Overview

Marketing is a highly dynamic and wide ranging subject area and we welcome doctoral students who wish to critically investigate both marketing theory and practice through questioning established thinking to create progressive knowledge. We value and encourage diverse methodologies and engagement with different types of organisations and contexts.

Our doctoral supervisors in Marketing are recognised experts in consumer psychology digital marketing, social media adoption and usage, sustainable and societal marketing, non-profit marketing, marketing strategy and brand management.

The Marketing subject group and researchers provides a vibrant and supportive community in which to immerse yourself, including collaborative events, as well as opportunities to publish your research and gain teaching experience.

If you study for a PhD in Marketing you will normally be linked to either the Centre of Business Society and Global Challenges (BSGC) or Oxford Regions Innovation, Enterprise Lab (ORIEL) depending on your chosen topic within Marketing.

Learning and assessment

While every candidate’s exact experience will vary according to their particular discipline, topic and methodology, there are a number of common elements that all students will undertake:

• critically investigating and evaluating an approved topic
• undertaking an analytical review of the existing literature in your topic area to set the theoretical context for your work and help demonstrate the gap in knowledge you will address
• developing and then implementing a rigorous and appropriate methodology for researching your topic
• demonstrating that your research conforms to all relevant ethical codes of practice
• extensive primary field research, analysis and evaluation.

Your progression will be monitored through an annual process undertaken at the end of each academic year, and through two key progression points after approximately six months and eighteen months of study respectively.