Research Training Programme

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Description

The School of Education runs a well established Research Training Programme for all its research students (MPhil/PhD, as well as MPhilResMeth and EdD). This development has coincided with increased concern by ESRC and other funding bodies, who stress the importance of a general research training as a necessary context for students' personal research projects.

The Training Programme is compulsory for full time MPhil/PhD students and for part time students sponsored by the ESRC (i.e. for all students undertaking Mode A training, as defined by ESRC); other part time students are strongly encouraged to attend.

Tutor

Staff

Structure

The programme is delivered through a series of core and elective units, taught on Fridays. We also offer a selection of units as open learning materials, which we hope will be particularly helpful to part-time students who are unable to attend the face to face sessions.

The core modules of the Research Training Programme are as follows:

  • Philosophical Issues in Educational Research
  • Research Skills and Processes
  • Data Collection
  • Data Analysis

The elective/option modules of the Research Training Programme are as follows:

  • Action Research
  • Communicating and Disseminating Research
  • Ethnographic Research
  • Quantitative Methods
  • The Self in Case Study Research
  • Small Group/Classroom Interaction Analysis.

Assessment

Summary of RTP Attendance and Assessment Requirements

Programme Title

Programme Length (years)

Compulsory Units

Assessment

 

PT

FT

 

Coursework

Thesis

Viva

MPhil (Research Methodology)

2-5

1-3

4 Core + 4 Electives

20K

20-30K

No

EdD

4-6

3-4

8 (4+4)

30K

45K

Yes

MPhil/

2-6

1-4

}FT = 4 Core

FT = 10K

75K

Opt*

PhD

3-6

2-4

}PT as advised

(during MPhil)

75K

Yes

ESRC-funded MPhil/PhD

3-6

2-4

4 Core + Electives as advised

10K

75K

Yes

* For standard MPhil students, the option of a viva is determined by the examiners

Questions