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PhD and Post-Doctoral Programme

PhD and Post-Doctoral Programme



Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Training



CIBI has on strong focus on growing and deepening research capacity in CIBI’s research areas within the Business School and internationally through doctoral post-doctoral training.

There are currently 15 PhD students connected to CIBI.

Since between 2006 and 2008, 11 PhD students connected to CIBI completed successfully their PhDs.

CIBI operates a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship programme (2006/07 Fellow: Sougand Golesorkhi from Manchester Business School, University of Manchester; 2007/08 Fellow: Tommasso Ciarli from the University of Bologna; 2008/09 Fellow: Robert Lee from Manchester Metropolitan University Business School).

CIBI is the lead institution of an International PhD Exchange Programme with European partner universities, including the Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder Germany; University of Murcia, Spain, University of Wuppertal, Germany.This programme allows PhD students to spend a structured period of research at the partner university.

CIBI participates in the annual doctoral conferences of the US Consortium for Cooperation and Competition.

CIBI participates in the United Nations internship programme (The 2008 MMU intern was the doctoral candidate Paul Dennett).