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    Management

    PhD / MPhil

    Duration
    PhD – 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time
    MPhil – 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
    Contact
    PGR administrator
    humss.pgr@keele.ac.uk
    (+44) 01782 733641

    The MPhil route for this programme is no longer accepting international applications for September 2026, except from countries listed under the differential evidence requirement. Please check your eligibility before applying. Applications for the PhD route remain open.

    Summary

    Management undertakes critical inquiry into a number of themes within management including: Culture and organisation, Ethnographic Research, Gender, organisations and work, Philosophical and Methodological Inquiry, consumption and regulation and Markets.

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    Overview

    Work under the theme of Management, Organisation and Workplace Relations includes analyses of post-industrial and knowledge-driven service work; ‘corporate culturism’ – power and identity; management innovations; organizational transformation and change; and poststructural examinations of ‘emotional’ or ‘aesthetic labour’.

    Work on Gender includes: masculinity at work in organizations; gender identities in organisations and institutions; and gender and consumption. Work on consumption and markets include: analyses of the changing nature of consumption; consumption, culture and knowledge production; and critical analyses of rationality in accounting regulations, economics, and public sector organizations. Philosophical and methodological inquiry concerns: the ontology and epistemology of social institutions; deconstructionist and reflexive methodologies; and ethnographic research.

    Research interests

    • Culture and organisation
    • Ethnographic Research
    • Gender, organisations and work
    • Philosophical and Methodological Inquiry consumption
    • Regulation and Markets

    General Requirements

    All candidates must provide a statement as to how the proposed research fits within the research interests of the staff at Keele. This must be provided before applications are considered.