Language, Discourse & Communication, option of joint PhD with HKU/NUS

King’s College London

PhD

In London

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Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    London

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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Location

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London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

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Course programme

The School offers extensive research training and supervision on a range of themes including the dynamics of language and literacy within globalisation and intercultural contact, and we focus on language, literacy and discourse in everyday interaction, in education, literature, and popular culture, in new & mass media, and in medical and workplace settings.

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 Interdisciplinary Policy Studies. 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 include:

‘”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’.

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