Education Futures Master of Arts and Science

The MASc in Education Futures at The London Interdisciplinary School (LIS) is for educators, policymakers and people in learning-related roles (e.g. training, coaching or public engagement) who want to think critically about where education is headed and apply that thinking directly to their practice. It is part-time and remote-first, designed so you can keep working while you study. Whether you want to lead change, redesign learning, or reimagine what education could be, The programme gives you the space, rigour, and community to do it well.

Education Core

The Education Core helps you understand education as a system: what it is for, how it works, why it has been so hard to change, and what it would take to redesign it.

You’ll explore how people learn, how institutions evolve, and how decisions about pedagogy, assessment, and leadership shape real outcomes. Through case studies of cutting-edge practice, including responses to climate challenges, digital change, and AI, you’ll see how education can be designed differently in practice.

The focus is on building the insight and confidence to design, lead, and evaluate meaningful change in real-world education contexts.

Interdisciplinary Methods

Alongside the Education Core, you’ll take shared interdisciplinary methods, studying alongside students from other MASc programmes. This is a central part of the degree: learning with people from different backgrounds exposes you to new ways of thinking and makes interdisciplinarity real, not theoretical.

The methods modules are designed to stretch you beyond your comfort zone and build range, combining data science and coding, analysis of language and visual media, and tools for working with complexity and uncertainty.

As a Master of Arts and Science, the programme emphasises scientific rigour, giving you robust methods you can use to pursue a genuine interdisciplinary, self-directed project.

Making it relevant to you

The Capstone is a self-directed project focused on an education challenge you care about. You’ll apply the tools, methods, and perspectives from the degree to produce a substantial piece of work, either a dissertation or a practice-based output such as a policy, strategy, or learning design. It’s designed to be a calling card for your next step.

For more information, please visit www.lis.ac.uk