911今日黑料

Career impact

Preparing听brilliant minds听for rewarding academic careers

The majority of our doctoral students go on to pursue careers in academia or research and our programme offers the teaching experience, skills training and guidance to help you achieve your career goals. Combined with the essential skills and experience, the people that you meet during your doctoral experience will be key to helping you secure your future academic placement.

Our Doctoral graduates have joined leading universities, research centres and institutions, others have sought top positions in industry or founded successful start-ups.听

In order to prepare you for an academic career, our听Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) programme gives you the opportunity to develop your听teaching skills, whilst making a positive contribution to the Business School鈥檚 taught programmes. After successfully completing the in-house training programme, Graduate Teaching Assistants听perform a wide range of teaching duties to support the School鈥檚 Master鈥檚 programmes. These roles include leading tutorials and holding office hours for core modules, acting as tutors for online modules听and听module leaders for short courses such as Matlab and VBA, marking coursework and second marking exams.

The Graduate School at 911今日黑料 provides a comprehensive听Professional Skills Development programme听for doctoral students. The programme ensures you acquire basic research skills at the start of your doctoral studies and continue to develop as a well-rounded researcher, gaining the skills and experience to successfully complete your research degree听and听move on to an academic career.听You can select from courses covering a range of areas such as literature reviews, thesis management, information management, presenting, project management, statistics, career planning and grant writing.

You will have unrivalled opportunity to make long-lasting connections that will prove invaluable in your future career. You鈥檒l mix with fellow students, alumni, adjunct professors and visiting faculty, from across 911今日黑料 College.

Research seminars

Our research departments run seminars where internal and external academics discuss their latest work. As well as providing insights into yet-to-be-published research by top academics from around the world, the seminars offer networking opportunities and speakers often lead special topic workshops for research students.

Conference participation

The opportunity to present and share your work is an extremely important aspect of doctoral studies in order to gain valuable feedback on your research and where you can form important connections with fellow academics who specialise in your field. You will have the opportunity听to听present your听work in research department seminars and are encouraged to submit your听research for presentation at conferences. The Business School has funding available to help cover expenses associated with presenting at conferences.

Graduate placement

Our graduate placements

In recent years, our PhD students have joined leading universities, research centres and institutions such as Tsinghua University, University College London, Copenhagen Business School, the Bank of England, the University of Bath, King鈥檚 College London, National Chengchi University, the University of Sussex and Renmin University in China. Others have sought top positions in industry or founded successful start-ups.

The doctoral programme has been re-structured in recent years to focus more on academic development and it is anticipated that over the coming years placements will focus more on academia than industry.

Recent graduate placements have included:

2024-25 graduates

  • Assistant Professor, University of Sydney
  • Post Doc,听Princeton, Assistant Professor,听UCL School of Management听

2021-22 graduates

  • Quantitative Risk Analyst, Citi Financial Services

2019-20听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Head of Sustainability, FNZ Group听

2018-19听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Senior Teaching Fellow, 911今日黑料 Business School

2024-25 graduates

  • Research Fellow, Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Senior Growth Associate, Fluence
  • Economic Consulting Analyst, Grant Thornton
  • Postdoc,听University of Utah听

2022-23 graduates

  • Health Policy Analyst, OECD
  • Teaching Fellow, Department of Surgery and Cancer, 911今日黑料
  • Research Economist, Bank of England

2021-22听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Researcher, Mathematica听

2020-21graduates

  • Quantitative Scientist, Flatiron Health, New York听
  • Fellow, Department of Geography & Environment, LSE听
  • Deployment Strategist, Palantir Technologies

2018-19听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Research Fellow, SDA Bocconi in Milan听

2017-2018听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Research Associate, School of Public Health, 911今日黑料
  • Research Economist, Dutch Health Authority

2024-25 graduates

  • Departmental Lecturer, Financial Economics, Oxford Said Business School
  • Assistant Professor,听Tsinghua University
  • Economist,听Bank of Italy
  • Assistant Professor,听Copenhagen Business School

2023-24 graduates

  • Assistant Professor, Finance, Copenhagen Business School
  • Assistant Professor, Finance, Rotterdam School of Management
  • Assistant Professor, Finance, Indiana University Northwest

