Management University of Essex

Overview

This is a tailor-made course that seeks to combine skills and enhanced subject specific research proposals to give you the best underpinning for your doctoral studies. A core aim of the course is for students to refine English language for scholarly communication, enhance academic skills for postgraduate study, hone higher-level research skills, and master how to study and manage academic work in the UK.

The Management course offered by University of Essex is comprised of the following elements:

• English language for postgraduate research studies

• Academic skills for postgraduate research studies

• Research skills for management

• Research proposal

• Studying and researching in the UK

This four-year PhD does not include a Masters degree in its first year, like other existing Integrated PhDs offered at Essex. On this course you will enrol for a PhD Management (with research and communication skills) for a PhD final award, with only a PG Dip or PG Certificate available as exit awards after the first year. 

You will take a number of core and compulsory modules in your first year, and the next three years will be conducting your individual research project.

Why we're great.

• We have strong relationships with external stakeholders and funders, including UK research councils and EU framework programmes
• We are ranked in the Top 175 for Business and Economics in THE World University Rankings by Subject 2024.
• 100% of the business and management research environment is world-leading or internationally excellent (Research Excellence Framework 2021)