Research degrees

Worcester Business School has a vibrant doctoral programme with 13 current (International and UK students) spread across four subject groups: HR, Finance /Economics, Marketing and Computing. Six of our students are attached to our research centre, the Centre for People at Work.

We welcome applications in each of our subject groups but are particularly interested in supporting topics in the following more specific areas:

  • Management and leadership development
  • Cross cultural management
  • Managing diversity and equality
  • Human Resource Management
  • Work psychology
  • Business History
  • Corporate strategy
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Sociotechnical networks
  • Performance & evaluation
  • Policy and organisational development
  • Personal selling and sales strategy
  • Communication of financial information
  • E-business
  • Electronic entertainment: business and social impacts
  • Immersive Environments for Education, Healthcare and Heritage
  • Character animation, computer graphics and serious games

Interested applicants should complete the application form available from the How to Apply page or, for an informal discussion, please contact Dr Jan Francis-Smythe at j.francis-smythe@worc.ac.uk