A PhD will take three years full-time or you can study an MPhil over one year.

You can study for your choice of degrees within any of our research areas:

• Consumption, markets & society
• Business innovation & networks
• Services marketing
• Strategic marketing & analytics

These research areas cover all fields of marketing including consumer behaviour, strategic marketing, international marketing, services marketing, sales marketing, e-marketing.

As part of your PhD degree, you'll be enrolled on the Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methodology for Business and Management.

This certificate is designed to support you by developing your skills as a researcher. Your researcher training will provide you with the intellectual foundations that you will need for your journey into either the higher-level learning needed for advanced postgraduate research degrees or to work in a range of research focussed roles within organisational settings.

Course highlights:

• course can be studied as a blended or fully online programme depending on your circumstances
• course is ideally suited to part-time students juggling studies with other work
• strong practical focus including training in software and advanced quantitative and qualitative methods
• rich and diverse learning environment where you will study with students from around the world and studying a range of postgraduate research degrees
• opportunity to learn from academics who are leaders in their field and working at the cutting edge of business research

Most students complete the PgCert in their first year but you can take courses throughout your degree.

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