PhD Aston Business School

At Aston Business School our PhD programme is designed to train Doctoral students who aspire to become future academics or professional industry researchers. At Aston Business School our PhD programme is designed to train Doctoral students who aspire to become future academics or professional industry researchers.

About

Research at Aston Business School addresses a wide variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary themes.

Our research expertise is embedded in our academic departments below, and you are strongly recommended to explore our departmental web pages, before applying, so that you can better position your research proposal to fit with academics' current research interests.

Aston Business School

Accounting
Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship (Research)
Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship
Law (Research)
Law Group
Marketing and Strategy
Operations and Information Management
Work and Organisational Psychology

Research environment

We have an exciting and vibrant research environment at Aston Business School that enables our PhD students to be engaged in various research events and seminars (Aston Business School-wide and PhD-specific). Our PhDs have a dedicated research society which organises various social and academic related events throughout the year, including the ABS Annual Doctoral Conference. We strongly believe that these activities are an essential part of ensuring our PhD students are engaged and motivated throughout the duration of their PhD journey.

Our academic departments also run research seminar series (and other activities) where PhD students are encouraged to present their research and get feedback from colleagues. In addition, our Summer School in Advanced Research Methods offers additional training opportunities necessary for a successful academic career.

All students can access up to £1500 for presenting at academic conferences and an additional £1200 Research Support Training Grant is also provided to help further develop their research knowledge, skills, abilities and professional development.