Entrepreneurship and happiness, wellbeing or health

How do entrepreneurship and happiness, wellbeing and/or health interrelate?

If you would like to develop an original PhD project to shed light on any aspect of entrepreneurship and happiness, wellbeing or health, then do please get in touch. If your interest is strong and you have an appropriate blend of qualifications, aptitudes, and motivations, you will join a supervisory team lead by Professor Edmund Thompson to develop a specific avenue of research relating to a facet of entrepreneurship and happiness, wellbeing or health that both interests you and that the team finds compelling and worthwhile.

Your PhD training, supervision and research will be directed to ensure that an original contribution to knowledge is made through the production of professional scholarly papers. More broadly, your PhD training will be geared to ensuring career success as a university academic.

The Successful Candidate should:

Fulfil the entrance requirements for a PhD in the School of Management.

Applicants from any science, social-science or humanities disciplinary background will be considered, and those with cross-disciplinary backgrounds are particularly welcome.

Successful applicants will exhibit unusual levels of open-mindedness, intellectual curiosity, and authentic scholarly originality.

Only applicants genuinely determined to become professors in research-led universities within eight years of completing a PhD will be considered.

Applicants must wish to study full-time and fulfil the entrance requirements for doctoral study at the University of Bath.

All applicants should, in the first instance, send direct to Professor Thompson all of the following:

1. A concise, candid, and honest explanation of why they want to become a university professor within 8 years of completing their PhD.

2. A clear statement of how they plan to develop their scholarly career after completing their PhD.

3. A brief description of how they would use their eventual position as a full professor to improve the world.

4. The intellectual and practical rationales for why they are interested in the particular topic/project area they propose researching.

5. An original, non-generic, non-LLM- or essay-mill-produced brief proposal of the kind of research they would like to pursue, drawing as necessary on extant literature for germane concepts, salient theory, and relevant empirical analyses.

6. An explicit indication of both the (i) theoretical and (ii) empirical approaches they think might be appropriate (and that they’d personally like to deploy).

7. A statement of the scholarly training and practical research issues they think they’d need to consider in order to succeed in completing their PhD effectively.

8. A full academic CV.

9. Full transcripts of ALL degrees.

10. A brief rationale of why they would not, or would, use AI/LLMs in their PhD.

11. A statement of whether or not AI/LLMs were used in the production of any aspect or element of their application, and if they were, how precisely. 

Please send all 11 items above as separate files direct to Prof Edmund Thompson who will then advise about making a formal application. Please note that registrations of interest or enquiries will only be answered after all the 11 specified documents have been received.

Start date:

All PhD candidates are standardly accepted onto the Integrated Management PhD programme.

Enquiries and Applications:

Please send requested information and any enquiries direct to Prof Edmund Thompson – ert20@bath.ac.uk who will then advise about making a formal application.

More information about applying for a PhD at Bath may be found on our website.