Case studies

Integrating the academic perspectives of management science, psychology and law, Dr Ross Ritchie is currently examining and risk‑assessing the police custody process. His research aims to improve police decision‑making practices, which will ultimately lead to a number of positive individual, organisational and societal impacts This is a novel approach, because it looks…

Dr Lili Yang has teamed up with the University of Thessaly (Greece); The Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (Poland) together with water management companies in Poland and Greece in order to develop an intelligent Integrated Support System for Efficient Water Usage and resources management (ISS‑EWATUS). The project goal is to develop…

Overview: The main rationale for declining long‑term discount rates results from uncertainty about the future. This uncertainty can be shown to cause declining discount rates over time; the discount rate is estimated for up to 300+ years and it is dropping from 3.5% pa to 1% pa (in 300 years)….

Professors Alberto Franco and Gilberto Montibeller are looking to improve the frameworks underlying threat prioritisation, so that policy makers can respond to disease outbreaks better and faster. In this project a decision support system (DSS) was developed that improved the Emerging Threat Highlight Report (ETHiR) produced monthly by Defra’s Veterinary Risk Group (VRG)….

The Research Centre of Service Management at Loughborough University, partnering with Healthwatch Leicestershire and Leicestershire County Council, were awarded an Enterprise Project Grant (EPG) worth £100,000 by the University’s Enterprise Office in‑kind support from the partners for this major study. The outcomes from this research project, led by Professor Stewart Robinson, are…

Based on his research on offshoring, reshoring and shared service centres, Ian Herbert is developing proposals for organisations to use students on a range of tasks and thus, gain sufficient cost advantage to negate the main attraction of offshoring.  Students could gain work experience that is becoming scarcer as the professional…

Currently the UK’s shoppers have not yet deserted their local High Street. However, they no longer achieve what they want in their town centre visits. Therefore, physical business located in town centres will survive as long as consumers enjoy them. Consequently, the main goal of the Customer Experience of Town…

In 2012 CyMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, a division of the Welsh Government, commissioned the first of two projects, which constitute this series of research initiatives, led by Claire Creaser. The first project reviewed a range of existing quality assessment frameworks used in libraries and the public sector, assessed their…

This research, led by Dr Fiona Ellis‑Chadwick, is a timely response to the need of improving digital skills on the UK high streets, especially among SMEs, the voluntary community and social enterprise sector. The importance of developing an appropriate Digital High Street Health/Performance Index (DHSPI) has been pointed out, among other priorities,…

Dr Alok Choudhary is actively involved with two complementary research initiatives (Nex‑GIFT and REINVEST), which address the pressing challenge of minimising environmental impacts caused by the freight transportation industry (FTI). Thus, these projects aim at the development of innovative strategies, best practices, a knowledge framework and low carbon supply chain models for…