Research areas
- Applied linguistics: bilingualism and multilinguialism; neoliberal ideology and language teaching; English as a global language; language learning and identity; language education, gender and sexuality; discourse analysis; the roles of tasks and implicit/explicit learning and teaching; language and digital media
- Art design and museology: artists in sites of learning, curatorial practices and the shaping of knowledge in galleries and museums, artists interventions in educational contexts; visual culture
- Music education: musical development, the psychology of music, singing and voice science, music in special education, music ideology, gender and music, the sociology and philosophy of music, informal and popular music education, the wider benefits of music
- English education, social semiotics and multimodality: teacher identities; literature in urban classroom; social and digital literacy practices; identity, subject knowledge and communication; visual methodologies; subject knowledge and policy
- Media education: the moving image and video games; young peopleÕs production of digital animation, film and computer games; online communities, virtual worlds, play and film
- Learning with digital technologies: software interventions to support learners with disabilities; the development of adaptive technologies; learner modelling; virtual learning environments; methods for analysing the effectiveness of interactive learning environments; technology mediated knowledge in the curriculum
- Psychosocial studies: reflexivity; psychoanalytically informed approaches to educational research; knowledge practices in the humanities and social sciences; unconscious aspects of learning, professional practice and research; post-structural theories of gender and subjectivity
Further details of staff research and publications are available on the department website.
Degree structure
The IOE Centre for Doctoral Education provides a comprehensive Research Training Programme.ÊÊ
Full time MPhil/PhD students are required to fulfil 20 units of training activity in their first year, and are encouraged to fulfil the same in their subsequent years of study. This training can be selected from the IOE Research Training Programme, each unit being worth approximately one hour of face-to-face training, or an online equivalent.Ê Part time students fulfil 10 units of training activity a year.Ê Students may take additional training courses from the Programme, as relevant to their research and/or as agreed with their supervisor.
The Core Course aims to meets the needs of early stage doctoral students.Ê
There is also a wide range of introductory, advanced methods, advanced theoretical, and generic academic skills courses, as well as student led workshops and reading groups.Ê
