Overview
Our interdisciplinary Management PhD offers specialisation in key business areas, such as supply chain, international business, entrepreneurship, marketing and the world of organisations.
Introduction
If you have a master’s degree in a management related field, the University of Liverpool Management School offers the perfect environment to become a world-class specialist researcher in this area.
Our Management PhD gives you the opportunity to explore your own ideas while you receive thought-provoking advice from our academic staff.
We offer tailored training with modules designed to develop your research skills in management. The modules cover:
- Business and Management as a Social Science
- Quantitative Methods in Business and Management
- Qualitative Methods in Business and Management
- Advanced Research Methods.
You’ll also receive additional training via workshops, seminars and conferences.
To ensure you are fully supported during your thesis, you’ll work with a primary supervisor who is a leading expert in their field, and a secondary supervisor, who is a promising early career researcher specialising in your area of study.
Although you can start this PhD at the beginning of any month, we recommend doing so in October or January where possible. This coincides with the start dates of our training modules.
Research topics
Our Management PhD covers a broad range of potential topics for investigation across all aspects of business management.
We welcome research proposals in topics including:
Research culture
One of an elite group of institutions worldwide to hold the gold standard ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, the Management School is a research powerhouse.
Home to six specialist research centres, you’ll be joining a school where you can actively participate in current research activities. There’s also the chance to attend seminars where prominent international speakers present their latest ideas and research.
International experts from our Marketing, OSCM, SIBE and WOM groups lead pioneering research and shape academic thought by producing real-world impacts in business practice, policymaking and society.