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Industrial Economics – (Ph.D.)
Nottingham University Business School
Nottingham University Business School
| Application Deadline: | There is no set closing date for applications, but it is recommended that applications should be received by July for an October | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,660 - ≈ € 14,500 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Nottingham / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Nottingham University Business School
Students admitted to the University to study for a Doctorate are normally registered at PhD level. At the end of Year 1, subject to the satisfactory completion of the annual review, a student's PhD status will be confirmed. If progress is unsatisfactory, students may be downgraded to MPhil status. Completion of all doctoral research training modules is a necessary pre-requisite for confirming PhD status.
The annual review requires students to submit a draft Literature Chapter (8,000 words) and make a short presentation about their research to a Review Panel of Assessors, which will include a clear summary of what they have achieved over the previous year and a timeline for the completion of their PhD.
Students will also undergo a similar annual review at the end of year 2 and Year 3. The Year 2 annual review requires students to submit a revised Literature Chapter and a sample Chapter, which is likely to be a Methods or Empirical Chapter and the Year 3 annual review requires students to submit a commentary that details how they have addressed the feedback received from the 2nd year annual review and one or more empirical research chapters. Students are also required to present their work to a Review Panel of Assessors.
PhD Degree Stucture
Below is an overview of the structure of a typical Full-Time Doctoral Timetable:
Year 1
* Semesters 1 & 2: Attend appropriate taught modules both within the Business School and the Graduate School
* Define the nature of the research problem, identify appropriate analytic frameworks, and expect to have completed a first draft of literature review chapters
* June: 1st year Annual review
Year 2
* Expect to complete empirical work. If data collection is likely to be a lengthy process, perhaps because of gaining access to companies or because the study is longitudinal in nature, then the empirical work may start quite early in the student's second year, or even at the end of the first year
* June : 2nd year Annual Review
Year 3
* Commence formal writing-up
* Expect to complete empirical work and produce draft write-up of results
* Submit completed thesis
* June: 3rd year Annual review
Students should note that although a 4th year writing up period is available, the expectation is that they will submit their thesis within 3 years. It is most important that students research is written up on a continual basis during the three years of registration. Continual writing-up means that the students should expect to regularly prepare chapters to be read and commented on by their supervisors on a regular basis. This should help to ensure that when the formal writing-up period begins, they have a first draft of a thesis ready for modification.
Contents
Priority Research Areas
* Applied industrial organisation
* The economics of innovation (the diffusion of innovations, R&D patenting and IP rights, eco-innovations)
* Industrial policy and market regulation
* Behavioural economics and decision making
* Public policy (civil and criminal justice systems, taxation, gambling and betting)
* Public and private sector risk management
* Financial economics
We welcome Doctoral students in any of the above areas of Industrial Economics.
Members of the Industrial Economics division have held governmental advisory positions and have conducted research commissioned by national and international government departments, professional bodies, and the private sector. We publish in high level economics journals and in leading journals in a broad range of related disciplines. We have wide experience in producing world class empirical industrial economics and in applying industrial economics and innovation to Government and business policy at both national and international levels.
Potential applicants are encouraged to look at the profiles of individual faculty members' research, via their personal pages.
Students interested in perusing a PhD should contact the individual members of staff or the divisional research director.
Specific projects
* Innovation and firm competitiveness
* The generation and diffusion of green processes/products
* Micro econometric evaluations of labour market effects of mergers and acquisitions
* Individual differences and group compositions: A behavioural study
* Does financial structure matter for firm growth
* Economics of risk in teenage pregnancy
* Market efficiency in spread and fixed odds betting
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Applicants will normally be graduates of an approved university holding a Masters degree in a relevant subject (normally with an average over 65% in the taught modules and normally 65% in the dissertation, or its equivalent). Applicants may also be considered for admission if they have an honours degree in a relevant subject (with at least an upper second or its equivalent). Professional, business or industrial qualifications are also valued for some research areas.
Please enclose transcripts of all your academic qualifications with your application form. Interested applicants who have not yet fully completed their Masters or undergraduate degree should include a transcript of the marks received to date. Any offer made would be conditional upon achieving the required standard.
If English is not your first language
If your first language is not English we normally require you to achieve one of the following combination of test results taken no earlier than September 2010 for an immediate entry to either the MRes Business and Management Programme and the Doctoral Programme (IELTS preferred).
* An International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of at least 7.0 with a minimum score of at least 6.0 in each of the four individual elements of the test.
* A Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of at least 600 with a Test of Written English (TWE) score of at least 4.5. or computerised test equivalent of 250 with a TWE of 4.5 or an internet TOEFL score of 100 with no less than 19 in each of the four elements.
Applicants who have obtained an overall IELTS score of 6.5 will still be considered for a place on the programme, however any offer made would be conditional upon achieving an overall score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in each element or successfully completing an appropriate Business Management course at the University's Centre for English Language Education before commencing the programme.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Master's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 7.0 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 600 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 250 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 100 |
Accreditation
Business School accreditation: AMBA, EQUIS.
Programme accreditation:
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Faculty
Our research activity tends to be, in the main, applied or policy oriented research and covers areas such as: industrial economics; managerial economics; the economics of risk and insurance; the economics of tourism, and financial economics.
Our Division makes an important contribution to teaching within the School both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, particularly in areas such as: industrial/managerial economics; quantitative methods; the economics of risk and insurance; and banking and finance.
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