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Students
Tuition Fee
GBP 12,250
Per year
Start Date
2025-10-01
Medium of studying
On campus
Duration
4 years
Program Facts
Program Details
Degree
PhD
Major
Management | Marketing | Operations Management
Area of study
Business and Administration
Education type
On campus
Timing
Full time
Course Language
English
Tuition Fee
Average International Tuition Fee
GBP 12,250
Intakes
Program start dateApplication deadline
2025-10-01-
About Program

Program Overview


PhD in Management

Management Studentships

We are offering PhD studentships comprising tuition fees and maintenance grants for four years. The deadline for application is 9 February 2025.


About the PhD in Management programme

The PhD in Management covers the three broad domains of Management, Marketing, and Operations Management.


Benefits

The PhD in Management Faculty includes an outstanding array of scholars, influential thinkers and active experts in their own fields. It combines more mainstream researchers with scholars adopting less conventional perspectives – all of them at the forefront of the academic debate in their areas:


Research Areas

Social Purpose

  • Professor Bobby Banerjee
  • Professor Daniel Beunza
  • Dr Itziar Castello (Subject Group Leader)
  • Dr Justin Davis-Smith CBE
  • Dr Angela Ellis Paine
  • Professor Jean-Pascal Gond
  • Dr Peter Grant
  • Dr Beverley Jones
  • Dr Rick James
  • Dr Stephen Lee
  • Dr Lauren McCarthy
  • Dr Lucrezia Nava
  • Professor Paul Palmer

Entrepreneurship and innovation

  • Professor Costas Andriopoulos
  • Dr Aliasghar Bahoo-Torodi
  • Professor Simone Ferriani
  • Dr Susan Hill
  • Dr Miranda Lewis
  • Dr Nettra Pan
  • Professor Vangelis Souitaris (Subject Group Leader)
  • Dr Ruben van Werven
  • Dr Stefania Zerbinati

Technology and Innovation

  • Dr Aneesh Banerjee
  • Professor Ajay Bhalla
  • Dr Eugenia Cacciatori
  • Professor Stefan Haefliger
  • Dr Andres Hervas-Drane
  • Professor Clive Holtham
  • Dr Sara Jones
  • Professor Feng Li (Subject Group Leader)
  • Professor Neil Maiden
  • Associate Professor Martin Rich
  • Professor Harry Scarbrough

Marketing

  • Dr Alex Atanasova
  • Professor George Balabanis
  • Professor Fleura Bardhi
  • Dr Daniela Cristian
  • Professor Zachary Estes
  • Dr Manto Gotsi
  • Dr Sabrina Gottschalk
  • Dr (Joyce) Jingshi Liu
  • Professor Marius Luedicke
  • Dr Laetitia Mimoun
  • Dr Thomas Robinson
  • Dr Irene Scopelliti (Subject Group Leader)
  • Dr Janina Steinmetz
  • Professor Caroline Wiertz
  • Dr Wanqing Zhang

Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management Group

  • Professor Nick Bacon
  • Dr Daisy Chung
  • Dr Li Cunningham
  • Dr Paul Dobson
  • Professor Laura Empson (Subject Group Leader)
  • Dr Joelle Evans
  • Dr John Forth
  • Dr Amanda Goodall
  • Dr Ece Kaynak
  • Professor Amit Nigam (Head of Faculty)
  • Professor Cliff Oswick
  • Professor Andre Spicer (Dean)
  • Professor Hugh Wilmott
  • Dr Joanna Zaleska
  • Professor Mats Alvesson (Visiting Professor)

Operations and Supply Chain Management

  • Dr Philippe Blaettchen
  • Dr Oben Ceryan
  • Professor Lilian de Menezes
  • Dr Navid Izady
  • Dr Canan Kocabasoglu Hillmer (Subject Group Leader)
  • Dr Florian Lucker
  • Dr Dimitris Paraskevopoulos
  • Dr Joerg Ries
  • Professor Manmohan Sodhi
  • Dr Byung-Gak Son

Strategy

  • Professor Paolo Aversa
  • Dr Senem Aydin
  • Professor Charles Baden-Fuller
  • Professor Laure Cabantous
  • Dr David Edelshain
  • Professor Hans Frankort
  • Professor Santi Furnari
  • Dr Alessandro Giudici
  • Dr Mara Guerra
  • Professor Paula Jarzabkowski
  • Professor Dzidziso Samuel Kamuriwo (Subject Group Leader)
  • Professor Gianvito Lanzolla
  • Professor Elena Novelli
  • Professor Torben Pedersen
  • Dr Simone Santoni
  • Dr Maima Aulia Syakhroza

Programme Structure

The Management PhD is usually a four year programme. You are registered on the MPhil degree for the first two years during which you will follow a programme of taught courses and prepare your first research paper.


Year 1 - Theory and Methods

  • Philosophy of Social Science
  • Fundamentals of Psychology
  • Fundamentals of Sociology
  • Quantitative Methods 1
  • Choosing your Research Question
  • Qualitative Methods 1
  • Quantitative Methods 2
  • Elective 1
  • Elective 2
  • Qualitative Methods 2
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Elective 3
  • Elective 4
  • Dissertation

Year 2 - Research and Teaching Skills

  • Reviewing the literature
  • Data base search
  • Generating ideas from empirical work
  • Funding your research
  • Creativity in PhD research
  • Positioning your research
  • Reviewing the literature (2)
  • Advanced research methods
  • LTA
  • Doing impactful research
  • Ethical issues in research
  • Writing theory papers
  • Research Day (joint with Imperial, UCL, Cambridge)

Year 3 - Professional and Career Skills

  • Effective academic writing
  • Co-authoring
  • Reviewing and publishing
  • Claiming a theoretical contribution
  • Preparation for the job market

Year 4

Year four will be focussed on your dissertation.


Fees and Funding

UK (Home) Students

  • Full-time: £4,880 per year

Non UK (Overseas) / EU Students

  • Full-time: £12,250 per year

Student Profile

PhD student Zuhur Balayah talks about her research project, and what it's like studying a PhD in Management at Bayes Business School.


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