Welcome
Studying and securing a PhD degree is a significant life and career event. It can be incredibly challenging but also very satisfying whilst enabling your professional and academic development.
The Lincoln Bishop Business School is a highly supportive learning environment with a very strong reputation for teaching quality and support. Please review the research interests on staff below to ensure we can work with you in your proposed research project. You can complete the Business School PhD Proposal form and attach this with your application*
Lincoln Bishop Business School covers a number of subject areas within business and adjacent topics for PhD support.
Currently we can offer supervision in the following research areas with staff:
- Corporate governance and board composition
- Financial Distress and corporate Default Prediction
- Leadership in Higher Education
- Fintech, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in Financial Services
- Business Education, Pedagogy and Curriculum Innovation
- Quantitative Research methods in Management
- Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development
- Organisational Change
- Outlier personalities
- Outlier performance
- Performance measurement and monitoring
- Process Improvement
- Organisational Culture
- Leadership
- Higher Education productivity
- International learner experience and pedagogy
- Relationship between higher education policy and learner identity
- Strategy
- Decision Making
Other Business School staff are active in the following research areas:
- Behavioural drivers and barriers of pro-environmental action
- Social norms, identity, and collective behaviour in sustainability transitions
- Communication, persuasion, and public engagement on climate and sustainability
- Applications and extensions of Diffusion of Innovations Theory in sustainability contexts
- Adoption and diffusion of green innovations
- Empirical tests and extensions of Theory of Planned Behavior
- The intention–behaviour gap in pro-sustainability actions
- Persuasion strategies in environmental messaging (e.g., framing, emotional vs. rational appeals)
- Factors influencing individual decision-making in sustainability (values, beliefs, risk perception)
- Adoption of sustainable practices in specific contexts (energy use, transport, food, waste)
- Capital structure and corporate finance
- Business innovation and diversity
- Firm survival and performance
- FinTech
- Agricultural innovation
- Relationships between financial factors and policy interventions and firm innovation and outcomes.
- Financial development and economic growth
- Foreign direct investment and development economics
- Institutional quality and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Education and sustainable development
Please see below the relevant information for the PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) course.
Relevant Information
The AI document provides practice guidelines about how AI tools can be used to support the development of your proposal and subsequent research activities.
How to Apply
You will need to complete the application form for PhD study at the University and submit that with your proposal.
Complete your application here
Enquiries about the PhD should be directed to Dr Sheine Peart, Associate Professor in Access, Equality and Inclusion. Email sheine.peart@lincolnbishop.ac.uk
