Oxford Brookes University
Faculty of Business
Full-time PhD Studentship 2015/2016
Eligibility: Home/EU/International
The Faculty of Business at Oxford Brookes University is offering studentships to exceptional
candidates seeking to study for a full-time PhD starting in September 2015.
These full-time studentships will be for 3 years, subject to satisfactory progress. The bursary will be
14,000 per annum plus student fees.
Applicants should normally have a good Honours degree as well as a good Master’s degree at merit
level or above that includes a thesis component.
Please state clearly in your application the Department, cluster and your research title.
Department: Marketing Management
Cluster: Consumers and Consumption
The behaviour of consumers in decision making and consumption are strong interests for the
Marketing Department at Oxford Brookes. Consumer experience and consumer engagement, CRM,
political voting behaviour, co-creation of value including within digital communities, cross-cultural
behaviours, gift giving behaviour in service settings, the behaviour of tourists, and symbolic
consumption represent some of the eclectic research activity in this cluster. A significant emerging
focus in the Department is that of online consumer behaviour, including aspects such as the growing
capture and (mis)use of consumer data, eWOM, digital engagement and exclusion, and C2C
communication reflecting changing social behaviours and new technologies. There is also much
interest in areas of ethical and sustainable consumption, including attack advertising in politics,
regulatory mechanisms for harmful products, and the interface between travel behaviour and
sustainable consumption. We encourage applications into these areas of consumer behaviour,
consumption and customer interaction. Applicants are welcome from relevant and complementary
disciplines such as sociology, social psychology, psychology, or technology as well as from marketing
and business studies.
For further information about the project please go to:
http://businss.brookes.ac.uk/research/degrees/studentships/
Contact for informal academic enquiries about the studentship: Dr Jackie Clarke
jrclarke@brookes.ac.uk
Contact for non-academic enquiries and information: Chris Spurgeon cspurgeon@brookes.ac.uk
Please sign up and complete the online application here:
https://pgapp.ukpass.ac.uk/ukpasspgapp/login.jsp
Closing date: Monday March 23, 2015, 12 noon.