new tax authority. The research project will specifically examine:
1) The key factors enabling the WRA to implement its innovative ways of ‘doing tax’ in Wales as embodied by its core principles; and
2) The key factors preventing its practices, policies, and procedures from becoming ‘decoupled’ from its core principles.

The project will adopt a mixed method approach. Quantitative data will include surveys and statistical data. Qualitative data will include documents, interviews, and observations in the ‘field’ to provide deeper insights and context to support the quantitative data. An abductive approach informed by institutional theory, legitimacy theory and stakeholder theory will be employed to formulate research questions, propositions, and to interpret findings.

Reynders, Philipp

Philipp Reynders
Start date:
October 2016
Research Topic:
Operational Excellence
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Maneesh Kumar and Pauline Found
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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Thesis title: “Diffusing lean from manufacturing operations to the wider organisation: lessons learnt from the experiences of middle management within a UK medical manufacturer”

To date, previous research has insufficiently covered the scenario in which lean is internally diffused from manufacturing operations to the wider organisation. At the same time, no distinction is usually made upon the different hierarchical levels when researching lean, although it is widely accepted that the middle management layer is central to its implementation and sustainability. Accordingly, my research project aims (1) to understand how lean is diffused from manufacturing operations to the wider organisation and (2) to learn from the experiences of middle managers how it can be sustained.

Website:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5109-5906
LinkedIn:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/philreynders

Reynolds, Laura

Laura Reynolds
Start date:
October 2013
Research Topic:
A multi-layered perspective of cultural heritage marketing.
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Adam Lindgreen, Professor Michael Beverland, Professor François Maon
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

There is a tension surrounding the marketing of cultural heritage sites and their corresponding events. The research will explore these tensions by pursuing a multi-layered approach to cultural heritage marketing. The research will focus on uncovering underlying processes and interactions behind the presentation of contested and constructed cultural heritage sites.

Rogers, Andrew

Andrew Rogers
Start date:
October 2013
Research Topic:
Exploring the double jeopardy of marketing within the Behavioural Perspective Model
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Prof Gordon Foxall, Dr Peter Morgan
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

Quantitatively explores whether the double jeopardy phenomenon prevalent in FMCG categories is also present within the Behavioural Perspective Model.

Rosell, Tracey

Rosell, Tracey
Start date:
October 2018
Research Topic:
Atmospheric work: a study of NHS surgical teams leadership
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Martin Kitchener, Dr Robin Burrow and Dr Ceri Jones
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship
Research keywords:
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Studies of failings in hospitals have identified leadership shortcomings and that hierarchical leadership may be a cause of these. However, the traditional, hierarchical leadership model may have changed. My research project is designed to explore what the leadership practices in NHS surgical teams today are.
My research interest explores contemporary leadership in Welsh and English NHS surgical teams. I am particularly interested in whether this is hierarchical, non-hierarchical or a mix of these leadership forms.

Successive studies of performance failings in UK hospitals identify shortcomings in approaches to leadership. Traditional, hierarchical leadership may stifle raising of concerns about performance, including patient safety. The doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals who work in surgical teams have traditionally operated under such a hierarchical form of leadership.

However, legal restrictions on the working hours of junior doctors, and changes in medical training practices may have altered this form, but there are very few details that have been published about these possible changes in leadership.

I am interested in understanding how people’s experiences of contemporary leadership arrangements differ from the traditional surgical team model, and what may have brought the change about.

This involved looking beyond anecdotal evidence and the visible organisational and working pattern changes. I did so by exploring how people describe what leadership of surgical teams means to them, what the key tensions are between their understanding, based on past experiences, and emerging work arrangements. Also, how staff adapt leadership to address, or work around, those changes and tensions. I explored leadership using the lens of atmosphere.

Case studies have been carried out at three hospital sites in Wales and England.

Publications and Conference Posters:

