The department has the following 34 research students and staff studying for a research degree.
| Student | Research |
| Alsada, Abdulla | Performance Measurement |
| Al-Sulaimani, Sulaiman | |
| Balali, Samaneh | Reliability and Maintenance Optimisation |
| Booker, Carolyn | Performance measurement and decision-making in UK universities |
| Burnham, Richard | Competing Risk Models in Reliability |
| Carey, David | Application of Soft Systems Methodology to Planning in Schools |
| Davidson, Laura | High value manufacturing |
| El Bardissi, Wafik | Intelligent Model for Oranisational Decision Support |
| Etherson, Philip | A comparative study of Scottish Police Boards |
| Ferguson, James | |
| Fink, Miloslawa | Modelling of supplier selection |
| Fischer, Stefan | |
| Gajdosz, Magdalena | Human Reliability Analysis |
| Garnett, Jeremy | Simulation |
| Gould, Helyn | |
| Halvorsroed, Jan | |
| Hill, Vicki | Operations Strategy and Quality Management |
| Ishutkina, Tatyana | Modelling human and organisational dynamics for developing genome quality environment at electric boat corporation. |
| Kosgi, Hasib | Operations Management |
| Leerojanaprapa, Kanogkan | Risk Modelling in Supply Networks |
| Leggate, Alexander | Crew scheduling for 'shipping' company |
| MacKay, David | |
| Martin, Jane | Problem Structuring Methods |
| Morgan, Jennifer | Integrating discrete event simulation and system dynamics |
| Otele, Olakunle Adetolu | |
| Parkhill, Ross | Implementation of ERP Systems |
| Ragoobar, Tricia | Next Generation Telecommunication Networks |
| Ramsay, Howard | |
| Stierand, Marc | A Systemic Innovation Model of Extraordinary Chefs |
| Szendrey, Jaszmina | |
| Thomas, William Llewellyn Scott | The role of Enterprise Technology Adoption in Medium Sized Enterprises in the Process Manufacturing Sector |
| Tracy, David | Risk and Reliability |
| Williams, Bernadine | Forecasting of Ship Operating Costs |
| Wisse, Bram | Decision analysis for complex procurement problems |