Members of the Centre for Governance, Regions and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS)
Our members bring a multidisciplinary, rigorous approach to addressing topical issues in regional development, governance and industrial strategy.
CGRIS is a leading academic and policy research centre at the University of Bath, combining expertise across various social sciences (accounting, economics, finance, law, management and politics).
Co-Directors
- Professor Felicia Fai, Professor of Innovation and Regional Growth
- Professor Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy and Regional Development
Members
- Dr Samantha Archard, Institute for Policy Research
- Dr Mariachiara Barzotto, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Business
- Dr Marc Betton, Lecturer in Business Economics
- Dr Rob Branston, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics
- Dr Joseph Bromfield, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics
- Dr Chris Dimos, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics
- Professor Winifred Huang, Professor of Finance and Digital Strategy
- José Miguel Iglésias, PhD candidate, School of Management
- Professor Effie Kesidou, Professor in Business Economics
- Professor Richard Jackon, Professor in Accounting, Finance & Law
- Dr Monia Mtar, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy & Organisation
- Mohammad Hussain Salehi, PhD candidate, School of Management
- Laura Smyth, PhD candidate, School of Management
- Professor Hanwen Sun, Professor of Accounting and Finance
- Dr Joanna Syrda, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics
- Dr Fanis Tsoligkas, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Accounting
- Dr Tim Wakeley, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics)
- Dr Ru Xie, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Finance
Visiting professors/fellows
- Professor David Birks, Honorary Professor in Management
- Paddy Bradley MBE, Industrial Fellow
- Sally Hardy, Industrial Fellow
- Dr Sandrine Labory, Visiting Professor (University of Ferrara)
- Dr Zihan Wang, Visiting Research Fellow (University of Sussex)
Former PhD students (name, thesis, current employment)
2025
- Samantha Archard: The genesis of regional industries: A Scottish space industry case study, now Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath
- Zihan Wang: Towards A New Skills Framework for the UK’s Left-behind Regions: Insights for Place-Based Policy, now Research Fellow, University of Sussex
2024
Ali Salmon: Policy discovery through a complexity lens: Case studies of economic reforms and policy practice in Malaysia and Pakistan
2022
- Chris Dimos: Beyond input and output additionality of public R&D support, behavioural additionality and implications for industrial strategy: science, technology and innovation policy, University of Bath
- Jane MacKay: Degree apprenticeships and their potential for widening participation: social mobility or social reproduction?, Director at Clearwater Advantage, Business Consulting, Salisbury, UK
- Min Yang: The role of innovation in the corporate financing, University of Huddersfield
2020
- Boondhiva Cheewatragoongit: ASEAN stock market consolidation: an implication for market integration, home bias and diversification benefit, Bank of Thailand, Thailand
- Anzela Volkova: Financing deficit of defined benefit pension: the case of UK, Office for National Statistics, UK
- Yue Zhang: Determinants and consequences of mutual funds’ exits, International School of Business and finance, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
2019
- Muhamed Alsharman: Risk evaluation,
- Hui Gao: Firm-level risk and systemic risk analysis in the insurance sector during the subprime mortgage crisis: CDS vs. non-CDS-based risk indicators
- Jaehak Hwang: Foreign exchange risk and the stability of banking systems, FSA Korea
- Kazimierz Michał Kelles-Krauz: The influences on innovation in transition economies, evidence from Poland and Czech Republic
- Sozy Mohammed: Governance of public-private partnerships in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Emmanouil Sifodaskalakis: Determinants of bank ratings,
2018
- Xinyu Huang: Dynamic portfolio construction and risk management of hedge funds, University of Durham, UK
- Yadong Li: Probability density distributions of stock returns, market regimes, and financial risk measures, 2018, University of Bristol
2017
- Marc Betton: The impact of regulation on micro-firms, University of Bath, UK
- Xinyi Huang: The relationship of bank accounting ratios and financial crisis 2007/08, University of Durham, UK
- Ozlem Ozen: Knowledge sharing, innovation and social capital: The role of business group affiliation in Turkey, Sirnak University, Turkey
- Di Xiao: The role of information and liquidity in interbank network formation, 2017, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
2016
- Prince Abbey: Economic governance and social capital: A case study of Ghana’s cocoa industry, Self-employed in publishing, Ghana
- Yan Yan: Determinants and consequences of executive compensation: Empirical evidence from Chinese listed companies, Tsinghua University, China
- Zhuoran Xu: Identifying systemic risk in interbank markets by applying network theory, Guandong University of Technology, China