Interdisciplinary Policy Studies
PhD
In Lambeth
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Description
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Type
PhD
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Location
Lambeth
Overview
The School of Education, Communication and Society (ECS) at King’s College London is a leading home of interdisciplinary social science research, with particular strengths in public policy, STEM education and linguistics. It was ranked 2nd in the UK for research quality in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). We are looking for outstanding candidates to join a supportive and dynamic research community.
Students are supervised by staff in one or more of our three Research Centres:
Centre for Research in Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Centre for Public Policy Research
Centre for Language Discourse and Communication
The School has a proud history of contributing to public policy debates and the concerns of professional communities of practice across multiple sectors, both nationally and internationally, and we provide programmes of study that help professionals critically analyse, research and effectively respond to changes in thinking and policy in their fields.
We recommend that prospective students read through the Research Centre webpages to find their preferred area of research and potential supervisor.
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Course programme
The School offers extensive research training and supervision on a wide range of policy related themes including user and practitioner experiences and perspectives in health and social care, culture and the arts, youth work and education; equality and social justice; identity and social change; professional values and ethics; and public sector reform.
There is a particular emphasis on rigorous interdisciplinary and critical perspectives with staff and students working in and across a range of disciplines.
We also run MPhil and PhD programmes in Education Research and Language, Discourse & Communication. We are home to a range of research projects, funded by research councils (ESRC and AHRC) and major charities (e.g. Wellcome, Leverhulme and Nuffield).
Current/ recent PhD topics:
‘”Stayers”- A qualitative study exploring why teachers and headteachers stay in challenging London primary schools’; ‘Exploring the role of race/ethnicity, class and gender in young people’s engagement with science through an intervention programme’; ‘Surgeons as Brokers? Exploring the professional identity of surgical educators’; ‘Passion and Resistance in Youth Work’; ‘The co-construction of ageing identities: a linguistic ethnography of older women’s talk and practices in a hair salon’; ‘The Development of Metaphor Comprehension in Arabic-Speaking Children’.
Interdisciplinary Policy Studies
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My Training Academy
Course Online£ 15 £ 195 -
Course Central
Course Online£ 10 £ 425 -
Open Learning College
Course Distance Learning£ 356 £ 456 -
School of Social Science - Birkbeck University of London
Postgraduate London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Parli-training
Short course London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Open Learning College
Course Distance Learning£ 330 £ 481 -
Woodhouse College
A Level London / Classroom-basedPrice on request
See all