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Ph.D. positions at the University of Kentucky

  • 1.  Ph.D. positions at the University of Kentucky

    Posted 11-14-2018 15:32

    The Department of Management at the University of Kentucky is looking for bright, inquisitive individuals to join our PhD Program in the Fall, 2019. 

     

    Our Program

     

    We have a highly collaborative faculty and maintain a small doctoral program in order to ensure significant interactions between our students and faculty.  Our program prepares graduates to be marketable for tenure-track positions in reputable research institutions as well as for long-term career success (recent alumni have published in outlets such as the Academy of Management JournalOrganization Science, Journal of Applied PsychologyJournal of ManagementAcademy of Management Annals, and Human Resource Management).  

     

    Our doctoral students receive a competitive stipend and a full tuition waiver for up to five years. We also provide generous resources for regular attendance at academic conferences. Students in our doctoral program typically do not teach until their third year and then only once per academic year in order to gain marketable teaching experience while focusing on coursework and research.  More information about our program can be found at http://gatton.uky.edu/programs/phd/phd-business-administration/management  

     

    Our Department

     

    Our faculty members (Steve Borgatti, Dan Brass, Wally Ferrier, Eric Gladstone, Dan Halgin, Zhi Huang, Ji Youn Kim, Joe Labianca, Huiwen Lian, Ajay Mehra, Scott Soltis) conduct research in areas such as career trajectories and networks, conflict (with email content analysis), counterproductive workplace behaviors, creativity and innovation, culture and networks, the effects of social media on collaboration, gender parity, HR attributions, leadership, network experiments on cognition/perception, person-environment fit, power/influence/politics, redundant network ties, social resource management, competitive behavior and competitive forbearance, betrayal and guilt (in macro contexts), knowledge transfer, new venture growth, organization design, organizational status, social cognition, strategic contagion/diffusion, and TMT decision making, among other topics.

     

    The department is home to the LINKS Center, the preeminent center for the study of social networks in organizations.  As a result, in addition to traditional PhD coursework, doctoral students in our program develop expertise in network methods and theory via two seminar courses, a guest speaker program, hosting an annual workshop, and hosting a bi-annual small conference that attracts many of the top faculty in social network analysis from around the world. More information about the LINKS Center can be found at www.linkscenter.org.   

     

    Our faculty are well-regarded within the organizational research community, as evidenced by having over 85,000 citations, organizing recurring conferences and workshops, and by serving as editors and on the editorial boards of journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organization Science, Strategic Organization, and Personnel Psychology.  

     

    Applications and Inquiries

     

    We will begin reviewing applications on a rolling basis around Dec. 15, 2018.  Students who submit a completed application by the December deadline will be eligible for a supplemental funding grant. The final deadline for applications is Feb. 1st, 2019. Inquiries about our program can be directed to Scott Soltis: smsolt2@uky.edu

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    Giuseppe Labianca
    Gatton Chaired Professor of Management
    University of Kentucky
    Lexington KY
    joelabianca@gmail.com
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