CRANFIELD - PHD Programme Brochure
CRANFIELD - PHD Programme Brochure
CRANFIELD - PHD Programme Brochure
Research
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WELCOME
At Cranfield we pride ourselves on rigorous, relevant research
that delivers real benefits to:
Business
Government
Wider society
DOCTORAL
PROGRAMMES
Our two doctoral programmes both offer exceptional
training in research methodology and personal
development, but are delivered through different
formats with different deliverables, designed to suit
different career trajectories:
POSTGRADUATE
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE SURVEY
2015 86.7% said the course met or exceeded
86.7%
DBA
PhD
81.8%
National Average
International Executive
Doctorate (DBA)
RESEARCHING PROFESSIONAL
Our AMBA-accredited International Executive Doctorate
(DBA) is a high quality, doctoral level, research degree
which has real impact in organisations and on wider policy
and practice. It is undertaken by those who are focused on
practice-based careers and the delivery of the programme
has been structured to suit the needs of busy, senior
executives.
The DBA programme is clearly aligned with the
mission of the School and identifies with the key
strengths and distinctiveness of the institution,
particularly with regards to engagement with
business.
Deliverable 2
Positioning
Study
YEAR 3
Week 8
Week 7
Week 6
Week 5
Week 4
YEAR 2
Deliverable 3
Literature
Based Project
Deliverable 4
Research
Design
Deliverable 5
Impact
Plan
YEAR 4
Half Week
Deliverable 1
Problem
Formulation
Week 3
Week 2
Week 1
YEAR 1
Deliverable 6
Empirical Project
VIVA
Deliverable 7
Impact
Assessment
RESEARCH CAPABILITY
The Executive Doctorate was tremendously helpful for my career I started off the
programme as a functional manager and went through five different promotions, from
Country Principal Consulting in Spain; VP Consulting Mid Size Region in EMEA; through
to General Manager Spain and President, South Europe & Middle East. I link my career
progression directly to this programme as it provided rigour, discipline, content and a new
way of thinking and reasoning that allowed me to have the confidence to challenge the loud
voice in the room.
Dr Gabriel Morelli
Head of Commercial Strategy, Anti-Infectives, Sandoz (a Novartis company)
Cranfield International Executive Doctorate (DBA) Alumnus.
MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
For more information about the Cranfield International Executive Doctorate: www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/dba
Full-Time
YEAR 3
YEAR 4
YEAR 5
YEAR 6
VIVA
VOCE
Literature review,
research design
& conceptual paper
Thesis
VIVA
VOCE
Week 8
Week 7
Week 6
Week 5
Week 4
Week 3
Week 2
Part-Time
Week 8
YEAR 2
Week 7
Week 6
Week 5
Week 4
Week 3
Week 2
Week 1
YEAR 1
I chose Cranfield because of its twin foci on research rigour and relevance to practice.
Also, for the excellent opportunities that exist for collaboration with faculty. Not least, it
gave me the ability to balance my studies with the rest of my life at that time I was running
in the ultra-distance team for England. For me, the value of the Cranfield experience lay
in its holistic approach to management education, the opportunities for international
collaborations, and the lifelong friendships I made with faculty and students.
Dr Siri Terjesen
PhD Alumna
Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA; also Visiting
Research Fellow Lund University, Sweden.
Dr Paul Davis
Dr Christine Bailey
Head of Medical
Affairs at Biotech
Industry
(Oslo, Norway)
Vice President,
Specialised Services
(EMEA) Hitachi
Consulting
Director, Marketing
EMEA & Russia at Cisco
Systems
(Shepperton, Surrey, UK)
(Northampton, UK)
Dr Alice Maynard
Dr Gabriela Alvarez
Dr Gabriel Morelli
Director, Founding
Partner at Latitude
(Geneva, Switzerland)
Head of Commercial
Strategy, AntiInfectives, Sandoz
(a Novartis company)
(Munich, Germany)
DBA students
PhD students
Dr Siri Terjesen
Dr Andreas Birnik
Assistant Professor,
Kelley School of Business
Founder, CreoPop,
CarbonStory
(Bloomington, Indiana,
US)
(Singapore)
(Dublin, Ireland)
Dr Thoranna Jonsdottir
Associate Professor
of Strategy in EAFIT
University
(Colombia)
(Iceland)
Professor of
Management and
Marketing at St
Louis University,
Madrid
(Madrid, Spain)
MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Research Clubs
Research Clubs are central to our ability to create relevant research as they enable you and your organisation to help shape our
research agenda and thereby ensure that we are developing relevant research that delivers real benefits.
The results of our work are then fed back directly to club members via a series of presentations, innovative business tools,
techniques and best practice advice. Members can be invited to participate in additional case studies, workshops and focus
groups as part of this research process.
Real business issues rarely confine themselves to the boundaries of academic discipline. For this reason, we offer a variety of
clubs, each focussing on a different function or theme within business:
Agile Supply Chain Research Club
Supply chain and logistics directors and senior supply chain professionals
Marketing directors and senior managers in marketing, sales and customer services
Food@Cranfield Research
Network
This research focus spans the entire value chain: Farm inputs; Farming; Manufacturing;
Distribution; Retail; Consumer; Waste Management
Practising key account managers, new business managers, and commercial managers.
Sales directors, commercial directors, managing directors with an interest in sales
As well as contribution to research outputs and regular access to network events, new thinking and best practice, corporate
membership provides access to our dynamic and global Alumni network and preferential programme rates for managers within
your organisation.
Currently 59 organisations are engaged with our research via membership to our clubs. (January 2015)