Rosell T. & Kitchener, M. (2022) Virtualizing HR in healthcrae during COVID: insights from a study of surgical teams. Organizational Behaviour in Health Care conference August 2022. Birmingham, UK.
Rosell, T, Kitchener, M. & Burrow, R. (2022). When ‘the War went to emergency surgery’:
Contextual contestation and perceptions of leadership for surgical teams. British Academy of Management conference 2022. Manchester, UK.
Rosell, T. (2021). Advancing the study of virtuality in leadership: A practice research framework and illustration from a study of surgical teams. 37th EGOS Colloquium 2021. 09 July. Online.
Rosell, T. (2020). Exploring Contemporary Leadership in Surgical Teams: From “huggy touchy feely” to “Attila the Hun meets Genghis Khan”? 12th Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare (OBHC) Conference. 12 June. Online.
Rosell, T. (2020). Understanding Sustainability Leadership Practices: A Fresh Conceptual Framework. 15th Organization Studies Workshop. 22 May. Online.
Rosell, T. (2019) Leadership as Practice in unexpected places: A Leadership as Practice approach to study healthcare teams. International Studying Leadership Conference, December 16-17. Bristol, UK.
Rosell, T. (2019) Leadership-As-Practice: An exploratory study in surgical teams. Poster session at the Health and Care Research Wales Conference. 03 October. Cardiff, UK.
Rosell, T. Kitchener, M. (2019). What, if anything, has replaced the ‘firm’ model of leadership in surgical teams? A Leadership-As-Practice study. British Academy of Management Conference. 04 September. Birmingham, UK.
Rosell, T. (2019) Leadership: evidentially a positive step up? Perspectives from a systematic literature review. Breaking Boundaries Conference. March 19. Cardiff, UK. Awarded First Prize.
Rosell, T. Kitchener, M. (2018) Distributed leadership: can we parachute in effective models? Professionalization and Practice of Medical Leadership symposium. 06 December. Manchester, UK.
Jones, C. et al. 2017. Public sector failure and resilience: lessons for healthcare policy. Report for the Health Foundation. Available at: https://lra.le.ac.uk/handle/2381/39997
Rosell, T.A. 2016. Psychological modelling of surgical safety: can we
Rosell, T. A. (2016, December). Psychological Modelling of Surgical Safety: Can we improve compliance? Poster Session at the Annual Conference of the Division of Occupational Psychology 2017, Liverpool, UK. Awarded Second Prize.

ResearchGate:
Tracey_Rosell
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceyrosell/

Scedrova, Anna

Anna Scedrova
Start date:
October 2011
Research Topic:
Evaluating Innovation Investment Outcomes of Government Venture Funding: A Longitudinal, Multi-Level, Multi-Source Analysis of Small Firms in the U.S.
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Robert E. Morgan Professor Luigi M. De Luca
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

This quantitatively focussed research project aims to assess what effect government venture funding has on long-term performance of firms, namely innovation commercialisation and entrepreneurial activity. Also, it intends to determine characteristics that affect funding allocation outcomes.

LinkedIn:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anna-scedrova-01245519

Theocharis, Dimitrios

Dimitrios Theocharis
Start date:
October 2015
Research Topic:
Advancing the examination of Arctic Shipping from both the economic and environmental perspectives
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Dr Stephen Pettit, Dr Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues, Dr Jane Haider
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

The renewed interest for the utilization of the arctic routes from both the academia and the maritime industry indicates the importance of undertaking an integrated study of arctic shipping.

The aim of this study is to examine the potential of the so-called arctic routes – such as the Northern Sea Route, the Northwest Passage and the Transpolar Passage – from both the economic and environmental perspectives compared to the conventional routes via the the Suez and Panama Canals.

The study also seeks to investigate the impact of arctic shipping on the maritime markets as well as the potential of the supply chain network design in reference to the exploitation and transportation of natural resources from the arctic region to the global markets.

Academia.edu:
https://cardiff.academia.edu/DimitriTheocharis
ResearchGate:
Dimitrios_Theocharis
LinkedIn:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/dimitriostheocharis

Thomas, Huw

Start date:
October 2011
Research Topic:
Global Labour Regulation and the Role of the International Labour Organisation
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Prof P Turnbull
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

The research will consider conditions of work in the twenty-first century, most notably in developing countries, and the role of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) within the area of global labour regulation.

Thomas, Richard

Richard Thomas
Start date:
October 2012
Research Topic:
Television news coverage of “executive pay” debates
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Peter Turnbull, Professor Justin Lewis, Professor Andrea Whittle
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

I will be using qualitative and quantitative methods to examine how various stakeholders legitimize their positions in mediated debates surrounding executive pay.

Wallace, James

James Wallace
Start date:
October 2014
Research Topic:
Being Well at Work
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Robyn Thomas, Professor Tim Edwards
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

My research seeks to explore the way that employee wellbeing has become a concern for organisations, and how this concern is manifested in workplace wellbeing programmes that encourage employees to live healthy lifestyles.

I am interested in exploring workplace wellbeing in terms of the responsibility of both employer and employee, and what this means in terms of being fit or unfit for work.

