Doctorate in Business Administration / Philosophy

PhD

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    London

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Meridian House Royal Hill Greenwich, SE10 8RD

Start date

On request

About this course

Admission requirements vary for the PhD and DBA and are as follows:

Either

* PhD only: A UK university bachelor degree with at least an upper second class pass or an equivalent degree from an overseas university

OR

* PhD only: A UK university master’s degree or an equivalent degree from an overseas university

OR

* PhD and DBA: A UK university master’s degree in business management or cognate area or an equivalent degree from an overseas university ...

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Course programme

A University of Wales Postgraduate Programme.

There are two doctoral programmes at GSM: the PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) and DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) and the degrees are awarded by the University of Wales. Both have a taught first year, but the greater proportion of the programmes are dedicated to research, i.e. three to five years’ personal research culminating in the production of an in-depth assessed thesis of publishable quality. Thus, doctoral applicants should have a strong theoretical and experiential background to enable them to engage with the demands of original and detailed research. Moreover, new applicants should have a particular interest that that they wish to research into; this may change as their research progresses, but an initial interest, commensurable with the supervisory strengths of the School, is paramount. The doctoral programmes at GSM are flexible, dynamic and inspiring and we welcome potential doctoral students for interview.

Programme Structure

Taught Modules


Personal Development (PhD) OR Practice Based Personal Development (DBA)
Course members will be required to develop a set of personal and academic skills to enable them to engage with the research requirement of a doctoral programme. Thus, this module aims to enlighten course members as to those skills and to identify specific personal skill requirements and their development. Thus, course members will reflect upon their own skill-set strengths and weaknesses in light of their chosen research.

Philosophy of Research (PhD and DBA)
Doctoral research requires course members to position themselves in one or other research paradigms; a generic and warranted epistemic approach. This module encourages course members to become conversant with different paradigms and their justifications, and to understand what counts as a coherent argument within a particular paradigm. This process requires course members to understand the philosophical bases of different approaches to the concept of knowledge; epistemology, and the different research paradigms that reflect such philosophy. Through this process course members will begin to engage with, what will become their own research design.

Research Design (PhD and DBA)
There are many different approaches to a research project, influenced by the adopted research paradigm. Thus, this module introduces course members to a wide range of possible research designs, enabling them to construct a justified choice of research methodology from those available. Given their adopted research philosophy, this will provide course members with a firm basis on which to design the research activity for their thesis.

Data Collection Analysis and Management (PhD and DBA)
In carrying out their research, course members need to be able demonstrate competence in a number of data collection techniques and analysis thereto; particularly computer based approaches. Thus, this module aims to provide course members with the knowledge, understanding and skill requirements of a wide range of such quantitative and qualitative techniques.

Trends in Management Research (PhD and DBA)
Course members are required to locate their research in the context of business and management thought, and within one or more of its cognate disciplines. Consequently, this module consists of presentations by active researchers in the areas of the School’s research activity to raise course members’ awareness of current debates in these domains. Thus, the module aims to augment course members’ existing knowledge with a contemporary picture of the main trends and current debates in the area of business and management.

Exploratory project (PhD) or Practice Based Exploratory Project (DBA)
Generally, course members will have only a limited experience of high level business and management research. Hence, these modules have both a formative aspect: assisting course members to adopt the research approach and writing style appropriate to doctoral research and a summative aspect: representing what counts as a well written research project. In addition, the module provides course members with an opportunity to pursue a pilot study reflecting their ideas for their thesis and therefore gaining experience in the practicalities of high level research.

The full time and part time PhD and DBA programmes have enrolment dates in February, April, June, August, October and December each year.

Admission Requirements

Admission requirements vary for the PhD and DBA and are as follows:

Either

  • PhD only: A UK university bachelor degree with at least an upper second class pass or an equivalent degree from an overseas university

OR

  • PhD only: A UK university master’s degree or an equivalent degree from an overseas university

OR

  • PhD and DBA: A UK university master’s degree in business management or cognate area or an equivalent degree from an overseas university

OR

  • DBA only: A UK university master’s degree or an equivalent degree from an overseas university plus four MBA module passes at Greenwich School of Management (these MBA modules will be an additional cost)

In addition

  • DBA only: At least three years relevant work experience at a senior level
  • PhD and DBA: Applicants with other qualifications will also be considered based on their ability to meet the demands of advanced research required at the doctoral level.
  • PhD and DBA: Applicants whose first language is not English must be able to demonstrate proficiency in the English language to the level of IELTS 6.5.

Additional information

Payment options: PhD Full-time & Part-time EU £5,000 in the first year and £3,000 per year thereafter Non-EU £5,000 in the first year and £3,000 per year thereafter DBA Full-time & Part-time EU £5,000 in the first year and £3,000 per year thereafter Non-EU £5,000 in the first year and £3,000 per year thereafter

Doctorate in Business Administration / Philosophy

Price on request