Business School PhD scholarships open to applications

Four new business school PhD scholarships are available for September 2012 entry.

The graduate research director, Professor Gerald Midgley, says: ‘This is an exciting opportunity for any excellent student who aspires to undertake cutting edge research in a leading business school under the supervision of internationally recognised staff’.

The Hull University Business School has the ‘triple crown’ of accreditations from EQUIS, AMBA and ACCSB, putting it in the top 1% of business schools worldwide.

The scholarships are open to students of any nationality who wish to study for a research degree in:

·         Accounting & Accountability

·         Empirical Finance & Banking

·         Innovations in Business & Management Education

·         Logistics, Project Management, Supply Chains & Operations Management

·         Marketing Innovations & Applications

·         Organisational Futures & Studies of Organising

·         Corporate Social Responsibility

·         Economics

·         Regional & International Business

·         Systems Thinking, Cybernetics, Problem Structuring & Information Systems

The scholarship contributes to tuition fees the equivalent of the Home/EU tuition fee cost regardless of nationality and a maintenance allowance of £13,590 per year for the duration of the programme, to a maximum of three years.

To be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must hold a minimum of a UK upper second class Honours degree, or equivalent, in an appropriate discipline. A Masters degree and/or relevant work experience will give an advantage. The quality of the applicant’s research proposal is particularly important to the selection process.

Professor Midgley said, ‘The business school has excellent facilities, including extensive on-line resources designed by and for students. We provide free membership to the international social networking site for PhD students, MySupervisorOnline.com. All students join one of the nine research centres in the business school, so become an integral part of our research community’.

PhD students at the University of Hull follow research training modules in addition to undertaking original research, giving them skills for employment in academia or industry.

The closing date for applications is 2 March 2012. For more information on how to apply, visit the research degree pages.

Added 27 January 2012