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Our Integrated PhD Entrepreneurship provides a route to doctoral study if you do not have a Master鈥檚 degree, or have little to no research training. It enables you to spend your first year completing a full-time Masters-level qualification, which will equip you with the business knowledge and research skills needed to begin PhD study the following year. Your PhD will then be studied full time, over the next three years.

You can choose to follow a traditional thesis approach, where you write a dissertation, or follow a 'three paper' thesis, where you produce three research articles, framed by an introduction and conclusion. Your supervisors support you to submit these papers to conferences and for publication in international journals, so you can begin to build you research portfolio well before graduation.

This PhD will give you the opportunity to engage with debates surrounding entrepreneurship, such as knowledge production, organisational development, and innovation in the new economy. Our PhD candidates explore issues such as:

• entrepreneurial disengagement
• co-creation in social entrepreneurship
• cognitive entrepreneurship and over-optimism

Our Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship Group, based at our Southend Campus, are a group of international researchers with an entrepreneurial focus. The group organises regular research seminars, giving you the chance to hear cutting-edge research and network with scholars from the school and the wider academic community.

Their research is multi-disciplinary and falls within two broad and interrelated streams 鈥� management science and entrepreneurship and SME management. Current research projects include exploring 鈥淎utism and the world of work鈥� 鈥� looking at the challenges faced by individuals with autism spectrum disorder in the workplace and how they can be offered better support and understanding; and 鈥淎ccelerating women鈥檚 enterprise鈥� 鈥� research in partnership with the Accelerating-women鈥檚 Enterprise (AWE) project exploring the challenges and barriers faced by disadvantaged women entrepreneurs.

Your future

Our PhD programmes are designed to foster the business leaders and researchers of the future. Our graduates use creativity, innovation, and ethical awareness to meet the many challenges facing the international business world.

Our doctoral graduates have secured roles in academia at some of the best international universities, as well as organisations in the public and private sectors. Recent examples include careers with Leeds University Business School, Cambridge Education, EY (Ernst and Young) and the public sector around the world.

Our University Student Development Careers Services are on hand to provide careers advice and help you make the most of your Essex experience. You will also have access to CV workshops, one-to-one advice, and career resources.