Research

Research within Keele Management School is organised and managed within the Research Institute for Social Sciences. The purpose of Research Institutes is to encourage multi-disciplinary research and consolidate Keele’s standing as a research-led University with a strong tradition of excellence in defined research areas.

As well as overseeing the supervision arrangements for postgraduate research students, Research Institutes foster a high quality, supportive and managed research environment for both individual researchers and teams of collaborative researchers, including postgraduate researchers.

Specific information about research can be found here. 

The Research Institute for Social Sciences

The Research Institute for Social Science brings together over 170 academic staff and over 200 postgraduate students working across a range of social science disciplines. Staff and research students are grouped within five Research Centres, these providing a focus for seminars, grant activity, support to PGRs, and research support and supervision.

For further information about the Research Institute please follow this link.

The Centre for Culture, Organisation and Markets (COM)

The Centre for Culture, Organisation and Markets (COM) seminar series provides a forum for the presentation of critical approaches to the study of work, cultures of work, work systems/organisation, and to markets, consumers and consumption within the context of social and economic change. Embracing qualitative and ethnographic methods, research perspectives are inter-disciplinary and sensitive to gendered social relations in work and consumption and to issues of power and identity in cultural formations.

Previous events include:

The programme from the 2011-12 COM Seminar Series can be downloaded here. 

If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Dr Matthew Brannan at m.brannan@keele.ac.uk.