[Maths-Education] MMU EdD recruiting now

[Tony Brown]

The Doctor of Education (EdD) programme at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is designed to enable professionals to acquire a major qualification through researching and renewing their own professional practice. The programme emphasises critical intervention in policy, practice and debate built through the study of a variety of academic disciplines.

 

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 2014. 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. 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. Four assignments and a dissertation 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.

 

The Doctorate of Education sits within the Education and Social Research Institute at MMU. ESRI is one of the leading centres for applied educational research and evaluation. ESRI received recognition as ‘world leading’ in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Details can be found at: http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk.

 

Prospective students will ordinarily possess a masters 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 2014.

 

Initial enquiries should be made Barbara Ashcroft on 0161 247 2320 or b.ashcroft at mmu.ac.uk

 

 











Professor Tony Brown 

Educational and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University 

Didsbury, Manchester, M20 2RR, UK    

0161 434 6355

www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/resstaff/profile.php?name=Tony&%20surname=Brown