PhD Economics

At Aberystwyth School of Management and Business, we attract professionals from around the world who aspire to the challenges of the global business community. Our dynamic learning environment is structured to support your professional development. Our curriculum draws on the expertise of professionals throughout business and industry.

The School of Management and Business has a growing and thriving body of research students. We’re always pleased to welcome new applications for research study.

Overview

The School of Management and Business (SMB) is research-led, reflecting the values of Aberystwyth University. At SMB we're committed to developing research that is unique, relevant and applicable to a management, business or finance environment.

We're also committed to ensuring that our research activities and publications are of international importance, offering business, management and finance solutions that can be applied across sectors, cultures and discipline areas.

We have an excellent team of academics offering a broad, collective expertise, gained from both professional experience and academic research. Our academics have supervised a wide range of post-doctoral research papers and have used their research knowledge to develop exclusive and distinctive business, management and finance programmes to the benefit of all our undergraduate and postgraduate students. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (2014) assessment the university was placed in the top 50 institutions for research power and intensity. It submitted 77% of eligible staff and 95% of the university's research was of an internationally recognised standard.