Key information
Duration
Full-time: 36 months (3 - 4 years)
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting October 2026 — Apply anytime.
- Starting January 2027 — Apply anytime.
- Starting April 2027 — Apply anytime.
If you are applying for funding, are applying from overseas or require on-campus accommodation, we recommend that you apply as early as possible.
Language
English
- TOEFL iBT: 94
- PTE Academic: 66
- IELTS: 7
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
Lancaster, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Marketing
Overview
The Marketing course from Lancaster University research interests are particularly focused within specialist areas, including Sustainable Innovation, Marketing and Digital Strategy, Markets, Design-Led Thinking, Consumption Insights, Digital Consumption, Social Justice, and Health Inequality. Furthermore, we have several active groups of researchers interested in business marketing and business networks in the context of supply chain interactions, innovation, market development, and the development of the firm in international markets.
Key facts
The department is also closely linked to the Centre for Consumption Insights, which is a platform for our staff to engage in specialist research that centres on the transformative aspects of consumer research and consumption-related phenomena of pertinence to culture and society. Topics of interest here include consumer vulnerability, diet and health, the environment and family. We also have an established Market Dynamics Research Group, which explores how to solve complex organisational, national and global level challenges.
Many of our staff work closely with marketing practitioners. This allows us to ensure that our research is relevant to commercial and public-sector organisations and the academic community. You will receive support from a specialist supervisor as you research and write your thesis.
In addition to your thesis, an oral examination will form an integral part of the assessment of your doctoral research.
Programme Structure
Our research interests are particularly focused within specialist areas including:
- Sustainable Innovation
- Marketing and Digital Strategy
- Markets
- Design-Led Thinking
- Consumption Insights
- Digital Consumption
- Social Justice
- Health Inequality
Admission Requirements
Academic requirements
GPA: Upper Second Class
English requirements
- TOEFL iBT: 94
- PTE Academic: 66
- IELTS: 7
General requirements
- A relevant UK Master's degree with the a minimum of 65% overall and 65% in the dissertation, or a non-UK Master's degree, graded at the equivalent level.
- As part of your application you also need to provide a viable research proposal of up to 5000 words which has potential to make a significant contribution to prior literature.
- We may ask you to provide a recognised English language qualification, dependent upon your nationality and where you have studied previously.
Fees and Funding
Tuition Fees
The postgraduate research fees for the next year have not yet been set.