WMU offers two doctoral programs:
- Ph.D. in Maritime Administration, based at WMU
- Ph.D. in Maritime Law or International Commercial Law, offered jointly with the University of Wales Swansea (UWS)
The Ph.D. in Maritime Administration offers students the chance to benefit from WMU’s unique concentration of expertise in maritime issues. Students are based in Malmö, but may also carry out work in their employing organisations. The program can be followed full-time in three to five years (Method A), or in stages of full-time work over five to seven years (Method B). The principal supervisor is a member of WMU’s resident faculty, but, if appropriate, students may have a co-supervisor who may be one of WMU’s Visiting Professors.
Students can propose research topics with the areas of:
• maritime law and policy
• maritime security
• environmental management
• shipping economics, finance and logistics
• port economics, finance and logistics
• maritime safety and technology
• maritime education
The Ph.D. in Maritime Law or International Commercial Law allows students to benefit from the best of both institutions. Over the three-year program, students will spend time in both Swansea and Malmö. The main research supervisor will be a member of academic staff from UWS’s Department of Law, and a joint supervisor will be appointed from among the WMU faculty.
Possible research topics include:
• maritime law
• international commercial law
• admiralty law
• marine insurance law
• law of the sea
• regulatory maritime law
• international trade law
• e-commerce law
• marine environmental law