StudyQA — PhD: Shakespeare and Theatre — University of Birmingham

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With over 100 lecturing and research staff and dedicated research centres, our School of Education is one of the largest research-led schools of education in the UK with a distinguished reputation for excellence in our research and teaching practice both nationally and internationally. We have a history of 5 star rated research and in the 2008 Research Excellence Exercise (RAE), 80% of our work was recognised as being of international quality. You will undertake advanced research under the supervision and guidance of an experienced member of the School of Education staff.

The (EdD) Leaders and Leadership in Education programme differs from traditional doctoral study, mainly due to the fact that an Integrated Study PhD comprises taught modules as well as a research element, whereas the traditional PhD focuses wholly on producing a research thesis. On this programme, subject modules will explore senior leaders, middle leaders and deputies, and leadership for effectiveness and improvement. Participants will also be encouraged to develop and research their own special interests in leaders and leadership in education, supported by a structured programme of research training.
The programme provides a supportive and structured environment to enable effective individual and group learning with three distinctive characteristic strands which may be summarised as:

* Researching within empirical settings
* Theorising from published research and empirical data
* Reflecting on and improving practice

To complete the Leaders and Leadership in Education Doctorate (EdD) you will need to gain a total of 540 credits: 180 from completing taught modules and 360 from completing your research thesis. In general, the taught elements of the programme will be completed in the first half of the course, enabling you to focus on data collection and thesis-writing in the second half of the course.

The subject modules you will take on this programme will be assessed by assignments including projects directly aimed at analysing and improving the practice of leadership in your own professional context. These are complemented by three research training modules which will enable you to develop your knowledge and application of a range of research approaches, as well as an additional special programme of research training to enhance your ability to design and carry out an extended research project and to write this up as a thesis.

The main four subject modules you will study on this programme look at leaders and leadership from a range of theoretical and practical perspectives. The modules are as follows:

* Leadership in Education: Senior Managers (on which you will be encouraged to reflect on the specific careers of two or more senior managers from existing scholarship and from your own research)
* Leaders in Education: Deputies and Middle Managers (a course which explores existing scholarship on the careers and roles of deputies and middle managers in educational settings)
* Leadership in Education: Effectiveness and Improvement
* Specialist Research Module for Leaders and Leadership (on which you will learn how to compose a thesis proposal, a literature review and will cover a range of methodologies and methods)

In the second half of the programme you will carry out your research project and write up a 50,000 word thesis. You will also need to defend your thesis and display an adequate knowledge of the discipline within which your specific field of study falls during an oral examination (viva voce). For detailed guidance on the viva process, including practical advice, visit the Graduate School website.