School of Business and Economics

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School of Business and Economics

Join our PhD community Create impact by studying for a PhD/MPhil with the School of Business and Economics

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Why choose Loughborough University, School of Business and Economics?

Research degrees (PhD/MPhil) available in Business and Management, Economics and Information Management.

Research in the School of Business and Economics (SBE) is organised into seven outstanding discipline groups: • Accounting and Financial Management • Economics • Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour • Information Management • International Business, Strategy and Innovation • Management Science and Operations Management • Marketing and Retailing

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As a doctoral researcher, you will join a discipline group that best suits your research interests. The School of Business and Economics is well placed to provide the right opportunities for you, in order to realise your ambitions.

PhD 3 years full-time; 6 years part-time MPhil 2 years full-time; 4 years part-time

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Supporting you • Regular meetings with your supervisors.

• Access to the newly refurbished School of Business and Economics dedicated PhD lounge.

• Training courses and seminars throughout your PhD study.

• Access to library and IT services, and funds to support conference travel and subsistence.

• Opportunities to develop skills in supporting undergraduate teaching, as tutorial or laboratory assistants.

Entry requirements A master’s qualification in a relevant subject with an average programme mark of 65% or above (or overseas equivalent) and a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (minimum 2:1).

Substantial professional work experience/qualifications may also be taken into consideration.

See full details online.

To apply For information on how to apply and the current available research degree opportunities, please visit our website below.

www.lboro.ac.uk/sbe/phd

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Start your PhD journey...

Meet our Postgraduate Research Admissions Team.

We invite you to start a conversation with our colleagues in the admissions team.

Tracey Preston and Aly Howells-Chivers (pictured above) will be happy to guide and advise you on our PhD opportunities.

Start your PhD journey today and contact the team today by emailing sbe.research@lboro.ac.uk, or calling +44 (0)1509 223081.

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Doctoral researchers Two of our current doctoral researchers share their experiences of studying for a PhD at the School of Business and Economics.

Bader outlines the SBE PhD community I have been a part of several academic institutions in my academic career.

Each one has its own advantages, but in Loughborough’s School of Business and Economics, there are various things that I admire.

Firstly, the welcome and greeting I have received as an doctoral researcher is notable as it helps me engage with my colleagues. The School provides a great working environment for PhD researchers. This can be seen through various activities, such as the PhD monthly tea meetings and the School of Business and Economics annual conference.

The staff in the School are very helpful and willing to support me whenever required.

Secondly, SBE frequently provides a variety of seminars which enhance our academic knowledge and keep us updated with recent work in different areas.

Importantly, Loughborough University is rated top in the UK for student experience, so no one should be worried about the activities available here!

Our green campus is one of the largest in Europe, which is perfectly suitable for those who enjoy sports facilities.

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– “As an international student, I’ve always felt that I have been part of the community for a long time because the school has many international students and there is also a Saudi society at the University!”

– Bader Doctoral researcher PhD title: Mutual Fund Performance and Flow.

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Albayan, Doctoral researcher shares her experiences Amongst the different universities that offer a PhD programme in my area of research, ‘information management’, I chose to join Loughborough University.

The three main motivations that influenced my choice were the excellent academic reputation in my area of interest that the School holds, the effective educational environment and the exceptional student support offered.

It is a place where every PhD student aspires to unlock their potential to make a real difference in society through their research.

Once you have joined SBE, you are enrolled in a research training programme which offers an opportunity to develop your research skills and knowledge of different research philosophical traditions and methods.

You will be assigned two academic supervisors to help you to refine and develop your initial research proposal and to produce a final research question which is of interest to you and your supervisors. An internal examiner will also be assigned to review your work and advise on how to enhance your contribution further.

At the end of each year, an annual SBE PhD conference will take place to provide you with the opportunity to present your work and receive feedback from your peers and experts in your field. In short, the School makes every effort to ensure that PhD students are well-prepared to maximise their potential and to carry out high-quality research.

