We invite interested parties to submit applications in any of the following departmental areas:

Accounting

• Accounting change
• Budgeting
• Governance
• Performance management and reporting in not-for-profit and public sector organisations

Economics

• Development and population economics
• Economic and business history
• Game theory
• Labour economics
• Networks and mechanism design
• Regional economics
• Social policy

Finance

• Artificial intelligence and finance
• Asset pricing
• Banking
• Corporate finance
• Derivatives
• Financial technology
• Financial history
• Household finance

International Business, Entrepreneurship and Marketing

• Business and society
• Business and management history
• Consumer culture
• Innovation
• Institutional change
• International business in the digital era
• International marketing
• Negotiating cultural differences
• Social entrepreneurship,
• Strategic management,
• Technology transfer

Information Technology, Analytics and Operations

• Artificial intelligence and business
• Business analytics
• Business data science
• Digital innovations
• Operations and supply chain management

Organisation, Work and Leadership

• Business ethics
• Conflict management
• Diversity and inclusion
• Entrepreneurship and organisations
• Healthcare management
• Human resource management
• Leadership
• Sustainability
• Talent management
• Work and employment relations

Further Information

Available scholarships provide funding covering four years of annual tuition fees for either UK, EU or International applicants and living costs/stipend on a full-time basis valued at £17,668 per annum over four years. Successful candidates will be expected to provide teaching and research assistance as part of their stipend.

Eligibility

Admissions onto the Queen’s Business School PhD programme typically require a UK 2.1 Honours degree (or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University) and a UK Masters degree in a relevant discipline with a final result of at least 60% (or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University). International students wishing to apply, and for whom English is not their first language, must demonstrate proficiency in English to benefit fully from their programme of study or research. An IELTS score of 7.0 overall, with no less than a 6.0 in any component, is required (taken within the last 2 years).

Contact Us

QBS will only accept applications where there exists sufficient research expertise to ensure proper supervision of students. In the first instance, applicants must identify potential supervisors from the School and make informal contact. Academic staff at the School will be able to tell you whether they have sufficient expertise to supervise your topic and whether a fuller application is worthwhile. Applications that are not supported by a supervisor will not be considered.

Application Process

Apply using our online Postgraduate Applications Portal go.qub.ac.uk/pgapply and enter the text QMS2023PGR into the funding field. Applications to the scholarship must include a one-page cover letter detailing their suitability for the PhD programme at QBS and a research proposal of no more than three pages and one page of references. The deadline for applications is 2 May 2023. Decisions on successful applications will be communicated no later than June 2023.

Informal enquiries can be made to the Postgraduate Research Administrator: qmspgr@qub.ac.uk

Informal enquiries can be made to Alan de Bromhead

Director of Postgraduate Research, Queen's Business School