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The degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is the University's principal research degree for graduate students and is available in all faculties and departments.

A Cambridge PhD is intellectually demanding and you will need to have a high level of attainment and motivation to pursue this programme of advanced study and research.

In most faculties, a candidate is expected to have completed one year of postgraduate study, normally on a research preparation master's course, prior to starting a PhD.

Completion normally requires three or four years of full-time study, or at least five years of part-time study, including a probationary period.

Terms of research are normally consecutive and, for full-time students, require residency in Cambridge. Not all departments offer part-time research degrees.

Various routes to the PhD are possible and, if you are made an offer of admission, it will be made clear whether you are required to study for a master's degree or certificate in the first instance, or will be admitted directly to the probationary year for the PhD. You are registered for the PhD only after a satisfactory progress assessment at the end of the probationary year (five terms for part-time degrees). The assessment is designed also to focus your mind on the stages necessary for the completion of your research within the normal time limit and to address any structural problems that have arisen during the first year. Students must pass the first year assessment in order to continue their PhD study.

During your PhD, your effort will be focused on writing a dissertation. The word count of the dissertation is dependent on the department and the Student Registry or Educational Student Policy will be able to tell you the maximum word limit. This must represent a significant contribution to learning, for example through the discovery of new knowledge, the connection of previously unrelated facts, the development of a new theory, or the revision of older views, and must take account of previously published work on the subject. Some Cambridge dissertations go on to form the basis of significant publications.

Although you will spend long hours working independently, your department and College will both support you throughout your PhD. You are also able to attend regular seminars in your subject area and could be involved in teaching, perhaps giving seminars or supervising, or in the social life of your department and College.

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The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is the Department's principal research degree for postgraduate students and the majority of our students are registered for this degree. The PhD is intellectually demanding and applicants will need to have a high level of attainment and motivation to pursue this programme of advanced study and research.

Completion normally requires three to four years of full-time study, including a probationary period. Students will normally be required to be resident in Cambridge during that time.

Examination is by the submission of a 60,000-word thesis and subsequent oral examination.

The PhD represents a significant and original contribution to the understanding of Psychology. This may be through the discovery of something new, the connection of previously unrelated facts, or the development of a new theory, taking into account all previously published work on the subject.

Students are required to submit a 60,000-word thesis no later than the end of their fourth year. The thesis is not to exceed 60,000 words (80,000 by special permission) excluding bibliography, figures, appendices etc. Double-spaced or one-and-a-half spaced.

Any methods or statistics courses taken as part of the student’s personal development may be assessed or examined on their completion, but do not currently constitute any formal qualification.

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The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is the Department's principal research degree for postgraduate students and the majority of our students are registered for this degree. The PhD is intellectually demanding and applicants will need to have a high level of attainment and motivation to pursue this programme of advanced study and research.

Completion normally requires three to four years of full-time study, including a probationary period. Students will normally be required to be resident in Cambridge during that time.

Examination is by the submission of a 60,000-word thesis and subsequent oral examination.

The PhD represents a significant and original contribution to the understanding of Psychology. This may be through the discovery of something new, the connection of previously unrelated facts, or the development of a new theory, taking into account all previously published work on the subject.

Students are required to submit a 60,000-word thesis no later than the end of their fourth year. The thesis is not to exceed 60,000 words (80,000 by special permission) excluding bibliography, figures, appendices etc. Double-spaced or one-and-a-half spaced.

Any methods or statistics courses taken as part of the student’s personal development may be assessed or examined on their completion, but do not currently constitute any formal qualification.

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Applicants for this course should have achieved a UK 2.1 Honours Degree. Candidates who wish to become graduate students in the Department should have a degree in psychology, neuroscience or in another related subject (for example, physiology, sociology, linguistics, computer science, or engineering), which with the graduate education provision provided will provide sufficient background for research in specialised areas of psychology (e.g. social, cognitive, or developmental psychology, or cognitive or behavioural neuroscience).

