Four year fully funded Graduate Teaching Fellowships for Management PhD students

Are you planning to start a Management PhD in October 2027? Don’t miss the opportunity to apply for one of the University of Liverpool Management School’s 4-year Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTF).

Receiving one of our GTF gives you the funds to launch your academic career, while you gain valuable teaching training and experience to become a rounded scholar:

• £21,805 annual maintenance grant* (for four years)
• Full coverage of PhD programme fees (for four years)
• HE teacher training and practice.

This means that as well as pursuing your PhD research, you’ll also be involved in a fixed number of teaching hours during your time with us.

In year one, alongside your specific PhD research modules, you’ll complete a short teacher training programme by the University of Liverpool.

As well as gaining a formal HE teaching qualification, you’ll learn key pedagogical skills for the academic job market, primarily through shadowing mentored classroom involvement.

During the remainder of your PhD, you’ll have the opportunity to put your research skills into practice while completing your doctoral research thesis.

Stipend amount of £21,805 for 2026/27 is for guidance purposes only and subject to change.

Who is this for?

These studentships are open to full-time PhD students worldwide.

You’ll need a UK master’s degree, or international equivalent, in a business and management discipline, preferably at merit or above.

How to apply

Before formally applying, you must express your interest in a GTF position by completing this form before Friday 27 November 2026 at 5pm (UK time), an submit a strong research proposal in areas including, but not limited to:

• Marketing
  • B2B marketing
  • Consumer behaviour and digital identity
  • Consumer culture
  • Marketing strategy and analytics
  • Vulnerable consumers and responsible marketing.

• Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Transport and logistics

• • Agri-food supply chains
  • Sustainable operations and supply chain management
  • Agile operations
  • Supply chain technologies, analytics and risk.

• Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship

• • Sustainable strategy and its governance
  • International business and management of people, knowledge and technology across borders
  • Innovation, collaboration and emerging digital technologies
  • Strategic intellectual property management across global innovation contexts
  • Entrepreneurship and social inclusion.

• Work, Organisation and Management (WOM)

• • Work, health and wellbeing
  • Leadership
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
  • Identity
  • Grand challenges in work, organisation and management

For the 2027/2028, the WOM Group particularly welcomes proposals within the broader topic area “The role of different modes of communication in addressing unsettled environments and wicked problems” – Download summary to find out more (PDF, 134KB).

You’re welcome to suggest potential supervisors in your application, although this is not compulsory. If you’d like to do so, please check our lists of Management experts to review their research areas and visit their individual profiles:

• Find Marketing supervisors
• Find Operations and Supply Chain Management supervisors
• Find Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship supervisors
• Find Work Organisation and Management supervisors.

We'll take into consideration your suggested supervisors when we review your application, but please bear in mind that we'll make the final decision after assessing who the best match for your intended research project.