Research in the Business School

The Business School is committed to maintaining a thriving research community in order to maintain the credibility of its awards, maintain the distinctive ethos of a higher education institution, provide development opportunities for our staff and support the strategic objectives of the University and schools. Its strategy is to increasingly focus research in specialist, high quality centres and institutes. Timetabled Research Allowances and research students are largely linked to these centres.

The Institute for Education Policy Research (IEPR) undertakes high quality research and consultancy in the areas of educational leadership, economics of education, widening participation, educational psychology and education policy.

• Institute for Education Policy Research

The Centre for Applied Business Research (CABR) provides a wide range of applied business research expertise and knowledge transfer to private and public sector clients.

• Centre for Applied Business Research 

The Centre for Research on Emerging Economies (CREE) undertakes research, largely economics based, on various arrears of transitional economies with a particular emphasis on the Countries of South-Eastern Europe.

We also have research expertise in the areas of Employment Law, Family Law, Human Rights, Marketing, Purchasing and Tourism.

The Business School have over 50 students registered for research degrees. We are able to provide high quality and experienced supervisors in most of the areas identified above. For further information please see:

• PhD Research Opportunities
• Doctorate in Business Administration (PDF, file size: 1.41MB)

For enquiries about admissions please contact the Postgraduate Research Students Tutor: Dr David Douglas.

We offer the following Scholarships:

•  PhD in Economics