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study thumbnail 1 Learn about doctoral study at LKL: MPhil, PhD, EdD, Associate/special programmes. In this programme, geared to creativity and originality, you would explore, examine and invent the roles of digital technologies and media across cultural, social and educational relationships. This programme will enable you to design, build and evaluate systems that enhance these knowledge-based relationships; or alternatively to research new kinds of literacy that engage with new media.

explore, examine and invent the roles of digital technologies and media

You would be supported through one-to-one supervisions, a programme of regular research seminars, and student network events. We attract students from all over the world and have extensive links both locally and internationally with schools, colleges, universities, education authorities, governments, business, research and other organisations.

Our staff are among the leading researchers in the field, and are actively involved, both in the UK and internationally, in innovative research, curriculum development and policy formation at every level of education, from preschool to higher, as well as in informal, workplace and lifelong learning. For our current areas of research, see the research section.

We work with you to create a tailor-made programme to support your work. We also offer special short-term programmes for research students, such as an Associateship. 


Some recently completed PhD theses:
  • Designing for meaning making in museums (Student: Kevin Walker; Supervisors: Richard Noss and Niall Winters)
  • Curating the Self: Media Literacy and Identity in Digital Video Production by Young Learners (Student: John Potter; Supervisor: Andrew Burn)
  • Lotman’s Semiosphere: A systems thinking approach to students’ meaning making practices with digital texts (Student: Wilma Clark; Supervisor: Martin Oliver)

You may want to browse profiles of current research students.

Further information on Research Degrees at the LKL

Find further information at the following links, or contact our two research admissions tutors, who can advise on whether your application should be through the Institute of Education or through Birkbeck depending on your programme of research.
 
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Student Feedback

  • “As a teacher the [MA Ed Tech] has expanded my pedagogical outlook, but it’s also made me quite reflective about the way that I teach. I’ve taken what I’ve learnt and applied it to my teaching … and I’d say that the course has definitely improved it.”
  • “I thought the [MA Media] was useful…I definitely feel more able to teach media as a result….tutors well prepared and organised…a lot of detail and originality in the choices of materials…I really enjoyed the residentials and found them inspiring…”

Recent graduates from our programmes

  • Susie Andretta – Ways of experiencing information literacy: perception and practice amongst Information Management postgraduate students (Supervised by Harvey Mellar, IoE)
  • Michael Zoumboulakis – Pattern Matching and Detection in Extremely Resource Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks (Supervised by George Roussos, Birkbeck)
  • Michelle Cannon – Fashioning and Flow: In the field of media education, to what extent can creative media production processes, with a particular emphasis on film production, develop young peoples' social, creative, cultural and critical engagement? (Supervised by John Potter, IoE)
  • Zheng Zhu – Improving Search Engines via Classification (Supervised by Mark Levene and Ingemar J. Cox, Birkbeck)
  • Alison Clark-Wilson – How does a multi-representational mathematical ICT tool mediate teachers’ mathematical and pedagogical knowledge concerning variance and invariance? (Supervised by Richard Noss, IoE)
  • Lucas Zamboulis – XML Data Transformation and Integration - A Schema Transformation Approach (Supervised by Alex Poulovassilis and Nigel Martin, Birkbeck)
  • Theo Bryer – How are the processes of digital video production shaped by the children’s awareness of audience? (Supervised by John Potter, IoE)
  • Zacharias N. Voulgaris – Discernibility Concept in Classification Problems (Supervised by George Magoulas and Boris Mirkin, Birkbeck)
  • Wendy Earle – How cultural and civi organisations use the internet to engage young people
  • Dean Williams – Combining Data Integration and Information Extraction (Supervised by Alex Poulovassilis and Peter King, Birkbeck)