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Management MA, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Business subject area.
Key facts
- Subject area: Business
- Location: Canterbury and Medway
- School: Kent Business School
- Duration: MA/MSc one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD three years full-time or five years part-time, NRPhD four years full-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September
- Fees: More info
- Entry requirements: A good first degree, or if applying for an MPhil or PhD, a relevant qualification at Master's level from a UK or other approved university and/or equivalent. You must submit a research proposal of approximately 1,500 words on your intended topic. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Outline
We have international expertise in the following areas: accounting and finance, operational research, international business strategy, tourism management, organisational behaviour, human resource management and industrial relations, and food marketing and supply chain management.
MA, MPhil and PhD degrees are available in most of these areas or in the general subject area of management. We encourage potential applicants to contact academic staff on an individual basis for an informal discussion before submitting a research proposal. There are contact details of individual members of staff on our website. For more information, contact the Research Secretary at the Business School.
Programme structure
For further information see the School site.
Funding
For PhD students, we offer both Kent Business School Research Scholarships and University of Kent Postgraduate Research Scholarships. Each of these scholarships are each available for three years and include tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a stipend up to the UK Research Councils' level of £13,590 (2011/12 rate).
Further details can be found on the Kent Business School website.
Kent Business School offers a small number of scholarships, awarded on merit, to students who have accepted an offer of a place on a one-year taught postgraduate programme. Applicants who apply before 30 January will automatically be considered for a scholarship. All other applicants must apply before 31 May. Criteria and application forms can be found on the Business School website.
Many schools offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate research students receive financial support in return for teaching. The value of awards may vary, but often cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a substantial maintenance grant. All postgraduate research students are eligible to apply for GTAs. See Graduate Teaching Assistantships
Industry-funded PhD studentships: Centre for Value Chain ResearchThere are a limited number of industry-funded PhD studentships available to UK or EU students to work with leading academics and industry practitioners, exploring the most profound database of shopper behaviour of its kind in the world, as part of the Consumer Insight Service of the Centre for Value Chain Research.
ESRC and EPSRC studentshipsKent Business School has both ESRC and EPSRC studentships. Details can be found on the Kent Business School Website
For further details of postgraduate funding, see Postgraduate funding.
View further information about scholarships available in the Kent Business School.
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Resources and facilities
Most postgraduate programmes are taught on the Canterbury campus. Kent Business School occupies a purpose-designed building consisting of executive learning facilities with wireless provision throughout, and has its own coffee shop. Set in a beautiful woodland environment, the Business School is within close walking distance of the Sports Centre and other campus facilities, including the postgraduate accommodation in Woolf College.
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Research groups
Accounting and Finance
This group pursues research in a variety of areas including financial management in the public and profit-seeking sector, environmental and social aspects of accounting, cash flow analysis, the law and practice of auditing, accounting history and international accounting, financial econometrics, corporate finance, asset pricing, real-estate modelling, security price behaviour.
Core academic members
Professor Warwick Funnell, Dr Mohammad Hasan, Dr Abdullah Iqbal, Dr Robert Jupe, Ortenca Kume, Dr David Morelli, Dr Radha Shiwakoti, Dr Silvia Stanescu, Dr Liyan Tang, Professor Radu Tunaru.
Food Marketing and Supply Chain Management
The Food Marketing and Supply Chain Management Group has both a disciplinary and a sectoral focus. The disciplinary focus is on food marketing, consumer behaviour and supply chain management. The sectoral focus is the food industry, with research covering a wide range issues from farm to fork. Strong links with industry and an international network of research partners support the group's empirical research and a growing body of postgraduate research students is at the heart of the theoretical and conceptual work in which the group is engaged.
Core academic members
Dr Rachel Duffy, Professor Andrew Fearne, Dr Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dr Sue Hornibrook, Dr Ben Lowe, Dr Marian Garcia Martinez, Dr Dan Alex Petrovici, Dr Diogo Souza Monteiro, Lisa Wood.
Management Science
The Management Science group covers a wide range of research areas in Operational Research and Systems Thinking. These include research in the area of logistics including green logistics and network security with a special emphasis on the innovative design and analysis of heuristic and exact optimisation, DEA, operation management, multi-variate analysis, biometrics, multimethodology and Soft OR/Systems.
Core academic members
Dr Gavin Dick, Professor Steve Liu, Professor Cecilio Mar Molinero, Professor John Mingers, Dr Gabor Nagy, Dr Jesse O'Hanley, Professor Said Salhi, Dr Maria Paola Scaparra, Dr Ebrahim Soltani, Dr Niaz Wassan.
Work, Leadership and Organisation
Research examines key themes in the areas of Employment Relations, Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour and Leadership at both national and international levels. The group covers a wide range of research, including employment relationships, the role of social partners, the effects of skills, technology, and culture, on the world of work, employee engagement, and the role of leadership in determining organisational performance. The group includes researchers from a variety of academic backgrounds. It therefore works from a multidisciplinary perspective, utilising both historical and futuristic perspectives.
Staff
Faiza Ali, Dr Mark Gilman, Dr Patricia Lewis, Dr Samantha Lynch, Dr Jawad Syed, Professor Dennis Tourish, Professor Katie Truss, Dr Pamela Yeow.
Strategy and International Business
The Strategy and International Business (SIB) Group at the Kent Business School carries out research in Strategic Management and International Business.
Current research topics include:
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Dynamic Capabilities and Performance Management
- International Business in Central and Eastern Europe
- International Strategic Alliances
- Internationalisation of Professional Services Firms
- Management of Multinational Enterprises
- Management of Not-for-profit Organisations
- Non-market strategies.
Core academic members
Dr Alison Dean, Dr Mark Hampton, Professor Alexander Mohr, Professor Paul Phillips, Dr Carmen Stoian.
Interdisciplinary research themes
Kent Business School also offers supervision in a number of other areas that cut across its research groups.
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