Fully funded PhD at Bayes Business School

The PhD programme at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City St George’s, University of London is offering 15 PhD studentships comprising full tuition fees and  maintenance grant of £22,780 pa for four years, starting in October 2026. Studentships also offer funding for attendance at selected conferences.

This year, we are also offering an OFGEM-funded PhD scholarship at the interface of consumer behaviour and energy markets. The successful candidate will probably be supervised jointly by Professor Mukhopadhyay and Professor Estes and will be expected to spend approximately 10 hours per week working with the sponsor.

Applications and deadlines

To be considered for one of the studentships you must submit a full online application by the deadline indicated – high quality applicants may receive fast-tracked offers before this date. Studentships will be allocated by a panel of senior academics on the basis of outstanding academic achievement and research potential.

PhDs in Management, Marketing and Operations Management: 29 January 2026 application deadline

PhDs in Accounting: 9 February 2026 application deadline

PhDs in Actuarial Science: 9 February 2026 application deadline

PhDs in Finance: 9 February 2026 application deadline

Full details and application procedures can be found at: www.bayes.citystgeorges.ac.uk/study/phd/how-to-apply

Funding

Studentship funding for UK students, EU students and international students, including:

• Full tuition fee waiver
• Stipend: £22,780 per annum (rising in line with UKRI stipends) for full-time study over four years

Research areas

PhD applications are sought from exceptional UK and overseas graduates and will be given to students on the basis of outstanding academic achievement and research potential in the following subject areas. This year, we particularly welcome applications aligned with our four strategic research themes on societal challenges, the future of finance and insurance, technology and innovation (with a strong focus on AI), and understanding the transforming world, although exceptional candidates in other areas will also be considered.

Actuarial Science and Insurance:

• General and life insurance
• Health and social care
• Machine learning and analytics
• Mortality and longevity modelling
• Pensions and investment
• Risk management
• Statistics
• Stochastic modelling of risk in insurance and finance 

Finance:

• Accounting
• Asset Pricing and Market Microstructure
• Banking and FinTech
• Commodity, Shipping Finance and Risk Management
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance and ESG
• Finance and the Real Economy
• Financial Econometrics
• International Finance
• Mathematical Finance

Management:

• Entrepreneurship and innovation
• Marketing
• Operations and supply chain management
• Organisational behaviour and human resource management
• Social purpose
• Strategy

Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City St George’s, University of London

Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) is among the global elite of business schools that hold the gold standard of triple-crown accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 rated Bayes 5^th in the UK for Business and Management research. In total, 92% of our research was rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*).

The School provides a research and enterprise development programme to support the development of research skills. It is part of City St George’s, University of London, which is committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions, and an enviable central London location.