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Are you interested in the psychological processes involved in learning and development? Would you like to explore your ideas through an innovative Masters programme that is informed by cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research? Would you like to develop new knowledge and skills in critical analysis and learn more about the research processes used in psychological sciences as applied to education, learning and human development? Are you planning for further study through a PhD, or hoping to apply your knowledge and skills in an educational, NGO, or public policy context?

We offer a full-time one-year MPhil programme that will allow you to explore topics in psychology and education that are close to your heart.

Academic staff in the Psychology and Education group comprise an international team. We share expertise across a wide range of ages, subject areas and research methods in psychology and education and we invite you to read more about the research we are doing.

We are also very excited about our laboratory offering state-of-the-art research facilities for our staff and students to conduct observations and experiments.

Why choose us?

• Engage with the latest issues and debates in psychology and education on our unique course covering a wide range of ages and developmental stages from infancy to adulthood
• Become a valued member of active research teams in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge
• Complete an in-depth research dissertation under the supervision of experts in the field
• Join a research & teaching environment committed to promoting open science and scholarship
• Benefit from teaching by internationally renowned Faculty who are actively involved in cutting edge research and policy advice
• Closely engage with the work of the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning and the Faculty's Psychology, Education, and Learning Sciences Research Group
• Join a select group of around 30 students per year
• Experience a teaching approach that promotes active, participatory, inclusive and research-orientated pedagogy
• Enjoy personalised support and mentoring through one to one supervision
• Connect with a friendly and vibrant community of students from across the world
• Benefit from access to research groups and networks across the University of Cambridge
• Develop skills for employability across a range of organisations

What does this course offer?

• Engage with contemporary issues in psychology and education in order to interrogate the latest theoretically-grounded and evidence-based literature
• Critically investigate dominant paradigms in psychology and education, and engage with topical issues of relevance to educational policy and practice
• Develop research and career paths within the wider research culture of both the Faculty and the broader university

How is the course organised?

You will have 64 hours of course sessions in Psychology and Education.

These sessions will be:

• workshop-style discussions (12 hours)
• journal clubs (8+ hours)
• seminars & presentations (8+ hours)
• traditional lecture formats (44 hours) 

The course content draws on the expertise of the team to include topics related to key issues and questions in the psychology of education, namely:

• Thinking & Reasoning Skills for Learning
• Psychology of Play
• The Social Learner
• Educational, Family and Community Interventions
• Advanced Topics in Data & Analysis (with a focus on open, reproducible & transparent methods)
• Ethical Principles and Practices
• Anti-racism and Decolonisation
• Open Science & Reproducibility
• Preparing Data & Materials for Open Access
• Careers in Psychology & Education
• Writing for Publication

Research Method Strand

Alongside these modules, you will benefit from 32 hours of Research Methods teaching.

This is taught across all thematic Masters within the Faculty of Education, allowing you to interact with others on different courses.

It covers a broad range of social science research methods and is essential for Masters level understanding and critical engagement with the research literature in many specialist areas and in education more generally.

Through this strand you will acquire the skills necessary for designing, conducting, analysing, interpreting and reporting a research study for your Dissertation.

Detailed Research Methods information . 

Who are the course team?

Dr. Jillian Lauer (coordinator) is happy to be contacted with questions specific to the course, which are not answered in our FAQs page.

Administrative queries should be addressed to the HD office . Other team members are:

• Prof Sara Baker
• Prof Jenny Gibson
• Prof Michelle Ellefson
• Asst Prof Jillian Lauer
• Dr Laura Oxley 
• Prof Paul Ramchandani

Please note that not all team members are always available as supervisors each term, and this list is subject to change.

Supervisor allocations are made by the course co-ordinator after your matriculation into the MPhil programme. Potential students do not need to contact particular supervisors before applying to the programme but are encouraged to list potential supervisors with whom they would like to work in their applications.

Where do our students go?