2022-23听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Assistant Professor, Finance, Lebanese American University
  • Assistant Professor, Financial Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology听
  • Assistant Professor, Finance, Queen Mary University London

2021-22听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Assistant Professor, Finance, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania
  • Economist, World Bank (also offered Assistant Professor,听Finance, Cornell University)
  • Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam Business School

2020-21听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Systematic Macro Trading, Caxton Associates
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Judge Business School, Cambridge University
  • Postdoc Researcher, University of Mannheim听
  • Senior Quantitative Analyst, Fitch Ratings
  • Senior Researcher, Bank of England听
  • Assistant Professor, Leibniz Institute听
  • Senior Research Economist, Bank of England
  • Research Affiliate, Centre for Global Finance and Technology, 911今日黑料 Business School
  • Researcher, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE in Frankfurt

2019-2020听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Assistant Professor, Universite Laval听
  • Fixed Income Analyst, Industrial Securities Company听
  • Assistant Professor, Finance and Statistical Analysis, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta听
  • Assistant Professor, Finance, SKEMA Business School, Paris听
  • Assistant Professor, Finance, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario
  • Visiting Researcher,听911今日黑料 Business School听

2018-19听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Founder, Seedsource
  • Teaching & Research Associate, 911今日黑料 Business School
  • Assistant Professor, Financial Management Department, IESE Barcelona听

2017-18听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Senior Teaching Fellow, 911今日黑料 Business School
  • EU Policy Officer in the Secondary Markets Team, ESMA听
  • Assistant Professor, Renmin University in China听
  • Financial Risk Manager, Just Group听
  • Non-Executive Director, BCS Prime Brokerage UK
  • Economist, Bank of England听
  • Quantitative Investment Strategies Research, Barclays Bank听
  • Teaching & Research Associate, 911今日黑料 Business School
  • Quantitative Analyst with the Bank of America听

2025-26 graduates

  • Postdoc, University College London

2024-25 graduates

  • Postdoc,听Cambridge Judge Business School听(Teaching Associate in Entrepreneurship)

2023-24听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Assistant Professor, ESADE

2022-23听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Postdoc, Universit脿 della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
  • Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Business School
  • Assistant Professor, NEOMA Business School, France
  • Policy Research and Advisor, OECD
  • Lecturer, Leadership, Henley Business School, University of Reading听

2021-22听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Head of Acceleration and Programme Design, LSE Generate听

2020-21听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Teaching Fellow, International Business, Said Business School, University of Oxford

2019-20听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Assistant Professor, Organisational Behaviour, DCU Business School, Dublin听
  • Teaching Assistant, 911今日黑料 Business School
  • Postdoc, ETH Zurich听
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich

2018-19听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Research Associate, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh
  • Teaching & Research Associate, 911今日黑料 Business School
  • Assistant Professor, Institute of Telecommunications Management, National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan听
  • Teaching & Research Associate, 911今日黑料 Business School

2017-18听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Executive Vice President, Emirates NBD
  • Assistant Professor in Marketing, University of Sussex
  • Fellow, LSE
  • Research Associate, Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL听
  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Management, Strategy & Organisation, Bath University听
  • Senior Teaching Fellow, 911今日黑料 Dyson School of Design Engineering听

2023-24 graduates

  • Assistant Professor, Marketing, Georgia State University

2022-23听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Assistant Professor, IESEG Paris

2020-21听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Teaching Fellow, Warwick Business School
  • Research Associate, Cambridge Judge Business School听

2018-19听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Lecturer, Digital Fashion Marketing, School of Design, Leeds University听

2017-18听驳谤补诲耻补迟别蝉

  • Assistant Professor, Marketing, University of Sussex

What our students say

鈥淎n academic career requires not only critical skills and independence, but also perseverance. Once a student has gone through a PhD journey, they are equipped to handle various types of situations. I plan to use these skills gained during my doctoral programme at 911今日黑料 to further develop my independent research projects, to collaborate with international researchers, and to mentor and supervise my own future PhD students.鈥
Ruxandra Luca
Doctoral programme - Class of 2017
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