[UK] PhD Studentships in Financial Risk Management - Imperial College of London
PhD Studentships Available Imperial Risk Management Lab, Finance and Accounting Group
Tanaka Business School
* ‘Imperial College is ranked in the top ten universities of the world, according to the 2006 Times Higher Education Supplement league tables.’*
The Risk Management Lab based in the Finance and Accounting Group of Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, has several studentships available for students wishing to pursue research in finance or financial economics. The studentships fall into three main areas:
- within the Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality, which will investigate the causes, consequences and possible remedies of dysfunctionality in financial markets. Among the issues studied will be principal-agent problems in delegating asset management, implications of herding and psychological bias, asset market volatility, and possible policy responses.
- within the Hedge Fund Centre, which will look at hedge fund performance, predictability in financial asset returns, asset allocation and risk management for hedge funds.
- within the Banking Centre, which will look at various issues related to banking risk management, such as economic and regulatory capital, modelling portfolio credit risk, stress testing techniques, operational risk modelling and the pricing and risk analysis of structured products.
The studentships will pay a bursary of £12-15k plus EU fees and will run for a period of up to three years.
Applicants should hold a good MSc in a relevant discipline such as finance, mathematical finance or economics.
Since 2003, the Business School has grown substantially, following a major investment by Imperial College. Reflecting Imperial strengths in maths, technology, and medicine, the Business School is organised into three groups: Finance & Accounting; Innovation & Entrepreneurship; and Organisation & Management. The Finance & Accounting group has recently hired nine outstanding new faculty, including four Professors and four Associate Professors.
The purpose of Tanaka Business School’s doctoral degree is to enable outstanding scholars to conduct original research with major impact on academia and management practice. Exceptional faculty connections to both of these and our diverse student body create unique opportunities to undertake research at the frontiers of one’s field. Proximity to Imperial’s science departments together with our faculty’s wide-reaching interests create an energized and continuously evolving intellectual environment at the cutting edge of innovation in business and policy. It is also one that encourages the pursuit of multidisciplinary study, collaboration and access.
There are around 35 research active supervisors involved in the Doctoral programme and up to 80 students, making it one of the largest in the UK. Close mentoring and contact with faculty help map a challenging blueprint tailored to one’s own interests whilst also offering a rich exposure to others’ ideas. A significant number of our doctoral students join from abroad, one third coming from outside the European Union, combining a variety of cultural, intellectual and educational perspectives.
There is no closing date for applications for the Studentships. However, you are advised to apply as early as possible since we anticipate a high level of interest.
To find out more, and to apply, please visit
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/tanaka/doctoral-degree/admissions or contact: Dr
Tessa Ogden, email: t.ogden@imperial. ac.uk
*Closing date: open-ended*
