Cranfield School of Management

 

PhD programme at a glance

 

Full-time

Part-time

Minimum time commitment

45 hours per week

23 hours per week (including attendance of Research Methodology Course)

Registration

1 year for MRes degree (Master’s of Research in Management Research) + 3 years for PhD

6 years’ PhD registration

Year 1

Research training: MRes (3 days a week)
Development of research topic
Systematic literature review
Submission of MRes dissertation

Research training: Research Methodology Course (Mondays)
Development of research topic
Literature review

Year 2

Transfer to PhD registration
Definition of research question
1st progress review

Definition of research question
1st progress review

Year 3

Pilot study
Main empirical work
2nd progress review

Pilot study
Main empirical work

 

Year 4

3rd progress review
Writing up
Thesis submission

Empirical work
2nd progress review

Year 5

Viva voce examination

Empirical work

Year 6

 

3rd progress review
Writing up

Year 7

 

Viva voce examination

 


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