Research Degrees

PhD research - Join a dynamic research community

The School is home to a dynamic research community, with students on campuses in Glasgow and London and spread across the globe. Our research programme will enable you to fully equip yourself with the skills you need to gain your Higher Degree and successfully step into your future career as a reflective practitioner and confident researcher.

Through either independent research or through a research framework, experienced managers and other professionals will be given an opportunity to acquire and apply to an organisational setting, a wide-ranging set of analytical tools, research methods and underpinning theories. This work is intended to make a meaningful contribution to the field of business and management, and make an impact on management practice. Graduates can expect to incorporate into their professional practice the conceptual, interpretive and methodological frameworks of business and management research. This will enhance individual and collective professional practice and help to improve the management of organisations.

Our students integrate professional and academic knowledge with the aim of making "... a contribution to both theory and practice in their field, and to develop professional practice by making a contribution to (professional) knowledge."

We offer supervision for completion of a PhD in the areas of business, law and social sciences. For further information on our areas of expertise please contact us. Students have the option to study for a PhD on a full time (3 years) or part time (4.5 years) basis. Please direct any PhD enquiries to gsbsresearchenquiries@gcu.ac.uk 

Professional Doctorate

The School is actively involved in the successful Professional Doctorate programme and has developed its own entry strands to provide doctoral study for middle to senior professionals in the Justice, Welfare and Policy sectors, as well as a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) and a Doctorate of Management (DMan). Applications are now being considered for entry in January 2012. If you wish to enquire about this programme please contact: gsbsresearchenquiries@gcu.ac.uk

Graduate School

All research students engage in both generic and subject specific research training. Our students receive support from their supervisors in addition to that provided by the Graduate School. The Graduate School provides a programme of related studies, including skills training workshops and organises social and intellectual events to faciliate the interaction of research students and staff.

English Language

If English is not your first language, we normally require an IELTS score of 6.5, with no component less than 6.0. Students may be asked to attend English language classes at the University before starting their studies.