Senior Leadership Team at Kent Business School

Senior
Leadership
Team

The Senior Leadership Team at Kent Business School

Our vision is to become an internationally recognised business school in sustainable innovation, inspiring learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society. Led by Professor John Board, Acting Dean of Kent Business School, the Senior Leadership Team advances this vision with strategic and operational oversight of the School’s activities and our future direction.

Professor John Board

Acting Dean

j.board@kent.ac.uk

Professor Ben Hutchinson

Director of Graduate Studies (Division of Arts and Humanities), Professor of European Literature, Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research (Kent Business School)

b.hutchinson@kent.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 (0)1227 823077

Professor Ben Lowe

Professor of Marketing, Associate Dean for Global Engagement & Recruitment

Consumer behaviour and adoption of innovations, Introductory pricing and promotional strategies, Pioneer Advantage, Social Marketing, Autonomous vehicles and automated technologies.

b.lowe@kent.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 (0)1227 824840

Dr Sideeq Mohammed

Senior Lecturer in HRM - Organisational Behaviour, Associate Dean of Education and Undergraduate Student Experience

Critical Management Studies, a research group that is concerned with issues around the moral defensibility and ecological sustainability of the dominant paradigms of business and management practice.

s.mohammed@kent.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 (0)1227 816598

Professor Jesse O'Hanley

Professor of Environmental Systems Management, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation

Development of optimisation and simulation techniques for environmental management, facility location, transportation, and logistics.

j.ohanley@kent.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 (0)1227 824286

Professor Aydin Ozkan

Professor of Finance, Head of Department of Accounting and Finance

Corporate finance, investment, corporate governance, managerial compensation, agency conflicts, economics of insolvency, climate risk, CSR.

a.ozkan@kent.ac.uk

Professor Thanos Papadopoulos

Professor of Management (Information Systems/Operations Management), Head of the Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems

Operations and Information Management, with a focus on the strategic use of Information Systems for process improvements and sustainability within organisations and supply chains.

a.papadopoulos@kent.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 (0)1634 888494

Professor Catherine Robinson

Professor in Applied Economics and Business Statistics, Deputy Dean (Accreditations & Medway)

Productivity impacts of foreign direct investment and new (information and communications) technologies in the UK and Europe. Impacts of migrant workers on firm performance.

c.robinson-501@kent.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 (0)1634 888466

Professor George Saridakis

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Head of Department – Marketing, Entrepreneurship and International Business

Econometric analysis of cross-sectional, time-series and panel data related to entrepreneurship, HRM in small businesses, their growth and survival, economics of crime and the use of social media.

g.saridakis@kent.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 (0)1227 827921