The Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance at Heriot-Watt University is offering a small number of scholarships in the areas of Accountancy and Finance to start in the academic year 2016-17. The term of the scholarships is three years.
There is a list of potential supervisors with the general areas in which they are willing to supervise PhDs, plus, in some cases, (i) the more specific issues/questions they are willing to supervise within those areas, and/or (ii) one or more particular projects on which they would be willing to supervise PhDs.
The research proposal should contain as much as possible of the following:
- An introduction or outline of the proposed topic;
- A statement of objectives and/or specific research questions;
- A summary of some of the relevant literature which supports the research objective(s);
- An indication of the intended research methodology;
- An indication of the theoretical structure and/or conceptual outline;
- A provisional timetable of the major phases of the research process;
- Results expected from the research e.g. practical value of the research or possible contributions to knowledge or policy or methodology.
Further details:
http://www.mladiinfo.eu