Build essential knowledge and gain a prestigious doctoral qualification to escalate your career in Education and open up leadership opportunities.

Research specific aspects of your professional practice while developing knowledge and skills to equip you for a leadership role. On this course you will draw on a range of theories to explore and research topics that will influence your professional practice within your immediate context and beyond.

Course overview: On this course you will investigate issues that relate to you as an education professional. There will be a focus on areas that shape the context in which you are conducting your research. There is a strong emphasis in the first 2 years on developing your academic writing. You will also focus on critically engaging with key concepts in education and developing a research project. In stage 2 you will write your doctoral thesis. At this point there will be extended opportunities to share ideas and issues with fellow students and supervisors.

A special feature of this doctorate is that you will meet and study with professionals from a variety of backgrounds. This will give a unique flavour to the cross-disciplinary nature of your work, and will help you to see how your profession is both linked to others and also distinctive. You will see how broad theoretical ideas can be fruitfully applied to specific contexts, and how to apply concepts and ideas to the questions you would like to explore.