Research projects
Take a look at our ongoing and former research projects.
InterAct
InterAct is a £4.4 million, Made Smarter Innovation funded, Economic and Social Research Council-led network that aims to bring together economic and social scientists, UK manufacturers and digital technology providers to address the human issues resulting from the diffusion of new technologies in industry.
Co-directed by Professor Janet Godsell, Dean of the School of Business and Economics, and supported by the core research team at Loughborough University, the project aims to help shape the future of UK manufacturing.
TECHNGI
TECHNGI is a £1.2million cross-disciplinary research project investigating the opportunities and challenges for the UK insurance industry arising from the application of new AI technologies including machine learning, distributed ledger, automated processing, and the explosion of available data.
Led by Loughborough University, they bring multiple academic and industry partners together and are funded as part of the UK’s Next Generation Services Industrial Challenge.
Current research projects
Centre for Circularity of Construction Minerals (C3M)
A £453,722.30 research project led by Professor Mo Osmani from the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering and co-investigated by Professor Peter Kawalek, Professor Andrew Vivian and Dr Suzana Grubnic. This project is sponsored by EPSRC and is due to be completed on 31 December 2024.
KTP: Triumph Motorcycles and the School of Business and Economics
A £200,344.38 research project led by Professor Peter Kawalek and Professor Chris Holland funded by Innovate UK and Triumph Motorcycles Limited, expected to be completed by 26 April 2022.
Future connected smart manufacturing platform
A £34,649.60 research project led by Professor Tom Jackson sponsored by EPSRC and due to be completed on 31 March 2022.
European multinational corporations beyond the European Union
A £209,371 research project led by Professor Catherine Casey funded by Hans-Böckler-Stiftung expected to be completed on 31 August 2022.
The market for non-executives: The impact of accounting scandals on audit committee members, future careers
A £9,573.74 research project led by Dr Yasser Eliwa funded by The British Academy and expected to be completed on 30 April 2022.
Transformative technology
A £9,972.99 research project led by Dr Sahar Mousavi, sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and due to be completed by 18 May 2023.
Dynamic bargaining games in the container leasing industry
A £9,999.62 research project led by Dr Wendy Jiao funded by The British Academy and due to be completed at the end of February 2022.
Facilitating impact and transferability of refugee entrepreneurship interventions in Africa
A £135,281 research project led by Dr Michelle Richey and Prof M.N. Ravishankar funded by the British Academy of Management and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies.
Current PhD research projects
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Customer profiling to aid customer retention and improve pricing model in the travel industry
Project Date: 01 January 2020 – 31 December 2022
Principal Investigator: Dr Rupal Mandania
Project Value: £36,000
Sponsor: AFerry Ltd -
Multinationals and Tax Justice
Project Date: 01 October 2020 – 30 September 2024
Principal Investigator: Dr Ben Ferrett
Co-Investigator: Dr Agelos Delis (Aston)
Project Value: £42,567.00
Sponsor: ESRC (Midlands Graduate School)
Completed research projects
Research Completed in 2021
Coalescence, digitization and entrepreneurship in next generation services (CDENG)
Project Date: 01 January 2021 - 30 June 2021
