Monarch Global Research Institute
Deeper questions.
Global perspectives.
New understanding.
A place for professionals, managers and academics to explore the ideas shaping business and society through theoretical inquiry, critical thinking and responsible scholarship.
The MGRI perspective
Understand the ideas.
Question the assumptions.
Extend the knowledge.
Professional experience reveals important questions. Research gives us the means to examine them more deeply: What shapes our understanding of leadership? How do institutions influence decisions? Whose knowledge informs the way we organise business and society?
The Monarch Global Research Institute provides a home for this kind of inquiry. Building on Monarch’s experience in doctoral education, MGRI explores the concepts and theories behind practice—and how experience can challenge, refine or extend them.
Our commitment is to rigorous, original research that advances understanding. We welcome researchers who want to look beyond familiar explanations and contribute new knowledge within the institute’s areas of expertise.
That knowledge should reach beyond academic circles. By sharing research with scholarly, business and wider public audiences, MGRI aims to support more informed debate, greater inclusion and a fairer, more collaborative society.
What makes our focus global?
A changing world needs more than one perspective.
“Global” means more than working across borders. It means examining how different societies, cultures and intellectual traditions understand the world—and what we can learn by bringing those perspectives into conversation.
Knowledge across cultures
Explore ideas from different contexts. Ask how history, culture and lived experience shape what people consider valid knowledge and responsible action.
A world with many centres
Investigate shifting relationships between economies, institutions and societies as influence and decision-making become distributed across different regions.
Ethics at the centre
Consider whose interests are represented, whose voices may be missing and what research means for people, communities and the wider world.
Research across disciplines
Follow the question beyond a single field.
The challenges facing business and society rarely fit within one discipline. MGRI brings management into dialogue with the social sciences and humanities, creating space to examine the wider forces that shape organisations and human activity.
International relations theory
Examine the ideas that explain relationships between states, institutions and societies. Bringing history, politics, diplomacy, and conflict and peace studies into conversation, this area asks how different theories help us understand cooperation, tension and change in the world.
Critical studies in economic theory
Look beyond economic models to examine the assumptions behind them. By comparing different schools of thought, researchers can investigate how social relationships, institutions and business activity shape the creation of wealth—and how we explain economic life.
Philosophy of the social sciences
Ask how we build reliable knowledge about people and society. Research may explore what distinguishes the social sciences from the natural sciences, or how philosophy examines their foundations. Questions of evidence, reasoning, objectivity and ethics guide this inquiry.
Connected fields of inquiry
Comparative and qualitative inquiry are important to this approach: examining different contexts, interpreting experience and questioning the assumptions behind established explanations. Research methods should serve the question and support a clear, defensible contribution.
Your route into research
Develop your next scholarly contribution.
Whether you are bringing professional experience to doctoral study or building on an established research career, explore the pathway that fits your interests and stage of development.
PhD programmes
Develop an original contribution through sustained theoretical and empirical inquiry. The PhD in Business Research connects your research question with faculty guidance and a structured doctoral journey.
Doctor of Social Science
Explore doctoral study in the social sciences and the questions that shape our understanding of people, institutions and contemporary society.
Post-doctoral pathways
Explore opportunities to extend your scholarly work beyond the doctorate and develop a further contribution to your field.
View Monarch’s programme portfolio → Each programme page sets out its focus and requirements.
Intellectual exchange
Ideas develop through dialogue.
Research grows stronger when its assumptions, methods and conclusions can be discussed openly. MGRI welcomes a broad range of viewpoints, with an emphasis on careful argument, ethical reflection and respect for different perspectives.
Seminars and scholarly conversation
Seminars provide a setting for researchers to exchange ideas, examine emerging questions and learn from work beyond their own specialism. This international conversation is central to the institute’s purpose.
The MGRI Journal
The Monarch Global Research Institute Journal provides a platform for fellows, researchers, doctoral candidates and guest contributors to share critical scholarship across the institute’s research themes. Publishing and circulating this work helps bring new ideas into academic, scientific and business conversations.
Our wider ambition is to make research accessible: helping people beyond the university engage with its findings, question established views and consider new possibilities for shared prosperity.
One Monarch. Three connected areas.
Different purposes. A shared commitment to learning.
Monarch connects theoretical inquiry, applied management education and professional learning. MGRI provides the research-focused home within this wider educational community.
MGRI
Academic doctoral inquiry and scholarly contribution through the Monarch Global Research Institute.
MBS
Graduate and executive management education with a professional and applied focus at Monarch Business School.
MMI
Accessible professional learning and continuing development through the Monarch Management Institute.
Begin with a question
What would you like to understand more deeply?
Tell us about your interests, experience and the questions you want to explore. We can help you identify a suitable next step towards research at Monarch.