Research Degrees

Join a dynamic research community

Our School is home to a dynamic research community, with students on campuses in Glasgow, London and spread across the globe. Working closely with GCU’s award-winning Graduate School, we offer supervision for completion of Masters (MPhil) and PhDs in the areas of business, law and social sciences, as well as Professional Doctorates in business administration, management, justice, welfare and policy sectors.  We also offer a taught Master of Research Methods programme.

Our research programmes 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 confident researcher and reflective practitioner.

Through independent research or a research framework, experienced professionals and managers will be able to acquire and apply a wide-ranging set of analytical tools, research methods and underpinning theories. Where appropriate, our graduates can expect to incorporate these conceptual, interpretive and methodological frameworks into their everyday professional practice.

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."

Our research students will make a contribution to knowledge in their respective discipline; and also, potentially, a contribution to professional practice and policy.

Find out about our:

• PhD programmes
• Professional Doctorate programmes
• MSc Research Methods programme

For further information on the areas of expertise within the Glasgow School for Business and Society, please contact us: gsbsresearchenquiries@gcu.ac.uk