CUBS empowers future research leaders through expert mentorship, interdisciplinary opportunities, and world-class training for impactful careers.”
From health and sustainability to ethical business and economic growth, our research spans diverse fields shaping tomorrow’s world.
Cork University Business School (CUBS) is committed to research excellence and quality and to supporting the next generation of research leaders. Undertaking a research degree facilitates in-depth study in a discipline in which the student already has a good academic grounding. CUBS also encourages inter-disciplinary research, where the student has appropriate knowledge in cognate areas. We aim to ensure our postgraduate research graduates are prepared, through our training and support, for a wide range of high-level successful careers. Students are given supervision by a team of experts. Our current research students are undertaking research in a variety of areas, such as Health & Wellbeing; Sustainability & Food, Regional Development & Economics Growth, IS Security & Ethical Business Decision-Making; Employment & Work, and many more, reflecting the diverse nature of CUBS' research activities and our research strengths.
All PhD students are required to complete PGR training that will enable them to conduct independent research. All PhD students must complete15 credits of postgraduate research modules as a minimum.[1]
The following 5-credit modules are recommended for all CUBS PhD students:
BU7004 Business Research Skills
BU7005 Qualitative Research Methods
BU7006 Quantitative Research Methods
BU7007 Action Design Research
Further information on these modules is available through UCC’s Book of Modules and from the course coordinators. Where students and their Supervisory Team feel that these modules are not appropriate for their training (e.g. due to prior advanced knowledge in some of these areas or specific training needs in relation to their research), other modules should be chosen from the UCC postgraduate suite of modules. Information and registration for these modules is through Graduate Studies:research student modules, PhD, modules (ucc.ie)
In case required training is not available through CUBS or UCC postgraduate modules, PhD students may get recognition for up to 10 credits over the course of their programme for external modules or courses.
Additional career development training that is accessible to PGR students is provided by UCC and CUBS through relevant modules and PGR seminars. While MSc Research Students are not required to complete PGR modules, it is recommended that they discuss training needs with their supervisory team.
[1] Students who are registered on postgraduate research programmes that incorporate taught modules (e.g. DBA Business Economics; PhD Business Information Systems) should complete the training specified in these programmes.
Current Opportunities
Here you will find listings for any fully funded PhD positions currently being recruited within Cork University Business School in UCC. Calls for applications are typically open for a set period of time and promoted widely across all relevant channels.
CUBS PhD Scholarship 2025 Management
CUBS is offering a PhD scholarship to commence in October 2025. This scholarship is open to both Home/EU and international students and will cover fees (EU/non-EU) and a monthly stipend for 4-years
CUBS PhD Scholarship 2025 Food business and development
We are offering a PhD scholarship to commence in Oct 2025. This scholarship is open to both Home/EU and international students and will cover fees (EU/non-EU) and a monthly stipend for a 4-year period
Cork University Business School (CUBS) is offering 1 PhD scholarship in Economics to commence in October 2025. This project is funded through collaboration with the UNIC Initiative.
This project, undertaken within the VistaMilk research program, will develop a comprehensive decisionsupport model that captures the full complexity of milk’s journey from farm production through industrial processing and into product distribution. The PhD Scholarship is a joint research project between Teagasc Moorepark and CUBS, UCC.
CUBS PhD Scholarship Sustainability and Dairy Farming
Cork University Business School (CUBS) is offering 1 PhD scholarship in Economics to commence in October 2025. This project is funded as part of the BiOrbic Research Ireland Centre for Bioeconomy, in collaboration UCC & Teagasc.
Interested in learning more about pursuing a PhD at Cork University Business School at University College Cork? Fill out the form below to make an enquiry and a member of our team will reach out to you soon!
Annual PhD Symposium
Each year, CUBS holds a Postgraduate Research Symposium to showcase and share the on-going postgraduate research activity in the School. The event allows current postgraduates to present their research to fellow researchers and students in a collegial and helpful environment. It also demonstrates the wide range of postgraduate research currently being undertaken across the School.
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