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MPhil/PhD Research Degrees in Education
General information
Research Students Tutor: Professor Paul Trowler
E-mail: p.trowler@lancaster.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 01524 592879
Postgraduate Office Co-ordinator: Alison Sedgwick
E-mail: a.Sedgwick@lancaster.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 01524 592685/592893
The experience of doing a research degree
We offer a lively research culture in which students participate alongside other postgraduates and staff. Meeting people with similar interests and attending research seminars help our postgraduates to feel part of the life of the Department and involved as a member of a community of researchers. The Department received a top-rated grade 5 in the recent 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.
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 two attached research units. The Centre for the Study of Education and Training (CSET) and the Centre for Studies in Advanced Learning Technology (CSALT). There are also a number of inter-departmental and Faculty research groups such as the Literacy Discussion Group, and the Centre for Women's Studies.
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.
Funding
We are pleased to announce new funding for a Doctoral Fellowship and ESRC studentships. Please see the Funding page for further information.
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