PhD Scholarships in Accounting and Finance
Up to three fully funded scholarships are available for a topic in the Accounting and Finance area.
Eligibility
Applicants should have:
- A postgraduate master's degree from an accredited institution in the UK or overseas with evidence of above-average academic achievement (more than 65% overall in your Masters) and a postgraduate master's dissertation with distinction (UK equivalent). MBA or master's students without a dissertation are welcome to apply and should provide evidence of distinction level (UK equivalent). Your official transcript and grading scheme must be provided when you submit your application.
- An International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of at least 7.0 overall, or the equivalent from our approved list of certificates.
The major areas of interest in current staff research are as follows:
Accounting
- Accounting for charities
- Accounting and consumer society
- Accounting narratives
- Accounting and popular culture
- Accounting regulation
- Accounting, strategy, and information technologies
- Financial accounting
- Healthcare and social care accounting and accountability
- History of accounting and calculative practices
- Management accounting, governance and control
- Management controls for major programmes & projects
- Market-based accounting research
- Social studies of accounting and accountability
- The accounting profession
Business and Climate Change
- Benchmarking carbon performance
- Carbon accounting
- Carbon markets & low carbon investment
- Risk management
Finance
- Banking
- Behavioural finance
- Capital market anomalies
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Corporate pension risk analysis
- Econometrics of financial markets
- Empirical asset pricing
- Equity valuation
- Energy finance
- Institutional setting for IPO markets and underpricing of IPOs
- Market microstructure; high frequency trading
Award
The award will be for three years, subject to satisfactory progress, at the following rates:
- European Union candidates: standard EU tuition fee plus maintenance fee of £14,500 per year
- Non-European Union candidates: standard non-EU tuition fee plus maintenance fee of £14,500 per year
Successful applicants will be expected to contribute to our teaching programmes during their second and third years of the scholarship.
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