Supervisors and topics

Information systems

Data privacy protection, differential privacy and the economics of personal data privacy protection. Immersive Analytics and (network) data visualisation for business decision-making. Radio spectrum policy, spectrum sharing, spectrum auctions. 

• Research type: Coding, software testing, prototype design, experiments.
• Skills required: Basic game theory (or willing to learn), knowledge of data communications principles, programming language.

Information systems

Generative AI and machine learning, blockchain and decentralised networks, open source and open data, innovation and knowledge management, decision support and behavioural science

• Research type: Design science, theory building, case study, and experiments.
• Skills required: Qualitative and quantitative research skills, machine learning techniques, design thinking, programming and prototyping.

Operations and supply chain management

Food wastage in lower levels of the Supply Chain; Healthcare Operations

• Research type: Literature review, analytical models, simulation, and optimisation methods
• Skills required: Quantitative research skills; and/or analytical Modelling

Information systems

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), hypermedia and information systems development

• Research type: Literature review, survey, case study, statistical analysis, empirical modelling.
• Skills required: Qualitative and quantitative research skill, analytical and survey design skills, modelling, programming.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Behavioural operations; Socially/environmentally responsible operations; Sustainable operations; Circular economy; Supply chain analytics; OM-Marketing interface; Corporate social responsibility

• Research type: Experimental; empirical; analytical (dynamic programming, game theory); simulation; or literature review
• Skills required: Quantitative skills; analytical modelling; empirical methods; or experiment design

Operations and supply chain management and Business Analytics

Warranty analysis, Healthcare, Inventory Management, Mentoring, Remanufacturing

• Research type: Analytical models, simulation, optimisation, stochastic modelling
• Skills required: Statistics, mathematics, programming

Operations management and information systems

Supply chain management, behavioural operations management, individual and group decisions; Identification of decision-making biases.

• Research type: Game theoretic models and laboratory experiments
• Skills required: Multivariate calculus and statistics

Operations management and information systems

Adaptive enterprises and systems; interweaving of deliberate and emergent strategies; process, information, decision, and social modelling; sustainability modelling and reporting; ubiquitous information systems; enterprise systems and their implementation.

• Research type: Theory building, qualitative and quantitative research, netnography, surveys, interviews, Delphi
• Skills required: Analytical mind, curiosity, commitment, and diligence

Operations and supply chain management

Inventory Management, Retail Operations, Human Aspects, Circular Economy, Cold Chain, Food Loss/Waste, Healthcare, China

• Research type: Literature review, analytical models, simulation, and optimisation methods
• Skills required: Quantitative research skills; and/or analytical modelling
  

Operations and supply chain management

New product development; Supply chain coordination in collaborative product development.

• Research type: Formal modelling
• Skills required: Quantitative research skills, game theory

Adaptive organisations and supporting them through the interweaving of deliberate and emergent strategies; Process, information, decision, and social modelling; Sustainability modelling and reporting; Ubiquitous information systems; Enterprise systems and their implementation.

• Research type: Theory building, systems design, and evaluation; qualitative and quantitative research; netnography, surveys, coding, programming, interviews, Delphi
• Skills required: Be willing to work hard

Information systems

Human interactions with digital technologies (information systems, computer interfaces, location-based applications, social media, AI, and robots), digital marketing and consumer engagement, digital innovation adoption.

• Research type: Quantitative methods, experiment and survey
• Skills required: Quantitative skills

Information Systems

Research interests: IT and User Behaviors, Human-Computer Interaction, and Implications of Digitalization.

• Research type: Quantitative methods, experiment and survey
• Skills required: Quantitative or qualitative skills
  

Information Systems

Economics of Information Systems, Digital Marketing, Electronic Commerce, Online Reputation and Regulation Mechanisms and Digital innovations in Emerging Markets

• Research type: Empirical studies, econometrics
• Skills required: Quantitative skills