PHD Candidate

Our client is offering a 33% scholarship to candidates from African countries.

THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN LEADERSHIP IS DESIGNED FOR LEADERS, BY LEADERS.

Join the top tier of leaders shaping the future.

With a masters and experience as a leader in your field, you are ready to step back, reflect on your professional practice, deepen your field expertise, and share your insights with the world.

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Leadership is a doctoral program recognised for its real-world impact and designed to develop scholarly and professional leaders capable of shaping organisations, policy, and society in complex global environments.

The program combines advanced research training with sustained supervised inquiry, enabling candidates to investigate significant leadership challenges across corporate, government, entrepreneurial, and non-profit contexts. Students commence with structured research preparation, including advanced research methodologies and supervised proposal development, before progressing to an original doctoral thesis.

The PhD (Leadership) emphasises intellectual independence, methodological rigour, ethical scholarship, and real-world impact. Candidates critically engage with classical and contemporary leadership theory while contributing original knowledge to emerging areas such as organisational transformation, digital disruption, artificial intelligence, governance, public policy, sustainability, and global leadership.

Graduates produce a substantial thesis or published articles that make an original and significant contribution to theory and/or practice and are prepared for senior academic, executive, advisory, and governance roles worldwide.

Candidates can explore leadership topics in a variety of industries including:

AI and New Technologies

Mining & Energy

Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing

Manufacturing & Industrial Production

Construction & Infrastructure

Retail & Wholesale Trade

Transport, Logistics & Supply Chain

Professional and Financial Services

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Education & Training

Media & Communication

Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure

Arts, Culture & Creative Industries