Accounting and Finance PhD

University of Liverpool

Become a specialist in building impactful research-based solutions to current and future challenges in micro and macro finance, with our Accounting and Finance PhD programme. If you have a master’s degree in accounting and finance or a related field, the University of Liverpool Management School offers the perfect environment to become a world-class specialist researcher in this area. Our Accounting and Finance PhD gives you the opportunity to explore your own ideas while you receive thought-provoking advice from our academic staff. We offer tailored training with modules designed to develop your research skills in accounting and finance. The modules cover: Research foundations Corporate finance and accounting Asset pricing theory Empirical corporate finance and accounting Empirical asset pricing. You’ll also receive additional training via workshops, seminars and conferences. To ensure you are fully supported during your thesis, you’ll work with a primary supervisor who is a leading expert in their field, and a secondary supervisor, who is also an established expert or a promising early career researcher in your area of study. This programme is delivered in-person at our emblematic Liverpool campus. UK, Republic of Ireland and international students can study this PhD on a full-time basis, while UK and Republic of Ireland students also have the option to study part-time. Although you can start this PhD at the beginning of any month, we recommend doing so in October or January where possible. This coincides with the start dates of our training modules. Watch our latest webinar with Director of Studies, Dr Yang Zhao, and Accounting and Finance Group Director of Research, Professor Shantanu Banerjee. Download our Management School PhD and MRes programmes brochure for more details of our available postgraduate research and MRes courses.