DoctorateHub leadership

Ana joined the DoctorateHub at the very early stage back in 2017 and is heading the DoctorateHub office.

Ana holds a PhD from the Engineering and Innovation Department at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, The Open University UK, that has been awarded for her thesis on “The role of behaviour in the transition to more energy efficient use at home”. Her research combined positivist and constructivist paradigms, so to allow for both: statistically analyse the data, whilst also allowing for an exploration of the complex set of variables that influence human behaviour. With this her research used a mixed, multi-method research methodology, using both quantitative and qualitative research procedures. Quantitative research aimed to gain insight and identify issues for the subsequent qualitative phases of the empirical work, while the qualitative research aims to explore attitudes, behaviour and experiences through such methods as interviews or focus groups.

Dr. Kevin Boeh joined the Faculty of Finance and Business Economics at the U. of Washington (Foster School of Business) (USA) in fall 2018 after three years at U. of Florida (USA) where he was a visiting associate professor. Before that, he was a visiting scholar at U. of Washington and a tenured associate professor at Pacific Lutheran University (USA). Dr. Boeh’s research focuses on corporate finance and corporate strategy with an international emphasis. He has published in Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals.

Dr. Boeh has taught at all degree levels and has received numerous teaching awards. An area of focus is quantitative methods/econometrics, transaction cost economics, regulatory frictions, and (efficient) market failures.

I’ve been an academic since 1987 when I started teaching economics. Among other subjects taught, I have lectured in business and management, strategy and research methods. As well as authoring articles, chapters and conference papers, I have published seven books, the most recent of which were Exploring the Green Economy and Green Manufacturing both publishedby by Bite-Sized Books, London in, respectively, July and October of 2021.

One of my main roles was as Associate Professor with resposnsibility as director of research degrees in business involving oversight of all doctoral programmes including the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA). I was also involved as a tutor for the online DBA programme for Liverpool Laureate and participated in the residency workshops for students undertaking research for their thesis.

I passed my viva many years ago, in 1993; however, this does not mean that I have forgotten how it was. I do recall it as if it was just yesterday …

Since then, I have been involved as a committee member in many Viva exams of my students at bachelor, masters and PhD level as well as engaged in examination process of many other students’ theses.

I started my research path as a young researcher at the University of Ljubljana(Slovenia) and at the University of Technology Vienna (Austria) from where I obtained my PhD. After finishing my PhD, I was working as a Researcher - free-lancer. During this time I was involved in several national and international interdisciplinary research projects working with research groups from different international universities and research institutions. My research career continued at the Austrian Academy of Science.

Since 2012, I have tutored, mentored and coached beyond 500 professional doctoral students (mid to seniors, aged 35 to 70) both with the University of Liverpool Management School’s Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program (UK), and since 2016 also with DoctorateHub. This allowed me to understand how to tackle problems at scale, be it the tame, the complex, or the wicked. 500+ students also implies 500+ workplace-based problems which I had the chance to look at. And while working with such an array of problems allows for quite some learning, it also has shown to me that very often it is quite exhaustive for such grown up and seasoned research novices. In response to this, we thus decided to set up the DoctorateHub, so to provide training, mentoring, and coaching services to all those that struggle to get their workplace-based issues identified, analysed, understood, written up in a thesis, and ultimately resolved.