PhD/MPhilAccounting
The Accounting group’s research strengths range from accounting change to accounting education, and from performance measurement to financial accounting, using both quantitative and qualitative research techniques. The group has a particular interest in public sector and not-for-profit organisations.
Aside from gaining close research advice and direction from their supervisors and other academics in the group, research students benefit from attending courses and tailormade reading groups to complete their background preparation in accounting.
- Entry requirements
- Normally a UK 2.1 Honours degree (or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University) and a UK Master’s degree in a relevant discipline with a final result of 60% (or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University).
- English language requirements
- An IELTS* score of of 7.0, with not less than 6.0 in any component is required. *Taken within the last 2 years.
- Tuition fees
- £20,500 / ¥184,500
Course Content
Queen’s Business School prides itself on research-led teaching and offers its research students experience as teaching assistants in a variety of undergraduate courses.
Students regularly attend the School’s various seminar series, which attract leading academics from around the world. Students also present their work at these events, gaining invaluable advice and preparation for the academic job market.
Particular research strengths include:
- Accounting and performance measurement in multinational companies
- Accounting quality and corporate governance
- Accruals accounting in public sector organisations
- Ethics and accounting education
- Governance in charities
- Management/accounting change in the public sector
- Performance measurement/ management in charities
- Performance measurement/management in public sector organisations
- Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
- Short-termism and corporate governance
- Use of the case study approach in accounting education
Related courses
- Economics
- 3 years
Applications open
Why Queen's
Research Excellence
In its analysis of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework results, the Chartered Association of Business Schools positioned Queen’s Management School at 9th place out of 101 UK business and management schools for research intensity.
Staff members are published in top ranked academic journals, regularly attract competitive research funding, act as journal editors and sit on the editorial advisory boards of journals.
The School has a proven track-record of placing its PhD graduates in tenure track research and teaching posts at top universities in the UK and elsewhere.
International Orientation
At any one time the School can have up to 60 students undertaking a PhD.
The mix of international students and staff is very diverse with representation from Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Russia, Serbia, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, Great Britain, United States, and Zimbabwe.
Outstanding Opportunities
Great effort is made to provide graduate students with the research competencies to undertake innovative and scholarly work in their chosen fields.
Queen’s Business School is committed to the continuous improvement and enhancement of all of its degree programmes. New modules may be developed and included to replace or enhance those which are mentioned here.
Students participate actively in the research seminars of the School and University, attend conferences and participate in external academic networks.
Teaching opportunities are commonly made available for doctoral researchers to provide further experience and learning so as to best prepare students for a career in leading higher education institutes.
World-class Facilities
PhD students are based in shared offices in Riddel Hall, a listed building with state-of-the-art facilities.
Funding Options
Our PhD programmes can either be self-funded or funded through various bursaries and scholarships, which will be advertised on the School’s website.
HOW TO APPLY FOR PHD STUDY
Students wishing to apply to the School for PhD study are strongly encouraged to make contact with the School in advance of their application.
Admission to PhD
Admissions onto the Queen’s Business School PhD programme is subject to stringent entrance criteria, the submission of a proposal outlining your intended line of research, references and, where appropriate, proof of linguistic and academic ability.
Research proposal
Queen’s Business School will only accept applications where there exists sufficient research expertise, so as to ensure that students are properly supervised. Prospective applicants are encouraged, in the first instance, to consult the Management School’s webpage to identify potential supervisors for your work.
The best proposals are typically those developed in consultation with a member of academic staff.
When making contact with a member of academic staff, you might at first send a very short synopsis (of approximately 150 words) of your proposed research area. On the basis of this short outline, they will be able to tell you whether they, or the School, have sufficient expertise to supervise your topic, and whether a fuller application is worthwhile.
Once you have identified a member of staff who is interested in your research ideas, you should prepare a research proposal of no more than 2,000 words (excluding bibliographical references).
A good proposal will have the following characteristics:
A good proposal will have the following characteristics:
- Introduces the chosen study area and key research question or questions.
- Discusses the nature, scope and methodology of the study.
- Outlines the relevance or importance of the study.
- Contains a preliminary literature review.
We reserve the right to check any submitted proposal for originality.
Postgraduate Administrator
Queen's Business School
Email: qbspgr@qub.ac.uk
