Dundee Business School

World-class degrees in Accounting, Business, Marketing, Management, and Law.

About us

We prepare you thoroughly for the world of work. Our aim is to train you to meet the challenges and opportunities you'll come across in your business career.

You can cover all aspects of business learning including financial planning and decision-making. Choose from topics like Accounting and Finance, and Law or Business Management, Marketing and Human Resources.

Studying with us can lead into graduate fast-track management schemes, giving you management roles in a few short years. Or you may join many of our graduates and start up your own business/go freelance. Perhaps further study is the route for you. Whatever you choose, we help you to feel empowered to solve problems and make informed decisions about your future.

The skills and knowledge you learn here will help you to adapt quickly to your work environment, and contribute from the very start. When you leave us, we want you to lead and grow in your chosen field.

Everything we do has been created with your future employment in mind.

Interim Head

Professor Annelize McKay

Headshot of Annelize McKay, Head of Law, Abertay University

Facilities

You will be working in a fantastic environment. Our teaching takes place in a grade two heritage listed building. Opened in 1909, it was originally Dundee Technical College & School of Art and is the oldest part of the University. Students have studied here for over 100 years, inspired to learn by the history and charm of their surroundings.

Our Research

The Business School has an interdisciplinary research profile spanning three primary subject areas of human resource management, enterprise and entrepreneurship, and marketing. It also extends to cognate areas.

This primarily relates to the University's Creative Industries & Cultural Vitality and Sustainable Development & Inclusive Living Challenge Spaces.

Energy

Research in energy is our main strength and we continue to build our capacity around this topic.

Our research focuses on a diverse array of areas, such as renewable energy accounting and finance; carbon accounting; oil and gas accounting; social and environmental accounting; and energy security.

Accounting

Our research in accounting has been traditionally linked to the energy sector. We also have expertise in other areas of accounting, such as human resource valuation, performance measurement and accounting as a social practice.

Finance

Our newest research group is focussed on investment biases, corporate governance, ownership structure, stock return anomalies and real estate investment.

Human Resource Management

Human resource management research explores graduate recruitment and labour market trends in a comparative context; talent management, managing diversity and flexible working practices; environmental awareness in the workplace; job creation and social inclusion; and employees' response to organisational change, psychological contract and the work lives of foreign-born employees within academia.

Law

Transnational law enforcement

Focus is on transnational law enforcement generally, and trafficking in human beings in particular.

Post-Brexit, the focus has shifted to the changing legal relationship of the UK/Scotland with the EU in the policy area, and the responses of the UK/Scotland to this changing situation. A particular focus is on trafficking in human beings from a transnational, EU and UK perspective.

These are concerns shared not just in the UK but elsewhere in the developed world, and international agreements and co-operation is required to minimise the potential for criminality in this area. Research has resulted in publications, external engagement, knowledge exchange and consultancy. Research outputs include for example, ‘Constructivism, constitutionalism and the EU's area of freedom security and justice post-Lisbon’.

 

Law and society

Focus is on in intellectual property (IP) law and its impact on access rights for people with disabilities, medical law, bioethics and reproductive rights, which has led to nascent synergies in the area of ethical reproductive rights and employment law research.

 

Marketing

The Marketing team is engaged in contemporary issues that relate to disciplinary aspects of both professional practice and academic research. 

Current research themes cover:  Marketing and social media; Brand development and identity; Ethical Marketing; Developments in consumer identities; Digital media; Sustainable Development and Marketing; Consumer buying behaviour and Sports Marketing.

Business Management

The Business Management team is engaged in contemporary issues that relate to disciplinary aspects of both professional practice and academic research. 

The current themes include:  Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Public Private Partnerships; International Business and emerging economies; Global Competitiveness; New Enterprise Development and Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Business Development.

Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is the inter-disciplinary focus of the Dundee Business School. 

It is essentially about the future of work and society. 

Emerging themes for research are: Operations Management and the Fourth Industrial Revolution; Digital and Social Media; Morality in a Digital Environment; Human Capital Development; Agile Technologies and Organisation Performance; Digital Economies and Society; Technology and Digitisation.

Job Opportunities


For Job Openings, including Research Fellowships, view job search section on our website.

For PhD Studentships in any of our subject areas check our Funded research projects and Postgraduate Research Funding sections on our website.

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