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For more information please go to www.lancaster.ac.uk Management School 150 /151 Management School Lancaster University Management School’s (LUMS) research Departments mission is ‘to produce research outputs that are world-class 154 Accounting and Finance 160 Economics and have high impact ’. This long term commitment to 166 Graduate Management research of the highest calibre has encouraged a distinctive School, including: E-Business and Innovation and deeply embedded culture, which attracts high quality Information Technology, Management and international faculty membe rs. Organisational Change (ITMOC) We publish in leading peer reviewed LUMS is also one of a very small Dean of Faculty International Business journals, play major roles in developing group of business schools to Professor Sue Cox Management new interdisciplinary research hold triple accreditation: EQUIS agendas across the academic (European Foundation for Associate Dean for The Lancaster MBA (Full- Postgraduate Studies community, engage with employers Management Development), AMBA time and Executive mode) Professor Mark Shackleton across all sectors, and influence (Association of MBAs) and AACSB 176 Institute for Entrepreneurship national and international policy. (Association to Advance Collegiate Director of Doctoral and Enterprise Development Schools of Business). This signifies Programmes Not surprisingly, LUMS has achieved 180 Management Development excellent educational quality, Caroline Gattrell a 20 year reputation for research of Division internationalisation, and a high level exceptional quality and international of cooperation with the business Number of postgraduate 182 Management Learning standing. As a result, LUMS has students community. Combined with our and Leadership been very successful in generating 205 Research ranking in the Financial Times for 186 Management Science research and project income our MBA, Finance and Management 906 Taught including grants from: the Economics 194 Marketing programmes globally and our and Social Research Council (ESRC), ‘Programme Partner’ Status with 198 Organisation, Work Engineering and Physical Sciences the CFA (Chartered Finance Analyst and Technology Research Council (EPSRC), British Institute), you can see why so many Academy, EU, Leverhulme Trust, choose to come to LUMS. Department for Education and Skills (DfES), NHS, Operational Research Society, Nuffield Foundation, and a wide range of commercial and industrial sponsors. Award Winning | Triple Accredited | World Ranked For more information please go to www.lancaster.ac.uk Management School 152 /153 Given our exceptional reputation for The large doctoral community We also maintain strong links with research and scholarship, LUMS is benefits from a methodology training manufacturing, services and public increasingly focused on graduate programme; access to our portfolio authorities through collaborative and doctoral education. Testament of MRes degrees; an active research research, in company projects to our commitment to graduate culture with a regular programme undertaken by our students, post programmes is the establishment of informal and formal research experience teaching and, of course, of our Graduate Management seminars; and our role alongside via the achievements of our alumni. School, a focus for postgraduate Manchester and Liverpool Universities We have strong international links teaching and programme in the ESRC’s North West Doctoral with top west European business development. It is also the home for Training Centre (NWDTC), which schools and leading researchers in our cross-disciplinary postgraduate brings funding opportunities as North America, Asia, and Australasia. programmes, which offer students well as excellent shared resources. These links are reinforced by our access to the best teaching from Our impressive LUMS building prestigious IMPM programme, which all of our departments and benefit provides three high specification is taught collaboratively by leading from a multidisciplinary approach. lecture theatres and several staff at McGill University, Institute We have over 100 full-time faculty dedicated group work areas for of Management (Bangalore, India), staff covering the full range of postgraduate teaching as well as Renmin University (Beijing, China), management subjects; all of them are an executive teaching suite and FGV/EBAPE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) committed to high quality, innovative hub where large events take place. and Lancaster. In addition, the teaching. Postgraduate students Our recently opened Charles Carter Lancaster Centre for Management in benefit from the contributions of Building provides additional teaching China and the Lancaster India Centre specialist teaching staff researching and office space for LUMS. build on long standing research and at the forefront of their subjects. teaching links with these countries. We design and deliver quality We also continue to offer specialist development and educational masters programmes and programmes for senior executives opportunities to conduct research and practicing managers. These in business relevant fields including: include The Lancaster MBA and the Key fa ct accounting and finance, economics, International Masters in Practicing 75% of Lancaster entrepreneurship, marketing, human Management (IMPM) and a range Universi ty M anagement resources, operational research, of other programmes supported Schoo l’s rese arch act ivity management learning and by organisations including: Airbus, was assessed in the 2008 information technology. AstraZeneca, BAE Systems, BT, RAE as world-lea di ng or Co-operative Financial Services, The Graduate Management School inte rna tion ally exce llent Great Places Housing Group, Help encompasses over 1,000 students in te rms of origi nality, the Hospices, the National Housing on 30 different postgraduate si gn ificance and rigo ur. Federation, SAPA and Batelco. programmes. Over 500 are closely 95% of o ur rese arch is associated with one or more at least of internation al departments studying on specialist standing. programmes and more than 200 are engaged in PhD level study. For more information please go to www.lancaster.ac.uk Management School – Accounting and Finance 154 /155 Accounting and F inance Our Department of Accounting and Finance takes pride Research degree s Course information in its long established reputation for excellence in both PhD You will learn specialist skills and Research degrees develop insights necessary to PhD Entry requirements teaching and in research. become productive researchers Relevant Masters degree, or of international standard, as well as Integrated degrees (1+3) equivalent, with distinction 70% or gaining a wide scholarly perspective MRes in Accounting and Staff in the Department have Our research resources include We offer a comprehensive above. In exceptional circumstances, on finance, accounting and other Financial Management international reputations, publishing access to major databases, and well established portfolio an upper second honours degree management areas. We emphasise MRes in Finance regularly in renowned academic including WRDS, CRSP, Compustat, of postgraduate programmes. with relevant research experience. communication and presentation MSc/MRes in Money, Banking journals and providing advice to Datastream, LSPD, Thomson Taught courses include the Graduate Management Admissions skills, which are absolutely necessary and Finance professional accounting bodies One Banker; and high frequency MSc in Accounting and Financial Test (GMAT) score often required for for effective dissemination of and the wider industry. Many faculty FX, LSE and options prices. The Management, the MSc in Finance, non-UK qualifications. research and teaching. members also have international International Centre for Research and our new MSc in Financial Taught programmes IELTS teaching experience and have in Accounting (ICRA) is an Analysis. We also contribute to Lancaster University is a member MSc in Accounting and 7.0 or equivalent (minimum established themselves as academic independently funded unit which the MSc in Money, Banking and of the North West Doctoral Training Financial Management element scores apply). leaders in their fields of expertise. offers support for research. Its Finance and the MSc in Quantitative Centre (NWDTC) established by MSc in Finance location within the LUMS building Finance, both administered by Assessment the Economic and Social Research We welcome PhD students and allows close links to be easily the Department of Economics. Council (ESRC). As part of this MSc in Financial Analysis offer MRes programmes designed Original research and thesis. maintained with faculty and student initiative our Accounting and Finance MSc in Quantitative Finance specifically for students who wish researchers. Further information students take research training to pursue research but are not www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/departments/ modules offered by Manchester Postgraduate enquiries yet ready to embark on the longer accounting/research University on a reciprocal basis. Head of Department: programmes. This permits students to take more Professor Steven Young Suitable candidates interested specialised courses closer to Tel: +44 (0 )152 4 593 628 in conducting research in any their specific research interests. Fax: +44 (0 )152 4 847 3 21 of our main areas of academic Email: [email protected] specialisation are invited to apply Depending on your area of www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/ for the PhD programme. specialism,