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MRes - Master of Research
St John's Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1.5 Year
The MRes in Education is a research degree designed to enable you to complete an in-depth research project on a topic of your choice within the broad field of Education. Whether your chosen topic is teacher education, educational systems, pupil voice, educational leadership or history of education and whether you focus in on Early Years education, compulsory education, further or higher education, you will be supported by experts in our Institute of Education to deliver a significant piece of research with the potential to impact on educational practice in your chosen area.The course can be a route into further research - many of our MRes students have progressed to undertake a PhD and some from there into academic jobs. However, it also provides you with a contemporary knowledge of issues and challenges in educational theory and practice and a rich portfolio of transferable skills – project management, critical and creative thinking, problem solving – which will be invaluable in a career as a teacher or an educational leader or manager.We expect applicants to submit a research proposal at the point of application which identifies the research question or problem that your project will address and why this is important to you, engages with what other researchers have written about this question/problem and explains why this research is needed, and sketches out how you will do the research: what data you will need to collect and how you will collect it.Your proposal will be used by the course leader to pair you with the right person to supervise your project, your Director of Studies. We can offer supervisory expertise in many areas of education, and welcome applications aligned with our Research Groups; Psychology of Education, Social Pedagogy Research Group, Inclusion by Design.
The research project is an extensive piece of independent work, accounting for two thirds of the degree. You will carry out self-directed research on an education topic that is important to you.
Learn about the key skills, knowledge and behaviours required of an effective researcher. You will be introduced to Vitae’s Researcher Development Framework (RDF) as a tool to identify and plan for your development needs throughout your programme of postgraduate research study.
This module is designed to support you to plan, manage and deliver your research project from beginning to end and to do so ethically.
It will highlight the risks associated with research and how these risks can be managed, as well as engaging with the specific challenges around data management, including the curation and sharing of data beyond the end of the project.
This module focuses on the principles, procedures and processes associated with undertaking discipline-appropriate research.
You'll develop a good understanding of the philosophical, methodological, practical and ethical considerations involved in designing a research project.
You will engage with, and critically appraise a variety of ideologies, research paradigms, methods and practices which are relevant to the design of their study.
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