Our graduates are the future leaders in their field. They have a wide choice of career options, including:

• further PhD study
• doctoral training in educational or developmental psychology
• work in schools
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Organisational Behaviour (OB) is an applied science aimed at understanding individuals and groups in organisations by drawing from various related disciplines such as social and organisational psychology, behavioural economics, and management. OB researchers adopt a micro-perspective, looking into individual psychology and behaviour as well as group processes and emergent states, to understand how they contribute to organisational success and survival.

The Organisational Behaviour faculty at Cambridge Judge comprise some of the leading OB scholars in the world. Their research encompasses a range of topics, including creativity, innovation, psychometrics, big data, the future of work, human-artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration, personality, diversity, decision-making, social networking, culture, helping behaviours, and voice behaviour.

Professor Andreas Richter talks about the Organisational Behaviour pathway.

Hi. My name is Andreas. And I’m a faculty member in Organisational Behaviour, or OB. I’m here to tell you a few things you need to know if you wish to pursue a PhD in OB.

What is OB all about? OB is about how individuals act within society and in organisations, and how their actions in both environments affect each other. Understanding these social processes from a micro perspective is essential for improving how leaders, managers, and individual employees contribute to the effectiveness of an organisational.

Organisational Behaviour at Cambridge Judge Business School is an applied science built on contributions from the behavioural sciences, including social and organisational psychology, decision-making and judgments, behavioural economics and management. And Organisational Behaviour focuses mainly on the effects that individuals and group dynamics such as personality and teamwork have on human Behaviour. It is concerned with how people’s feelings, motivations, and cognitions influence their Behaviour in the organisation and group settings.

At CJBS, OB is an interdisciplinary pathway where faculty from various subject groups are involved. These faculty members studied the areas of leadership, emotions, teams, personality, and other characteristics of executives, big data, and consumers’ self-conceptions in the area of marketing. OB researchers apply a large variety of methods, such as experimental and survey research, archival data analysis, and qualitative methods.

So with these words, I’d like to encourage you to contact us if you are interested in pursing a PhD in OB. And we will be looking forward to talking to you and to hearing from you.

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The pathway

To start on the Organisational Behaviour pathway you must take one of the following 9-month masters programmes:

Essential reading

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The OB PhD pathway

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Research areas

Organisational Behaviours researchers at Cambridge Judge Business School are leading scholars who make significant theoretical and practical contributions to the literature as well as real-world organisations. Their research topics include:

• creativity and innovation
• future of work
• human-artificial intelligence (AI) collaborations
• social network
• decision-making
• personality
• psychometrics

What we expect from you

Our expectations of prospective candidates are high. You will need to have a first class bachelors degree or equivalent. In some cases you will need to have a masters degree from a highly regarded university and to have performed within the top 5% of your class.

You should have a strong motivation to pursue an academic career in a business school and a genuine interest in collaborating with external organisations. Ideal candidates would have a background in psychology, behavioural economics, the social and natural sciences, or other quantitatively oriented subjects, as we seek individuals who are keen to conduct quantitative research. To be considered, it is essential to demonstrate exceptional writing skills and to provide strong evidence of your quantitative abilities. This can be showcased through successful performance in statistics and calculus courses at the university level, or by submitting GRE scores (although GRE scores are not mandatory for your application). While practical management experience is beneficial, it is not a mandatory requirement for application.

For more details, please see the academic requirements for the:

What you can expect from us

Upon joining us, you can expect an exhilarating journey into the realm of Organisational Behaviour research. Collaborating with world-leading scholars, you will have the opportunity to publish journal articles that significantly expand the current literature, leaving a tangible impact on real-world outcomes. We are committed to providing you with the support and resources necessary to thrive in your research and make a meaningful difference in our field.

