Strathclyde Business SchoolResearch degrees
The Strathclyde Doctoral School brings together postgraduate research students from the variety of disciplines within Strathclyde Business School.
Browse our funded and unfunded opportunities.
You can choose to study a PhD, DBA, MPhil or MRes.
Find out more about our postgraduate experience.
Postgraduate research areas
Accounting & finance
The department is one of the UK’s major centres of research in accounting & finance. We are a committed team of dedicated faculty and doctoral students, pursuing innovative research in accounting, finance and cognate disciplines. PhD students work in all areas of accounting and finance, including: corporate finance, treasury management, derivative markets, critical accounting, management accounting and social, environmental & public sector accounting.
Economics
We specialise in applied policy-relevant academic research providing practical solutions to real-world problems. We're home to the highly respected Fraser of Allander Institute - which has for over 40 years been a crucial part of the economic policy landscape in Scotland. We have an outstanding reputation for collaboration and engagement with policymakers and industry, and support postgraduate research that reaches ‘beyond academia'.
Entrepreneurship
The Hunter Centre is one of the largest centres of entrepreneurship in Europe with links to global authorities such as Babson and MIT. Our diverse group of academic staff are internationally recognised experts in eight core entrepreneurship research themes and work with government and industry bodies to deliver impact.
Management science
We're one of the leading management science/operational research departments in the UK. Our research interests span the spectrum of management science activity. Our staff are internationally-known through their academic output and applied work with government and business organisations. We have a vibrant full-time postgraduate research programme with monthly seminars, yearly workshops and retreats.
Marketing
We're one of the oldest and largest marketing departments in Europe, contributing to understanding of organisations, consumers, business relationships and networks within dynamic, international contexts. We're committed to engaging in research which generates real benefits for business, society, and the education and learning experiences of our students. We're home to a vibrant, lively community of researchers.
Work, employment & organisation
We have a broad focus on research and PhD supervision in human resources, organisational behaviours, organisations and industrial relations. Specific research themes include:
- work, health & wellbeing
- labour market disadvantage
- the regulation and restructuring of employment relations
- fragmented & precarious work
- skills, labour power & workplace innovation
- work, labour & globalisation
- contested technologies at work
- new perspectives on leadership identity
- management across cultures
- tourism & hospitality management
Discover more about our research
Accounting & finance
Our research has long been a source of excellence. It's recently been recognised in its contribution to the Business School's top rating in Scotland in the 2014 research assessment exercise.
Economics - our research
We're one of the leading UK centres for internationally recognised policy and business-relevant reconomics research.
Entrepreneurship - our research
Our research develops stronger understanding of how entrepreneurs can better create new value for business and society.
Management science - our research
We focus on developing tools for more effective decision support.
Marketing - our research
We take part in research that improves our understanding of organisations, consumers, business relationships and networks within dynamic, international settings.
Work, employment & organisation - our research
Our research spans employment studies, human resource management, organisational behaviour and organisation studies.
