Keele Business School
Keele Business School offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in accounting, business management, finance, economics, human resource management, management, marketing, international business and law. Keele has been awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework and two of our subject areas, finance and business studies are in the Top 10 for overall student satisfaction in the 2019 National Student Survey (NSS). Ranked 3rd overall in the UK in this year's Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES). The Business School is now located in the new state-of-the-art Smart Innovation Hub.
Spotlight on KBS staff
"The focus of my research is to develop knowledge that contributes towards the UN’s sustainable development goals, generates knowledge that will contribute both theoretically and practically to ongoing debates about embedding responsible business practices and supports community and consumer wellbeing and sustainability."
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"My most recent research has explored how change can be facilitated in local communities using creative methods of engagement to the benefit of the community as a whole and for the individuals residing in the area."
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"The value I add to KBS is by integrating the breadth of my real business experience with practical insights to ensure the content of the programme is suitable for practical implementation."
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"I take every opportunity to bring practice into the curriculum and bring theory into practice, teaching my students to be creatively confident problem solvers and providing opportunities for students to apply their theoretical learning in real company projects in a supportive environment. "
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"I have extensive business and international management experience which I bring to my teaching, research and engagement activities. One particular activity of note is the cross-cultural and virtual teamworking exercise I deploy on my final year undergraduate module, Comparative Business Cultures."
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"It is my engagement with organisations which underpins my lecturing at Keele Business School. Providing students with a rich insight into the theory of marketing, from a strategic to a tactical level."
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"A common theme among much of my research has been and continues to be a desire to understand the effects of changes in financial market structures (such as changes in trading mechanisms and new product developments) and of changes in the economic environment (such as increasing deregulation and quantitative easing)."
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"Keele Business School students have secured placements in a variety of organisations including Nintendo, IBM, Office For National Statistics, Grant Thornton, JCB, Sainsburys, Bosch, and HMRC, with several securing graduate positions before embarking on their final year of study."
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Research and enterprise
Research in Keele Business School is oriented towards engagement and change within and beyond the academy.
KBS Events
KBS Research Seminar Series: Disconnected youth and the prospect in employment, health and wellbeing
Accreditations, Memberships and Partnerships
We currently have partnerships with a number of professional bodies who offer a number of important exemptions from their professional exams.
