Departmental Research Opportunities

Each year the School holds a PhD student conference. You will be expected to take part in this conference each year. In year 1 you will most probably present a poster. In year 2/3 you will be expected to present a full paper.

Departmental seminars offer an opportunity to participate in the School’s research community. Led by invited external speakers at the cutting edge of their particular fields, the seminars ensure that students are exposed to, and have an opportunity to engage with, the broad range of inter-disciplinary and methodological issues that characterise research in the Business and Management area.

Students are required to attend these sessions. Good attendance is taken as evidence of good corporate citizenship and, as such, is a key factor in considering student requests to attend external conferences for which School funding is required. Students awarded University scholarships should see attendance at these seminars as compulsory.

The creation of an exchange relationship with Leeds University Business School means that doctoral students are informed of, and are free to attend, research seminars run by LUBS.

In addition to the regular seminars, ad hoc seminars/workshops on specialist topics/themes are arranged by the individual research groupings within the School. Staff and students are encouraged to attend as part of their continuing development. Heads of research groups welcome suggestions for such symposia from their doctoral students.

There are frequent conferences, workshops, one day meetings and so forth on most areas of Management research. You may like to attend such meetings, either to learn about current research in the area, or to give a presentation or paper. Your supervisor should keep you informed about such meetings, and if necessary help you in preparing presentations. Information about conferences is circulated regularly via the PhD group email.

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