Centre
Centre for Economy, Policy and Place
Unit(s) of assessment: Business and Management Studies
Research theme(s): Safety and Sustainability
School: Nottingham Business School
About the Centre for Economy, Policy and Place
The Centre for Economy, Policy and Place (CEPP) sits within Nottingham Business School (NBS), bringing together research being undertaken on economic and public policy issues with an emphasis on ‘place’, public and emergency services and applied economics.
The Centre currently includes around 50 colleagues, drawn from a number of departments including Economics, Accounting and Finance and HRM. In recent years, the Centre has been extremely productive in terms of research output, publishing numerous world-leading and internationally excellent papers in high-ranking journals across business management and the social sciences.
Members of the Centre are highly interdisciplinary and attend academic conferences from across economics, public management, political science, human geography, human resources and business management.
The Centre has also secured significant external research funding from a range of sources in recent years, including the European Commission, UK Government, British Council, and has been responsible for most of NBS’s REF impact case studies in the past, with several more in development for 2029.
Our interests and goals
We support and promote research and impact into the theory and practice of public policy, governance and applied economics by:
- providing a focus for the scholarly activities and a distinctive research identity for economics, public policy and governance, and place-based research within NBS
- providing a catalyst for organisational, staff and curriculum development in economics, public policy, governance and service delivery
- generating interest and financial support for research and other scholarly activity in economics, public policy and public management, through external grant capture, consultancy and contract research
- growing research capacity within NBS in these fields, by developing existing colleagues and recruiting new researchers
- promoting, disseminating and supporting the research of members, their collaborators and associates; we work towards this by generating and promoting academic and societal impacts through our research and the activities of Centre members. We also facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations within NBS, across Nottingham Trent University and in the wider academic community interested in the theory and practice of economics, public policy and governance.
To achieve these aims, CEPP brings together distinct, but mutually reinforcing, interests in public policy, public governance, applied economics and place-based research. Alongside producing academic outputs, we also carry out economics consultancy, contract research and training.
Leadership and structure
Affiliated staff
- Professor Rob Ackrill (Emeritus Professor of European Economics and Policy)
- Dr Emmanuel Amissah (Principal Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Alexandra Arntsen (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Dimitrios Bakas (Associate Professor in Economics)
- Dr Kenneth Baldwin (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Craig Bickerton (Senior Lecturer in Economics and Statistics)
- Dr Florian Biermann (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Professor Alistair Bruce (Emeritus Professor of Economics)
- Dr David Candon (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Geoffrey Castillo (Senior Research Fellow in Economics)
- Dr Alper Cenesiz (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Professor Thorsten Chmura (Professor in Experimental and Behavioural Economics)
- Dr Hoi Chung (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Joel Clovis (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Professor Alan Collins (Emeritus Professor of Economics)
- Mark Connelly (Principal Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Lerato Dixon (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Bernard Dom (Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance)
- Dr John Ebireri (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Jingwen Fan (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Shaun Gordon (Senior Lecturer in Management)
- Dr Atilla Gumus (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Becca Hardy (Senior Lecturer in Marketing)
- Dr Achim Hauck (Associate Professor in Economics, Finance and Banking)
- Dr Michael Hewitt (Principal Lecturer, Strategy, Analytics and Operations)
- Dr Shang Jiang (Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Neslihan Kahyalar (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Helen Knight (Principal Lecturer in Economics and Deputy Head of Economics)
- Dr Katarzyna Lakoma (Senior Research Fellow in Accounting and Finance)
- Dr Christopher Lalley (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Professor Andrew Leyshon (Senior Fellow in Economics)
- Dr Chunping Liu (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Yu-Ling Liu-Smith (Research Fellow in Accounting and Finance)
- Dr Caitriona Logue (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Aruneema Mahabir (Senior Lecturer in Economics and Statistics)
- Dr Michael McCann (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Robert Mullings (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Professor Peter Murphy (Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Management)
- Dr Tom Newham (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Thao Nguyen (Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance)
- Dr Ludovica Orlandi (Senior Research Fellow in Economics)
- Dr Job Owusu Ansah (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Sarah Pass (Senior Lecturer in HRM)
- Dr Ani Raiden (Associate Professor, Department of Management)
- Akin Sharimakin (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Marie Stack (Senior Lecturer in Economics)
- Dr Yung-Lin Wang (Lecturer in Economics)
- Professor Zara Whysall (Professor, Human Resources Management)
- Emma Wilson (Senior Lecturer in Marketing)
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, 86% of NTU’s research impact was assessed to be either world-leading or internationally excellent.
Research publications
This is an indicative selection. Full details of all members' publications can be found on the Institutional Repository.
- ECKERSLEY, P., LAKOMA, K., MURPHY, P., CAYGILL, T. and PELL, C., 2025. Accountability as a function of power relationships in public governance networks. Public Administration, 103 (3), pp. 906-922.
- ECKERSLEY, P., OTTO, A., HAUPT, W. and KERN, K., 2025. Climate capacity in medium-sized German cities: (how) do smaller municipalities implement mitigation and adaptation policies? Climate Action, 4: 62.
- KELLARD, N. M., MAKHLOUF, Y., SARKISYAN, A., & VINOGRADO, D. V., 2024, (in press). Women's empowerment and child mortality. World Development.
- HUGGINS, R., KITAGAWA, F., PROKOP, D., THEODORAKI, C., THOMPSON, P., 2024 (in press) Entrepreneurial ecosystems in cities and regions: emergence, evolution, and future. Oxford University Press.
- ECKERSLEY, P., FLYNN, A., LAKOMA, K. and FERRY, L., 2023. Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension. Regional Studies, 57 (10), pp. 2087-2101
- HAUPT, W., ECKERSLEY, P., IRMISCH, J. and KERN, K., 2023. How do local factors shape transformation pathways towards climate-neutral and resilient cities? European Planning Studies, 31 (9), pp. 1903-1925.
- ECKERSLEY, P., FLYNN, A., FERRY, L. and LAKOMA, K., 2023. Austerity, political control and supplier selection in English local government: implications for autonomy in multi-level systems. Public Management Review, 25 (1), pp. 1-21.
- WANKHADE, P. & MURPHY, P., 2023. Emergency services management: a research overview. Routledge.
- ROSSITER, W., Expert blog: Remaking the region - the East Midlands in transition, published 16 May 2025
- ROSSITER, W., Expert blog: How to fix the poly-crisis of public services, poverty and productivity, published 1 October 2024
Principle research activities
Policy, Place and Public Services
The Policy, Place and Public Services team is interested in issues of public policy and emergency services across international, national, regional and local scales. It includes specialist research interests in central and local government, the healthcare sector, and the emergency services.
Applied Economics and Policy Analysis
Applied Economics and Policy Analysis (AEPA) brings together the economists within CEPPM, along with colleagues from across NTU who share areas of research interest, and underlying research methods.