Newcastle University

Business and Management MPhil; PhD

MPhil: minimum 12 months full time; minimum 24 months part time
PhD: minimum 36 months full time; minimum 72 months part time

Fees

Fees per academic year 2013-14

UK and EU: full time £4,320 part time £2,160
International: full time £10,840 part time fees
More information is available about tuition fees and discounts.

Research Areas

The mission of our doctoral programmes is to develop rigorous scholars who can advance both academic knowledge and business practice. The programmes are designed to equip you with the skills necessary to succeed in a knowledge-intensive environment and to open greater depth to your professional and personal life.

Our research strengths are focused in a number of groups or themes. Each of these involves externally funded research, international collaboration and the active involvement of doctoral students. There are opportunities for research students to study in any of the disciplines outlined below. 

HRM, Work and Employment
Members of the group have a wide range of research interests in the field of human resource management, organisational studies and management history. Currently, there are particular interests in the field of international political economy as well as in new patterns of work and organisation, public sector management, gender and industrial relations. Staff members engage in individual research and collaborate with others at universities across the UK and abroad.

Specific areas of research expertise include:

• business elites and corporate governance in France and the UK
  
• entrepreneurial philanthropy
  
• the ILO and the ‘decent work’ agenda, the harmonisation of international aid
  
• critical perspectives on international business, post socialist transition, migration and trans-nationalism
  
• public service mergers and multi-agency working in the public sector
  
• new working patterns in mental health services
  
• gender and work
  
• the application of Foucauldian and governmentality perspectives to HRM and management  – especially to developments in public services in the UK
  
• graduate careers
  

Marketing, Operations and Systems  
Our research group activities broadly cover the areas of innovation, enterprise/entrepreneurship and policy. We have particular interests in the development and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities within and outside existing organisations and on the way in which emerging technology trends are interacting with new businesses, management and policy models.

Specific areas of research expertise include:

• corporate entrepreneurship
  
• E-Business, E-Government and E-Learning
  
• entrepreneurial opportunities and new venture emergence
  
• information systems and social informatics
  
• innovation management and policy
  
• knowledge management and organisational learning
  
• technology and organisation
  

Strategy, Organisations and Society
The SOS group uses social theory to explore strategic and organisational issues.  Grouded in the critical / interpretative tradition, the group has a specific expertise in issues of power, discourse and change. 

Specific areas of research expertise include:

• strategy and politics
• business elites
• corporate philanthropy
• discourse analysis and the global financial crisis
• changes in the media
• organizational change
• mega-projects
• strategy and discourse analysis
• meet the academic staff in strategy, organizations and society

Operations
Specific areas of research expertise include:

• lean operations (both manufacturing and service sectors, particularly health)
  
• manufacturing planning, scheduling including optimisation in stochastic environments
  
• layout optimisation
  
• group technology (applied to design and manufacturing processes)
  
• computer aided production management systems
  
• modelling, analysis and optimisation of manufacturing systems
  
• manufacturing and business strategy
  

Our PhD programmes also form part of the Management and Business Studies pathway of the North East Doctoral Training Centre (DTC), which is funded and accredited by the ESRC and run jointly by the universities of Newcastle and Durham. This is a collaborative centre for world-class postgraduate research and training in the social sciences, which offers students a wealth of opportunities to work with leading researchers across a wide range of disciplines and benefit from high-quality training and state-of-the-art resources at both universities.

At the generic level, the University's Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate School provides a full range of research training in professional/key skills, bibliographical techniques, and quantitative and qualitative methods.