BBS Research Groups and Centres

Our research centres and groups bring together leading academics, industry partners, and practitioners to advance insight and innovation across key areas of business and society.

Through collaborative, interdisciplinary work, they generate impactful research that informs policy, shapes practice and drives meaningful change.

Independent assessment of our research quality (REF 2021)

View REF 2021 details for Business and Management Studies (UoA 17)

AI Adoption and Governance

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Business brains helping Uganda dairy farmers milk it

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Research groups and centres

Accountancy and Corporate Governance

Accounting and Finance research with special interest in financial statement relevance, asymmetric information, and corporate governance.

Accounting and Auditing

Investigating current issues in accounting that include financial reporting, assurance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and business models in large and small business entities

AI Social and Digital Innovation

Social, economic and strategic effects of AI and associated technologies. Impact of AI and related technologies on societies, organisations and individuals.

Arts Health and Social Change

This Research Group is dedicated to fostering art-based initiatives that drive social change towards inclusivity and equality in healthcare.

Banking

Our group provides world-leading research on banking and financial regulation issues which is highly impactful in influencing policy makers.

Brunel Education Research and Guidance Hub

Focusing on investigating current issues in higher education including leadership and management, knowledge-behaviour gap, student and staff information literacy, building inclusive pedagogies, coaching and mentoring, community building, E-learning in Accounting Education and curriculum development.

Circular Food Forum

Leads discussions across the “food chain” with the aim to improve resource management, through working with industries and Government to respond to global pressures of growing resource scarcity and food waste.

Economic Development and Institutions

Research activities in this area cover economic development, institutional economics, political economy, labour economics, behavioural economics, economics of conflict, economic and political aspects of European integration.

Empirical Finance

We use state-of-the-art econometrics to analyse issues with crucial business or policy implications, providing assistance to policy makers and market participants

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

Our focus is on how individuals, businesses and societies can tap into creative and entrepreneurial flair to develop innovative solutions, in order to not only create economic value, but also solve social and environmental problems.

Global Lives

Research conducted in the Centre addresses the challenges facing society, helping to change the lives of people around the world by bringing economic, social and cultural benefits.

Healthcare Management, Culture and Leadership Group

We focus on the intersection among healthcare management, culture and leadership from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach.

Human Geography

Aims to develop and consolidate interdisciplinary research around space, place and society at Brunel. We provide a forum for engagement with geographical research, for sharing and receiving feedback on writing and developing new collaborations nationally and internationally.

Human Resource Management and Organization Behaviour

The group's five main themes of research include excellence in workplace innovation, diversity, teamwork, social inclusion, and employee selection.

Institute of Communities and Society

The Institute focuses on the social, community, and cultural aspects of pressing contemporary issues including migration and movement, social unrest, intersectional inequalities, and institutionalised poverty.

Law, Economics and Finance

The Centre for Law, Economics and Finance aims to advance the wider societal impact of our research by engaging with policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholder.

Macroeconomics

The focus of the centre is to conduct first-rate research into macroeconomics aspects of a range of issues such as unemployment, debt and financial instability.

Marketing and Corporate Brand Management

Our research-active faculty are engaged in cutting-edge applied scholarship across a broad spectrum of marketing areas.

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Our research-active faculty are engaged in cutting-edge applied scholarship across a broad spectrum of marketing areas.

Media, Culture and Politics research group

Our Media, Culture and Politics research group offers multidisciplinary research into the interconnection between media, culture and politics. Our focus will be on the converging crises and technological innovations that are challenging the foundations of how we have traditionally understood their roles in society.

Operations and Information Systems Management

We specialise in responsible and sustainable operation management exploring information systems, operations research, management science, and general management and strategic management knowledge and approaches across public and private industry sectors

South Asia Studies

We provide a research base for the development of new South Asia specific programmes and teaching, and bring together scholars from across the University working on South Asia from different disciplinary perspectives.

Strategy Entrepreneurship and International Business

Our themes of research range from entrepreneurial and internationalisation strategies of small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to inward and outward investment by large enterprises and supra-national governance.

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BBS Research Groups and Centres

Our research centres and groups bring together leading academics, industry partners, and practitioners to advance insight and innovation across key areas of business and society.

Independent assessment of our research quality (REF 2021)

View REF 2021 details for Business and Management Studies (UoA 17)

Research groups and centres

Accountancy and Corporate Governance

Accounting and Auditing

AI Social and Digital Innovation

Arts Health and Social Change

Banking

Brunel Education Research and Guidance Hub

Circular Food Forum

Economic Development and Institutions

Empirical Finance

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

Global Lives

Healthcare Management, Culture and Leadership Group

Human Geography

Human Resource Management and Organization Behaviour

Institute of Communities and Society

Law, Economics and Finance

Macroeconomics

Marketing and Corporate Brand Management

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Media, Culture and Politics research group

Operations and Information Systems Management

South Asia Studies

Strategy Entrepreneurship and International Business

Global Innovation Fellowship: Youth Sustainable Agripreneurship in Yemen

Strengthening the rights of the waste pickers as entrepreneurs

Understanding cyberbullying behaviours through computational models

Primary school children’s responses to food waste at school

Sustainable and healthy school food environments in Brazil

Developing a process model of corporate hubris

Agribusiness SMEs and post-Brexit trade

Entrepreneurship scholarship amongst nascent entrepreneurs

Understanding how industries cultivate virtuous auras

Competency gaps in academic business consulting

Playful approaches in adulthood

Towards a green and sustainable ecosystem for the EU Port of the Future

A healthy ageing framework from a consumer-centric approach

Resilient education management for online learning in Kenya

SMEs digital footprints and their ethical implications

Meeting net zero in digital research infrastructure

Understanding food waste reduction barriers

Knowledge exchange on healthcare big data analytics

Experiences of white working class men in elementary occupations

The work of academic managers in HE

Entrepreneurship, resilience and rural community branding

B Corporations and Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

Increasing accessibility through mobile vaccination

Improving uptake of hepatitis testing in South East Asians

Resource-smart food production and consumption

Wellbeing care maps

Green data centres

The role of ICT in supporting Sri Lanka's indigenous communities

Youth digital addiction: implications for future workforce

Entrepreneurship through intergenerational crowdfunding

Business brains helping Uganda dairy farmers milk it

Promoting Wales to international tourists

Promoting social connections using happy-to-chat badges

Doing good, growing strong: Catalysing economic and social impact in Jordan

ProGYS+: GYS Pilot Testing and Integration to Engage Stakeholders

ProGYS: Promoting the reach and impact of the Green Yard Scheduler

Developing Resilience Digital Module (RDM)

An institutional history of internal communication in the UK

Developing a mandatory sustainability reporting model for Indian companies

Centralised digital tax system to reduce tax fraud in EU

Environmental tax reform towards Net Zero Carbon

Textual properties of merger and acquisition press releases

Global agricultural supply chains and trade mechanisms

Leveraging millets enterprises for women's economic empowerment

Reporting disclosure continuum

Towards a responsible AI and inclusive workforce in a digital economy

Algorithm Reliability Framework: Policies for misinformation and fake news

AI Handbook: Exploring applications, challenges, and future trends

AI Adoption and Governance

Post-Covid lifestyle and mental wellbeing

COVID-19 healthcare interventions for Black and South Asian communities

Tackling food waste challenge using supply chain control towers