The University of Warwick, UK
The University of Warwick is one of the UK’s leading research-led universities with an acknowledged reputation for excellence in research and teaching, for innovation, and for links with business and industry. Founded in 1965 with an initial intake of 450 undergraduates, Warwick now has in excess of 23,000 students and is ranked comfortably in the top 10 of all UK university league tables. The scientific and technical capacity at Warwick has been recognised throughout Europe and across the globe as Warwick has been ranked as one of the top 100 universities in the world in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings for 2015. Warwick is renowned for excellence and innovation within research and in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, it was ranked the seventh overall research University in the UK, and 19 Warwick departments are in the top 10 in the UK in their unit of assessment based on research outputs. Warwick has recently been selected as one of only five funding members of the prestigious £42m national Alan Turing Institute for Data Science.
Located at the centre of an outstanding university, in just 40 years Warwick Business School (WBS) has become one of the world's elite business schools providing top-class programmes for ambitious people and the overall vision is to be the leading university-based business school in Europe. WBS is led by innovation, creativity, and change, and engages with the big debates in business and public policy. The Financial Times ranks the WBS Full-time MBA in the world’s top 40 and 6th in the UK, whilst Forbes ranks the Full-time MBA 7th in the world and 3rd in the UK for schools outside the USA. WBS strives for excellence in research and can genuinely claim to be home to some of the world’s best researchers. At the 2014 Research Excellence Framework more than 80 per cent of WBS’s research output was judged ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, ranking Warwick Business School fifth in the UK for research output. WBS was also ranked third in the UK for research strength based on the ‘Research Power Index’, published in the Times Higher.
The Operational Research & Management Sciences group at Warwick Business School comprises four Professors, seven Associate Professors, two Assistant Professors and two Teaching Fellows. Our research focuses in the areas of revenue and demand management, multi-criteria decision analysis, simulation, approximation and heuristics, and decision making under uncertainty (among others). The aforementioned research specialities are an excellent match for the proposed research project since all are needed either in the mathematical design and solution of the problem or in the evaluation of the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. In the subject Statistics and Operational Research, Warwick was ranked 43 globally in 2015 by the QS World University Ranking (28th, 30th in 2014 and 2013, respectively).
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