PhD - Aston Business School,Phd

Research at Aston Business School addresses a wide variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary themes.

Our research expertise is embedded in our academic departments below, and you are strongly recommended to explore our departmental web pages, before applying, so that you can better position your research proposal to fit with academics' current research interests.

Aston Business School

• Accounting
• Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship
• Marketing and Strategy
• Operations and Information Management
• Work and Organisation

If you are interested in PhD study in any of the following Departments please contact the Departmental PhD Lead with your Research Proposal:

Accounting
Dr Galina Goncharenko
g.goncharenko@aston.ac.uk

Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship
Dr Tasos Kitsos
a.kitsos@aston.ac.uk

Marketing and Strategy
Dr Reza Marvi
r.marvi@aston.ac.uk

Operations and Information Management
Dr Victoria Uren
v.uren@aston.ac.uk

Work and Organisation
Dr Siqi Wang
s.wang10@aston.ac.uk

Research environment

We have an exciting and vibrant research environment at Aston Business School that enables our PhD students to be engaged in various research events and seminars (Aston Business School-wide and PhD-specific). Our PhDs have a dedicated research society which organises various social and academic related events throughout the year, including the BSS Annual Doctoral Conference. We strongly believe that these activities are an essential part of ensuring our PhD students are engaged and motivated throughout the duration of their PhD journey.

The BSS PhD Hub offers our doctoral researchers the opportunity for further training skills development from experts across the College.

Our academic departments also run research seminar series (and other activities) where PhD students are encouraged to present their research and get feedback from colleagues.

All students can access up to £1,500 for presenting at academic conferences and to help further develop their research knowledge, skills, abilities and professional development.

Qualifications

A Masters degree in business, management, or the social sciences (or related disciplines) with a Merit overall (or equivalent) with a dissertation/research element, PLUS a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree (or an equivalent qualification from an overseas institution).

Entry may be allowed to exceptional candidates who can demonstrate the required knowledge and capabilities for Doctoral level study, but do not fulfil all of the above criteria. These will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

Language proficiency

For applicants who are not from majority English speaking countries, it is necessary to meet our English language requirements. For details of the language requirements please view our English language requirements webpage.