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Doctorate in Education (Ed.D)
Director: Jo Frankham

Would you like to:

• Conduct and disseminate high quality research relevant to your organisation/profession?
• Study in a cross-professional group with others interested in educational research?
• Pursue Doctoral studies in a structured and supported mode?
• Develop understandings about the conduct and use of research which will contribute both to personal and professional development?
• Support others in conducting and evaluating research?

This programme will provide you with such an opportunity.

A new Ed.D Programme in the Faculty of Education, University of Manchester begins September 2003. Programme Director: Dr Jo Frankham

Closing Date for applications: Friday June 27th 2003

This four to six-year part-time course is aimed at those engaged in any aspect of education, training or professional development. The course will equip participants to conduct high quality research on aspects of their own role or professional culture and critically assess others' research in their field. It will also help to prepare participants to support others in research roles. Candidates are usually in full-time or part-time work and keen to pursue Doctoral level work but with the extra support that an Ed.D provides. Candidates will probably have a relevant Masters' degree and preferably some experience of research. It is also likely that applicants will have considerable experience in their field. Those without such qualifications are nonetheless encouraged to discuss making an application for the course. Please contact Jo Frankham (0161 275 3338 or jo.frankham@man.ac.uk) with any informal enquiries. For an application pack please contact penny Silcock (0161 275 3557 or penelope.silcock@man.ac.uk).

Course Aims

• To develop understandings and experience of research methodology such that the participants can conduct, use and evaluate research
• To develop experience of the conduct of research in the context of professional practice to contribute to personal and professional development
• To understand the wider relationships between research and professional practice and the policy contexts within which participants work
• To help to equip participants with the experience and understandings to support colleagues in their use and conduct of research

Course Content

The focus of the course is on research methodology as it applies to research that participants will conduct on their own practice or on an aspect of their professional culture. Study is supported by comprehensive written materials which include coursenotes, guided readings, reference lists and short tasks to complete. The study material is divided into three sections - Reading Research, Planning Research and Research Methods in Action. Aspects of the three sections are interconnected and themes will be revisited as the course proceeds.

This material will support study in the first two years of the programme, supplemented by monthly group meetings and weekend study periods (see below). Throughout, the orientation of the material is on linking methodology to notions of 'insider' research, the relationship between research and professional practice and the wider policy context within which participants work.

Course Structure

During the first two years of the course, the study material will guide you through a series of tasks with relevant readings supplied. Each month the group will meet to discuss this work and how it applies to your own research. We will also meet three times a year for two days (Friday/ Saturday) for intensive study. In addition, you will be assigned a Personal Supervisor who will be an expert in the substantive focus of your work. You will meet with your Personal Supervisor a minimum of three times in the first two years of the programme. In the second half of the course you will work with your Personal Supervisor one-to-one.

During the first two years you will submit three pieces of coursework. This work contributes to your degree. Each piece of coursework will inform the significant piece of research you will carry out in years three and four of the programme. At the end of the fourth year you will be required to submit a thesis of approx 40,000-50,000 words. Your Personal Supervisor will support you in the development of this work.

Meeting Dates 2003 - 2004

Course Fee £1,435 (academic year 2003/4) with a small inflationary increase each year