Research

The Faculty of Business supports research and academic scholarship across a wide range of disciplines within the business and computing domain. Knowledge transfer is a fundamental aspect of the Faculty’s approach and philosophy to research and academic scholarship. It underpins our teaching programmes, and the student learning experience, and enables the Faculty to engage in a richer, and more informed, manner with business and external organisations in the public and private sectors of the economy. A core tenet of our strategy is to continue to engage with quality knowledge transfer and ensure that the Faculty and University remains in the top three ranked Universities in the United Kingdom for Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) activity.

The Faculty submitted to three Units of Assessment in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise. The results published in December 2008 have revealed that 15% of our work in Library and Information Management has been assessed as being of a quality that is internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour. This rises to 20% in Business and Management Studies and 30% in Computer Science and Informatics, of which 5% has been rated as world-leading in both cases. Click on this link to see the London South Bank University RAE quality profile results for 2008.

The Faculty has been successful in gaining external funding from a variety of sources including the UK research councils, the European Union, leading charitable research foundations and the UK government.

The Faculty has a number of research groups in Computing, Information Systems and Information Management that come under the umbrella of the Institute for Computing Research (ICR) and a number of research groups in Business and Accounting, including the Centre for Accounting, Finance & Governance and the Centre for Social & Financial Systems Research, that come under the umbrella of the Centre for International Business Studies (CIBS).

The Faculty has a further two independent research centres; the Centre for Government & Charity Management and the Ehrenberg Centre for Research in Marketing.

Postgraduate research students

The Faculty offers various opportunities for postgraduate research students leading to MPhil/PhD.