Up to three PhD scholarships are offered per year in Accounting and/or Finance. Any area of study will be considered within these disciplines.
Eligibility
The major areas of interest in current staff research are as follows:
The major areas of interest in current staff research are as follows:
Accounting:
• Accounting for charities • Accounting and consumer society • Accounting narratives • Accounting and popular culture • Accounting regulation • Accounting, strategy, and information technologies • Financial accounting • Healthcare and social care accounting and accountability • History of accounting and calculative practices • Management accounting, governance and control • Management controls for major programmes & projects • Market-based accounting research • Social studies of accounting and accountability • The accounting profession
• Accounting for charities • Accounting and consumer society • Accounting narratives • Accounting and popular culture • Accounting regulation • Accounting, strategy, and information technologies • Financial accounting • Healthcare and social care accounting and accountability • History of accounting and calculative practices • Management accounting, governance and control • Management controls for major programmes & projects • Market-based accounting research • Social studies of accounting and accountability • The accounting profession
Business and climate change:
• Benchmarking carbon performance • Carbon accounting • Carbon markets & low carbon investment •Risk management
• Benchmarking carbon performance • Carbon accounting • Carbon markets & low carbon investment •Risk management
Finance:
• Banking • Behavioural finance • Capital market anomalies • Corporate finance • Corporate governance • Corporate pension risk analysis • Econometrics of financial markets • Empirical asset pricing • Equity valuation • Energy finance • Institutional setting for IPO markets and underpricing of IPOs • Market microstructure; high frequency trading
• Banking • Behavioural finance • Capital market anomalies • Corporate finance • Corporate governance • Corporate pension risk analysis • Econometrics of financial markets • Empirical asset pricing • Equity valuation • Energy finance • Institutional setting for IPO markets and underpricing of IPOs • Market microstructure; high frequency trading
Applicants should have:
A postgraduate master's degree from an accredited institution in the UK or overseas with evidence of above-average academic achievement (more than 65% overall in your Masters) and a postgraduate master's dissertation with distinction (UK equivalent). MBA or master's students without a dissertation are welcome to apply and should provide evidence of distinction level (UK equivalent). Your official transcript and grading scheme must be provided when you submit your application.
A postgraduate master's degree from an accredited institution in the UK or overseas with evidence of above-average academic achievement (more than 65% overall in your Masters) and a postgraduate master's dissertation with distinction (UK equivalent). MBA or master's students without a dissertation are welcome to apply and should provide evidence of distinction level (UK equivalent). Your official transcript and grading scheme must be provided when you submit your application.
An International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of at least 7.0 overall, or the equivalent from our approved list of certificates.
Successful applicants will be expected to contribute to our teaching programmes during their second and third years of the scholarship.
Check the PhD entry requirements for an approved list of English language certificates.
For further information please click here.
Funding information
- Value:
- £14,000 + tuition fees (UK/EU and overseas)
- Funding applies to:
- Open to applicants from a range of countries
- Funding notes:
- Open to applicants from all countries.
Contacts and how to apply
- Administrative contact and how to apply:
- Download our scholarship covering letter template
Complete the downloaded covering letter explaining your reasons for applying and why you are the ideal person to receive this scholarship.
Upload your completed covering letter to your EUCLID online application for the PhD programme.Submit your online application here: http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/phd/how-to-apply
Administrative contact: phd@business-school.ed.ac.uk - Application deadline:
- 17 April 2016
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