Business and Law

The School of Business and Law at the University of Brighton offers PhD students a research environment focused on the full range of disciplines associated with contemporary business structures and practices.

Our research centre, the Centre for Change, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (CENTRIM) brings together academic expertise with a long, successful history in business development through international partnerships and consultancies.

As a PhD student in Business and Law Business and Law at the University of Brighton University of Brighton you will join a department whose work tackles the complex problems facing economies, businesses, and wider society. We are committed to academic research of international excellence, providing scientific evidence and generating new insights into the processes of enterprising and managing innovation and change.

Key facts

As a Business and Law PhD student at Brighton, you will 

• attend and present at regular seminar sessions with guests from across the world of business research.

• benefit from a supervisory team comprising 2-3 members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional supervisor from another school, another research institution, or an external partner from government or industry. 

• be provided with desk space and access to a desktop PC, either in one of the postgraduate offices on the 6th  floor of the award-winning Cockcroft Building, or within the adjacent Huxley Building.  

• benefit from access to a range of electronic resources via the University’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries. 

Our PhD students are supervised across sets of specialities including:

• Economics / finance

• Innovation studies

• Law

• Management studies

• Marketing