Program Overview

Overview

You will shape your own experience of the Professional Education PhD. By concentrating on one element of higher education through in-depth research, you will produce a major body of work and position yourself as an expert.

City’s Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) is a central service and an academic department with a research-active team. It will help you create and realise the best possible research programme.

Our research-active team plays a key role in developing the educational culture here. The design of your PhD will be a collaboration between us and you. We are flexible and creative, offering professional development opportunities to support educational practice. This enables you to achieve your maximum potential.

Traditional PhD

The focus of this route is on academic inquiry and scholarship which requires a significant and original contribution to knowledge. The focus is usually on developing academic knowledge in this area and requires a study focused on scholarly activity in the area.

On completion of study a thesis of between 80,000 -100,000 words is submitted.