The research is informed by the philosophy of Michel Foucault and utilises a qualitative research methodology. It employs semi-structured interviews, participant observation and textual analysis, and is underpinned by the use of discourse analysis.

Williams, Rachel

Rachel Williams
Start date:
October 2014
Research Topic:
The Ethics of Marketing Psychoactive Drugs
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Michael Marrinetto, Carl Cederström, Kate Daunt
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

A predominantly qualitative investigation into the ethical status of the methods used to market psychoactive drugs.

Wontner, Karen Lorraine

Karen Wontner
Start date:
October 2013
Research Topic:
Social issues in public procurement
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Helen Walker, Dr Irina Harris
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Studentship

Examination of sustainable supply chain management within the public sector, with particular reference to social aspects, eg the use of social clauses in contracts.

LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/karen-wontner/8/911/a41

YekkehbashHeidari, Shima

YekkehbashHeidari, Shima
Start date:
September 2022
Research Topic:
Exploring intelligent immersive systems for field service operations
Research pathway:
Research Supervisor:
Professor Yingly Wang
Supervising school:
Cardiff Business School,
Primary funding source:
ESRC Wales DTP Collaborative Studentship
Research keywords:
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Service 4.0 through digital and remote support, repair, overhaul, and maintenance activities promotes innovation in service operations, leading to better customer experience and efficiency. The deployment of intelligent immersive systems -where immersive technologies (IMSTs) are synthesized with computational intelligence mechanisms- leads to adaptive, context-aware environments and allows advanced decision-making. Through such technologies as mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) the working environment is enhanced and resources are optimized as fewer restrictions in terms of time and location are imposed on the system. As a result, knowledge is transferred in a faster way while the various processes are better understood.
This research attempts to find ways of incentivizing contemporary field service operations to implement IMSTs, given that IMSTs require different ways of thinking and new processes. As a result, the transformational impact of IMSTs on service operations is demonstrated. Subsequently, our research questions (RQs) are:
RQ1: How can IMSTs add different types of value to field service operations?
RQ2: How should IMSTs’ user experience be designed and executed?
RQ3: How should service organizations leverage IMSTs to achieve sustainable operations?

Overview of the pathway
The Business and Management pathway brings together three HEI institutions: Cardiff Business School, Swansea School of Management and Bangor Business School to offer a formidable range and combination of substantive and methodological strengths. The pathway focusses the realms of social sciences on current challenges for business and the industrial landscape. It offers significant opportunities for interdisciplinarity through its disciplinary expertise in accounting, finance, banking, marketing, strategy, logistics and operations management, human resource management, organisational management, innovation, and tourism. The pathway examines and develops knowledge relating to wider issues aligned to grand challenges, e.g. (in)equality, wellbeing, decent work, governance, future organisations and sustainability. Particular HEI strengths include: public management and governance, Islamic finance, social innovation, logistics and operations management (Cardiff, REF2021 2nd research power, 4* research environment), banking (Bangor, world top-50), digital innovation, human resources, and enterprise development policy (Swansea).

Environment for doctoral research and training
The pathway sustains a vibrant and interdisciplinary research culture and environment where collegiality, inclusivity and participation are dominant values, and our scholars contribute not only to their research base but also to society. Pathway institutions deliver masters level training in research methods including qualitative and quantitative research, business analytics, data mining, as well as advanced subject specific and other bespoke training via research seminars, methods workshops, intensives and regular in-person/online research seminars. The pathway has expertise in data-driven research. At every stage, students are expected to actively participate in a wide range of developmental and cohort building events including the annual Postgraduate Research Conference, joint research seminars, training workshops, all-Wales research colloquia, PGR student social events and mentoring. Further initiatives planned comprise: summer schools focussed on grand challenges, cluster-wide stakeholder engagement events, topic-based reading, writing and/or peer review groups.

Knowledge exchange and careers 
The pathway has close relationships with a large range of public, private and third sector organisations through research, impact and past collaborative awards. Pathway institutions have a several research groups working across a range of themes and subject matter fostering challenge-led research and impact. This allows students increased access to leading researchers whilst also offering them a breadth of contacts and experiences, enabling them to network within a larger cohort and to see their research within an especially wide disciplinary context. Students are strongly encouraged and supported to attend and present at national and international conferences. All institutions offer wider research and employability skills training sessions.

Contacts
Cardiff University – Dr Robert Bowen – BowenR16@cardiff.ac.uk
Swansea University – Dr Daniele Doneddu – D.Doneddu@Swansea.ac.uk
Bangor University – Dr Charlotte Rimmer – c.rimmer@bangor.ac.uk