Course Overview

Develop original solutions to real-world issues, further your professional skills, and create novel, holistic and research-led solutions that bring lasting impact to your organization. This course is for senior professionals, researchers in commercial or public organizations, managers, entrepreneurs, consultants, and anyone else who wants to build their forensic and investigative skills to deal with knowledge-based investigations, organizational innovation, change, and ambiguity. In contrast to a Ph.D. program, the DBA is an action-research-based experience focussing on research that emerges from a field of practice informed by academic knowledge. By taking this Doctor of Business Administration you will gain: The ability to combine practitioner and academic knowledge. Working with our extensive world-class faculty, you will build reflective skills and develop intellectual rigor to tackle organizational challenges and develop innovative insights and change. Access to our diverse areas of research including people, organizations and work, evidence-based law, local governance, marketing/ digital marketing, applied economics, social value, enterprise and innovation, urban research and austerity, finance and banking, corporate social responsibility, and strategy.

General Eligibility

Entry criteria

In order to enter the programme the student must have completed:

• an honours undergraduate degree (2.1);

• or have membership of a recognised (chartered) professional body;

• or be able to demonstrate equivalent professional qualification or managerial/directorial experience.

• and must have a substantial body of supervisory/managerial roles on a permanent or periodic basis. It is likely that this will have taken a period of time to accumulate and, for indicative purposes only, this might be, for example, five years.

• and draft a detailed research proposal

• and provide a CV.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• An IELTS core of 6.0 (including a minimum of 5.5 in each component) or equivalent is usually required.