Investigator: Tzameret Rubin
Project Value: £7,841.18
Sponsor: ESRC
Decarbonizing the UK Freight Transport
Project Date: 01 November 2020 – 30 June 2021
Principal Investigator: Alok Choudhary
Project Value: £34,500
Sponsor: EPSRC
Demand Analysis and Forecast in Radio Advertising
Project Date: 01 February 2020 - 31 July 2021
Principal Investigator: Dr Wendy Jiao
Project Value: £6,492.05
Sponsor: Bauer Radio Ltd
Enhancing the use of ResilienceDirect in the Covid-19 response: a comparative analysis of Local Resilience Forums
Project Date: 20 July 2020 - 23 September 2021
Principal Investigator: Dr Daniel Sage
Project Value: £99,044
Sponsor: UKRI
COVID-19: An Algorithmic Model for Critical Medical Resource Rationing in a Public Health Emergency
Project Date: 28 December 2020 – 27 October 2021
Investigator: Dr Dong Li
Project Value: £10,861.60
Sponsor: EPSRC
Refugee Entrepreneurship Research Project
Project Date: 01 January 2020 – 31 December 2021
Principal Investigators: Dr Michelle Richey & Professor M. N. Ravishankar
Project Value: £20,000.00
Sponsor: The Centre for Entrepreneurs Ltd
Research Completed in 2020
NESTORE: Non-intrusive Empowering Solutions and Technologies for Older people to Retain Everyday life activity
Project Date: 01 September 2017 - 01 September 2020
Co-Investigators: Dr Martin Sykora and Professor Tom Jackson
Project Value: €4,977,000 (€173,125 to the School of Business and Economics)
Sponsor: EU Horizon 2020
Advanced analytics for green and resilient supply chain decision making
Project Date: 01 April 2017 - 31 March 2020
Principal Investigator: Dr Alok Choudhary
Project Value: £117,485.13
Sponsor: The British Council
ESRC-DFID growth research programme
Project Date: 01 March 2016 - 29 February 2020
Principal Investigator: Professor Christopher Green
Project Value: £ £210,000
Sponsor: The Economic and Social Research Council
Research Completed in 2019
TOXI-Triage
Project Date: 01 September 2015 – 30 August 2019
Principal Investigator: Professor C. L. Paul Thomas
Co-Investigator: Professor Tom Jackson
Project value: £9,972,094 (£374,885 to the School of Business and Economics)
Sponsor: H2020 (European Commission)
An ethonomethodological/conversation analytic study of evidence-based decision making
Project Date: 01 April 2016 – 31 March 2019
Principal Investigator: Professor L. Alberto Franco
Project Value: £27,001
Sponsor: Defence Science Technology Laboratory (DSTL)
Research Completed in 2018
LGBT in construction: Exploring experiences to inform inclusive practices
Project Date: 01 January 2017 - 31 December 2018
Principal Investigator: Dr Sarah Barnard
Project Value: £9,969.89
Sponsor: The Chartered Institute of Buildin
EU-India research and innovation partnership for efficient and sustainable freight transportation (REINVEST)
Project Date: 01 April 2015 – 30 November 2018
Principal Investigator: Dr Alok Choudhary
Project Value: £42,848
Sponsor: European Commission
Brexit diplomacy: Building a strategic negotiations framework for UK-EU relations
Project Date: 01 April 2017 - 30 September 2018
Co-Investigators: Dr Elena Georgiadou and Helen Drake (Loughborough University)
Project Value: £27,997.60
Sponsor: The Economic and Social Research Council
Robust lifestyle design and health monitoring for fuel-cell extended performance (RESILIENCE)
Project date: 01 June 2013 – June 2018
Principal Investigator: Dr L Bartlett, Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University
Co-Investigators: Professor Tom Jackson and Professor J Andrews (University of Nottingham)
Project value: £909,687
Sponsor: EPSRC
Risk, regulation and the sustainable supply of credit through P2P lending platforms: A comparative study of the UK and Australia.
