Sport Business PhD

Loughborough University London

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3 Years

Course duration

6/30/2025

Start Date

US$35514

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This course is for those who have a passion for innovation and leadership in the business of sport, a PhD with the Institute for Sport Business. The institute especially welcomes interest into gender, entrepreneurship, corporate and social responsibility, and technological applications to sport businesses, organisations and teams. The Institute for Sport Business has an interdisciplinary research-led team, incorporating internationally recognised researchers interested in the business of sport. The Institute seeks to deliver research with a real world impact in an era of significant social, economic and technological change. Recent research has examined the rapid growth in the business of sport, as well as leadership and change, innovation, technology and social responsibility. Research by the Institute for Sport Business focuses on money, morality and meaning, and the implications of these factors on sport business. As such, the Institute for Sport Business maintains an interest in the following research topics: Sport consumer engagement • Fan and consumer experiences • Sport product and service evaluation • Athlete and player support and welfare Sport enterprise performance • Leadership and organisational systems • Innovation and culture • Technologies, data, analytics and futures Sport social innovation • Sport development and peace • Social impact, capital and legacy • Sport and (C)SR

For international students

Students need a 2:1 honours degree (or equivalent international qualification). IELTS overall score of 6.5 with not less than 6.0 in each test, TOEFL iBT overall score of 92, with not less than 22 in each test.

3 Years - Full time

Fee

£27,500.00 (US$ 35,514) per yearThis is a fixed fee

Start Date

6/30/2025

Address

Loughborough University London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, E20 3BS, Southern England, United Kingdom

3 Years - Full time

Fee

£27,500.00 (US$ 35,514) per yearThis is a fixed fee

Start Date

3/31/2025

Address

Loughborough University London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, E20 3BS, Southern England, United Kingdom

About

Loughborough University London is an inspiring new postgraduate campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Key facts:

University of the Year according to The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.
Loughborough University is ranked in the top 10 of every national university league table for 2018
Loughborough University is number one in the world for sports subjects (according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017 and 2018)
Loughborough University retained its 6th place ranking in the 2018 Times Higher Education (THE) 'Table of Tables'
Ranked 6th in the UK in The Guardian University Guide 2018
Ranked 7th out of 131 UK universities in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018
Ranked 1st in the Times Higher Education (THE) Student Experience Survey for the Best Student Experience 2016
Loughborough has been outstandingly successful in receiving a total of seven prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education
Loughborough has achieved a five star rating in the QS Starts Scheme, an independent assessment of its performance

In 2012, the Park was the home of the celebrated London Olympic and Paralympic Games. Now it is the heart of one of the most exciting new developments in London – an emerging innovation quarter that is driving growth in the local region, across the city, around the UK and beyond. Loughborough University London is part of the Park’s Here East development, which is bringing together education, business, technology and media to drive forward creativity and entrepreneurship.
As one of our students, you will benefit directly from this dynamic, enterprise-focused environment and from the exciting, collaborative community it creates. You will learn from the most influential thought leaders, pioneering researchers and creative innovators and be privilege to the very latest thinking. By engaging with leading public and private sector companies, and cutting-edge local organisations, your studies will be led by real-life challenges. This will bring direct benefits to the local, national and global society, as well as to your own career.
We are excited about the opportunities that being on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park affords us. We hope you are too!
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