Warwick Business School: PhD Programme

Develop yourself as an early career researcher with our prestigious Doctoral Programme.

We value our doctoral researchers and aim to attract students from across the globe who are independent thinkers, restless to learn more and challenge themselves. We particularly welcome applicants whose ambition is a career in academia.

WBS has an internationally recognised, pioneering research community in the fields of business management, finance and economics, who are committed to supporting and stimulating our doctoral researchers to explore new ways of doing things and use their research to change the world for the better.

Both our MRes/PhD Finance & Economics and MRes/PhD Business & Management programmes are fully funded. All students accepted onto the programme will have their full fees paid and will receive an annual stipend of approximately £21,000 per annum throughout their course and subject to satisfactory progress.

We are pleased to offer the following two courses for 2025 entry.

MRes/PhD Finance & Economics

Our fully-funded MRes/PhD Finance & Economics programme combines highly relevant and structured training with close mentorship from a team of supervisors, embedding you in our culture of curiosity and helping you develop and deepen your chosen area of research.

Jointly run with the Department of Economics, our fully-funded MRes/PhD Finance & Economics programme will provide you with a thorough understanding of state of the art research techniques and in-depth appreciation of principal areas of interest for researchers in finance and economics.

Our MRes/PhD Finance & Economics programme is a full time two + four year programme (six years in total).

MRes/PhD Business & Management

Our new fully-funded MRes/PhD Business & Management programme will give you the opportunity to make your mark on the business landscape, by becoming a leading Business & Management thinker, researcher, and educator. We aim to attract independent thinkers who have the ambition to create their own pathway to future academic positions.

Our subject groups

You'll get the opportunity to work within our world-class subject groups, allowing you to work with experts in your chosen area of research, and develop and deepen your own research interests:

• Accounting
• Behavioural Science
• Entrepreneurship & Innovation
• Information Systems & Management – Analytics
• Marketing
• Operations Management
• Organisation & Work
• Strategy & International Business

Our MRes/PhD Business & Management programme is a full-time two + three year programme (five years in total).

Supervision

Our faculty is made up of world leading experts, and with more than a third of our staff from countries outside the UK, our faculty is truly international. All our faculty are research-active, and the majority supervise doctoral research.

Throughout the PhD element of your programme you will be advised by one or two supervisors with appropriate research expertise and interests. Your supervisors will be nominated when you reach the end of the MRes element of your programme.

Please note applications for MRes/PhD Business & Management will close on 12 January 2025, and for MRes/PhD Finance & Economics on 31 January 2025.

Find out more

Download our PhD Brochure