Lead supervisor:
Prof Dirk Lindebaum
Start date: October 2017
Award: General
Subject Pathway:
Management and Business
Thematic Cluster:
Economy, Enterprise, and Productivity Cluster
Neuroscience in business
My research focuses on neuroscience and organisational behaviour, and particularly how research from the neurosciences is being applied within organisational settings. Although there is a dearth of empirical research directly addressing the contribution that neuroscience can make to our understanding of organisational behaviour, and our ability to effectively intervene to bring about behavioural change, enthusiasm for it is running high, both in the academy and amongst practitioners. A range of potential implications arise from this, ranging from the ethical to the commercial, and including questions about the underlying validity and generalisability of some neuroscience research. My research will seek to understand why neuroscience holds such an appeal and what contribution it can legitimately make to management and organisational science.