Project Date: 02 January 2017 - 01 May 2018
Principal Investigator: Professor Alistair Milne
Project Value: £5,316.99
Sponsor: British Academy
STRESSCAPES: Integrating social media, geospatial information, and sentiment analysis for the analysis of emotional stress in urban environment
Project Date: 01 March 2014 - 31 March 2018
Co-Investigators: Dr Martin Sykora and Professor Tom Jackson
Project Value: £110,408
Sponsor: SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council)
Adaptive informatics for intelligent manufacturing (AI2M)
Project Date: 01 January 2013 – 31 January 2018
Principal Investigator: Andrew West
Co-investigator: Professor Tom Jackson
Project Value: £1,934,799 (split between schools; SBE value: £425,372)
Sponsor: EPSRC
Energy transactions for the non-traditional services
Project Date: 01 May 2017 - 31 January 2018
Principal Investigator: Professor Monica Giulietti
Project Value: £37,426.41
Sponsor: EPSRC
Future digital materials
Project Date: 03 September 2014 – 01 January 2018
Co-Investigator: Professor Tom Jackson
Project Value: £120,000
Sponsor: BMW
Research Completed in 2017
Open access megajournals and the future of scholarly communication
Project Date: November 2015 - December 2017
Co-Investigators: Stephen Pinfield (University of Sheffield), Peter Willett (University of Sheffield), Dr Claire Creaser (retired, School of Business and Economics) and Jenny Fry (School of English and Drama)
Project Value: £226,000
Sponsor/Funding Organisation: AHRC
Making the zero-carbon standard home: Understanding project-firm innovation in UK house building
Project Date: 01 April 2015 – 30 November 2017
Principal Investigator: Dr Daniel Sage
Project Value: £176,064 split with Civil Engineering (£161,852 to the School of Business and Economics)
Sponsor: ESRC via University of Reading
Digital 101: Crime reporting and social media
Project Date: 11 October 2016 - 10 October 2017
Co-Investigators: Dr Joao Oliveira and Dr Martin Sykora
Project Value: £44,334
Sponsor: Metropolitan Police Service London
Discharging democratic accountability: The role of strategy and performance information in Health and Wellbeing Boards
Project Date: 01 September 2016 – 31 September 2017
Co-Investigator: Dr Suzana Grubnic
Project Value: £4,925
Sponsor: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
When does job insecurity threaten our identity? Expansion of a theoretical perspective.
Project Date: 01 September 2016 - 30 September 2017
Principal Investigator: Dr Eva Selenko
Project Value: £7,255.01
Sponsor: British Academy
Understanding organisational agility: The role of information technology (IT) capability
Project Date: 30 September 2016 - 29 September 2017
Principal Investigator: Dr Crispin Coombs
Project Value: £6,917.00
Sponsor: British Academy
Developing an agenda for Fintech research in emerging economies
Project Date: 1 February 2017 - 31 July 2017
Principal Investigator: Professor M.N. Ravishanka
Project Value: £30,410.00
Sponsor: The British Council
Inequality averse resource allocation
Project Date: 12 June 2017 - 11 July 2017
Principal Investigator: Dr Nikolaos Argyris
Project Value: £1,490.00
Sponsor: The British Council
The SIMTEGR8 project Using facilitated modelling to evaluate integrated health and social care services – phase 2
Project Date: 2 August 2016 – 2 April 2017
Principal Investigator: Dr Antuela Tako
Co-investigator: Professor Stewart Robinson
Project Value: £18,000 (FEC £53,000)
Sponsor: Leicestershire County Council/Leicestershire Better Care Fund
SME information management benefits framework
Project Date: 01 April 2014 – 31 March 2017
Principal Investigator: Dr Crispin Coombs
Project Value: £31,600
Sponsor: Guidance Navigation Limited
Surviving and thriving in a digital age: Mental health signals on social media and email
Project Date: 01 September 2016 - 31 March 2017
Co-Investigators: Dr Martin Sykora
Project Value: £26,312
Sponsor: EPSRC / LU Institutional Sponsorship
Co-creation and the casualization of sport and fitness participation: Does neoliberalism produce solutions to social inclusion and public well-being?
