Bayes Business School funded PhD Studentships in Accounting, Actuarial Science and Finance, 2023-24, London, UK
Bayes Business school Studentships
We are offering 15 PhD studentships comprising tuition fees and maintenance grant of £19,668 per annum for four years, starting in October 2023. Studentships also offer funding for conference attendance throughout the four year period.
Applications close on 28 February 2023 but high quality applicants may be made fast-tracked offers before that date.
Funding and support
The Bayes PhD provides funding, research and travel support to PhD students.
- All Bayes students can apply for travel funding for academic conferences if their research paper is accepted for presentation.
- Students also have the opportunities to teach courses or act as teaching or research assistants to earn extra income and gain valuable experience.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2023
About the PhD in Accounting programme
An internationally recognised PhD programme in Accounting offered by the Accounting Group at Bayes Business School.
Benefits
We offer a stimulating learning and research environment and the PhD in Accounting programme is supported by leading experts in areas of financial accounting and capital market research.
Our researchers routinely publish in top accounting journals including:
- The Accounting Review
- Journal of Accounting and Economics
- Journal of Accounting Research
- Review of Accounting Studies
- Contemporary Accounting Research.
The research is also often quoted in the financial press (e.g. The Financial Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal).
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 rated Bayes 5th in the UK for Business and Management research. In total, 92% of our research was rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) – up from 84% in REF 2014.
Bayes – a global business school with a global PhD programme
As a PhD student at Bayes, you will be encouraged to present your research at leading international conferences in the UK, the US, Europe and Asia.
As part of the PhD in Accounting programme, we also encourage research visits to top US and European business schools, including Harvard Business School, New York University Stern School of Business, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, and University of Cambridge.
Bayes Business School’s most recent graduates have been hired by Penn State, London School of Economics, University of Paris and the Bank of England.
Research Areas
We encourage applications for topics in areas such as:
- Accountability and governance
- Corporate communication and disclosure
- Investment banking relations
- Analyst research
- Financial reporting
- Audit
- Security valuation
- Financial statement analysis.
Please visit the webpages of individual members of the Accounting Group for more information on the potential research topics they can offer to supervise.
You do not need to find a potential supervisor before you apply, but it is useful to indicate in your application the member of academic staff with research interests similar to your own. The final decision on supervisors is made by the PhD Director.