Staff and Affiliates

Lara current research focus is on business and humanrights. Before joining Nottingham University Business School in August 2019, she worked at the Alliance Manchester Business School, where she led the Business and Human Rights Catalyst Programme.  She received a first-class honours BA and MA degrees in Political Science, and her PhD in Management, Competitiveness and Development from the Grand Ecole Scuola Superiore Sant\'Anna, Italy.

I joined the ICCSR as Assistant Professor in Responsible and Sustainable Business in August 2018, having completed my PhD at the centre earlier that year.  My ESRC-funded doctoral research examined the ways in which consumers construct their agency to act ethically at different stages of the tourism experience.  Prior to my PhD, I obtained a MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility and BA (Hons) in Management Studies from Nottingham University Business School.

My research interests include responsible consumption and consumer ethics, the market-consumer interface, and  responsible tourism.   

Prior to joining Nottingham, I taught and researched at Keele University for 23 years, as a Professor of Management and Public Engagement (since 2006) and as Director of the Community Animation and Social Innovation Centre-CASIC (since 2014). I hold doctoral degrees from Oxford University and the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest.

My research is underpinned by an American Pragmatist philosophy and uses qualitative and arts-based methodologies of community engagement and knowledge co-production.  My work has been funded by the AHRC, GCRF, ESRC, EPSRC, MRC and HEFCE and explores a wide range of business and society issues such as market-place exclusion, food poverty, rural health, volunteering and post disaster reconstruction and tourism.   Working closely with a variety of marginalised stakeholders in the UK, Japan, the Philippines and Kenya, the research puts centre stage the voices and aspirations of communities which have been traditionally disregarded by main stream management discourses.  Outputs have been disseminated not only via academic publications but also through documentary dramas. virtual games and community based exhibitions and installations curated jointly with the award winning New Vic Borderlines.

I am Senior Administration Officer based in the Research Support team at the Business School I am responsible for providing administrative support to PGR Researchers working alongside the PhD team and in addition working closely with the ICCSR academic team providing research centre support. 

Lee is an early career researcher in the area of Business and Society. He has a PhD from the University of Manchester in sustainable supply chain management and has published in this area in journals such as Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM), Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, and Organization. 

I was introduced to the concept of CSR whilst working in the non-profit sector in Kenya in the area of women and economic development, community development, and volunteering which included corporate volunteering. I’ve been in ICCSR since 2003 as a Masters of Research student and then proceeded on to do my doctoral studies. I joined the ICCSR team in September 2007 as a full-time Lecturer in CSR. My research and teaching interests are in CSR and Development, Corporate Community Investment, Corporations and Citizenship, and CSR in Developing Countries. In my pastime, I try to recreate a ‘Kenyan Safari’ experience in Nottingham by taking walks in the Nottingham University Park’s lakeside woods, and of course the Sherwood Forest! I also enjoy music and dancing.

Niamh acts as a new Assistant Professor in Sustainability/Corporate Social Responsibility/Business Ethics, in the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR).  She joins ICCSR with over 15 years’ experience in the inter-governmental, academic and practice spheres related to sustainable development, CSR, sustainability reporting, sustainable finance and responsible investment.

Niamh most recently worked for two years as an Associate Analyst with Sustainalytics, a responsible investment research firm, headquartered in Amsterdam; where she managed Sustainalytics Academic Programme, led a seminal research project on responsible investment engagement processes, and co-authored Sustainalytics’ sector reports.

Niamh completed a PhD (cum laude) and post-doctorate in The University of Amsterdam Business School, where she taught an MSc course on “Sustainability, Accountability and Ethics”, as well as a specialised MBA elective course on sustainable finance. Her PhD and post doctorate research won a series of academic and practice awards, including the 2010 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Interdisciplinary Accounting Research Category; and the French Social Investment Forum (SIF) Best Published Article Award 2010. Her research has been published in Accounting, Organisations and Society, and Accounting, Accountability and Auditing Journal.

Before her PhD, Niamh also spent four and a half years with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) in Geneva, Switzerland. Here, she acted as project manager for the UNEP FI African Task Force, and the UNEP FI- GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) Financial Services Sector Supplement Working Group.

Niamh’s current research interests span the broad intersection between social and environmental accountability, sustainable finance – in particular responsible investment engagement processes – institutional theory and valuation studies.

I joined the Business School in 2019, having been an Honorary Associate Professor since 2013 and member of the Advisory Panel from 2006.  As a member of staff, I work on practice focussed engagement, and encourage the combination of academic learning with practitioner leadership and expertise.  My own areas of expertise are: corporate social responsibility; business planning, budgets, and financial modelling; and charity governance.

My recent previous employments were as an Executive Director at the Gambling Commission and Business in the Community.  I have held several non-executive director and trustee roles, my current appointment is with a wireless internet services provider.

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