Program Overview

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Introduction:

The Nottingham Business School (NBS) DBA is a part-time doctorate designed for senior professionals in industry and academia to advance their practice whilst working in their existing roles. Offering a diverse balance of industry and academic practice, it is designed to leverage careers and/or make the transition into the highest levels of academia.

Our DBA is designed to improve your business and managerial practice through the development of your personal, intellectual and academic abilities, via a major academic research project. Your research will make academically recognised contributions to your chosen fields, thus providing private and public sector organisations with doctoral-level research outputs that make an impact in terms of policy and practice.

The programme has an innovative course structure allowing you to have the option of submitting your work in the form of conventional documents (route A) or in the style of academic papers (route B). The course team and supervisory team will work with you to ensure that you understand the different routes and options available to you based on your career aspirations and interests.

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The DBA is designed for you to:

explore the relationship between theory and practice, between understanding the world and changing it.

develop your judgement, foresight, and problem analysis by applying theoretical and forensic skills to the research material derived from their investigations.

develop you as a reflective practitioner who has the intellectual and personal adaptability to be able to deal with organisational change and ambiguity.

develop communication skills which will enable you to communicate effectively with both academic and managerial and business communities, and to act as interpreters between the two.

help you design and implement a research project at the boundaries of knowledge in your professional and managerial fields and thus make a contribution to academic knowledge and professional practice.

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Join our internationally-recognised research community

NBS is committed to excellent research which combines academic rigour with beneficial impact on social, economic and societal welfare, as well as informing the design and delivery of the School’s degree programmes. The School continues to underpin its strong and positive trajectory in research capacity and performance by further strengthening its infrastructure of support for researchers at all levels. NBS is a School where researchers can reach their full potential and where the alignment of individual and collective success is fostered and celebrated.

If you are determined to transform your organization, and to challenge the current “industry norm”, talk to the Centre for Business and Industry Transformation for a transformational-focused DBA.

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Nottingham Business School have both EQUIS and AACSB accreditation.

Our DBA is a prime example of how we enable individuals to achieve respected qualifications while undertaking research that's focused on, and beneficial to, their organisations and sectors.

We have worked with participants from many prestigious private and publication organisations including CapGemini Iberia, the United Nations, Nova Business School, the Oman Embassy in the US and KPMG.

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Course accreditation