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EdD

Education

Name: Doctorate in Education, EdD
Price: £2,500 per year GBP

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

3 - 6 years

Start

September 2024

Delivery

In-person

This course has been specially designed for professionals working in educational settings, enabling you to gain a doctorate level qualification.

Learning on this course is situated firmly with you, as a practitioner, researching and developing your own knowledge and generating impact within your organisation and for your learners.

The first year modules focus on research as a professional practitioner, examining policy and preparing to design your own research project. The second year modules will help you to develop an in-depth understanding of academic writing and theoretical perspectives in research in education. You’ll also begin your own research project.

We’ll enable you to make a contribution to both theory and practice in relation to your professional role in education. And you’ll advance your practice through making an original contribution to professional knowledge.

Why study with us

Be part of a thriving and supportive community of academics who are active researchers
Enhance your career and join a network of highly experienced, skilled and knowledgeable professionals
Study locally, while working with a supervisory team of research experts

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What you'll do

Throughout the programme, you’ll benefit from regular seminars and workshops hosted by high profile experts.
As part of becoming a Doctor in Education, you’ll become a member of a growing number of practitioner researchers contributing to your field.
You will get invited to annual network events and conferences sponsored by the university’s research community. You'll also get invited to a range of national and international professional academic bodies.

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The EdD has helped me develop my academic writing, and ontological and epistemological thinking, so I feel more like a proper academic. Designing and conducting research and writing my thesis has increased the depth and complexity of my knowledge and improved my academic writing.

Helen Hewertson

Doctorate in Education, EdD

Modules

Compulsory modules

These modules are set and you have to study these as part of your course.

The module content will include: Developing an understanding of the requirements of doctoral level study in Education. Enhancing knowledge of relevant literature and extending understanding of appropriate policy-related concepts and issues. Examining the position of the practitioner-researcher and ethical considerations in research. Developing critical engagement with social and educational theory. Content will be partly framed by individual participants’ research, allowing them to explore and develop their doctoral research within the professional setting.

Module code: EH5008

Compulsory modules

These modules are set and you have to study these as part of your course.

Compulsory modules

These modules are set and you have to study these as part of your course.

For the module, you will undertake and complete a doctoral thesis situated within your educational setting. The thesis will emerge from your individual research and will lead to original practitioner knowledge. Independent research will be supervised by individual supervisory teams, and supported by the module leader. You'll also have the opportunity to attend writing workshops and retreats that are offered as part of the module.

Module code: EH5012

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Academic expertise

Dr Sharon McCulloch

Senior Lecturer in Language and Education

Professor Candice Satchwell

Professor of Literacies and Education

Dr Tania Horák

Senior Lecturer

Dr Jacqueline Dodding

Lecturer in Education

Future careers

Previous graduates have gone on to advance their careers, gaining promotion at work and/or taking on new roles as academics.

Fees and funding

2024/25

Part-time£2,500 per year

2025/26

Part-time£2,625 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of bursaries, scholarships and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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This course is all about researching and developing educational practice, so your work environment will play a central role in your learning.

Study days and contact time with tutors and supervisors will involve you engaging with a lively community of professional practitioners and researchers. We’ll encourage you to take an active part in this community by getting involved in face-to-face and online discussions and debates, seminars and research events. You’ll come together in monthly sessions which are structured around the modules. In addition, you’ll be allocated a supervisory team for one-to-one meetings and will be able to access the excellent support programmes provided through our Graduate Research School.

Teaching and learning methods will include workshops, visiting speakers, directed and independent reading, case analyses, work-based learning, practice-focused assignments and research supervision.

Assessment methods will include written assignments, academic papers, oral presentations and critical debate, dialogue, progression meetings and reflective logs.

The final assignment is the doctoral thesis and oral examination.

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This course is based in the School of Psychology and Humanities

For information on possible changes to course information, see our essential and important course information

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