# Research centres, clusters and groups

**Source**: https://sheffield.ac.uk/management/research/research-centres
**Parent**: https://sheffield.ac.uk/management/postgraduate/courses

Our centres, clusters and groups bring together experts to explore our key research themes. Together we are tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues and producing research that influences governments, policy makers, and industries across the globe.

[### Centre for Decent Work

The Centre for Decent Work (CDW) comprises researchers from across the school and the Faculty of Social Science who have interests relating to work, employment and the labour market. The aim of CDW is to generate and disseminate high-quality research that has the potential to inform and shape academic debates and influence policy and practice.](https://sheffield.ac.uk/cdw/home)

[### Centre for Research into Accounting and Finance in Context

The Centre for Research into Accounting and Finance in Context (CRAFiC) seeks to encourage and conduct research into the ways that accounting and finance are constituted and help to constitute the broader context and institutions in which accounting and finance exist, as well as their technical qualities. By encouraging this research, members seek to understand the experience of accounting and finance from the point of view of everyone affected by related decisions - not simply the decision makers. CRAFiC seeks to mobilise accounting and finance scholarship in order to build a fair and sustainable society.](https://sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/home)

[### The Institute of Work Psychology (IWP)

The aim of the research programme of the Institute of Work Psychology (IWP) is to combine scientific quality with practical relevance; in scientific terms the emphasis is on developing and testing theory about the effects of work on employee well-being and performance, and doing so by using rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods, with particular emphasis being placed on the use of longitudinal and change studies. IWP also advances knowledge on themes such as bullying, sexism and diversity in the workplace.](https://sheffield.ac.uk/iwp/home)

[### Supply Chain, Operations and Logistics Applied Research Centre (SOLARC)

Led by Sheffield University Management School, much of the research of SOLARC goes beyond the boundaries of the University – partnering up with research users in the public and private sector, locally, nationally and internationally, to help them to rethink and develop their models and methods for supply chains, consumption and production, and information management systems to make them more sustainable.](https://sheffield.ac.uk/solarc/home)

## Research Clusters and Groups

[### Behavioural Research for Inclusivity, Sustainability and Technological Transformation (BRISTT)

BRISTT’s research focuses on the impact that consumption, services and technology have on societal wellbeing and the environment.](https://sheffield.ac.uk/bristt/home)

[### Organisation Studies (OSC)

The Organisation Studies Research Cluster explores the dynamics that influence processes of organising and organisations and engages with underrepresented voices in management and organisational studies.](https://sheffield.ac.uk/organisation-studies/home)

[### Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business (ESIB) Research Group

The Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business (ESIB) Research Group advances knowledge at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategy, international business and society, leading academic conversations and offering important implications for policy and practice.](https://sheffield.ac.uk/management/research/research-centres/esib-research-group)

## Related information

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