Research in Business, Management and Accounting (MRes/MPhil/PhD)

Research activities underpin our teaching and further enhance the quality and relevance of our courses.

Aberdeen Business School offers a supportive and stimulating research environment.  Research is central to the vision of the university and, consistent with this, a thriving research culture has been developed within Business, Management and Accounting with many papers being published in a range of journals.

The University can offer research opportunities in Business, Management and Accounting in the following areas:


Accounting, Finance and Economics

Accounting Profession

Accounting Education

Capital Structure

Corporate Failure

Financial Development and Liberalisation

International Labour Mobility

Market Efficiency

Market Efficiency for Corporate Control

Business Management

Corporate Level Decision Making

e-Commerce, e-Business and Information Security

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies

Environmental Management and Policy

Green Consumer Behaviour and Sustainable Consumption

Growth, Development and Internationalisation of SMEs

Higher Education Management and Internationalisation

International Business and Cross-Cultural Management

IT and SMEs

Management

Research in specific industries such as Telecommunications and

Oil and Gas/Energy

Social Entrepreneurship, Trust and Social Capital

Human Resources

Corporate Social Responsibility within a university/business school context

Organisational Emotions

Sustainable Development

The Relationship between Organisational Aesthetics

Marketing

Consumer Behaviour (in particular working with children)

Relationship Marketing

Retail Marketing and IT

Sales and Customer Management

Service Quality

Tourism

Public Policy

Governance, Participation (including interest groups) and Democracy

Social and Public Policy

Transport Policy

Normal entry requirements are a first or upper second class honours degree from a University of the United Kingdom, or from an overseas University, or degree equivalent qualification, subject to the approval of Robert Gordon University. Applicants holding qualifications other than those above shall be considered on their merits and in relation to the nature and scope of the proposed research programme.

Applicants holding qualifications other than those above shall be considered on their merits and in relation to the nature and scope of the proposed research programme. Applicants will normally register for an MSc/PhD or MRes/PhD with transfer to PhD dependent on satisfactory progress. However, applicants who already possess a Masters degree which includes a significant research component could be registered directly for a PhD, subject to a satisfactory research proposal, and clear evidence of research expertise.

Any applicant whose first language or language of previous University-level instruction is not English must normally demonstrate competence in English. This should be a score of IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.

Disclaimer

Course fees are reviewed periodically and so are subject to change for new applicants. All tuition fees are fixed for the duration of a course at the rate confirmed in your offer letter. You will also be liable to pay a graduation fee of £40 before receiving a University award.

All applications should be made via the University's application form for research students.

Completed application forms should be accompanied by:

• Two academic references
• A transcript or mark sheet for all graduate qualifications

• A draft research proposal, or at least a short summary to indicate the potential area of research (Refer to Section 8 of the Application Form)

• For applicants whose first language or language of university education is not English -Certificate of English language competency score of IELTS 6.5 in each of the four test components (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking). Students who can demonstrate successful completion of tertiary (university or college) studies in a country whose national language is English, may be exempted from this requirement

• Applying to become a research student