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Research topics
At Leeds University Business School we have identified a number of topics, across our seven departments that we would particularly welcome applications for PhD study.
Research areas do not have specific funding attached to them, although the areas can be incorporated into a scholarship application. For details of available scholarships, please visit our fees and scholarships page.
In addition to the research themes below, you could also suggest your own topic, but you must ensure that you closely define your research area within Leeds University Business School.
Accounting and Finance
- Asset pricing and financial markets
- Banking and financial intermediation
- Behavioural finance
- Business history
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Credit management
- Financial accounting and auditing
- Organisations: ownership, governance and performance
- SME finance
- Sustainable finance and ESG
- Venture capital and private equity
Find out more about our Accounting and Finance research area
- Work, labour and organisation
- Financialisation and globalisation
- Development and wellbeing
- Environment, infrastructure, innovation and the circular economy
- The macro economy and macroeconomic policy
Find out more about our Economics research area
International Business
- The theory of the multinational enterprise (MNE)
- The governance of global value chains (GVCs)
- Emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs)
- International business policy, SDGs and “grand challenges”
- International business, migration and society
- Global health and international business
- Cross-cultural management, diversity and inclusion
Find out more about our International Business research area
Management and Organisations
- Organisational strategy
- Global supply chains
- Leadership and performance
- Technology and innovation
- Strategic management
- Innovation management
- Sustainability
- Entrepreneurship in challenging contexts
- Social and sustainable ventures
- Resilience and wellbeing
- Organisational behaviour
- Corporate purpose
Find out more about our Management and Organisations research area
Analytics, Technology and Operations
- Operations and supply chain management
- Supply chain resilience and sustainability
- Supply chain technologies and analytics
- Information systems and information management
- Information behaviour
- Digital transformation and innovation
- Decision support systems
- Operational research
- Decision Sciences and Optimisation
- Behavioural Decision Research
- Psychology of Decision Making & Risk
- Multi-criteria Decision Analysis
- Business and Data Analytics
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Unstructured Data Mining
- Natural Language Processing
- Risk Perception and Communication
- Choice Modelling
- Locational Analysis
Find out more about our Analytics, Technology and Operations research area
- Consumer buying behaviour
- Analysis of consumer heterogeneous preferences and discrete choice analysis
- Retailing and store choice analysis
- Branding and brand equity
- Formulating and implementing sustainability marketing strategies: Bridging the gap
- Marketing strategy making
- Emergent marketing strategy and decision making in marketing organizations
- Corporate responsibility and sustainability
- Green marketing and advertising
- Business ethics
- International marketing
- Cross cultural buyer-seller relationships
- Export marketing strategy and performance
- Sustainable strategies of multinational corporations
- Standardisation/adaptation of international service offerings
- International marketing process standardisation/adaptation
Find out more about our Marketing research area
People, Work and Employment
- Between professions and precarity: the new world of work
- Changing structures of governance and organisation
- Employment, skills and occupations
- Labour mobility, migration and citizenship
- Markets, flexibilisation and social protection
- Voice, representation and social movement
- Digitalisation, automation, platformisation, and the future of work
- Inequalities within work, employment and employment relations
Find out more about our People, Work and Employment research area
Research opportunities
Postgraduate research opportunities.
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Become a postgraduate researcher at Leeds University Business School to contribute towards the advancement of knowledge in your field.
We are at the forefront of management knowledge and our research tackles key challenges faced by organisations and policy-makers.<br /> <br /> We currently work with organisations such as IBM, the National Police Service, Rolls-Royce and the World Bank, plus numerous SMEs.
How to apply for a postgraduate research degree at Leeds University Business School. Join one of the top UK Business Schools on a PhD or MA by Research.
PhD. Economics, Management and Organisations, Analytics, Technology and Operations, Marketing and People, Work & Employment Relations Department. Candidates should ideally have a first-class or at least a good upper second-class undergraduate degree.
At Leeds University Business School we have identified a number of topics, across our seven departments that we would particularly welcome applications for PhD study. Research areas do not have specific funding attached to them, although the areas can be incorporated into a scholarship application.
Explore our postgraduate research opportunities at the University of Leeds.