Overview
This Business Administration programme offered by De Montfort University supports senior leaders, managers, consultants, entrepreneurs, and researchers in investigating significant organisational and strategic issues through applied and practice-focused research. Candidates combine professional experience with academic rigour to generate evidence-based insights that support innovation, change, decision-making, and long-term organisational impact.
Key Facts
Unlike a traditional PhD, the programme adopts an action-research approach grounded in professional practice. Students engage with contemporary management challenges, develop advanced investigative and reflective skills, and undertake substantial research projects that contribute to organisational development, policy improvement, and professional knowledge while remaining directly relevant to workplace settings.
Programme Structure
Research
- People, Organisations and Work
- Evidence-Based Law
- Local Governance
- Marketing and Digital Marketing
- Applied Economics
- Social Value
- Enterprise and Innovation
- Urban Research and Austerity
- Finance and Banking
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
- Part-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Delivered
Campus Location
- Leicester, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Business Administration View 98 other PhDs in Business Administration in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- an honours undergraduate degree (2.1);
- or have membership of a recognised (chartered) professional body;
- or be able to demonstrate equivalent professional qualification or managerial/directorial experience.
- and must have a substantial body of supervisory/managerial roles on a permanent or periodic basis. It is likely that this will have taken a period of time to accumulate and, for indicative purposes only, this might be, for example, five years.
- and draft a detailed research proposal
- and provide a CV.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
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Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents16000 GBP / year≈ 16000 GBP / year
Living costs
Leicester
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