Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: Full-time: three years
Part-time: four years
Develop original solutions to real-world issues, further your professional skills and create novel, holistic and research-led solutions that bring lasting impact for your organisation.
This course is for senior professionals, researchers in commercial or public organisations, managers, entrepreneurs, consultants and anyone else who wants to build their forensic and investigative skills to deal with knowledge-based investigations, organisational innovation, change and ambiguity.
In contrast to a PhD programme, the DBA is an action-research based experience focussing on research which emerges from a field of practice informed by academic knowledge.
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.
Enhance your existing qualifications and career prospects with a specialist focus on management in an international context. You will benefit from access to DMU’s established Careers and Employability Team, who offer employability sessions and workshops, with personalised support via a careers coach to advise you on your options and to help develop your plans
Year 1: Framing the study (building on the research proposal) in order to connect professional business and academic research domains effectively
Module 1 - Year 1/ Assignment 1 (Sept - Dec) – A structured review of research and leading professional practice literature
Module 2 - Year 1/ Assignment 2 (Dec - March) – Challenging assumptions underpinning practice - Research Paradigms and Philosophies
Module 3 - Year 1 (March - June) - Development of the Research Design – Preparation for Field Work/ Pilot Study
End Year 1 - Residential (June)
Year 2 (Sept - Dec): Operation of the Pilot Study and Development of Thesis
Year 3 to Year 4 (Full-time) and Year 4 to Year 6 (Part-time): Ongoing Field Work, Analysis of Findings and Writing up of Thesis Document
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