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EdD - Doctor of Education
University of Stirling
Full Time
Jan 2027
3 Year
Enhance your career in Education and become a leader in your field with our Doctor of Education (EdD) course. The global education market is expected be worth almost £8 trillion by 2030 (Global Education Outlook). Education specialists are in high demand to shape the future of the sector including in: schools and universities, early years provision, professional learning, policy development. This Doctorate is for senior professionals already working in Education. An EdD offers the same level of study as a PhD, but includes some taught modules before the supervised research phase. The work you undertake will make a significant contribution to the field and enable you to develop research topics deeply connected to your areas of professional interest. You’ll be part of a vibrant group of learners working to strengthen their expertise. As you study, you will: explore ideas informing educational research and consider their strengths, weaknesses and underlying assumptions; design your own research projects and learn how to critique other research strategies and methods; analyse social science data and statistics and make informed analytical judgements about data; craft an original thesis to make an immediate contribution to knowledge in education. Benefit from a recognised curriculum You’ll be taught by experts whose research helps to shape policy and practice around curriculum development, educational philosophy and professional education. Many of the modules you study on our Education Doctorate are also recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This provides a further validation of the world-class expertise on offer. Gain the skills you need to create an impact in your field. Support change with an Education Doctorate from the University of Stirling.; The Doctor of Education course uses the same six core modules as are offered on Stirling’s ESRC-recognised MRes Educational Research. These modules are recognised by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), which means they are designed to create rounded and expert research-aware professionals. We highly value our interprofessional, interdisciplinary and increasingly international student cohorts' contributions, our ability to match students to research-active staff, and our focus on criticality and impact via research.
Drawing upon distinct empirical research and debates, this module will introduce you to different ways of conceptualising the theories and purposes of education informing knowledge claims in educational research.
This module will introduce you to qualitative data analysis. It aims to provide you with an understanding and experience in analysing qualitative data, including visual data.
In today's world, we're surrounded by data. Statistics and data are a part of our daily lives and are not simply abstract numbers.
There are diverse approaches to methodology design, such as hypothesis led, inductive and deductive enquiry, qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods.
This module will introduce you to the epistemological, ontological and theoretical foundations that underpin social scientific research and analysis.
This includes researching the digital, researching with the digital and dealing with digitally rendered data.
This module aims to configure students? relationship between practice, practice development and academic enquiry. It provides students who have completed the Diploma in Applied Social Research Programme with the opportunity to carry out a major reflective social science project around their Professional Practice. With supervision, students are encouraged to demonstrate their accumulated research skills, knowledge of theoretical and methodological work, and reflective understanding of their professional practice. By the end of the module, students will produce an original, coherent, well-argued professional practice report.
Digital technologies and data are increasingly challenging and transforming all aspects of the research process (within academia and more broadly), including researching the digital, researching with the digital, and dealing with digitally rendered data. As digital technologies permeate everyday professional, personal, and pedagogical practices (including the work of research), social science research methods are called upon to examine, understand, and work with these developments and changing landscapes. It is therefore critical to develop relevant research expertise and consider the implications of such digitalization and datafication. In this module we take both a practical approach to understanding new digitally-mediated research methods as well as critically questioning these contemporary research practices. This module is designed to appeal to research-oriented students in the social sciences as well as practitioners who engage with research in their work and/or want to increase their understanding of the influence of the digital on work and learning.
