Education PhD

This course is a research-based degree, in which students undertake individual research projects under close academic supervision from within the department. It can be studied full or part-time.<br/><br/>The PhD normally takes three years of full-time research (five years part-time), after which students <br/><br/>Areas of research include: learning and teaching; subject knowledge and understanding; information communication technology (ICT) assessment; assessment for learning; achievement; bilingualism; how children learn; gender studies; health and wellbeing; healthy schools; curriculum development in Wales and elsewhere in the UK; special educational needs; partnerships in education; community education; national and local educational policy and the impact on small schools; 14-19 learning pathway; adult education.