Research seminars

If you would like to gain a more in-depth knowledge of an aspect of business or law practice through our ongoing research at the Business School and Law School, then one of our research seminars might help you. These events are taken by a speaker from one of the Schools and aim to share our knowledge, discoveries, research best practice and new research methods.

Seminars on human resources management (HRM) are run by our Centre for Research in Employment, Skills and Society (CRESS) as part of its seminar series. You can find details of our upcoming HRM seminars on  the CRESS Seminar listings webpage

Upcoming seminars

Researching the unpalatable: Why a research interest in self-publishing is fully justified
Speaker: Dr Alison Baverstock
When: Wednesday 24 April 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Multinational Firms Motivations and Foreign Direct Investment Decisions: An Analysis of the IT & Software and Financial Services Sectors in the Irish Context
Speaker: Dr Fatima Annan-Diab
When: Friday 17 May 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Smart Communities
Speaker: Dr Kevin Burchell
When: Wednesday 22 May 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Introduction to Impact
Speaker: Dr Debra Riley
When: Wednesday 25 September 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Impact and CRESS
Speaker: Professor Yannis Georgellis 
When: Wednesday 30 October 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

 It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it: The impact of strategic fit on business performance
Speaker: Dr Alex Hill
When: Wednesday 27 November - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Developing a Relationship with Morrisons (tentative)
Speaker: Dr Francesca Dall'Olmo Riley
When: Wednesday 29 January 2014 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Past seminars

We have previously run seminars on the following topics:

• Modelling the drivers of film box office performance
• Using network theory to evaluate CSR in B2B organizations
• Using a Facebook application to encourage more sustainable behaviour: A qualitative approach
• Between populations and communities: organizational groups and the case of UK university spin-offs
• Grant funding
• Cognitive interviewing as a technique in questionnaire development - Dr Tim Harries
• Theoretical and methodological issues underlying the use of network theory in evaluating sustainability - Adam Raman
• Design Thinking in Healthcare: Developing Patient-centred Communication Materials for Breast Cancer Detection - Dr Corrine Beaumont
• Commercial Corporate Governance Rating - Prof Photis Lysandrou
• Does London Stock Exchange Require an Upstairs Market? Evidence from Block Trades - Andros Gregoriou
• Gender in the workplace - Hans-Joachim Wolfram
• Who are you calling Old? Social barriers to older entrepreneurs - Tom Wainwright
• How to demonstrate Research Impact for the REF - Kathryn Elliot
• Perspectives on Brand Alliances - Jay Singh
• Pay-Performance Sensitivity of CEO Cash Compensation in Firms with Non-Financial Performance Measure - Salma Ibrahim
• Design Thinking in Healthcare:Developing Patient-centred Comms Materials for Breast Cancer Detection - Corinne Beaumont
• The decision making of older consumers - Robert East
• Corporate sponsorship of the arts; conventions and practices - Catherine Morel
• "Knowledge”: who needs it? - Dr Stephen Gourlay
• Ethnography and qualitative methods and small firm research - Dr Simon Down, Deputy Director, Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise (KITE)
• Non-conscious Goals: Implications for Management and Directions for Future Research - Dr Amanda Shantz
• The Scandinavian model – in an international perspective: something for others to learn from? - Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen (Agder University)
• The Scandinavian model- reflective practice - Lars Mouwitz & Bo Göranzon (Linnaeus University)
• Expatriates, leadership and innovation in Chinese MNC - Dr Miao Zhang