| Qualifications |
Duration |
Start dates |
Application period |
| PhD or Professional doctorate |
PhD:
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
Professional doctorate:
Part-time: 4–8 years |
October |
November to January |
Qualifications
PhD or Professional doctorate |
Duration
PhD:
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
Professional doctorate:
Part-time: 4–8 years |
Start dates
October |
Application period
November to January |
Language and Literacies in Education is a key topic in the Language and Literacies Research Cluster. Researchers and students work in various areas relating to literacies in education (primary, secondary and higher), literacies in everyday lives and in professional contexts.
Past and present studies have focused on writing in different disciplines (e.g. history, geography, history of science, health and social care, business and management); digital literacies in teacher development; writing by UK and international students at different levels of study; literacy practices in digital environments; developing teacher literacies through participation in e-reading groups; the writing for publication of scholars working in non-Anglophone contexts; academics’ professional reading practices, writing in professional social work practice and higher education pedagogies around writing. Methodologies include ethnography, multimodal analysis, corpus analysis, systemic functional linguistic analysis and discourse approaches, including critical discourse analysis and poststructuralist approaches.
Entry requirements
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) and an MA or research methods training at MA level (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.
Potential research projects
- Academic literacies (including literacies in further and adult education, undergraduate, taught postgraduate, vocational and doctoral education)
- The sociolinguistics of writing
- Writing for publication
- Digital literacies in post-compulsory learning contexts
- Writing in English as a lingua franca context
- Critical approaches to the role of English for Academic Purposes in higher education
- Writing in social and healthcare professional contexts, including social work practice
- Writing in business and management education
- Literacy practices of higher education teachers and researchers
- Contemporary workplace literacies
- Young children’s schooled literacy practices
Current/recent research projects
- Women’s academic writing and widening participation in higher education in the UK
- Exploring a teacher’s literacy practices and their effects on undergraduate thesis supervision
- Foundation years: student and tutor perceptions of identity, belonging and writing in a post-92 university
- An exploration of identity and agency in senior leaders in English for Academic Purposes (SLEAPs) in UK Higher Education
- Multimodal literacy and education in the context of new technologies
- Russian scholars' writing for publication in Russian and English
- English as a medium of instruction in Tunisian higher education institutions: Exploring attitudes, challenges and opportunities
Potential supervisors
Fees and funding
PhD fees
| UK fee |
International fee |
| Full-time: £5,006 per year |
Full-time: £12,705 per year |
| Part-time: £2,503 per year |
Part-time: £6,353 per year |
Professional doctorate fees
| UK fee |
International fee |
| Part-time: £3,811 per year |
Part-time: £9,676 per year |
Some of our research students are funded via the Faculty or The Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.
For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.
To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, visit Current studentships.
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