Draft Management School Research

At Sheffield University Management School we deliver world-class research with lasting impact. Sustainability and social responsibility are at our core, shaping interdisciplinary research across our themes. We build expertise to enable innovative research with real-world relevance and global reach.

Our research

Strengthening the NHS mental health workforce

With the NHS dealing with a workforce crisis, our academics are exploring how mental health services can best implement new roles to improve care and benefit staff.

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Supporting major industry to manage risk

We're leading a project with Rolls-Royce to develop a resilience index scorecard system for high value manufacturing industries.

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Energy efficient waste collections

Our work with Sheffield City Council and Veolia to create a new approach to modelling fleet vehicle energy use has shown it would be possible to run Sheffield’s entire refuse collection rounds on purely electric vehicles.

Creating innovative leaders

Our research-based CLEAR IDEAS training workshops are being used by hundreds of organisations to develop the creativity and innovation of their leaders and employees and produce significant improvements in performance.

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Our research themes

Managing the Future of Cities

Managing the Future of Healthcare

Managing the Future of Work and Business

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PhD study

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Research Centres