PhD Supervisor Availability
Please see the list of academic staff who are interested in taking on new PhD students, by clicking through the Research Group headings below. There are some who are actively looking for students for October 2021 entry. Those with * after their name are only looking at supervising students for October 2022 entry only.
You are strongly encouraged to contact potential supervisors to discuss your proposal before applying. Additionally it will help your application if a supervisor has indicated interest in, or willingness to supervise, your research project.
Before approaching a potential supervisor, read some of their publications on their Research Profiles to see if they undertake work in an area relevant to you. This will help you to decide whether they are the right fit for you and your project. When approaching a potential supervisor, it is important to show an appreciation of their research expertise and interests.
When you have identified a supervisor you would like to work with, please email them, and include the following information in your message:
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A short message explaining your background, research interests and why you are interested in undertaking a PhD
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An explanation of why you think they are the right supervisor for your project, demonstrating your familiarity with their research work
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A copy of your CV
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An early draft of your research proposal (usually about 1 page).
If you do not send this information you may not get a response to your email, as without these details it will not be possible for a supervisor to assess whether they will be able to supervise your project.
It is fine to send queries to more than one supervisor, but please do not send blanket email requests to more than four academics at a time. These are unlikely to receive a response.
If you do not receive a response from your preferred supervisor after a week, then feel free to send them a reminder. If you still do not receive a response, you can still submit your application and include the name your preferred supervisor in your application. Your application will still be considered.
Please note that a supervisor’s agreement to supervise you does not guarantee entry to the programme. You must submit an online application with all of the required documents before the School is able to make a full assessment of your suitability.
Accounting & Financial Management
Interested in taking on students for October 2021 entry
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Empirical asset pricing, event studies, options. Impact of behavioural bias on asset prices. Sources and mechanisms of anomalies.
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Empirical corporate finance and financial intermediation. His recent research projects examine how social forces shape employee and firm behaviour.
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Banking & Finance
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Her research focuses on behavioural finance, household finance, individual decision making and mutual funds.
Interested in taking on students for October 2021 entry
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Empirical asset pricing, financial econometrics, high dimensional statistics, portfolio risk analysis.
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Macro-econometrics; Behavioural macroeconomics; Monetary economics
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Behavioural finance, investment decision making and investment advice, with a special interest in gender and the interplay between financial advisors and investors.
Economics
Interested in taking on students for October 2021 entry
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Topics in Economics: post-compulsory education, mental health and the labour market, health and immigration
Interested in taking on students for October 2022 entry
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I would be interested in supervising topics related to my research interests in econometrics, primarily for forecasting and nowcasting, as well as the use of quantile regression and big data methods. I am interested in applying econometrics for predicting macroeconomic and financial variables, and topics in energy, environmental and health economics.
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I am interested in supervising theses focussing on the economics of inequality, educational attainment and social mobility, including those that focus on wellbeing and mental health outcomes.
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My main interests are a) institutional design of central bank policies and b) international finance.
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Policy games in macro; policy conflict, coordination, and institutional design; central bank's preferences.
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Immigration, Wage Inequality, Economics of Crime
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I'm broadly interested in topics in political economy and quantitative economic history. My current research focuses on the determinants and implications of intergroup conflict. Several of these studies focus on the cases of inflow/outflow of refugees with historical case studies. Another strand of my research focuses on understanding the effectiveness of nation-building policies, shedding light on conditions under which they succeed or fail.
Interested in taking on students for October 2021 entry
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I am working on economic measurement, economic statistics and macroeconomics issues such as the effectiveness of forward guidance. I am focused on finding PhD students whose work I expect to be publishable in 3 or 4-rated journals. I am reluctant to supervise work on countries of which I have no prior knowledge.
Interested in taking on students for October 2022 entry
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Time Series Econometrics, Macroeconomics
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Privatization/nationalization; corporate governance; political economy of corporate finance; the property rights theory of the firm and especially its application to public goods.
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John's main research studies firm responses to economic changes such as trade or industrial policies and the consequences for productivity and efficiency. More broadly, his work is on microeconomic behaviour in developing countries and general equilibrium models of heterogeneous firms.
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Health Economics; Pharmaceutical Economics & Policy; uncertainty and health; mental health; suicide; car crashes; opioid crisis.
Human Resource Management & Employment Relations
Interested in taking on students for October 2021 entry
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My current research interests are in two primary areas: (1) motivation in organizations (employee proactivity and job crafting) , as well as (2) employee well-being and affect regulation. Potential doctoral dissertations on motivation in organization may focus in implications of employee proactivity/job crafting for individuals and the organisations they are embedded in. In the area of well-being and affect regulation, potential dissertations will focus on how do individuals actively manage their own and others’ well-being at work
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I am available to supervise PhD students interested in qualitative research in the following areas: meaningful work, callings, temporality, purpose, employee engagement, and gender.
