My main research focus is an interdisciplinary synthesis of entrepreneurship, firm and national competitiveness interrelationships with individual-level psychology, culture and political-economy.

I am actively recruiting PhD candidates who are (i) highly motivated to pursue scholarly careers that will have an impact on substantive real-world problems; (ii) who are open- and scientifically-minded; and (iii) who are intellectually intrigued by how entrepreneurship, firm and national competitiveness interact with aspects of individual-level psychology, wellbeing, culture, and political-economy.

Potential PhD candidates who find these topic areas intellectually compelling and would like to help develop, refine and execute research on them as part of a structured programme of doctoral training and original scholarship, should get in touch with me sending all the following:

1. A concise, candid, and honest explanation of why they want to become a university professor within 8 years of completing their PhD.
2. A clear statement of how they plan to develop their scholarly career after completing their PhD.
3. A brief description of how they would use their eventual position as a full professor to improve the world.
4. The intellectual and practical rationales for why they are interested in the particular topic/project area they propose researching.
5. An original, non-generic, non-LLM- or essay-mill-produced brief proposal of the kind of research they would like to pursue, drawing as necessary on extant literature for germane concepts, salient theory, and relevant empirical analyses.
6. An explicit indication of both the (i) theoretical and (ii) empirical approaches they think might be appropriate (and that they’d personally like to deploy).
7. A statement of the scholarly training and practical research issues they think they’d need to consider in order to succeed in completing their PhD effectively.
8. A full academic CV.
9. Full transcripts of ALL degrees.
10. A brief rationale of why they would not (or perhaps would) use AI/LLMs in their PhD.
11. A statement of whether or not AI/LLMs were used in the production of any aspect or element of their application, and if they were, how precisely.