Key information
- Duration: Full-time — 36 months
- Start dates & application deadlines:
- Starting January 2027 — Apply before Oct 2026
Overview
The Accounting and Finance Section degree offered by Cardiff University is recognised nationally and internationally as a leading centre for theoretically informed, empirical research, combining inter-disciplinaryworking, impact on policy and practice, and innovative methodological approaches, both qualitative and quantitative.
Key facts
- The professional doctorate is a part-time doctoral research degree. It is fully equivalent to the PhD, but substantially different from it in that it is strongly professionally oriented, focussing on ‘applied’ rather than ‘pure’ research.
- While the PhD generally prepares candidates for a research-based career, the professional doctorate is a more in-service orientated degree, addressing the career needs of practising professionals, particularly those in or who aspire to senior positions within their professions. The linkages between research-based knowledge and its application in a wide range of professional settings are central to this doctorate.
- We offer an integrated professional doctorate scheme within which education, health, social work and social policy professionals engage together in integrated learning for some of the taught modules. This unique inter-professional learning allows you to reflect on what is shared across professional boundaries and what is distinctive to their own occupational traditions.
- Above all, a professional doctorate is an opportunity to examine contemporary leading theories and research evidence, and to apply these within the professional context.
- The Health Studies taught modules introduce a range of social science perspectives and methodologies in order to explore the contemporary importance of health, medicine and health care organization policy and practice, and how these interact with social capital, economic and material environments, public services and positive community well-being. Research-based and critical understanding in relation key aspects of community, well-being, health, illness and medical sociology are promoted. Different approaches for examining how health care systems are organized and to the causes of health and ill-health are explored, particularly in relation to inclusion and exclusion, social identities, and the local and global environment.
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Programme Structure
Research areas include:
- Interdisciplinary perspectives on accounting
- Management accounting and control
- Historical development of accounting
- Financial reporting and business communication
- Professions and Professionalisation
- Accounting, auditing and finance in emerging economies, especially china
- Public sector accounting
Admission requirements
Academic requirements
GPA Required
English requirements
TOEFL iBT: 90 OR PTE Academic: 69
Other requirements
General requirements:
- You must possess a good first degree and usually have completed a master’s degree. You should also have two or more years’ professional experience in a field appropriate to your chosen pathway.
- Much of the module learning and associated assignments aim to support applied professional development and you are expected to have experience of - or current access to - professional settings in a field appropriate to your doctoral degree.
Fees and funding
Tuition Fees
International: 50,445 AUD / year (≈ 26,700 GBP / year)
Domestic: 9,458 AUD / year (≈ 5,006 GBP / year)
Part-time tuition fees: £2,503
Living costs
Cardiff, United Kingdom: 1,186-2,014 AUD / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.