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Employment Law related
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I am interested in supervising students who would like to explore research questions related to interpersonal interactions in the workplace, such as (but not limited to) workplace mistreatment.
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I am interested in supervising PhD students with an interest in one of the following broad areas:
a) A critical discussion of the idea of the ‘new career’, namely the protean and the boundaryless career orientation, and its association with employee and organizational outcomes.
b) An exploration of the nature and texture of contemporary career boundaries drawing, among others, on contributions from boundary or border theory.
c) An exploration of the employability paradox and, more specifically, the association between organizational investment in training and development, perceptions of internal and external employability, employee performance and retention.
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Haeseen’s research interests include leadership and leadership development, relationships at work, impression management in organizations, and goal orientation. His recent works focus on the relationships that employees build with their managers and also with the broader organisation and how these relationships are developed, maintained, and repaired over time.
Interested in taking on students for October 2022 entry
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Changing nature of work and careers; employee well-being; gender in organisations; the work-family/life interface; flexible work practices; interactive service work; organisational responses to the UK Gender Pay Gap Regulations; internships and employability.
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Psychological and employment contracts; workplace uncertainty; employee wellbeing; self-regulation; calling; commuting
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Wei-Ning’s (Winnie’s) main research interest is in careers, especially themes such as career plateauing and career progression. Specifically, she is interested in the mechanisms and conditions that can help plateaued workers remain engaged and productive. Additionally, she is investigating what progression means in the era of boundaryless and protean career and how the COVID-19 pandemic may affect individuals' careers.
Marketing
Interested in taking on students for October 2021 entry
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Synthetic content (e.g., Deepfakes, GANs), Alternative Realities (e.g., VR, AR or MR), Transparency, Privacy, Surveillance, Social Influence, Technology in Marketing (e.g., AI)
Interested in taking on students for October 2021 entry
Interested in taking on students for October 2021 entry
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Marketing communications (advertising, sales promotions, sponsorship, word-of-mouth, international/cross-cultural advertising), Interactive marketing (mobile marketing, social media marketing, online privacy concerns, digital corporate social responsibility), Consumer justice and equality (diversity, LGBTQ issues, ethnicity, political ideology), Tourism (green hushing, sustainable tourism, unique/memorable experience, Airbnb), International marketing (ethnocentrism, global branding, cross-cultural consumer behaviour, marketing standardisation), Social marketing (disaster resilience, crisis communication).
Interested in taking on students for October 2022 entry
Interested in taking on students for October 2021 entry
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- Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Business Education
- Inclusive Education - fostering equality, diversity and inclusion in Higher Education/Business Schools (as the Inclusive Education Lead for King's College London there is potential to become directly in involved projects that will make a positive and meaningful impact for students)
- Sustainable Tourism Development (especially focusing on the role of food and drink tourism and special interest tourism in helping to deliver sustainable development goals)
- Community Resistance and the impact of mega events (particularly the Olympic Games) on local communities
- Embodied touristic experiences and critical tourism discourses (qualitative tourism research)
- Diversity marketing
Interested in taking on students for October 2022 entry
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Professional Identity Service Quality, Emotional Labour, Veterinary Profession, Global Branding, Sponsorships
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Research using quantitative methods, including but not limited to those using econometric models, random controlled trials etc. Work across various topics and industries, I have a special interest in health and wellbeing and also emerging markets.
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Sustainability Sustainable development goals Customer-facing employees International marketing strategy Social roles of multinational enterprises.
Public Services Management & Organisation
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I am keen to supervise students interested in video-based studies of workplace interaction, drawing on the traditions of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Any study that uses this approach would be appropriate, although I have particular expertise in studies of new technologies, healthcare, service work, sales, instruction and extreme work contexts. Key words: Workplace Interaction, Sociomateriality, Embodiment, Video, Coordination, Organization Studies.
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Social interaction and workplace studies, technology, the cultural industries, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
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Work organisation in the public services; assistant and support roles in health, education and social care; emotional labour amongst care workers; public sector trade unions, pay and grading systems.
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Studies of work, interaction, new technologies; ubiquitous systems, computer supported co-operative work; human-computer interaction.
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Health policy; professions and professional work; professional power; public policy analysis
Strategy, International Management & Entrepreneurship
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- Intersection international business / organization theory
- Professional services firms in emerging markets, specifically Africa
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Michael Etter is interested in the construction of social evaluation of new and established firms, such as organizational reputation and legitimacy, in the new media landscape, which is shaped by new information and communication technologies (ICT). He looks at strategies, which new and established firms use to establish favourable social judgments in the digital economy. The role corporate social responsibility is thereby prevalent in his work.
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My research interests are broadly within the areas of comparative management, political economy and institutional analysis, comparative HRM, work and employment relations. Particular topics of PhD proposals may include: digitalization of work; new forms of flexibility at work; employee voice; high performance work systems and HRM; institutions and corporate strategies; markets regulation, competition and multinational enterprises.