PhD Opportunities

Join a dynamic research community

Caledonian Business School is home to a dynamic research community, with students both on campus and spread across the globe. Our PhD programme will enable you to fully equip yourself with the skills you need to gain your Higher Degree (MPhil/PhD) and successfully step into your future career as a reflective practitioner and confident researcher.

Through a research framework, experienced managers and other professionals will be given an opportunity to acquire and apply to an organisational setting, a wide-ranging set of analytical tools, research methods and underpinning theories. This work is intended to make a meaningful contribution to the field of business and management, and make an impact on management practice. Graduates can expect to incorporate into their professional practice the conceptual, interpretive and methodological frameworks of business and management research. This will enhance individual and collective professional practice and help to improve the management of organisations.

Who are our students?

Glasgow Caledonian University has about 900 FTE (full-time equivalent) postgraduate students, including 25% in research and 75% in taught Masters courses. In total, we have approximately 400 research students, 50% of whom are part-time or working towards a professional doctorate in their workplace. Many of our research students are lifelong learners returning to education after gaining valuable work experience. The research student population is also culturally diverse, with students from over fifty countries.

Together with the academic staff, and using a range of communication technologies, our students form a close knit research community within the schools, across the university, and across the globe.

Further information

Informal enquires about PhD programmes can be made to Professor David Edgar, via email d.a.edgar@gcu.ac.uk), by post to Professor David Edgar, PhD, Professor of Strategy and Business Transformation, Head of Research, Caledonian Business School, Glasgow, or by Tel: +44(0)141 331 3180.