PhD in Management

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

Our PhD in Management begins with core training in social sciences and the most widely used quantitative and qualitative methods. Students then customise their pathway with a broad menu of electives and apply their learning through a substantial First-Year Project.

Students participate in a series of seminars that provide them with basic research skills (crafting a compelling literature review, identifying an interesting research question, effective academic writing) and expose them to advanced research methods. Other activities are designed to reinforce their teaching skills and introduce them to course preparation and delivery.

By the end of the second year, we expect students to present preliminary work to international academic conferences in their own fields.

First term

Workshops:

• Reviewing the literature
• Data base search
• Generating ideas from empirical work
• Funding your research

Second term

Workshops:

• Creativity in PhD research
• Positioning your research
• Reviewing the literature (2)
• Advanced research methods
• LTA

Third term

Workshops:

• Doing impactful research
• Ethical issues in research
• Writing theory papers
• Research Day (joint with Imperial, UCL, Cambridge)

Students learn about the editorial process and how to publish their own research in the most rigorous academic journals; they learn the craft of reviewing, as well as responding editorial letters. Other activities are designed to adequately prepare students for the international academic job market.

By the end of the third year, we expect students to present a more polished and developed paper in the most important conferences in their own fields, and to enter the international job market.

First term

Workshops:

• Effective academic writing
• Co-authoring

Second term

Workshops:

• Reviewing and publishing
• Claiming a theoretical contribution

Third term

Workshops:

• Preparation for the job market

Year four will be focussed on your dissertation.

To be eligible to apply for next academic year, you must hold a first degree (a first or equivalent) in a subject related to your proposed research topic.

The following qualifications are highly desirable and would enhance your likelihood of being accepted:

• A masters degree from a leading institution with a distinction or equivalent
• A GRE or GMAT score is highly recommended for applicants

Our students have a variety of academic backgrounds ranging from Accounting, Actuarial Science and Economics to Engineering, Finance, Management and Mathematics.

We are looking for mature, highly-motivated individuals with excellent analytical, problem-solving and verbal skills.

The following items (in electronic format) are compulsory for your application:

• Research proposal with a 400 word non-technical summary (please include with the proposal)
• Statement of Purpose 300 words
• Your CV/resume including a passport photograph
• Names and e-mails of two academic referees
• Your personal details, including a contact email
• Official transcripts for your Bachelor and or Master's Degree
• Official transcript of proficiency in English, if English is not your first language.
• A GRE or GMAT score is highly recommended for applicants, please upload this in the relevant section.

The following items should be supplied if available:

• Transcripts or provisional results of your Master's degree(s)
• Professional qualifications
• Employment history.

Please provide details of your intended research proposal in support of your application. This is an important part of your application in which you outline up to two research directions you would like to pursue in your PhD.

Before preparing your proposal you should familiarise yourself with the research interests of Bayes academics to make sure that your research is aligned with their expertise.

The research proposal should include

• an abstract
• the research objectives
• the proposed research methodology
• a summary review of the relevant literature and current understanding or knowledge
• an indication of how the proposed research will contribute to the discipline.

You should also provide an outline work plan for the period of research including consideration of approval of any research ethics implications. You are also asked to comment on why you wish to pursue this research and what you feel you will bring to it. The research proposal should be a maximum of three sides of A4.

In addition, if you wish to be considered for a Bayes Studentship, you should provide a non-technical summary of your proposed research. This summary should be no more than 400 words.

You will need to provide names and emails of two referees who know your work well and can comment on your aptitude for critical thinking and original research within a well-defined framework. We will contact the referees once you have submitted your application.

Please note: the email account of referees are required to be a professional email account.

We cannot accept references emailed from web-based email accounts such as @gmail.com, @hotmail.com or @126.com because we cannot confirm the provenance of these. Please bear this in mind when you fill in their email address on the application.

For students whose first language is not English, the following qualifications will normally meet the English language requirement for entry to a postgraduate course of study and to apply for a Student Route visa:

• A first degree from a UK university or from the CNAA
• A first degree from an overseas institution recognised by the institution as providing adequate evidence of proficiency in the English language for example, from institutions in Australia, Canada or the USA
• GCE O-level/GCSE English language or English literature, grade C minimum
• Cambridge ESOL CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) at grade C or above
• An overall minimum score of 7.0 in the English Language Testing System (IELTS *Academic) with a 6.5 minimum in all 4 areas (IELTS scores are only valid if they are less than two years old on the programme start date)
• We accept TOEFL iBT score of 100 or higher overall.
  TOEFL iBT Special Home Edition
  City’s institution code for TOEFL is 0870
  Please note we do not accept My Best Scores

In addition to the above, we will also monitor your English language skills throughout the admissions process.

Please note, at the initial stage of your application we will accept electronic copies of your official transcripts. If your application is successful we will require you to send us the original hard copies before a final offer of place is made.