OVERVIEW

The Further, Higher and Adult Education PhD / PhD by Published Works programme supports you in undertaking and completing a PhD in a way which employs research on key educational issues and challenges in higher, further, adult and community in the UK and globally. Which is an excellent route to expand your knowledge and research skills. While the participants on the Further, Higher and Adult Education PhD / PhD by Published Works programme will be skilled professionals on entry to the programme, experience over the three or four-year period will prepare you to further advance in your professional and academic careers in the areas of research and offer an excellent opportunity to move into higher management and research positions within Education and engagement across a range of disciplines. The researcher will receive the highest degree that any UK university may grant upon successfully defending the final thesis. Discover more information about the Centre for Education and Research.

Course Details

The Further, Higher and Adult Education PhD programme is to provide an opportunity for higher education professionals to become autonomous researchers and to a gain deeper and more critical insight into their own and others’ professional practices and concerns. The programme supports research students to develop research capacities to the highest level.?It fosters research on professional practice in support of transformative learning, critical thinking, and education.

The course is structured and supervised in a way that allows research students to position their research in education research and academic fields, and to develop their doctoral research project incrementally.?As a member of the Centre for Education and Research you will also benefit from extensive experience in supporting doctoral research through individual and group supervision, where peer learning and support is also a central element.?By working together, exchanging ideas, and supporting each other, students form learning communities which are collaborative and creative. A PhD in Education with a specialisation in Further, Higher and Adult Education will enable you to find research and development roles within Education and aligned fields, or progress into an academic career.