PhD Scholarships in Accounting and Finance
Up to three PhD scholarships are offered per year in Accounting and/or Finance. Any area of study will be considered within these disciplines.
Eligibility
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
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.
For more information click "Further official information" below.
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http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/phd/scholarships-funding/scholarships/business-school-scholarships/phd-scholarships-in-accounting-and-finance