Business PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Non-European Students in Bath

Reimagining Sustainability in Management Learning and Education

Supervisors: Dr F Mughal, Dr K Iatridis, Dr AS Snelson-Powell

The Project. Recent environmental disasters accompanied with corporate scandals and managerial incompetence suggest that business schools, and management pedagogies in particular, are becoming inadequate to develop managers with a duty of care to their natural environment. Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Nature-positive agriculture and humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world

Supervisors: Dr G Ferns, Dr AP Prosser, Dr K Iatridis

The project. Aiming for sustainability is not enough. Given the serious degradation of ecological systems we must restore, repair, and regenerate that which we have drained of life. Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

What are the key interrelationships between entrepreneurship and sustainability?. The project. What in fact is entrepreneurship, and what, in analytically meaningful terms, is sustainability, and how do entrepreneurship and sustainability in a broad political economy sense interrelate?. Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Entrepreneurship in Children

Overview of the research. Some children are entrepreneurial; are children (humans) natural-born entrepreneurs?. Is childhood entrepreneurship developed or destroyed by social, economic and educational systems, or does it either develop or decline as a natural process of maturation? . Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Consumption and Sustainability

Overview of the research. Consumption and sustainability interactions beg a multitude of unposed and unanswered questions - some very profoundly fundamental to the future success, even existence, of our own and other species. Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Competitive/Corporate Strategy and Sustainability

Overview of the research. What are the key interrelationships between competitive and/or corporate strategy and sustainability?. The project. Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Entrepreneurship on the blockchain

Supervisors: Dr V Failla, Dr WH Huang

The Project. The blockchain has the potential to disrupt our lives in many ways; we are seeing applications in many fields and interest is growing within academia and beyond. Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Social Regulation of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) in Social Media

Supervisors: Dr H Hang, Prof S J Brammer

Background. Many organizations engage corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to meet stakeholders’ expectations and generate a favourable public image (Brammer and Pavelin, 2006). Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Understanding R&D and innovation through experimental approaches

Supervisors: Dr C Dimos, Dr Chris Dawson

The project. Research and development (R&D) and innovation are widely recognised as the drivers of economic growth. Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Identities and Identity Work In and Around Organizations

Supervisor: Prof AB Brown

The Project. For more than two decades, the attention of management and organization scholars has turned increasingly to self-identities in organizations. Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

A flexibility and work-leisure perspective to new ways of working: The role of playful and leisure work design

Supervisors: Dr Y Rofcanin, Dr F Mughal

The Project. Together with Farooq, we are looking forward to embarking on a project (details below) and hence recruiting a talented, passionate, and collaborative PhD student!. Read more

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)