Education

School of Education

The School of Education invites applications from well qualified candidates, who have or expect to graduate with good first degrees or Masters level qualifications, to undertake doctoral studies in a range of the School’s subject areas.

The Graduate School offers a multidisciplinary research culture with a thriving postgraduate community and well-established staff / student research seminars. Students are supported by a training course in research practices, which provides a grounding in the methodologies and research skills that are essential to the professional researcher.

Research within the School of Education is clustered around four broad themes:

1. Technology Enhanced Learning and Pedagogy

Within this group applicants are particularly encouraged in the following areas:

ways in which technology can enhance and support learning and teaching in mainstream and special education
technology as an agent for change.
use of collaborative and discursive tools such as wikis, discussion forums and blogs
Web 2.0 / 3.0 in education
use of virtual learning environments / learning platforms
evaluation of eLearning
impact of ICT on personalisation
development of online learning environments
development of online communities of learners and communities of practice
technology and assessment
virtual worlds for teaching and learning
investigations into technology enhanced teaching and learning in schools, colleges, universities and workplace settings
games to enhance learning.
managing the transition from face-to-face to eLearning

2. Developing Practice and the Curriculum

3. Vocational Education, Lifelong Learning and Employability

4. Social Change, Equality, Inclusivity and Internationalisation.

Research proposals from across these four areas are welcomed, in particular applications to work on:

The School's website contains further information on the four groups:

Download an application pack.

The scholarships will pay UK / EU fees and provide a maintenance stipend linked to the RCUK rate (£13,590 per annum for 2012 / 13) for up to three years.