Education

Research Degrees in Project Management

Research expertise
Staff at NCPM are engaged in cutting edge research with practical relevance to the profession. Detailed and rigorous research projects address current trends, the reasons for project failures and other areas identified through NCPM’s work. The outputs of our research will assist in the promotion of evidence-based and reflective practice in project management.
Areas of ongoing research include:

• trends in project management
• project success and failure
• evidence-based practice in project management
• project management maturity models
• agile, extreme and lean project management
• project management competence
• knowledge management in projects
• project management benchmarking
• leadership in projects
• risk and opportunity management
• change management
• reflective project management practice
• decision making
• programme management
• ethics in projects

Research opportunities

Full and part time MPhil and PhD
Generate an original contribution to knowledge in new ways. Many of our PhD students focus on practical problems and the application and relevance of techniques and approaches such as maturity models, success factors and knowledge management to project organisations.

International MPhil/PhD
Study by distance learning, either full or part time. For students able to spend only a limited amount of time in the UK.

MPhil and PhD by Public Works
For experienced researchers. By submission of research-based works already in the public domain which are academically equivalent to MPhil or PhD.

MProf and DProf
For high-level professionals; where your work context forms the basis of your academic enquiry.

EngD
For practitioners looking for a practical alternative to a PhD. This is a specialist engineering doctorate, also applicable to engineering management. It includes assessed coursework. Collaboration with an external organisation is normally required.

Further information on research at Middlesex University

Enquiries:
National Centre for Project Management
Middlesex University
College House
Trent Park
Bramley Road
London N14 4YZ
United Kingdom
Email: ncpm@mdx.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 8411 2299
Fax no. +44 (0)20 8411 5133