We continue to invest in our areas of excellence in both research and enterprise activity enabling the development of increasingly global reputations aligned to the school mission:
- 57% of our research in Business and Management Studies is rated as world-leading or internationally excellent in REF 2021.
- Our high-quality research is expanding as we support our researchers’ careers with mentoring and development, opportunities to engage in national and international collaboration and making a contribution with applied research to local growth and regeneration.
A testimony to the quality of our research is the active contribution of colleagues to leading national and international business and management conferences and high-profile international conferences, which we hosted at the School in recent years.
A large and vibrant research community
We are more than 80 research-active faculty connecting to a vast network of ideas, people and organisations in the UK and overseas.
We work with partners in industry, academia, non-government organisations, and the public services, to generate knowledge that explains, harnesses and improves the theory and practice of business and law.
Our philosophy drives the attempt to ‘close-the-loop’ between wider society and academia; it is underpinned by a commitment to the co-production of knowledge with a wide range of users.