Key Facts

  • Indicative Fee
    Subsidised Fee: £3924 PartTime: £1962.00
  • Financial Support
  • Course Tutor(s):Julie Dockrell
  • Duration: The programme is designed to be completed in five years of part-time study; the minimum period of registration is four years, and the maximum period of registration is seven years. The entry date is October each year.
  • Study Method: Full-time, Part-time
  • Department: Dept of Psychology & Human Development
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Doctor in Educational Psychology

The programme generates high-level research expertise and an understanding of the role of Educational Psychologists (EPs).

Features
The taught element of the DEdPsy consists of four modules:

  • Professionalism and ethics
  • Methods of enquiry 1 and 2
  • Advanced applied psychology in education.

Professionalism and ethics will encourage you to reflect on your professional practice as well as to develop new skills and perspectives on practice. You will be supported by individual tutorials as you progress towards your own specialist field and research topic. Your supervisors are appointed from staff across the Institute to match your interests and background.

Who is this course for?
The DEdPsy degree is intended for experienced EPs who would like to develop their professional expertise, carry out research relevant to their professional practice, and reflect critically on their work and their role.

Attendance
Teaching is offered in a variety of methods designed to suit the needs of practising EPs, including intensive teaching blocks which cover part of a weekend and group and individual tutorials. Periods of attendance are complemented by other teaching methods, such as email.

How are you assessed?
You will be required to submit the following:
  • Four assignments of 5,000 words each, in the form of either essays or action research projects
  • A detailed research proposal and rationale for your thesis (5,000 words), which must be approved by your supervisor and the appropriate Institute body
  • A thesis of 55,000 words.

We expect all assessed work to be of a standard suitable for publication in a refereed journal. Your thesis must make an original and significant contribution to knowledge and afford evidence of originality and the capacity for autonomous research. It should also demonstrate your ability to apply psychological principles to professional practice in educational psychology.

There is an oral examination, which will test both your thesis and your conceptual understanding of the integration of all the elements of your programme.

Entry Requirements
You should normally hold a postgraduate masters degree in educational psychology from a UK university or overseas equivalent which is recognised by the British Psychological Society as giving eligibility for Chartered Educational Psychologist status. We also expect you normally to have at least two years' professional experience as a practitioner educational psychologist.

We ask you to provide a 2,000-word statement, summarising the research you would like to conduct if admitted to the programme and stating how you think the programme would enhance your professional development.