Doctor of Education-EdD

Established in 1997, the EdD is a five-year part-time programme designed to meet the needs of professionals working in areas related to education, training and development who wish to draw on their everyday practice towards gaining a doctorate. This programme recruits home and international students every two years, and applications for an October 2026 start are now open. We invite applications on research themes that are among the research expertise and supervisory availability within the school.

We encourage prospective applicants to visit the profile of corresponding potential supervisors and signal in their application the match of their research topic with areas of our expertise. Exceptional applications on educational research outside these areas are also welcome. If you start in October 2026, you will register directly for the EdD degree, the first two years of which will be considered a probationary period.

During the first two years, you will attend sessions on educational theory and research methods in the form of four weekend study blocks. In Year One you will work on two assignments and in Year Two you will develop your research proposal and complete an ethics application. After the successful completion of the assignments and the research proposal, your progress will be assessed by a probationary review panel (composed of your supervisors and an internal assessor).

Once your probation has been confirmed and your ethics application has been approved, you will be r