Doctoral Programme

Our full-time, six year Doctoral programme offers an inspirational learning experience that equips you with the skills to become a world-leading expert in your chosen subject. Combining highly relevant and structured training, you'll complete a Master’s in Research (MRes) over two years depending on your chosen research area, which will provide a focus on specialist courses and core research skills. Once you have a solid foundation for your academic career, you'll progress on to the PhD stage and have the freedom to explore your chosen area of research over a further four years.

Are you ready to make an impact with your research?

Start date

September 2023

Why choose Imperial Business School's Doctoral programme?

REF 2021

Second in the UK for proportion of world-leading research in business and management studies and first for research environment

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Six years

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Full-time, on campus

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London

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QS World University Ranking 2022 (Imperial College London)

7th

nationalities represented (2021 intake)

Meet the students

"When I finally decided to apply for my PhD programme, Imperial College Business School was on top of my list for its outstanding faculties and research outputs, a great fit between some faculty members’ interests and mine, as well as the strong networks among different departments within the College. I also liked the fact that the programme is five years with the first year focusing on training on empirical methods and theoretical topics, which is quite rare among UK programmes."

Maxine Yu

Strategy & Organisational Behaviour PhD Student

"The learning opportunities are among the best things about the Doctoral programme, especially in terms of the close contact we get to have with faculty. The programme is well structured yet open-ended enough to let you choose your own professional growth path. You can join the many projects carried out by our faculty, pick your own training courses within and outside Imperial, or get endorsed by Imperial and do work within a company for research purposes."

Stefano Benigni

Innovation & Entrepreneurship PhD Student

The faculty and students in these fields undertake research into the innovation and entrepreneurship process, from identifying pockets of original knowledge in the search for ideas, to the diffusion and entrepreneurial exploitation of new products, processes and services.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Strategy & Organisational Behaviour

Research in this area explores the link between senior managerial style and firm strategy, and the effect of team selection processes on success, how organisational contexts affect how we construe, and therefore facilitate, morally problematic behaviour and how business organisations learn to grow and adapt to environmental turbulence.

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Erkko Autio James Barlow Christiane Bode Sankalp Chaturvedi Bart Clarysse Kevin Corley Paola Criscuolo Christian Hampel Ying-Ying Hsieh HeeJung Jung Olenka Kacperczyk Mark Kennedy Jaemin Lee Namrata Malhotra Yuri Mishina Celia Moore Markus Perkmann Jonathan Pinto Michelle Rogan Jan-Michael Ross Dmitry Sharapov Ileana Stigliani Sanaz Talaifar Anne ter Wal Christopher Tucci Anu Wadhwa Tim Weiss Michael Yeomans Rosemarie Ziedonis Maurizio Zollo