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Research Interests

Name	Research Interests
Dr Ritu Sehgal	Employee Involvement Total Quality Management
Dr Bostjan Gomiscek	Quality management Business excellence Sustainability Asset & maintenance management
Dr Alison Thirlwall	Management of workplace conflict and its implications in international settings
Dr Arijit Sikdar	Strategic management issues related to organizational growth and performance Entrepreneurship & Small business Supply chain strategies International business related to emerging markets
Dr Balan Sundarakani	Applied research of strategic supply chain management Empirical and optimization focused research of operations and production management Empirical and applied research in Logistics management
Dr Mohan Guruswamy	Expert Systems (Artificial Intelligence)
Dr Mona Mustafa	Work-life boundaries Shift work Managing expatriates Teleworking
Dr Okey Peter Onyia	Services Marketing – especially in the financial and insurance service industries Cross-cultural and Cross-national Consumer Behaviour Consumer Self-service Technology Adoption International Marketing Advertising & Marketing Communications Higher Education (HE) Pedagogy – especially the closer involvement of HE students in peer assessments
Prof Payyazhi Jayashree	Strategic Change/ Change Management Employees' integration into organisation from micro-macro perspectives
Dr Prakash Vel K. Shankar	Strategic marketing Services Marketing Marketing communications Digital marketing Consumer behaviour
Dr Taghreed Abu-Salim	Service design Service Quality Cost of Poor Quality

Name	Research Interests
Dr Asima Shirazi	Child poverty Development economics
Dr Munir Lutfi	Market based accounting empirical research Internal control systems Auditors' independence and Audit report
Dr Naeem Muhammad	Globalisation issues related to the MENA countries Stock market integration Stock market volatility
Dr Nandini Kaul	Areas of statistics Microeconomics theory Mathematical economics
Dr Osama M. Al-Hares	Capital Market-Based Accounting Research (MBAR). Corporate Valuation. Accounting Disclosure Practices. Earnings Management. Corporate Governance. Accounting Education.

Name	Research Interests
Dr Abdellatif Tchantchane	Quantitative research methods Numerical analysis Econometrics
Dr Abdelghani Benharref	Mobile applications eHealth applications Web services Distributed systems
Dr Farhad Oroumchian	Information retrieval and applied natural language processing
Dr Halim M. Khelafa	Computer network and computer systems Information assurance and security Intelligent systems
Dr Kamal Jaafar	Cost effective design solutions to make structures less vulnerable to earthquakes Strength and safety assessment for building and bridges
Dr Mohamed Salem	Software development Performance analysis and scalability and their applicability to large and distributed systems
Dr Mohamed Watfa	Sensor networks Battery aware protocols Underwater communications Multimedia networks
Dr Nidhal Abdulaziz	Circuit design and modelling
Dr Soly Mathew Biju	Cryptography Software testing Agile programming E-learning tools Methods for learning computer science subjects
Dr Zeenath Khan	Ethics in IT Community informatics Education and technology Students and environment

Name	Research Interests
Media
Dr Michael Mallory	Emergent Media & Technology Cyber Culture & Social Media Political Economy of Social Media
Dr Aaron Anderson	Visual Studies and Critical Theory Global Horror Cinemas Writing for the Screen
Dr Ludmil Trenkov
Dr Noor Hasbi Yusoff
Health
Dr Ibrahim Alananzeh
Dr Khalil Yousef
Education
Dr Muna Amr
Dr Afnan Boutrid
International Relations
Dr Imène Ajala	Islam in the West Extremism and Terrorism

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