News | Thursday, 24th May 2018

The Doctor of Education programme: now accepting applications

Enables professionals to acquire a major qualification through researching and renewing their own professional practice

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The programme emphasises critical intervention in policy, practice and debate built through the study of a variety of academic disciplines.

The Doctor of Education (EdD) programme at Manchester Metropolitan University is designed to enable professionals to acquire a major qualification through researching and renewing their own professional practice.

The long-established and highly regarded programme recruits every two years and is currently accepting applications to join the next cohort of students commencing in September 2018.
 
The programme emphasises critical intervention in policy, practice and debate built through the study of a variety of academic disciplines.

Students are typically drawn from an array of disciplines including HE lecturing, teaching, inspection, nursing, social work, youth and community work, museum and gallery studies, and professionals working within institutes for social policy and planning.

What it involves?

The programme seeks to place the student in a more critically informed relationship with current educational debates, particularly as they impact on notions of ‘professionalism’. It is intended that such a critical platform will help them come to their own conclusions about what the implications are for their practice as professionals, and intervene in educational debates appropriately.

Part A of the programme comprises ten study weekends and two student conferences over two years. Five assignments are completed, all focused on professionalism and research methods and linked to the student’s immediate professional concerns.

Part B, the thesis element, comprises independent research, often in the student’s own work location, culminating in a thesis shaped around professional development and intervention.

Students are encouraged to publish their work and past students have had an excellent record of moving to more senior positions during their studies.

Entry requirements

Prospective students will ordinarily possess a master’s degree and selection will also be based on an interview including discussion of a piece of recent writing. The principal criterion, however, is a demonstrated capacity to combine imaginative work-based research with contemporary theoretical analysis. Interviews will be taking place during spring/summer 2018.

“During my time as an EdD student, I worked with some unbelievably inspiring colleagues and benefitted hugely from their expertise. My thesis and my everyday practice as an educator were transformed as a result.”

- Dr Michaela Jane Harrison, Senior Lecturer (PgPDP programme lead), School of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies.

For informal email enquiries, please contact Course Director, Dr Chris Hanley c.t.hanley@mmu.ac.uk or Professor Tony Brown a.m.brown@mmu.ac.uk 

For admissions enquiries contact: pgradmissions@mmu.ac.uk  

Find out more in the Programme Flyer

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