MA in Education Studies
On this Masters degree course, a wide range of subjects and aspects of education are open to you for exploring. If you have an idea for a theme you are particularly interested in studying and would like to discuss it in advance with someone associated with the course, Feel free to contact us.
Recent projects undertaken on this course include investigations of:
- The importance of pupil voice: investigating perceptions of behaviour
- Student stress in UK and Japan
- An evaluation of the Key Stage Three science strategy: the teacher perspective
- Discussion of the relationship between phonological skills and reading
- Retention of students in further education
- The tricky economies of higher education: student perceptions of the cost of widening participation
- Supporting pupils with special educational needs in the inclusive primary school: an exploration of tensions
- The culture of change: creativity and its role within the domain of secondary education
- Are children with speech and language difficulties at risk of dyslexia?
- The philosophical underpinning of practitioner research
- What motivates children to learn?
- The curriculum for employability: a review of vocational learning for 14-19 year olds.
PhD in Education
Recent thesis titles on the PhD course include:
- All manner of becoming: identity, power and the spaces of knowledge production in A level student research
- Helping struggling adolescent readers using a buddy reading and mentoring programme
- Learning Palestine: the construction of Palestinian identities in South Lebanon
- Lost in transition: the barriers to educational access for school-age Zimbabwe migrant children in South Africa and the influences of institutional and social networks in overcoming them
- Multi-stakeholder partnerships under the Rajasthan Education Initiative: if not for profit, for what?
- Participation of doctoral graduates in industry learning systems in Chile
- Teacher learning in the adoption of non-traditional mathematics pedagogies
- Teaching and learning social studies among hearing impaired learners in Kenya
- The contribution of Bolsa Familia Programme to educational achievement of economically disadvantaged children in Brazil
- The dropout experience of basic school children in rural Ghana: implications for universal basic education policy
See Guidelines for PhD proposals for advice on how to submit your proposal to us for consideration when applying for a place on this course.