Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

This PhD provides an opportunity to undertake in-depth research in the field of adult education and lifelong learning. In recent years as societies have undergone social, political and economic changes adult education and lifelong learning has become an important aspect of the education sector. Adult education and lifelong learning encompasses a wide range of learning situations from informal through to formal education.

Areas for PhD supervision include:

• Education (with a focus on Adult Education in FE/HE and Early Years settings); Lifelong Learning, Teaching and Training.
• Theoretical Enquiry: Career Development; Class; Coaching; Counselling; Employability and Childhood; Ethnicity; Gender; Inequality; Social Justice.

This PhD provides an opportunity to undertake in-depth research in the field of adult education and lifelong learning. In recent years, as societies have undergone social, political and economic changes, adult education and lifelong learning has become an important aspect of the education sector. Adult education and lifelong learning encompasses a wide range of learning situations from informal through to formal education.

Research in this area can include:

Looking at learning in community and adult education, further and higher education as well as informal learning in the family or community, for example:

• popular and radical adult education
• issues of class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability
• access to education and learning experiences, retention and drop-out
• transitions and learner identity and issues of agency and structure
• transformative learning
• motivations to learning

The above is not an exclusive list of research areas. Being a research student will enable you to develop and enhance your research skills and theoretical knowledge.

• Normally a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject
• IELTS 7.0
• Transcripts from your university-level study
• Research proposal (if you are a MPhil or PhD student)
• Personal statement

Scholarships

• Chancellor's International Scholarships