Applicants are urged to study the up-to-date profiles of individual staff members' research via their personal web pages. Current priority areas include:

Social Marketing and Society

• Consumer and marketing ethics
• Consumer behaviour and issues related to consumption
• Ethical consumption
• Psychology of online communication
• Online privacy issues
• Transformative consumer research
  
  
  Researchers linked to this priority area include Professor Isabelle Szmigin, Dr Caroline Moraes, David Houghton

Business Market Networks and Policy 

• Business-to-business marketing
• Antitrust and historical public policy
• Inter-organisational relationships and conflict
• Networks and social capital in business-to-business contexts
• Buyer-supplier relationships

Researchers linked to this priority area include Dr Sheena Leek, Dr Louise Canning

Strategic Marketing and Innovation 

• Innovation, creativity and new product development
• Environmental management and sustainability
• Nascent markets and high technology fields
• Innovation capabilities and diffusion
• Construct development and computational simulation techniques

Researchers linked to this priority area include Dr Mark Palmer and Dr Eric Shiu

Most PhD students will be expected to take the core research methods training courses of the MA Social Research. You will then be able to take more advanced training as appropriate on the basis of a training needs analysis conducted with your supervisor at the beginning of each year.

For part-time students modules are flexible and can be studied in blocks, part time or at weekends to fit your commitments.

Support and training

Birmingham Business School provides dedicated facilities, resources and support to postgraduate students and early career researchers which includes The Midlands Graduate School and Doctoral Training Centres and Programmes. Click to find out more.

Related links

Birmingham Business School website: www.birmingham.ac.uk/business

Research at the Department of Marketing

Applicants are urged to study the up-to-date profiles of individual staff members' research via their personal web pages. Current priority areas include:

Social Marketing and Society

• Consumer and marketing ethics
• Consumer behaviour and issues related to consumption
• Ethical consumption
• Psychology of online communication
• Online privacy issues
• Transformative consumer research
  
  
  Researchers linked to this priority area include Professor Isabelle Szmigin, Dr Caroline Moraes, David Houghton

Business Market Networks and Policy 

• Business-to-business marketing
• Antitrust and historical public policy
• Inter-organisational relationships and conflict
• Networks and social capital in business-to-business contexts
• Buyer-supplier relationships

Researchers linked to this priority area include Dr Sheena Leek, Dr Louise Canning

Strategic Marketing and Innovation 

• Innovation, creativity and new product development
• Environmental management and sustainability
• Nascent markets and high technology fields
• Innovation capabilities and diffusion
• Construct development and computational simulation techniques

Researchers linked to this priority area include Dr Mark Palmer and Dr Eric Shiu

Most PhD students will be expected to take the core research methods training courses of the MA Social Research. You will then be able to take more advanced training as appropriate on the basis of a training needs analysis conducted with your supervisor at the beginning of each year.

For part-time students modules are flexible and can be studied in blocks, part time or at weekends to fit your commitments.

Related links

Birmingham Business School website: www.birmingham.ac.uk/business

Research at the Department of Marketing

If I gain a postgraduate research degree from the Birmingham Business School, what are my career prospects?

The University of Birmingham has recently been ranked 9th in the UK and 55th in the world for post-qualification employability in a global survey of universities commissioned by the International Herald Tribune. This means excellent career prospects for our PhD graduates.

Birmingham’s Marketing graduates are sought after by a wide range of financial, commercial and public sector employers. They can typically offer a wide range of skills including analytical, research, numeracy, communication, team working, as well as political and commercial awareness.

What type of career assistance is available to doctoral researchers in Birmingham Business School?

The University of Birmingham has invested heavily in careers and employability support.  The Careers Team have been praised for enhanced developments within their team and for adopting a model of integrated employability and internship support; something that has been rolled out and implemented across all Schools and Colleges at the University.

Doctoral researchers at Birmingham Business School will benefit from this additional investment; the school  now has its own well qualified dedicated Careers Team to support students with employment opportunities, work placements, internships and how to succeed at interview. In addition, a range of career management, personal development and employer events are run each year by the Careers in Business Team to help you make the most of the opportunities available. 

The University also has dedicated careers advisors for International students who run workshops and networking opportunities with potential employers. These are especially popular with International postgraduate researchers.