Cardiff School of Management

Research Centres & Groups

 

Creative Leadership and Enterprise Centre (CLEC)

The Creative Leadership and Enterprise Centre (CLEC) was established at the Cardiff School of Management in May 2007.  It delivers top class leadership training to the future leaders of both private and public sector organisations.  It also carries out research projects on local enterprise and SMEs.
 
Following the success of our Sustainable Leadership for Schools programme, tomorrow’s head teachers of Cardiff Schools were taken through lessons in how to lead their schools towards sustainable success, the next cohort will be running from July.
 
It is currently running a pan-Wales Post Graduate Certificate in Leadership for Collaboration, a joint project between UWIC and Bangor University brought by PSMW.  Further information on L4C can be found here.

Centre for International Competitiveness

Founded in 2007, the Centre for International Competitiveness focuses on researching and exploring the competitiveness of economies and businesses. Its mission is to provide a platform for stimulating and disseminating research on competitiveness across business, policy-makers, and academic communities.

The Centre aims to provide a research bridge connecting studies and debates relating to the competitiveness of economies - nations, regions or localities - and businesses. This linking of macro and micro-level aspects of competitiveness provides the cornerstone of the Centre’s vision for producing and disseminating research relevant to understanding and furthering competitive business strategy-making and economic policy-making in tandem.

Founded by Professor Robert Huggins of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and Dr Hiro Izushi of Aston Business School, the Centre is home to the influential World Knowledge Competitiveness Index, European Competitiveness Index, and UK Competitiveness Index. The reports related to these indices, along with others included in the Competitiveness Research Report series, can be accessed from a dedicated website.
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MBA Centre

The MBA centre is the home of one of Europe’s largest on-campus MBA programmes.  It is committed to providing a high-quality learning experience for its students who come from a wide variety of countries but mainly from Asia.  

The research base at the centre is increasing with a number of key lecturers involved with the National Health Service, automotive industry and the public sector.  The centre offers a total of nine MBA programmes – a general programme and eight of a more specialized nature.

Students also have the opportunity to undertake a study visit overseas to observe chosen organizations and experience a different culture.

The centre’s involvement with the business community is increasing with students undertaking research for dissertations and class projects with both international and local companies.  A number of collaborative partnerships, relating to the MBA, also exist within the UK and overseas. 

The Welsh Centre for Tourism Research (WCTR)

WCTR is rapidly developing a reputation as a leading international research centre for critical tourism studies. The Centre is home to a burgeoning suite of international projects and networks which focus on the linkages between tourism and sustainable economic development, inequality, injustice and poverty alleviation.

WCTR acts as the focus for the work of a number of research-active staff and over 40 research degree students from countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Egypt, Eire, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Oman, Spain and the UK.

The Centre has been involved in three major international conferences, Tourism 2002 in Cardiff, Critical Tourism Studies International Conference Dubrovnik, (2005) and Split (2007).

Members: Dr Annette Pritchard, Professor Eleri Jones, Professor David Botterill, Professor Nigel Morgan

Wales Institute for Research into Cooperatives (WIRC)

WIRC was established in April 2000 as the first Welsh centre providing basic, strategic and applied research covering all aspects of the social economy. Its principal aim is to work with government (national and local), industry, commerce and local communities to achieve the strengthening of the social economy in Wales and to raise the profile of the social enterprise sector, specifically co-operatives, within the academic community.

The Institute for Social Innovation

The Institute for Social Innovation is an umbrella research centre of the Cardiff School of Management. Researchers in the Institute address a broad range of business, social and economic issues in the business, public and third sectors in Wales, the UK and internationally.

What distinguish us is that we seek to utilise and deploy management techniques and academic theorising to devise innovative solutions to pressing real-world problems. Our particular interests include, but are not limited to, co-operatives, tourism as an ‘industry’ as well as a socio-cultural activity, corporate governance, IT management issues, the health service, the environment and technological innovation.

EuSpRIG, European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group

EuSpRIG is an interest group of academia and industry promoting research concerned with the extent and nature of spreadsheet risks, methods of prevention, detection of errors and methods of limiting damage. We bring together researchers and professionals in the areas of business, software engineering and audit to actively seek useful solutions.

Members: Patrick Cleary, David Ball, Simon Thorne, Mukul Madahar