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Research into information, surveillance and privacy encompasses a range of work covering individual responses to privacy and data protection, to the organisational and governmental dynamics of surveillance practices, as well as theoretical and methodological developments in the study of these phenomena. Surveillance research in the Open University Business School focuses on surveillance as it is co-constituted by organisations, employees and consumers.Principal research themes currently include the within-firm dynamics of data protection and privacy, the rise of ?big data?, the role of the private sector in government surveillance regimes, consumer surveillance, surveillance and the embodied subject and surveillance, democracy and resilience.

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Research in social marketing encompasses a range of work examining social change and quality of life, and sustainable and ethical consumption. Principal research themes focus on the social consequences of alcohol consumption, healthy eating interventions and smoking cessation.

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Research in marketing aims to extend theory and to inform managerial practice through projects spanning: managing customers, managing responsibly, managing in practice and managing services. Research is particularly strong in the areas of market segmentation and targeting, social marketing and ethics, and managing customers and customer relationship management (CRM).Potential research projectsInternally funded full-time research studentships are advertised in January (closing date end of March) and may include the following.

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