UK : Imperial College Business School's Doctoral degree

Imperial College Business School's Doctoral degree enables outstanding scholars to conduct original research with major impact on academia and management practice.
Exceptional faculty connections and our diverse student body create unique opportunities to undertake research at the frontiers of one's field. Imperial's business school is an energised and continuously evolving intellectual environment at the cutting edge of innovation in business and policy. It encourages the pursuit of multidisciplinary study, collaboration and access.
There are around 35 research active supervisors and up to 80 students, making it one of the largest Doctoral programmes in the UK. Close mentoring and contact with faculty help map a challenging blueprint tailored to one's own interests whilst offering a rich exposure to others' ideas. A significant number of our doctoral students are international, combining a variety of cultural, intellectual and educational perspectives.

Study programme
The programme is studied full-time over three years, commencing in October.
Year One
Training
You attend a compulsory training programme in your first term: research methods and personal effectiveness. You also select two courses from the wide range offered by our MBA, MSc in Finance and MSc in Health Management programmes.
Annual Review
Your progress is monitored by informal and formal annual reviews, which include presentations given to your research group and chaired by the Doctoral Programme Director. Evidence of satisfactory development of your personal research agenda is required.
Year Two
All students are initially registered as MPhils. In Year 2 you are given the opportunity to transfer to PhD status. You must present a paper to your research group and defend it orally.
Year Three
At the beginning of the third year you and your supervisor draw up a work plan for submission of your thesis.

Research areas
The Business School is an integral part of Imperial College. This leads to synergy in a number of key areas. Our doctoral students can choose from a wide selection of groups in which to conduct their research:Accounting, Finance and MacroeconomicsFinancial EconomicsMacroeconomics and EconometricsCentre for Quantitative FinanceEntrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology ManagementEntrepreneurship CentreTechnology ManagementThe Innovation Studies CentreHealthcare Management and Organisational BehaviourCentre for Health ManagementHealth EconomicsOrganisational Behaviour and Human Resource ManagementMarketing, Regulation, and StrategyMarketingRegulationStrategy.

Funding
A number of studentships are available including he funded by the EPSRCand ESRC available immediately to UK and EU candidates:Up to 7 in Innovation and Entrepreneurship including 1 in partnership with QinetiQ1 in Healthcare Innovation2 in Finance1 Governmental Collaborative Studentship in Economics
For more information and other funding options such as the ORS studentships, Imperial Risk Management Lab and general Imperial College Business School awards. please visit www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/studentships

Applying
A PhD at Imperial College London is a demanding academic qualification. We look for evidence of very strong and consistent academic performance and expect you to have very high grades at first degree and Master's level, including a strong dissertation. Students whose first language is not English must also pass an approved test of English Language before admission can be confirmed. Applicaitions must be made online and If you are interested in any of the funding opportunities you should state that you are interested in being considered for a particular studentship in the Financial Support section of the application form.