PhD MPhilManagement
The Management group’s research strengths range from entrepreneurship to human resource management, and from marketing to public sector management.
Aside from gaining close research advice and direction from their supervisors and other academics in the group, research students benefit from attending courses and tailor-made reading groups to complete their background preparation in business and management sciences.
- Entry requirements
- 2.1 Honours degree in a relevant subject (Accounting or Finance based) or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University.
- English language requirements
- An IELTS* score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in each test component. *Taken within the last 2 years.
- Tuition fees
- £20,500 / ¥184,500
Course Content
The Queen’s Business School Doctoral Programme will support you in the PhD process with a faculty of leading scholars and a network of international partnerships with other top-ranked universities. This means that you will have access to a broad set of facilities and specialised courses, and you are able to build a global knowledge network with top scholars from around the world. This ensures you will receive unmatched support to maximise your chances of achieving excellence in your doctoral research.
The Chartered Association of Business Schools counts Queen’s Business School among the top 10 per cent of UK research-intensive business schools. A Queen’s Business School PhD enables you to differentiate yourself through top academic research. It prepares you for an academic career, but exposes you to skills that are useful in a business or public policy career as well.
Related courses
- Finance
- 3 years
Applications open
Why Queen's
You’ll be part of an energetic research cluster that continuously strives for excellence in both its teaching and its scholarship across the themes of entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity, human resource management and workplace change, marketing, international business, supply chain management and strategy, and public sector management. You’ll benefit from attending courses and tailor-made reading groups to complete your preparation in business and management sciences, and have access to the School's seminar series, which attracts leading global academics.
How to apply
Students at Queen’s Business School are required to develop a wide range of skills and competencies in addition to their subject-specific knowledge. Our Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme aims to support postgraduate research students in d eveloping these skills.
Over the course of study you are expected to attend postgraduate skills training organised by the Graduate School. Additionally, we run our own weekly postgraduate skills seminar that covers a variety of topics, such as innovative research methods, the business school job market, and academic publication strategies. We regularly invite employers and graduates to speak with current students, and actively support students when they attend international conferences and workshops. We run an annual Doctoral Colloquium, and help to prepare those students who seek to go on the academic job market.
CONTACT
Postgraduate Research Team
Queen's Business School
e: qbspgr@qub.ac.uk
My research looks at cooperation between traditionally rivalrous trade unions in light of contemporary competitive pressures such as firm relocation. The diversity of research interests and academic training offered within Queen’s Management School gave me the freedom to study an area that really interests me. My supervisors have been invaluable in shaping the quality of my research and helping me build a solid foundation for my future academic career Ruth Reaney, PhD student
