Our PhD researchers are an integral part of the development of research agendas as part of their training.

Current PhD researchers and their theses are listed below, grouped within our research theme categories.

Economics of Innovation and Industrial Policy

Micro structural change and inclusive innovation to eradicate poverty: possibilities and alternatives from rural Mozambique – Bernardo Caldarola

Development of National Systems of Innovation in comparative perspective: The Pacific Alliance – Melina Galdos Frisancho

Barriers and the role of international partners in university-industry relations in Latin American countries – Pavel Corilloclla Terbullino

Characteristics of Collaborative Patterns and their Implications for R&D Performance – Kyung-Ju Han

Regional diversification in developing countries – Claudia Obando Rodriguez

Bargaining dynamics and consumption motivations driving people to form sharing groups: What can be learnt from agent-based models – Francesco Pasimeni

Structural Change and Service Global Value Chains in Developing Countries – Filippo Bontadini

Risk-reward relationship in public investments to innovation: a legal-institutional perspective – Andrea Laplane

Essays on innovation and the development bank in Brazil – Marco Carreras

The construction of a mission-oriented programme for innovation: its impact in agriculture and the trajectories of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - Arthur Moreira

Competing for the Competition Rules: The EU–US Rivalry for the WTO's Agreement on Competition Policy – Hammed Roohani

Virtual Currency establishment: sustainable digital value chains as the Information Communication Technology enablers for the digital economy – Vedad Sabljic

Understanding Patterns of Innovation within the UK Milk Production Sector – James Thomas

Energy

The contexts in which trust is acting as an enabler or barrier to the low-carbon transition – Eleanor Drabik

Crowdfunding public-private crowd partnerships (PPCPs): a new policy tool to finance energy access projects in developing countries?  The case of the Department for International Development (DFID) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Irene Maffini

Uptake and use of new smart energy technologies by domestic user, does it match designer expectations, what that means for policy – Bryony Parrish
The impact of political economy on the direction of national clean electricity innovation, examined via a case study of the US and UK, particularly focusing in on ARPA-E in the US and the Energy Technologies Institute in the UK – Anna Watson

Delivering residential retrofit in the UK; the of novel business and financing models – Donal Brown

Energy transitions from resource-based emerging economies: Case studies on South Africa's electricity sector (coal, gas and renewable energy) – Marie Blanche Ting

The factors influencing a firm's choice of voluntary GHG mitigation activities (UK & German firms) – Andrea Smith

Net energy availability due to changes in global energy supply systems: Implications for the economy and climate change – Claire Copeland

Policy Mixes in Sustainability Transitions: Reducing end-use energy demand of Buildings in the UK – Duncan Edmondson

Overcoming the Barriers to the Delivery of near-zero Energy Non-domestic Buildings (nZEBs) in the UK: An in-depth Analysis of the Factors, Characteristics and Dynamics of Change under a Socio-technical perspective – Sofia Kesidou

The implementation of biofuels technology in oil firms: unlocking a path dependency and steering towards new technological systems? – Nelson Mojarro Gonzalez

Innovation and Project Management

What is Playful Innovation? A study on the effects of Gamification, Serious Games and Lego Serious Play on the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation - Vasilis Gkogkidis

Gender diversity within major infrastructure projects from the UK construction industry - Phillippa Groome

The interactions between universities and socioeconomic actors within the national innovation system: the case of Thailand - Nuttapong Nutipanich

The effect of collaboration and networking on innovation performance: SMEs in the food industry sector in Thailand - A-sa Veskijkul

Knowledge Management System in Saudi Arabia – Salem Alrakah

How to make the Pharmaceutical R&D more transparent to external partners: Create the TO BE model and the framework to implement it – Fabien Ibanez

The role and innovation capacity of science parks in Thailand – Jirapan Yimkaew

Skills integration in the Creative Industries – Martha Bloom

The Impact of measurement Instruments for Converging Industries – Bernardo Cantone

International technology collaboration involving entrepreneurship firms: The case of the ICT industry – Sungjoo Lee

Changing Direction of Strategic Innovation Activity and the Evolution of Corporate Venturing in an ICT firm in Korea – Youngha Chang

Innovation and knowledge co-creation for pastoralist development – Alexander Tasker

Technology Transfer by RTOs in Developing Countries as a Way to Create Technological Capabilities: The Case of Korea during the Industrialisation Period – Jang Saeng Kim

When You Change Gear: Contrasting Technology Catch-up Shift of Korean and Japanese Heavy Electrical Industries (1970s~2000s) – Kwang Seok

Virtual Communities of Practice: the effects on learning and knowledge creation of social interaction mediated through technology – George Siantonas

Science, Politics and Decision-making

Serendipity in research and innovation: diseases of the rich and diseases of the poor – Josie Coburn

Psychopharmacology; Serendipity in Research and Development for the Treatment of Psychological Conditions – Stephen Scholte

Towards responsible futures: Governance of AI – Maciej Kuziemski

Appropriation of point of care testing and mobile health technologies in sub-Saharan Africa: what are the implications for health policy? – Vusumuzi Ncube

How research funders learn from their investments in complex multi-goal research programmes aiming for societal impact and academic excellence – Charlie Dobson

Change and continuity in the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: ensuring the Chemical Weapons Convention remains fit for purpose – Alexander Ghionis

Knowledge Accumulation from Disease Outbreak Response" Knowledge accumulation is obstructed by outbreaks – Joshua Hutton

Exclusion and Insensitivity: The production of justification for shale gas development through the UK planning system  – Laurence Williams

The Implementation of Health Service Innovation: A Case Study of the Medicine Use Review – Sarah Yeulet

Sustainable Development

What are the dynamics of emergence, nature and interrelations of Community Energy in energy transitions in Mexico? - Franco Gonzalez Zenteno

Energy practices and gender relations in newly electrified homes – Victoria Kasprowicz

Human Relations with Nature in Rewilding and the Anthropocene – Benedict Dempsey

The co-evolution of financial systems and sustainability transitions: Testing the necessity based on case study of how the SA government and its finance sector engaged in creating renewable energy sector – Chantal Naidoo

Understanding the Development of Urban Transformative Capacity in Bristol and Medellin – Jonas Colen Ladeia Torrens

Transformations towards sustainable and inclusive urban mobility in a megacity in India – Bipashyee Ghosh

Formal rules and networks for diffusion of technology in the context of an epidemic agricultural crisis: the case of small size producers of oil palm in Colombia – Paloma Bernal Hernandez

Resolving electricity poverty in eastern Africa: a need for a new private sector ‘investment model’ for electricity infrastructure development – Julian Gregory

Factors influencing adaptation to climate risk amongst farmers in Nepal – Lokendra Karki

Energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa – Sandra Pointel

Contested framings of 'agricultural research for development' – Ruth Segal

The effectiveness of international programmes in addressing barriers to scaling up the deployment of off-grid PV systems with energy storage – Anne-Marie Verbeken

Actor interactions and Transformation: Development of solar and wind power in China post 2000 – Kejia Yang