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During the course of your studies, you are treated as a member of staff and offered the opportunity to be involved in various activities, including teaching if you wish.

This allows you to develop your academic and teaching skills. Further research training and skills development courses run throughout the year at Loughborough Doctoral College for all PhD researchers across the campus. Engaging in such courses and workshops will expand your knowledge and enable you to meet new people, enhance your interpersonal skills and integrate with other PhD students.

Loughborough enjoys a strong sense of community and promotes cultural and social diversity. People from varied religious beliefs and cultural backgrounds study and work together, and their sense of mutual understanding and respect lies even beyond the campus boundaries.

A variety of student advice and support services are provided on campus and the support for international students at the university is outstanding. It is no wonder that Loughborough is the UK’s top-rated university for student experience.

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– “Being a PhD researcher at Loughborough School of Business and Economics is a rich and transformational experience. It is a place where every PhD student aspires to unlock their potential to make a real difference in society through their research. It is a very supportive, friendly, responsive, challenging and rewarding environment that is surrounded by a highly committed and motivated team.”

– Albayan Current doctoral researcher

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Our areas of research Research degrees (PhD/MPhil ) available in Business and Management, Economics and Information Management.

Research Centres represent the key areas of our research strength; Research Interest Groups are emerging areas of research; and Discipline Groups are the fundamental areas of teaching and research in which individual staff members are grouped.

Research Centres The School has developed four collaborative Research Centres to further enhance its international reputation for ‘research that matters’.

These Centres are key components of the School’s research agenda and aim to be instrumental in shaping policy and practice across both the public and private sector.

Centre for Information Management The Centre’s main purpose is to undertake internationally recognised research for the benefit of the individual, organisations, government and society.

In particular, the Centre aims to evidence the significance and value of information; challenge thinking and practice around information management; and improve performance through analysis, interpretation and judgement of information.

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Centre for Professional Work and Society The Centre conducts independent research on issues affecting work, professions and society. Members of the Centre deliver high-quality research that contributes to national and international debates around the changing landscape of contemporary professional work.

Centre for Service Management The Centre conducts multi-interdisciplinary research relevant to the private, public and third sector service organisations; providing new knowledge to inform academics and educate managers through the exploration of theory and practice of service management.

Centre for Productivity and Performance This Centre focuses on research in different fields of productivity, efficiency and performance measurement, and related areas, such as industrial organisation, and decision and risk analysis. Its research portfolio aims to assist decision and policy makers in evaluating and improving the performance of firms and public sector bodies.

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– “Loughborough is a really good university. I made the best decision when I decided to come here. I found a really friendly environment, really good professors and lecturers and outstanding facilities. If you want to get involved in academic and social activities, you have lots of opportunities.”

– Higor Dos-Reis-Leite Doctoral researcher in Business and Management

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Discipline Groups Accounting and Financial Management This group’s research interests span a broad spectrum of methodologies ranging from social science-orientated techniques to applied financial economics. The key objective of group members is to produce research that is rigorous but also relevant to contemporary accounting and finance issues/debates. Many group members possess professional as well as academic qualifications.

A number of group members serve/have served on prestigious academic and practitioner boards, as well as holding editorial positions in key academic journals in their respective fields.

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Economics The Economics Discipline Group undertakes rigorous and relevant applied research in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, with a view to applying the powerful and flexible tools of economics to both understand and inform the economic decisions of individuals, firms, governments and other institutions.

The group’s research interests and expertise span five key areas, namely applied econometrics and productivity analysis, financial economics and banking, monetary economics and development, international economics and trade, and industrial economics.

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Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour

International Business, Strategy and Innovation

This group is an interdisciplinary social science teaching and research group that brings together academics interested in a broad range of ‘people management’ issues. Psychology and sociology are major disciplinary influences, but some members of the group also take historical and geographical approaches. The Group conducts research in three broad areas: organisation studies, work psychology and employment relations, with output ranging from traditional academic scholarship to work with a significant impact on public policy and management.

