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Adult Education and Lifelong Learning PhD
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Find out more about our Adult Education and Lifelong Learning research degree at Warwick
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P-X352
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MPhil/PhD
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3-4 years full-time; Up to 7 years part-time
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January, April and September
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Centre for Lifelong Learning
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University of Warwick
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The PhD in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning allows you to select a topic of your choice linked to our expertise within adult education and lifelong learning. Warwick's Centre for Lifelong Learning (CLL) provides a rich, transdisciplinary academic environment with supported by a dedicated team including supervision and personal tutoring.
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This PhD provides an opportunity to undertake in-depth research within the broad field of adult education and lifelong learning. Adult education and lifelong learning encompass a wide range of learning situations from informal through to formal education and the workplace.
Teaching and learning
We provide a pleasant PhD study room and dedicated personal tutor support in addition to the supervisory team. A combined staff and student seminar programme provides a collegiate forum for sharing and discussing current topics and ideas.
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Research themes for this PhD can include:
- Lifelong learning in any context including workplace, community, and formal education, plus informal learning in the family or elsewhere
- Lifelong learning at any age including childhood, young adulthood, mid-life, and/or later years
- Lifelong learning as it relates to career development work, coaching, counselling, early childhood practice, psychotherapy, social work, and/or social policy
- Theories of learning
- Professional and vocational education
- Popular and radical education
- Issues of culture, class, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual identity, and/or disability
- Access to learning, retention, and drop-out
- Transitions, learner identity, and career development
- Transformative learning
- Motivations to learning
The above is not an exclusive list of research areas and you are free to propose additional topics or themes: Research proposal guidance.
We provide this named PhD route covering a range of professional and academic areas linked to lifelong learning. This results in a PhD with the named route 'Adult Education and Lifelong Learning' on the University transcript. If you prefer to follow a PhD without a named route, there are also strong links between this PhD and our Open Professional Studies Route PhD (P-X3S1). So this option can be pursued.
Hear from our students
"The essence of my Ph.D. at Warwick was centred on how coaching clients experienced using creativity in their coaching sessions and the effects of this. As a professional international coach this was important, this can give people a way of accessing meaning through non-verbal communication, particularly when using a second language and for all, a way of voicing the unspeakable; that which is difficult to say. Our company provides training, coaching, training of coaches and facilitation globally. To date, we have worked in 74 countries over the last 25 years, for the UN, NGOs and in post conflict zones. To discover that creativity entwines the conscious and unconscious gives opportunities for people we work with to become more authentic as they move forward. My research adds gravitas to the important work that we do."
CLL PhD graduate, Dr Nat Clegg
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- Dr Steve GascoigneLink opens in a new window
- Dr Phil GossLink opens in a new window
- Dr John GoughLink opens in a new window
- Professor Ruth HewstonLink opens in a new window
- Dr Nalita JamesLink opens in a new window
- Dr Charlotte JonesLink opens in a new window
- Dr Tania LydenLink opens in a new window
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- Dr Kevin StoneLink opens in a new window
Applicants are encouraged to contact their potential supervisor. The most important aspect is the nature of your project and its potential for supervision in our department.
You are asked to view your intended supervisor's profile and read their work. Please think about what might make your proposed PhD attractive to your supervisor, and customise the proposal accordingly.
- How does your project relate to your intended supervisor's work?
- How might your project enhance, advance, or develop it?
- Could you take it in a different direction?
- What kind of methods and approaches are likely to appeal to your potential supervisor?
We receive a large number of proposals every year and only have capacity for proposals that are carefully tailored to our specific areas of expertise.
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2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject or a good Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject. Supported by a good research proposal (2500 words).
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- IELTS overall score of 7.0, minimum component scores of two at 6.0/6.5 and the rest at 7.0 or above.
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There are no additional entry requirements for this course.