Exciting Opportunities for Postgraduate Research
Students to Study in the Faculty of Education
This is an exciting and creative time in the Faculty of Education. Our recently formed research and knowledge transfer
groups provide a stimulating environment for the formation and promotion of world-class research in education.
These developments have created opportunities for research students to come and study with internationally
esteemed academics who are leading the field of research. Areas of scholarship supervised within the new research
and knowledge transfer groups are detailed here, come and join us at the forefront of educational research.
The Professional Learning and Leadership group focuses on the continuing development of people in the human
service areas of education, health, and social and public service. It offers masters and doctoral level programme
supervision from internationally recognised academics such as Professor Tony Townsend, Professor Christine Forde
and Professor Kay Livingstone.
The vibrant Pedagogy, Policy and Practice group, is characterised by people with expertise across a wide variety
of contexts, who aim to effect real, meaningful and sustainable change in education. Members of the group work
together in activities involving knowledge transfer, scholarship and publication, which explore the relationship between
theory and practice in a range of areas in the field of education, including, Curriculum, Assessment, Learning and
Teaching and Child Development. Group leaders are Professor Ian Menter and Louise Hayward.
The Social Inclusion and Global Justice group focuses on the role played by education in the process of social
reproduction, this group explores the ways in which education can prevent the marginalisation of vulnerable or
disadvantaged groups as well as policies and processes that reinforce deprivation. Leading academics in this group
include Professor Andy Furlong and Professor Penny Enslin.
The academic and professional focus of the Creativity Culture and Faith group is on the interdisciplinary
exploration of education at all levels and stages. Work ranges from the educative role of the traditional literary
and expressive arts, through the institutions of recreation and leisure, to the educational potential of new leading-
edge creative disciplines and industries. Research students will have the opportunity to work with scholars such as
Professor Alison Phipps, Professor Robert A. Davis, Professor James Conroy.
The Interdisciplinary Science Education, Technologies and Learning group offer a uniquely interdisciplinary setting
for research in STEM Education, with interests and experience spanning school education; informal and post-compulsory
settings; ICT and e-Learning; Science Education Studies; and with a strong foundation in subject-based expertise. Our
strong links with the Science Faculties here and many external bodies add to this breadth allowing us to offer a very
varied range of posgraduate research opportunities. Research students will have the opportunity to work with renowned
researchers Professor Vic Lally and Dr Jane Magill.
The Lifelong Learning, Place and Engagement group is concerned with the relationship between formal and
informal educational provision and the development of places at a range of scales; a key theme is stakeholder
contribution to learning within regions and cities, and the relationship between learning, regeneration and new growth
areas, partnership and the development social capital. It also focuses on international and comparative lifelong and
life-wide learning and teaching with a particular concern with post-compulsory learning in adult life, including in higher
education. Members of the group include Professor Mike Osborne and Dr Lesley Doyle.
We also offer a distance EdD Programme which combines online delivery with residential study weekends in
Glasgow. This professional doctorate, with international participation, combines coursework and a dissertation and
welcomes applicants from a variety of education related professions. Programme leader Professor Penny Enslin.
Applications are invited from candidates wishing to carry out research in any of these areas. For application
information please see http://www.gla.ac.uk/faculties/education/graduateschool/applications/
Or contact Myrtle Porch E: m.porch@admin.gla.ac.uk T: +44(0)141 330 3021.
Students who are accepted on our PhD programme are eligible to apply for ESRC and ORSAS funded scholarships.
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