QMUL Principal’s PhD Studentships : School of Business and Management

The School of Business and Management QMUL, invites applications to be put forward for fully funded PhD Studentships commencing October 2025.

The studentships are for applicants wishing to undertake a PhD in the School of Business and Management. We welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates in the following subject areas: Accounting and Finance; Behavioural Economics; Climate Policy and Environmental Change; Complex Networks and Innovation; Employment Relations; Equality and Diversity; Human Resource Management; Inequality and Poverty; Information Systems and Digital Technologies; Labour Economics; Management and Organisation Studies; Marketing; Monetary and Financial Economics; Operations Research; Public Economics and Management; Strategic Management and Leadership; Supply Chain Management; Urban and Regional Development.

The research proposals submitted by applicants should normally fit at least one of the School’s five departments:

Accounting and Financial Management

Business Analytics and Applied Economics

Business and Society

Marketing

People and Organisations

Research in the School is also organised around the following overlapping research centres, groups and clusters:

Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR)

Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED)

Centre on Labour and Global Production (CLGP)

Accounting & Accountability Research Group (AARG)

Behavioural Finance Working Group (BFWG)

Business Eco-systems Research Group (BERG)

Marketing Interactions & Consumer Behaviour Group (MICBG)

Organisational Processes and Practices Research Group (OPPRG)

Public Management and Regulation Cluster (PMR)

Borderline: Action Research Cluster in Creative and Cultural Economies (BARCCE)

Details on research areas and interests can be found at: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/research/research-centres/

Candidates must specify which department they wish to join and identify potential supervisor(s) on their application form. Candidates are encouraged to discuss their research proposal with a member of academic staff specialising in their research area. 

For more information on the School’s research see: http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/research/index.html

The Studentship

The studentships cover all tuition fees, and provide a grant for living expenses at UK Research Council rates for London (c. £21,237 p.a. full-time, £10, 613 part-time, 2024/25 rate). Awards are made for the full duration of the period of fee liability for the agreed course. Please note that these awards cannot be deferred. As part of your award, you will be able to access additional funding to help cover some of the costs of training, fieldwork, travel and more.

Eligibility and how to apply

The closing date for all applications is 22nd January 2025, 17:00 GMT. Candidates are required to apply via the online portal.

For further details on the eligibility criteria and how to apply please visit: http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/phd-programme/

General enquiries should be addressed to the School of Business and Management via email (sbmphd-admissions@qmul.ac.uk).

Queen Mary University of London is committed to the provision of equality of opportunity for all its students and staff. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of their race and ethnicity, sex, parental status, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation and gender identity, or age.

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