Education and Training - Research

This programme is intended for qualified and experienced teachers, trainers and other professionals working in education, training and related professional fields. Students develop advanced skills in educational research methods, including critical analysis, evidence-based inquiry, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. Following a qualifying period, students on the MPhil programme can proceed to PhD studies in education and training.

Aims of the programme

• To provide advanced practitioners from education, training, health and allied fields with a doctoral programme through research study and a supervised thesis
• To provide students with an advanced knowledge of educational research methods, critical literature review, evidence-based inquiry, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis within education, training, health and allied fields
• To help students develop advanced skills in contemporary theoretical knowledge, critical analysis, doctoral research and evidence-based inquiry, leading to a contribution to knowledge informed by original research and scholarship

Research areas

• Education for citizenship
• e-Learning, social networking
• Pedagogy, learning theories and learning and teaching
• Achievement and retention of ethnic minority students in education
• Widening participation, access and the student experience
• Professionalism and professional practice
• Creativity and complexity theory
• Childhood studies and history of education
• Changing patterns of participation in post-16 education and training
• Lifelong learning
• Leadership and management in education
• Knowledge management and organisational change
• Literacy, language, poetry and applied linguistics in Education 
• Skills-based vocational training
• Equality, inclusivity and diversity in education
• A range of other individually negotiated subject areas