Postgraduate study
Postgraduate research in education
Supervision is offered to MPhil/PhD students to research full or part-time in areas represented by the Education Research Network.
As well as the long established PhD programme in Education and an associated MA course of research training there is also a professional doctorate leading to the award of EdD. These routes all have ESRC recognition and Sheffield Hallam University is recognised for CASE scholarships.
All research students are part of a larger research community in the Faculty, now consolidated in the Graduate School.
Current PhD students research topics
- Comparing impacts of teaching approaches on primary children's understanding of trend
- An anthropological approach to understanding peer friendships in a multi-cultural context
- Educational Disaffection Among Young Men in an Ex-Coalfield Area of Derbyshire
- The nature of nurture provision: practices and possibilities
- Teachers' views on brain research applications to teaching the Thai language
- Disabled Students: employability and inclusive practice in work-based learning
- Social Media in Higher Education - Potential Challenges for E-Learners
- Perspectives on curriculum and pedagogy in a private kindergarten in China
- How do nurses affect the parental experience of preschool autism assessment and diagnosis?
- Pre-school for under 3s in Greece: Statutory frameworks and policy change
- Children's participation in the children's centre agenda
- Democratic models of professional child parent engagement in speech and language therapy
- Challenges and opportunities for inclusion of EU migrant pupils in English schools
- Classing sexualities: lesbian parents' identity management in educative contexts
- Constructing the curriculum: a case study of course planning in higher education
- Explaining responses to creative thinking in science in secondary schools
- Exploring the impact of sexuality in the lifeworld of adolescents with autism
- To what extent do early years settings affect male identity?
- Virtual and face-to-face teachers' learning networks: a case study in a Dutch university
- Strategies-based instruction and Libyan EFL learners: an action response study
- Girls' physics choices - a case study of two schools
- The development of English language knowledge in Thai international school students
Current doctorate in education (EdD) research topics
- The role of cultural capital in collaborative working in UK Further Education
- The professional higher education hospitality management lecturer - an investigation into attitudes and approaches
- Professional development in autism: exploring teaching assistant perspectives
- Post-14 local educational partnership leaders. A study of characteristics and role perceptions
- A field analysis of a 14 - 19 education partnership
- Royal Engineer Geographic Technicians: changes in trainee and instructor attitudes to learning
- A study of headteachers who are also school inspectors
- How part-time study impacts on the lifeworld of mature students
- A sociocultural approach to higher education students' experiences with academic literacies
- What is the relationship between undergraduate pharmacy education and professional practice?
- Higher education admission tutors for physiotherapy programmes working within communities of practice
- Including children with autism in mainstream primary schools: teachers' perspectives
- Students' perceptions on the significance and purpose of learning in seminars
- Involving cancer patients in curriculum delivery: a participatory research approach
- An exploration of lecturers' experiences working within a digitally fluent university
- Models of feedback in medical education: an evaluation of the learning conversation
- Transitions to academia: mapping the journey from industry to academic professional
- Experience of leadership in children's centres
- The business of UK Higher Education: different models; different roles
- Professional Eclipse - Exploring complexities in achieving and maintaining mastery of multiple Communities of Practice
Recently completed PhD, MPhil and EdD research topics
- Televisual rhetoric: the application of classical rhetoric to television advertising
- The development of e-learning in a Lebanese higher education context
- Peer mentored teams to support undergraduate group work in higher education
- Undergraduates' personal constructs: classroom teaching and the role of the teacher
