Education

The Education PhD at the University of Brighton enables students to develop advanced research skills and build new knowledge with an emphasis on providing a pathway for those interested in a career in education research.

As an Education PhD student at the University of Brighton , you will undertake applied research, combining theoretical analysis with fieldwork data collection to produce leading edge studies.The research of our supervisory staff generates knowledge that advances social justice and fosters critical understanding of learning and teaching in diverse cultures and complex worlds.

Key facts

Education PhD study is available on a full-time or part-time basis. As one of our postgraduate research students, you will:

• benefit from a supervisory team comprising two members of academic staff with expertise in your area of interest. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional external supervisor from another school or another research institution, or an external partner from government or industry

• benefit from access to a range of electronic resources via the University’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries.

Our particular areas of expertise currently include:

• children and young people’s learning and education

• children and young people’s rights and voice

• educators’ initial, early and continuing professional learning and development

• the role of video technology in facilitating professional learning and development

• educators’ use of digital tools

• professional identities

• educator wellbeing

• educator retention

• mentoring and coaching

• professional migration and boundary crossing

• pedagogy in formal and informal contexts

• higher education pedagogy, policy and practice