PhD Supervision in Management

The Management Department has a strong track record of PhD supervison. In the Research Assessment Exercise results of 2008, 80% of research in Business and Management (including Accountancy and Finance) was judged to be of international quality. The Department's Postgraduate Research Convenor is Dr John Lamb. We offer supervision in the following areas:

management

• Dr Raluca Bunduchi - technology adoption and use in and between organisations; trust and technology use; collaboration, innovation and new product development
• Dr Jing Cai - management
• Dr Colin Clark - analysis of audio-visual recordings of real-life interpersonal business communication; negotiation; rhetoric and persuasion; team talks; ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; the social organisation of everyday ‘economic’ behaviour.
• Professor Patrick Dawson - management of change, new technology at work, cellular manufacturing.
• Professor Michael Hughes - management
• Dr John Lamb - operational research, combinatorial and stochiastic optimisation and simulation
• Dr Natasha Mauthner - gender, work and family; academic work and practices; health and well being; digital data sharing; projects using qualitative research approaches
• Dr Nichola Naughton - management
• Dr Belgin Okay-Somerville - management
• Dr Andrea Patacconi - management
• Dr Rosalind Rae - management
• Dr Julian Randall - management of change; impact of change on managers’ perceptions of job, work, career, and organisation
• Dr Alison Smart - supply chain management, innovation in operations, business process improvement
• Dr Elizabeth Thomson - management
• Dr Tim Stone - qualitative consumer research on ageing, religion, or quality of life
• Mr Russell Williams - management

Applicants for the PhD should also have prior training in research methods. Other applicants may instead be acepted for the MRes (Business) degree that may be taken over 1 year full-time. This degree qualifies students to progress into the doctoral programme.

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The University of Aberdeen is a member institution of the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (DTC). 1+3 and +3 doctoral studentships are available in Economics, Business and Management, Accountancy and Finance and Real Estate under the Scottish ESRC DTC: Research Council Awards - ESRC. Other sources of funding may also be available: Graduate School Funding Database.