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DBA - Doctor of Business Administration
Stoke-on-Trent Campus
Part Time
Sep 2027
2 Year
The world of business and commerce demands highly competent professionals – individuals who are equipped with the ability to make key decisions and face strategic challenges head on. If you want to be able to support your judgement with evidence-based data and bring measurable change to your organisation, the Doctor of Business Administration course is ideal. Similar to the PhD, the DBA is the highest qualification achievable in Higher Education (Level 8). It is a common choice for practicing managers and senior professional practitioners who wish to pursue their academic, personal and career development beyond a Masters degree (Level 7) through a rigorous and challenging programme of study and research. The DBA is aimed at those who want to make a difference to the way that management and professional practice in the fields of organisation and management will be developed in the future. The DBA has been designed for senior executives and other professionals in strategic management positions from diverse industries and sectors of the economy. DBA candidates advance their respective fields by conducting original practice-based research and thus contributing to professional practice by developing existing theories and knowledge in the field. It’s a doctoral research degree that investigates real businesses and managerial issues via the critical review and systematic application of appropriate theories and research to professional practice. Having an applied research perspective, the DBA differs from a traditional PhD in that it includes a substantial knowledge element, as well as the development of a research thesis. The informed element of the DBA focuses on both philosophy and methods of advanced qualitative and quantitative research. It places emphasis on the participative and action-oriented processes relevant to applied doctoral study of this nature. On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: DBA Business Administration
At the end of this module you will have the ability to review existing literature, establish an understanding towards creating boundaries for coverage of knowledge and practice by critically analysing relevant theoretical frameworks and studies in relation to their research scope. It will support concrete development of theoretical conceptualisation in relation to your identified research area.
At the end of this module you will have the ability to review existing literature, establish an understanding towards creating boundaries for coverage of knowledge and practice by critically analysing relevant theoretical frameworks and studies in relation to their research scope. It will support concrete development of theoretical conceptualisation in relation to their identified research area.
At the end of this module, you will have a comprehensive understanding of quantitative research methods. This module will teach you how the research design is affected by data collection and analysis tools, how to recognise different data, coding, choosing appropriate methods of presenting data and selecting appropriate statistical tools.
At the end of this module, you will have a comprehensive understanding of qualitative research methods. This module will teach you how qualitative research methods are governed by clear rules and provide a range of methods of exploring issues which cannot be expressed by numbers. Moreover, organisations and human behaviour are difficult to hold still and isolate and since they change constantly, they can offer different dimensions of themselves to different audiences. This module will demonstrate that there is a place for perception studies, looking at what people think or feel is going on at workplaces since this will affect the day-to-day and strategic long-term practice in organisations.
By the end of the DBA journey, the candidate will have enhanced analytical and critical skills to develop on their professional management practice. They will be able to questions and challenge received wisdom in business and management arena, and consider how learning is translated into management practice, and practice into business and management theory.
This module offers the opportunity for students to undertake a purposeful, individual, in-depth study of a topic relevant to their topic in Business Management. It aims at developing skills of independent learning and critical thinking, while building knowledge of research techniques. The research proposal provides an early requirement to engage with literature and develop awareness of the research process, allowing constructive feedback on the literature that have been drawn from, the approach to research and awareness to the research process.
By the end of the DBA journey, the candidate will have enhanced analytical and critical skills to develop on their professional management practice. They will be able to questions and challenge received wisdom in business and management arena, and consider how learning is translated into management practice, and practice into business and management theory.
By the end of the DBA journey, the candidate will have enhanced analytical and critical skills to develop on their professional management practice. They will be able to questions and challenge received wisdom in business and management arena, and consider how learning is translated into management practice, and practice into business and management theory.
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