PhD in Education and Social Justice

to provide opportunities for experienced professionals worldwide to gain deeper and more critical insights into concerns surrounding education and social justice, and to research and respond to these concerns;
to provide doctoral research opportunities to explore and understand how formal and informal education, in a variety of countries and contexts - schooling, training, adult and higher education, workplaces, voluntary organisations, reform projects - mediate social equalities and inequalities;
to examine whether education is a way of equalising unjust societies as part of building social capital and political reform, or reinforcing and entrenching social inequality;
to encourage participants to develop knowledge about, and insights into, the ways that educational research and evaluation are contributing to development, aid and the international reform movement, as well as to consider grassroots approaches to promoting social justice;
to support participants in publishing in high status education and social justice journals and other relevant outlets.

teachers working in schools, further education, higher education, and lifelong learning; policy makers; managers; researchers working with social justice issues; youth workers;
activists and advocacy workers;
people with equity or social justice portfolios in a variety of institutions; education support personnel;
consultants; researchers and workers in charities and NGOs; and civil servants.
The programme and assignments are designed to enable participants to focus on, and research, issues that are at the heart of their own professional practice and concerns.

a good honours degree from a British university or CNAA, and usually a taught Master's degree;
qualifications of a comparable standard from a university or recognised degree awarding body in another country.