Doctoral Programme
In the 2008 RAE, 75 percent of WBS research was rated at 3* and above, placing us 3rd in the UK. The University of Warwick is regularly ranked among the top ten UK universities, recognised as part of Britain's Ivy League, the Russell Group. While studying for your doctorate at WBS, you will benefit from the expertise, opportunities and top class facilities that our excellent reputation attracts.
Explore the key areas of interest where we are keen to recruit PhD students, browse our current projects, or find out about how to fund your PhD.
Welcome
An introduction to the programme from Associate Dean, Professor Stephen Brammer.
PhD in Finance
Our PhD in Finance features quantitative taught modules to support your research.
ESRC DTC funding
WBS has four ESRC DTC Collaborative Studentships for 2012 Entry
Topics for 2012-13
Some topics for which we are keen to recruit researchers:
- Discourse and identity (individual and/or collective) in/of organisations
- Topics in employment relations
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Financial Econometrics, including Market Microstructure; High Frequency Finance; Volatility, Survival and Count Data Processes; and Analysis of Survey Data
- Banking, Corporate Finance (Capital Budgeting, Capital Structure, Payout Policy, MAs, IPOs), Corporate Governance, Insurance
- Governance and Public Management
- Healthcare
- Revenue optimisation for railway applications
- Behavioural analyses of managerial decision making under the resource-based view of the firm
- Exponential Neighbourhoods in Optimisation
- Data envelopment analysis (DEA)
- Consumer behaviour, branding, or CSR
- Emerging markets
- Strategic management
- Interactive Multi-Objective Optimisation
- Transnational employment regulation in multinational companies
- Innovation in renewable technologies
- Critical realism and entrepreneurship
- The relationship between residual bias and run length in Discrete-Event Simulation
- Automating Discrete-Event Simulation Experimentation Support
- Conceptual Modelling for Discrete-Event Simulation
- Critical Theory and Participatory Governance
- Public Involvement and Citizen Engagement
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration in healthcare
- The evolution of pharmacy work and/or the work and role of pharmacists in the UK
- The role of brand intangible assets (BIA) in analyst valuations of stocks listed on the London stock market
- Case study of 'models' of professional identity and expertise within the accountancy profession
- Customer misbehaviour
- Emotion(s) and accounting education
- Future of trade unions