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.

In the most recent REF cycle (2021), 81% of our research was deemed world-leading and internationally excellent. We are proud of our vibrant, diverse and supportive research culture at Queen's Management School and our contributions to society and the economy. Looking forward, we have ambitious plans to developing our research centres, build our international networks, facilitate research engagement and impact, and transform our PhD programme, whilst building on our key strengths. Dr Chris Colvin
Director of Research Impact
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
Making Ireland: The ‘Made in Ireland’ trade mark and the delineation of national identity
- Robin Adams
- Nikolas Glover
- David M. Higgins
Industrialization, economic and political power
28 January 2023An improved neural network model for battery smarter state-of-charge estimation of energy-transportation system
- Bingzhe Fu
- Wei Wang
- Yihuan Li
- Qiao Peng
Humanitarian management strategy for interstate movement of migrant workers in India during COVID-19 pandemic: An optimization based approach
- Niladri Palit
- Atanu Chaudhuri
- Nishikant Mishra
Accounting at the Donnybrook Magdelene Laundry
- Brid Murphy
- Martin Quinn
A thriving research culture

Academics across Queen's Management School are engaged with the policymaking process through our four research centres. For example, staff at the Centre for Health Research at the Management School are carrying out policy-focused 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 QMS 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 QMS 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 Management 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.

QMS funds conference travel and visitors and seminar speakers from international universities to stimulate joint research projects. QMS 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 QMS 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, QMS 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, QMS 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. QMS sponsors various specialist workshops and outreach events throughout the year through its research centres. QMS has attracted major international conferences to Belfast, including the Economic History Society Annual Conference in 2019, and the Royal Economic Society in 2023.