Faculty research areas
Find out more about research at Derby
What next?
Contact Dr. Victoria Carpenter by email or on 01332 591808 to discuss the research opportunities we could help you with.
Visit our research areas for each of our schools:
Our research active members of staff provide a focus for research training of doctoral research students and offer external consultancy and contract research work.
Faculty research groups
Our applied research activity focuses on:
- Linking with business in 'communities of practice' for the purposes of teaching, consultancy and research
- Acquiring, creating and sharing of knowledge/technology through research and consultancy activities
- Acquiring and creating leading-edge technologies and exploiting them by creating innovative solutions to real world problems and needs
- Providing skills and practice appropriate to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and less technologically sophisticated businesses, including in the creation of ventures.
Our research expertise
Across the faculty as a whole, we cover a wide range of specific areas of expertise within various subject areas, such as:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Commercial Law
- Cultural Studies (including Transculturation)
- Data Mining
- Discourse Analysis (including Political)
- eBusiness and Informatics
- Enterprise Development
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Decision Analysis
- First Line Management
- Health Economics
- Human Resource Issues
- Internet and Software Engineering
- Knowledge Engineering
- Latin American Studies
- Managing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
- Manufacturing Enterprise Modelling
- Measurement Science
- Measurement Technology
- Medical Imaging
- Organisational Control
- Postcolonial Studies
- Public Sector Management
- Purchasing and Supply
- Services Marketing
- Software Quality
- Strategic Accounting
- Strategic Studies
- Welfare Law
- Virtual Reality
What next?
- Contact Dr. Victoria Carpenter by email or on 01332 591808
- Find out more about research
