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Research Interests

  • Business & Management
  • Finance & Accounting
  • Computer Science & Engineering
  • Arts & Humanities
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 Suzanne Robertson-Malt  
Dr Ibrahim Alananzeh  
Dr Khalil Yousef  
Education
Dr Muna Amr   
Dr Afnan Boutrid   
Chris Tuffnell   
International Relations
Dr William Guéraiche
  • Geopolitics Middle East, Asia, Africa
  • UAE Foreign Policy, Environmental diplomacy, International Cooperation
  • Non-traditional Security issues
  • Cultural Diplomacy
Dr Imène Ajala
  • Islam in the West
  • Extremism and Terrorism

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