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Research degrees
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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