Monarch Management Institute · Professional doctoral inquiry
Doctor of Professional Studies
Turn professional experience
into a contribution that matters.
The Doctor of Professional Studies is now offered within the Monarch Management Institute. Explore a practice-centred doctoral pathway for experienced professionals who want to investigate a consequential challenge from their own professional setting and develop an original, defensible contribution to professional knowledge.
Program Facts
The Doctor of Professional Studies at Monarch Switzerland sits within Monarch Management Institute. Designed for experienced practitioners, it centres on a lived professional case, connecting practical knowledge with disciplined evidence, ethical inquiry and critical reflection.
- Institution
- Monarch Switzerland
- Department
- Monarch Management Institute
- Programme
- Doctor of Professional Studies
- Study Mode
- Designed for Online Delivery
- Standard Duration
- To be confirmed by MMI
- Research Orientation
- Practice-Based Professional Inquiry
- Designed For
- Experienced Managers, Executives, Consultants and Specialist Practitioners
- Institution Location
- Switzerland
This doctoral program may be completed fully online, including the doctoral defence. No relocation is required. Candidates may select an in-person doctoral defence when offered by Monarch.
Expressions of interest are welcome. Final admission standards, programme architecture, duration and award requirements remain subject to formal academic approval. Consult MMI for current guidance.
Practical research · Professional contribution
Begin with experience.
Build knowledge through inquiry.
Your starting point is a case you are experiencing or have experienced directly: an organisation, transformation, decision environment or persistent practice challenge. The doctoral process brings conceptual framing, appropriate research methods and critical reflection to that professional reality.
Frame a meaningful challenge.
Identify a consequential question from your professional setting, drawing on practical knowledge and an understanding of the people, responsibilities and context involved.
Examine the evidence.
Connect experience with ethical inquiry, suitable methods and critical reasoning to develop a defensible understanding of the case.
Inform practice beyond the case.
Translate your findings into an original professional contribution, with insights that can support judgement and action in other settings.
A pathway rooted in professional responsibility. MMI’s emphasis is on practical research from within a lived professional case. The aim goes beyond description or consultancy, bringing scholarly discipline to experience and developing transferable professional knowledge. Visit the dedicated MMI page for the proposed learning journey and current entry guidance.
Your next step · Within MMI
What professional challenge
will you take further?
Explore the Doctor of Professional Studies within MMI, or share your professional background and the case you wish to investigate. The MMI team can provide guidance on prerequisites, membership and the pathway.