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Research opportunities

Awards available

PhD: approximately 3 years (full-time), 5 years (part-time)
MPhil: approximately 2 years (full-time), 4 years (part-time)
EdD: 2 years taught (part-time), approximately 2 years research (part-time)

Entry requirements

When applying for the PhD or MPhil you will normally be expected to have a good Honours degree and a Masters degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university, or its overseas equivalent. You may also be required to undertake some taught courses in research methods or other subjects from a range of MSc and MA courses in the Faculty. Applicants for the EdD will normally have a good Masters degree in education and normally be required to have at least four years experience in their professional area. If you do not have a Masters we will ask you to take a distance learning unit in educational research prior to starting the course.

Application procedure

To apply, you should complete an application form, including the names and addresses of two academic referees, and attach an outline of your research proposal. The outline should be about 500 words in length, comprising a working title, aims, rationale, proposed methods for conducting the research and references to relevant literature. The application form is available at: www.lsbu.ac.uk/rbdo/students/researchdegrees/grprospective

The Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences has a growing and dynamic culture with a wide range of academic interests, highly qualified staff and more than 100 postgraduate students. Our interdisciplinary research draws on a range of subject, methodological and theoretical expertise, and it gained recognition for national and international quality of its work in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise: in Social Policy, Town and Country Planning and English.

The Faculty also has recognition for ESRC +3 for PhDs in the areas of Sociology and Social Policy. This is reflected in the wide range of external funding received from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Department for International Development (DfID), charities, government departments and local authorities.

We offer research supervision in a wide variety of areas, including Education, European Studies, International Development, Poverty, Family, Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Housing and Planning, Regeneration, Leisure Studies, Media Arts, Music and Dance Cultures, Digital Media, Politics, and Psychology and Crime. Studies are supported with a range of supplementary activities. Research projects are expected to contain material that promises to make an original contribution to knowledge within the subject area.

For more information contact:

Professor Michal Lyons
MPhil/PhD Programme Director
lyonsm@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 7239

Professor Steve Lerman
EdD Course Director
lermans@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 7440

Beverley Goring
Senior Research Administrator
goringbl@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5796