Your Australian University in Dubai

Research Interests

Business and Management

Dr Ritu Sehgal	Employee Involvement Total Quality Management
Dr Bostjan Gomiscek	Quality management Business excellence Sustainability Asset & maintenance management
Dr Ali Bhayani	International market entry strategies and its impact on marketing mix and eventually on performance Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) influence on attitudes and consumer decision making Role of mental biases and heuristics on consumers decision making in digital environment
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 Jawahitha Sarabdeen	Islamic banking and finance Corporate ethics Social media marketing Branding Legal and ethical issues of information communication technology Adoption of e-government Entrepreneurial Marketing
Dr Kathy Shen	IT adoption and assimilation Knowledge management E-Commerce and internet marketing Entrepreneurship and SME Airport Retailing Virtual Collaboration and Virtual Team Human Computer Interaction Enterprise Information Systems
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
Dr 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 Swapna Koshy	Effective assessment methods for large classes Indian Aesthetics Pedagogy Innovative Assessments Media, marketing and communication
Dr Taghreed Abu-Salim	Service design Service Quality Cost of Poor Quality

Finance and Accounting

Dr Ali Saedvandi	Financial risk management Growth economics
Dr Asima Shirazi	Child poverty Development economics
Dr Lamia Obay	Banks and banking industry Islamic finance Financial markets Corporate finance
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 Leonie Jooste	Cash flows Accounting Ethics Earning management Developing intervention methods to change the values of accounting students
Dr Nandini Kaul	Areas of statistics Microeconomics theory Mathematical economics
Osama M. Al-Hares	Capital Market-Based Accounting Research (MBAR). Corporate Valuation. Accounting Disclosure Practices. Earnings Management. Corporate Governance. Accounting Education.

Computer Science and Engineering

Dr Abdellatif Tchantchane	Quantitative research methods Numerical analysis Econometrics
Dr Benharref Abdelghani	Mobile applications eHealth applications Web services Distributed systems
Dr Catherine Todd	Biomedical Engineering
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
Zeenath Khan	Ethics in IT Community informatics Education and technology Students and environment

Arts and Humanities

Dr Feras Hamza	Global islamic studies (community and identity) Middle East culture and society (social change)
Dr Mohammed Firoz	Media, society and culture Social and cultural implications of 'new media' Media effects, media education and media literacy