Project Date: 01 April 2016 – 31 March 2017
Principal Investigator: Prof Paul Downward (School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences)
Co-Investigator: Dr Ian Hodgkinson
Project Value: £8,465
Sponsor: British Academy/Leverhulme
International marketing performance implications of emerging market firms’ global marketing strategies
Project Date: 01 March 2016 – 28 Feb 2017
Principal Investigator: Professor John Cadogan
Co-Investigators: Dr Joao Oliveira, Dr Ian Hodgkinson, Professor Vicky Story
Project Value: £4,866
Sponsor: The British Academy
ISS-EWATUS - Integrated support system for efficient water usage and resources management
Project Date: 01 February 2014 – 31 January 2017
Principal Investigator: Dr Lili Yang
Project Value: £218,896
Sponsor: European Commission
Research Completed in 2016
Service innovation in emerging markets
Project Date: 01 July 2016 – 31 December 2016
Principal Investigator: Professor Vicky Story
Project Value: £8,277
Sponsor: The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS)
NEXt generation sustaInable freight transportation (NEX-GIFT)
Project Title: ‘NEXt generation sustaInable freight transportation (NEX-GIFT)'
Project Date: 01 April 2015 – 31 December 2016
Principal Investigator: Dr Alok Choudhary
Project Value: £8,030
Sponsor: The British Council
African universities’ research approaches programme (AURA)
Project Date: 01 November 2014 – December 2016
Principal Investigator: Professor Mark Hepworth (formerly at the SBE)
Project Value: £2,000,000 (£151,670 to the School of Business and Economics)
Sponsor: DfID via Institute of Development Studies
Towards more autonomy for unmanned vehicles: Situational awareness and decision making under uncertainty
Project Date: March 2012 – December 2016
Principal Investigator: Dr Wen-Hua Chen
Co-investigators: Professor Baibing Li
Sponsor: EPSRC
Reviews of literature on human capital theory, measurement and reporting
Project Date: 04 May 2016 – 29 July 2016
Principal Investigators: Prof Andy Charlwood and Dr Clive Trusson
Project Value: £24,247
Sponsor: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
The use of archives for business anniversary celebrations: A lasting legacy
Project Date: 01 February 2016 – 30 April 2016
Principal Investigator: Dr Clare Ravenwood
Project Value: £18,735
Sponsor: 10th Anniversary AHRC Cultural Engagement Fund
Critical evaluation of sentiment analysis: Humour, sarcasm and irony on social media
Project Date: 01 February 2016 - 15 April 2016
Co-Investigators: Dr Martin Sykora, Dr Suzanne Elayan and Professor Tom Jackson
Project Value: £20,904
Sponsor: DHCSTC / DSTL (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory)
Research Completed in 2015
Evaluation of interventions and the application of rapid modelling techniques to support the development of patient centric integrated services
Project Date: 01 April 2015 – 30 September 2015
Co-investigator: Professor Stewart Robinson
Project Value: £51,898
Sponsor: EPSRC/IAA
Is OR in UK universities fit-for-purpose for the developing field of analytics?
Project Date: 01 October 2012 – 30 September 2015
Co-Investigator: Professor Stewart Robinson
Project Value: £31,020
Sponsor: The OR Society
The use of simulation models to support business decision making
Project Date: 01 September 2012 – 31 August 2015
Principal Investigator: Dr Antuela Tako
Project Value: £3,000
Sponsor: SIMUL8 Corporation
Thriving at 55+
Project Date: 03 April 2014 – 02 June 2015
Principal Investigator: Dr Stanimira Taneva
Co-Investigator: Professor John Arnold
Project Value: £107,726
Sponsor: European Commission
SME and micro-organisations' engagement with occupational safety and health
Project Date: 01 March 2013 – 31 March 2015
Principal Investigator: Professor Alistair Cheyne
Project Value: £195,083
Sponsor: IOSH
Common standards in financial services
Project Date: 01 February 2014 – 31 January 2015
Principal Investigator: Professor Alistair Milne
Project Value: £25,000
Sponsor: Government Office for Science
Evaluating the resilience of critical infrastructure for emergency response to extreme flood events in Leicester City
Project Date: 27 October 2014 – 31 January 2015
Principal Investigator: Dr Lili Yang
Sponsor: NERC