Cardiff Business School ESRC 1+3 / +3 funded PhD Studentships in Management and Business Studies
Reference Number: R986
Key Studentship Information
Project Title: Cardiff Business School ESRC 1+3 / +3 funded PhD Studentships in Management and Business Studies
Project Description:
Cardiff Business School, supported by the ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Centre (Wales DTC) invites applications for five fully-funded PhD studentships in Management and Business Studies for the 2013/14 academic year, commencing late September 2013.
Cardiff Business School was ranked 4th out of 90 UK business schools in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and ‘excellent’ for teaching. Lively, elegant, confident and cosmopolitan, the city of Cardiff offers an excellent location in which to study. Students benefit from the combination of a small, friendly, inexpensive city with the cultural and recreational amenities of an ambitious and progressive capital city.
Awards are available on either a 1+3 or +3 basis. A 1+3 studentship provides funding for four years, completing the MSc Social Science Research Methods in year one, followed by the three-year PhD phase. A +3 studentship provides funding for three years only, and assumes that the applicant will already have completed research training via an ESRC-recognised MSc degree (please see ESRC guidance on this).
Applications are invited for any of the identified management and business potential research topics (see our website for further information) or in any of the specialised areas of research covered by each section:-
- Accounting and Finance
- Human Resource Management
- Logistics and Operations Management
- Marketing and Strategy
Supervisors: To contact a member of academic staff to discuss your research proposal prior to making an application (strongly advised), please visit our website.
Funding
Awards are available on either a 1+3 or +3 basis. A 1+3 studentship provides funding for four years, completing the MSc Social Science Research Methods in year one, followed by the three-year PhD phase. A +3 studentship provides funding for three years only, and assumes that the applicant will already have completed research training via an ESRC-recognised MSc degree (please see ESRC guidance on this).
Studentships will commence in late September 2013 and will cover your tuition fees as well as a maintenance grant (currently £13,590 p.a.) and additional Research Training Support Grant (RTSG - currently £750 p.a. in the PhD phase) for three/four years for full-time students.
Enhanced stipends £3,000 pa above the standard rate may also be awarded to 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students who undertake advanced quantitative training at Masters level and throughout the PhD.
Number of awards available: 5
Eligibility
We are seeking exceptional applicants with a first-class or very good upper second Honours degree, or a Masters degree with an average mark of at least 65%. Both
How to Apply
Applications can be submitted via Cardiff’s Online Application Service.
Please indicate in the ‘Funding’ section of the Online Application Form that you are applying for an ESRC PhD Studentship in Management and Business Studies.
Application Deadline: Please ensure your application and all supporting documents reach us no later than Friday 15 March 2013. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
Further Information
Please direct enquiries to Ms Elsie Phillips (Secretary to the Doctoral Programme) via email PhillipsE2@cardiff.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)29 2087 6786
