MRes/PhD Accounting (Accounting, Organisations and Institutions)
London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London
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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

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The Department of Accounting at LSE is one of the leading groups in the world for teaching and research on the economic, institutional and organisational aspects of accounting and financial management. Our PhD programme provides rigorous academic training aimed at preparing students to undertake research of the highest international standards.You will benefit from a truly international and interdisciplinary environment. You will have access to a wide range of taught courses and research ...Read more

The Department of Accounting at LSE is one of the leading groups in the world for teaching and research on the economic, institutional and organisational aspects of accounting and financial management. Our PhD programme provides rigorous academic training aimed at preparing students to undertake research of the highest international standards.

You will benefit from a truly international and interdisciplinary environment. You will have access to a wide range of taught courses and research seminars across different departments and research centres within the School. You will work closely with faculty in the Department throughout the programme, and you will interact with leading scholars from other universities thanks to our active external workshop series. All students admitted to the programme are fully funded, and financial assistance is also available for you to present your work at conferences.

You will be expected to complete the programme within five years. In the first two years, you will take a set of core and elective courses in accounting and related fields and complete a research paper. After the second year, you will focus on your PhD thesis.

Our programme is structured in two tracks: The Accounting, Organisations and Institutions (AOI) track, which is devoted to the study of interrelationships between accounting, organisations and institutions, and the Economics of Accounting (EoA) track, which primarily examines accounting and financial reporting issues from an economics perspective. Below you find more information about the AOI track. For information about the EoA track please click here.

Research in the AOI track is mainly qualitative in approach, focusing on the accounting process within and across organizations. Our intention is that your chosen topic will involve the investigation of how accounting practices are shaped by their institutional contexts, have behavioural consequences and can be vehicles for operationalising different values. Efforts to design internal and external accounting practices are both a function of specific economic and political interests, but are also shaped by social and political aspirations. Research in this track can potentially embrace a wide variety of accounting areas, such as studies in management accounting and organisational control processes, analyses of the impact of new accounting systems in the private and public sector, event-based work on transformations of auditing and risk regulation regimes, historical studies of accounting, as well as broader contributions to social theory.

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Entry requirements

To be considered for admission, you should have a substantial academic background in accounting or a cognate area (for example, economic sociology, organisation studies or economic history). Students are normally required to have prior training at master’s level. We may exceptionally accept students with outstanding performance in their undergraduate degree. Competition for places at the School is high. This means that even if you meet our minimum entry requirement this does not guarantee you an offer of admission.

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£22,632 per year

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London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London
London School of Economics and Political Science London England WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: Holborn  0.1 miles away Nearest train station: Blackfriars  0.4 miles away
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