New starters - Mark Saunders

A warm welcome to Mark Saunders who joined BBS as Professor of Business Research Methods on the 1st October. He is based in the Department of Organisation, Work and Employment.

Mark gained his PhD from Lancaster University and subsequent had a variety of research posts with Hereford and Worcester County Council. He lectured at the Gloucestershire Business School, University of Gloucestershire, in Research Methods and Human Resource Management between 1990 and 2001. During this period he was Head of the Human Resource Management Research Centre. He subsequently worked at Oxford Brookes University Business School between 2001 and 2009 where, alongside his research, he taught Research Methods and Methodology to masters and doctoral students.  Whilst at Oxford Brookes he was Assistant Dean (Director of Research and Doctoral Programmes) and Professor of Business Research Methods. Before joining BBS Mark was Professor in Business Research Methods at the Surrey Business School, where he was also Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research Programmes. He holds visiting professorships at the Universities of Malta, Surrey and Worcester; and is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and a member of the Fellows' College.

His research interests include human resource aspects of the management of change, in particular trust within and between organizations and organizational learning; research methods, in particular methods for participant selection, methods for understanding organizational relationships and online methods; and small and medium sized enterprises’ success.  Mark’s research has been funded by the ESRC, the Health Foundation and as organizations including KingstonSmith and Worcestershire County Council. His research has been published in journals including Field Methods, Human Relations, Journal of Personnel Psychology, Journal of Small Business Management, Management Learning and Social Science and Medicine.  Mark has co-authored and edited a range of books including Research Methods for Business Students (currently in its seventh edition), Organizational Trust: a Cultural Perspective, Handbook of Research Methods on Trust (currently in its second edition), Handbook of Research Methods on Human Resource Development and Doing Research in Business and Management.  He is joint editor for Sage’s Understanding Research Methods for Business and Management Students book series and editor for Edward Elgar’s Handbooks of Research Methods series.