Research
Our research interprets patterns of economic, business and social life to foster new theories and ideas and develop recommendations for public policy and business innovations. We seek to deepen understanding of how markets, business organisations and social institutions evolve over time.
We are proud of our diverse and supportive research culture and our contributions to society and the economy. Looking forward, we have ambitious plans to build our international networks, facilitate research engagement and impact, and transform our PhD programme. Professor Simon Teasdale
Director of Research
of our research is world-leading and internationally excellent
Research Excellence Framework (2021)of our research environment is conducive to producing world-leading and internationally excellent research
Research Excellence Framework (2021)
Latest Publications
Across the sea to Ireland: return Atlantic migration before the First World War
- Alan Fernihough
- Cormac Ó Gráda
Social enterprise as political work: perspectives from the Global South
- Yanto Chandra
- Simon Teasdale
Judging a book by its cover: understanding the phenomenon of fake news propagation from an evolutionary psychology perspective
- Ashish Kumar Jha
- Rohit Nishant
Multilayer network games: a cooperative approach
- Parishmita Boruah
- Surajit Borkotokey
- Rajnish Kumar
The evolution of organizations and stakeholders for metaverse ecosystems: Editorial for the special issue on metaverse part 1
- Arpan Kumar Kar
- Patrick Mikalef
- Rohit Nishant
- Xin Luo
- Manish Gupta
A thriving research culture
Academics across Queen's Business School are engaged with the policymaking process. QBS has particular expertise in the health and social care sector, with research on topics including: healthcare quality management; demand for health services; early life conditions; work disability; workforce ageing; the determinants of health inequalities; evaluating health policy interventions; demography and fertility; and Covid-19.
One of the ways in which QBS contributes to the wider scholarly community is through editorial roles at leading journals including the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Accounting and Business Research; Economic History Review; European Journal of Finance; and the Global Journal of Health Science. During the most recent REF period, 21 academics from the School were involved in editing 28 journals.
We welcome and encourage applications from outstanding researchers around the world who wish to spend time at Queen’s Business School. Our policy for all individuals from other universities and institutions who are funded from sources external to the University and who wish to visit the campus can be found here.
QBS funds conference travel and visitors and seminar speakers from international universities to stimulate joint research projects. QBS also funds and facilitates workshops through its departments and research centres and has received grants from the UKIERI-UGC Thematic Partnership and BiNoMa.
In the most recent REF period School academics published papers with 519 authors from other UK universities and 1,002 authors from outside the UK. Our academics partnered with colleagues from Paris School of Economics, Erasmus University, Goethe University Frankfurt, UC3M, and Antwerp University. During the Covid-19 lockdown, the School joined a consortium of universities and central banks to start the International Macro History Online Seminar, which continues to meet fortnightly.
We have a vibrant and growing community of postgraduate research students from across the globe. We facilitate an annual PhD colloquium where students present their work, funding is available for workshops and conferences, and our research centres include PhD students in all activities, also giving students the opportunity to meet all visiting seminar speakers.
Speakers at our seminar series are a mixture of internal and external academics. In the most recent REF period, the School hosted a total of 201 seminars by external international scholars from institutions, including top US universities such as Harvard Business School, Notre Dame University, Stanford University, the University of California at Davis, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. QBS sponsors various specialist workshops and outreach events throughout the year through its research centres. QBS has attracted major international conferences to Belfast, including the Economic History Society Annual Conference in 2019, and the Royal Economic Society in 2024.