Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education

Break new ground with a Professional Doctorate at Anglia Ruskin University

Studying a Professional Doctorate at Anglia Ruskin University is a great way to turn your career into a qualification. It's an opportunity to develop your skills in research, organisation, management and leadership whilst in a supportive environment. Study is flexible and we have a range of courses for you choose from.

Professional Doctorates are a flexible alternative to traditional PhD study. Research your area of interest and expertise while continuing to work. You’ll be able to add value to your organisation while enhancing your career prospects and expanding your professional network.

Within the Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education we offer 2 professional doctorates.

Professional Doctorate in Education

We’ve designed our programme for professionals across the education spectrum, from early years and school education to the further, higher and adult sectors. You can pursue your topic in many different fields supported by educational experts and a comprehensive programme that includes in-depth research training.

Your research project must focus on some element of policy or practice and be designed to promote innovation and improvement locally, regionally or nationally.

We provide expert supervision in many fields of education including:

• Teacher education
• Early childhood
• Inclusive education
• Special educational needs
• Disability
• Families, parenting and young people
• Social class
• Urban education
• Forest schools and natural learning environments
• Digital and computing education
• Science education
• Education for health professionals
• Higher education
• Adult and lifelong learning

For further information please contact;

Dr Philip Howlett
Course Leader - Professional Doctorate in Education
philip.howlett@anglia.ac.uk

Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care

Our course is for advanced health or social care practitioners with postgraduate qualifications, who want to take an innovative lead in their speciality through original, published research to improve policy and practice.

Our team members specialise in health and social care research with areas of expertise including;

• Carer and service user perspectives
• Research with older people
• Nursing
• Social work practice
• Educational practice
• Workplace stress
• Research with children and young people.

We’ll ask you to focus your work on an aspect of policy and practice, with a view to influencing approaches in your organisation or specialty locally, regionally, nationally or internationally.

For further information please contact;

Dr Les Gelling
Course Leader - Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care
leslie.gelling@anglia.ac.uk

Research in the Faculty

You want to be part of an ambitious and innovative postgraduate community.

Our research was named world-leading in 12 subject areas, including Allied Health Professions, Nursing, Social Work and Social Policy (Research Excellence Framework 2014). Staff in our faculty run a number of research projects with local, national and international agencies – like our Veterans & Family Institute for Military Social Research, which carries out important work and policy development on the impact of military service on veterans and their families.

Find out more about our research programmes and our research groups.

Further Information

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Telephone
+44 1245 68 68 68

Website
www.anglia.ac.uk/fhsce