Duration
4 years full time / 8 years part time
Mode (Location)
On campus (Parkville)
Intake
Flexible
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Fees
Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) places available
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Student experience
Overview
At Melbourne Business School, we offer a comprehensive program to support your learning, develop your skills and enrich your degree. We encourage you to be involved and build teaching and research skills through practical learning opportunities and enrichment activities:
- Tutoring/teaching assistant opportunities
- Research assistant opportunities
- Research support program
- PhD student brownbag series
- Research seminar series
- Immersion in all aspects of academic life within the Department
Internships
As a part of the PhD, students can undertake a Research Internship. These paid opportunities will allow you to strengthen transferable skills and expand your professional networks, while engaging in research and development (R&D) activities with an external organisation.
Top-Tier Research & High-Quality Teaching
Associate Professor Deshani Ganegoda
PhD Director
Associate Professor Deshani Ganegoda is the Director of the Doctoral Program in Business Administration and Business Analytics. Deshani joined Melbourne Business School in 2017 and is currently an Associate Professor of Management. After completing her PhD in 2012 at the University of Central Florida, Deshani joined the faculty of Australian National University’s Research School of Management. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School and the School of Arts and Sciences in 2015.
Deshani’s research centres on the general topics of behavioural ethics, organisational justice, and workplace deviance. Her research has been published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organisational Behavior, Human Resource Management, and Human Relations. She teaches Managing People and Negotiations to MBA students.