• Become part of our team from the outset, you will be treated as a junior colleague rather than a student. Experience a true apprenticeship in the best sense of that word. 
• Work with and be trained by the Organisational Behaviour Group to become an independent researcher. 
• Experience an exciting research programme and produce a portfolio of academic papers that will help you succeed in the job market and gain a junior faculty position following your PhD. 
• Work with faculty on joint research projects for publication in leading academic journals. 
• Take a series of courses focused on research methodology and the foundations of the discipline as well as more advanced research seminars. 
• Learn to critique recent publications and current working papers, enabling you to shape and position your own work as a significant contribution to the academic literature in Organisational Behaviour.  
• Engage in practical research training, where you will develop and execute research projects jointly with faculty members. 
• Develop a coherent and innovative research programme with expert guidance that will form the basis for an interesting and influential academic career.  
• Your research programme may comprise laboratory research, organisational field research and secondary data analysis. 

PhD supervisors

Your principal supervisor will be a senior academic from within the Organisational Behaviour pathway. You will benefit from their guidance and counsel throughout the programme, and beyond: in helping you to succeed in the job market and in gaining a faculty position at a leading business school. Your principal supervisor will take an active role in your research programme and will assemble a group of faculty (your advisory committee) who will co-author papers with you. 

Take a look at the faculty who may serve as your principal supervisor and view their research interests: 

Prithviraj Chattopadhyay

Professor of organisational behaviour, read more about prithviraj.

Research interests

Prithviraj Chattopadhyay’s research interests include relational demography and diversity, social identification, employment externalisation, managerial cognition and affect. He works on combining his various interests to develop a more comprehensive understanding of diverse teams.

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Alberto Feduzi

Management practice professor, read more about alberto.

Decisions often have to be made in situations of extreme uncertainty and in the face of what are sometimes called “unknown unknowns” and the possible “Black Swans” these may give rise to. Alberto Feduzi’s research is concerned with (a) characterising the different types of uncertainty that decision-makers might face in different situations, (b) understanding how decision-makers typically deal with these different types of uncertainty; and (c) developing heuristic approaches to decision-making that might help decision-makers improve the quality of their decisions in situations of uncertainty.

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Elizabeth George

Kpmg professor of management studies, read more about elizabeth.

Elizabeth George’s research interests include nonstandard work arrangements and how they affect individuals and organisations, and how dissimilarity in a team affects both the team and the organisation. More recently she’s been exploring the longer terms implications of both nonstandard work and dissimilarity for individual and organisational effectiveness.

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Yeun Joon Kim

Associate professor in organisational behaviour, read more about yeun.

Creativity and leadership are among the most important momentums for organisational effectiveness and performance. Yeun Joon Kim’s research addresses the questions of (1) how organisations can improve employee creativity, (2) how organisations recognise employees’ creativity given that employees do have many creative ideas, but these ideas die out due to the lack of recognition, and (3) what are the factors that drive specific leadership behaviours.

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Andreas Richter

Read more about andreas.

Andreas Richter researches how a team’s context factors (e.g. diversity) and processes affect employee creativity and innovation in both experimental and field settings.

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David Stillwell

Professor of computational social science, read more about david.

A large part of our lives is mediated through digital devices which collect big data about us. David Stillwell’s research asks how can we better understand customers, employees or managers from behavioural traces like their social media activity, emails, or purchase records?

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Dr Jochen Menges and Dr Patrizia Vecchi supervise MPhil dissertations and can be a member of a PhD advisory team.

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2 in 5 applicants to this programme received an offer.

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The acceptance rate , or offer rate, represents the fraction of applicants who received an offer. Note that this will be generally lower the acceptances rates (acceptances divided by applicants) published by many other sources. This article explains it in more detail. The acceptances generally indicate the number of offer holders who accepted the offer and fulfilled its conditions. For some universities, however, it denotes the number of applicants who accepted the offer, regardless of whether they subsequently met its conditions.

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Unless otherwise noted, the data presented comes from the universities and is generally reliable. However, some of the differences between years and/or courses may be due to different counting methodologies or data gathering errors. This may especially be the case if there is a sharp difference from year to year. If the data does not look right, click the "Report" button located near the top of the page.

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