PhD Studentships - School of Business and Management Queen Mary University of London

PhD Studentships

School of Business and Management

The School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, invites applications to be put forward for PhD Studentships, commencing September 2013. We welcome applications in the following areas:

• Equality and diversity - working with The Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED)
• Globalisation - working with The Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR)
• Business history - working with The Centre for Management and Organisational History (CMoH)
• Marketing
• Public management
• Management learning and leadership
• Business ecologies - innovation, knowledge and networks

Candidates must specify which research group they wish to join on their application form.
The AwardQueen Mary Studentships are open to suitably qualified candidates from the UK, EU and overseas. The Studentship consists of the full cost of (home or overseas) fees and £15,590 a year for maintenance for 3 years for London-based students. Award holders will be expected to undertake some departmental duties through the course of their PhD as a condition of the award.
Candidate ProfileThe School of Business and Management is committed to appointing only the very best candidates to its PhD programme. To apply you should have a good first degree (BA or BSc Honours or equivalent), at upper second class or equivalent with evidence of some 1^st class work, and/or a Masters qualification (at Merit or above with evidence of some Distinction level work) in a cognate discipline related to the studentship. All applicants will be judged according to the same criteria, namely: record of academic and/or professional achievement; quality of their research proposal; and compatibility with the theme of the studentship.

Further Details and Application ProcessGeneral enquiries should be addressed to the PhD Administrator, Monira Begum (m.begum@qmul.ac.uk).
Candidates are encouraged to discuss their research proposal with a member of academic staff specialising in their research area. Details of academic staff and their research interests can be found on the School website (http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/staff/index.html)
For further details and how to apply visit: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapply/ and see the School's web pages: http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/phdprogramme/index.html.
Application Deadline
The closing date for applications is 31^st January 2013. All short-listed applicants will be interviewed shortly after the closing date (either face-to-face or, in the case of overseas candidates, by Skype or telephone).