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MPhil/PhD Research Degrees in Education
General information
Research Students Tutor: Dr Sondra Cuban
E-mail: s.cuban@lancaster.ac.uk
Watch a video of Paul Trowler talking about studying for a PhD in the Department of Educational Research
Tel: + 44 (0) 1524 592879
Postgraduate Office Co-ordinator: Alison Sedgwick
E-mail: a.Sedgwick@lancaster.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1524 592685 or 592893
The experience of doing a research degree in the Deparment of Educational Research at Lancaster
We offer supervision in a range of research areas by world-renowned specialists in a range of topics within our areas of specialism. With a long history of research and research supervision and a very large number of PhDs awarded as well as a thriving and friendly research community, our students are able to participate in research seminars, a reading group, postgraduate group meetings and, where they wish to, in the research and evaluation projects led by our academics. We consistently achieve very high ratings from our postgraduate students on the level of satisfaction with the quality of supervision they receive. Our postgraduate research students feel part of the life of the Department as well as a contributing member of a community of researchers.
The Department has always done well in the 5-yearly Research Assessment Exercise (now to be called the Research Excellence Framework) with the majority of our research considered to be of international standing and almost half of what we publish considered internationally excellent and world leading.
Research in the department has been funded in recent years by:
- Economic and Social Research Council
- European Union
- British Council
- Further Education Unit
- Leverhulme Trust
- Local education authorities
- Schools Technology Project
- Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Units
- Joint Matriculation Board
The department has an active and mutually beneficial relationship with a network of local schools and colleges.
Apart from the research going on in the Department itself, there are three attached research units. The Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation (Here), the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning and the Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing.
Research supervision
Postgraduate students are supported through regular supervision. Supervision for research degrees (Mphil or PhD) on either a full-time or part-time basis is available in all of the areas of expertise offered by staff in the Department. Applications to undertake research in the department are welcome in any aspect of education and especially in:
- Adult education
- AI and education
- Children's development and education
- Education in the early years of school
- Education and the labour market
- Education and policy making
- Education and training
- Educational computing
- Gender and education
- Higher education
- Language and literacy
- Management in education
- Management of educational change
- Masculinities in education
- Motivation and teacher expectation
- Parental involvement in education
- Philosophy in education
- Psychology of education
- School learning: humanities, mathematics, science
- Sociology of education
- Technology Enhanced Learning
- Women and education
Important Note
Applications for research into language teaching, learning and assessment, including English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL), are best directed to Lancaster University's Department of Linguistics and English Language where there is considerable expertise in these areas.
See also:
Part-time taught PhD programmes for professionals
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Further Information on what Studying for a Ph.D by ‘Independent Study Mode’ entails
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