This group comprises teachers and researchers whose work draws on multiple disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology and political science. The Group is committed to the advancement of world-class management scholarship and to the development of ideas that will help managers make better sense of some of the most complex problems of globalisation and the technology revolution.

Information Management The research carried out by the Information Management Discipline Group is led by the Centre for Information Management. The Centre undertakes world-leading research on the effective management of information and knowledge assets, investigating big data, mobile technologies, email, social networks and social media, open and linked data, knowledge management in the voluntary sector, and much more. For more detail, please refer to the Centre for Information Management entry on page 10.

Management Science and Operations This group is multidisciplinary, bringing together expertise in operations, systems and decision making. The group is committed to improving management practice by designing and implementing analytic approaches that help tackle routine, strategic or policy problems.

The approaches are typically supported by models that can often be represented mathematically or visually and built using specialist software.

Marketing and Retailing This group is a team of dynamic, research-oriented individuals with expertise in a number of key areas within marketing and retail. The Group is extremely successful in achieving its primary aim of advancing knowledge and thinking in these disciplines through high-quality, basic and applied research.

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Research Interest Groups Research Interest Groups (RIGs) are individual clusters of faculty, researchers and PhD students working on a common research theme.

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK (2014) 75% OF OUR RESEARCH CLASSED AS ‘WORLD LEADING’ OR ‘INTERNATIONALLY EXCELLENT’

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These groups evolve over time and represent emerging areas of research strength in the School: • Behavioural Decision Sciences • Business Education and Economics • Emergency Management • Knowledge Management • Logistics and Transportation Analytics • Management Accounting • Money and Developing Economies • Simulation Practice • Town Centres • Trade Agreements, Negotiation Strategy, Investment and Technology (TRANSIT)

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Loughborough University: the essentials

RANKED 4TH IN THE GUARDIAN UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2019

Our combination of world-class research, an enterprising outlook, unparalleled sporting achievement and an excellent student experience, gives rise to something that is truly special and distinctive among the UK’s universities.

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7TH IN THE COMPLETE UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2019

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A FIVE STARS PLUS INSTITUTION IN THE INTERNATIONAL QS STARS SCHEME 2017 – ONE OF ONLY 15 WORLDWIDE

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Our location The superb 440 acre (117 hectares) single-site campus is the University’s most glorious asset, offering great facilities for every aspect of student life, with plenty of open space, gardens and sports areas, interspersed with academic buildings and student accommodation.

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Central UK location

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• 90mins from London.

• Excellent transport links.

• Easy access to Birmingham, Luton and East Midlands airports.

• Largest single-site green campus in the UK.

Approximate travelling distances by road from Loughborough East Midlands Airport Leicester Nottingham Birmingham Manchester Luton Airport London Cardiff Edinburgh

7 miles (11km) 12 miles (19km) 5 miles (24km) 38 miles (61km) 75 miles (121km) 84 miles (135km) 110 miles (117km) 156 miles (251km) 295 miles (474 km)

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UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR FOR SPORT THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES GOOD UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2017

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LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY SCIENCE AND ENTERPRISE PARK A DYNAMIC INNOVATION COMMUNITY FOR BOTH ESTABLISHED ORGANISATIONS AND START-UPS

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7 AWARDED 7 QUEEN’S ANNIVERSARY PRIZES FOR THE QUALITY OF OUR RESEARCH

6TH IN THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION ‘TABLE OF TABLES’ 2018

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Glasgow Edinburgh 60 min 75 min

Newcastle 180 min

Belfast 60 min

Leeds 100 min

Manchester

Dublin

Liverpool

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Derby 60 min

Nottingham

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East Midlands Airport Birmingham

Leicester

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Oxford

90 min

Cardiff Bristol

London 90 min

Dover

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