Human Resource Management and Organisation Studies University of Essex

Overview

We welcome applications from students from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities, with wide ranging social science and interdisciplinary research interests, including recent graduates from a range of disciplines, experienced practitioners, professionals and policy makers. Learn more at the Human Resource Management and Organisation Studies programme offered by University of Essex.

We welcome theses exploring research that considers the historical, socio-economic, cultural, and political context within which work and its organisation takes place, as well as that which has critical implications for contemporary organisational and management practices.

You can tailor your research to a profession or sector of your choice and may choose to pursue research in one of the following areas:

• human resource management and approaches to wellbeing

• environmental sustainability and ethics

• sociology and social psychology of work

• employee relations

• work and organisation studies

• gender, diversity and intersectionality in the workplace

• creativity and organisational change

• information systems in organisations

• precarious employment and vulnerability

• public sector change and reorganisation

• organisational spatiality and design

Your future

Essex Business School fosters the business leaders and researchers of the future. The PhD graduates use their creativity, innovation and ethical awareness to meet the many challenges facing the international business world.

Many of the graduates enjoy careers in academia and organisations in the public and private sectors, including at some of the world's most well-known organisations and exciting SMEs, such as:

• Groupon

• KPMG Group

• Right Freight Pvt Ltc

• Copal Partners

• Capital Markets Intelligence, a financial publisher

• Credit Data Research, a business funder

• Many now also run their own growing businesses