MSc Educational Research
The School has a well established MSc in Educational Research, which is recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as meeting their current training guidelines for the preparation of doctoral students.
The overall purpose of this MSc is to prepare you for the independent conduct of educational research. You will acquire general social science research skills that can be used in different contexts and applied to a variety of problems, and also have the opportunity to specialise in a particular field of education within a research preparation framework.
Our MSc Educational Research is relevant to students with different interests:
Doctoral research students
The programme provides excellent preparation for a PhD. The four taught modules of the MSc are required research training for all MPhil/PhD students. The School has a wide range of research interests, which are practically reflected in the topics of our Research Groups- Students interested in a Masters programme that prepares them in educational research knowledge and skills
Some students wish to do an educational research programme without having decided whether to undertake a Doctoral programme - Students wishing to undertake a Masters programme in a specific area of education
Other students may wish to study a particular field of education at Masters level. This programme enables specialisation within a research preparation programme (eg, post-compulsory education, or personal and social education). The specific area of study can be studied within each of the four taught research modules and become the focus for the dissertation.
Jan 2010 start to MSc full time campus programme
If you are interested in starting the MSc programme in January 2010 and not waiting till the usual October 2010 start, this is relevant to you. This start time is relevant to:
- 4 year PhD, who do the MSc in year 1 and
- 3 year MPhil/Phd students, who do the 4 MSc taught modules
- students doing only the MSc.
This means that for this year PhD students can start in January 2010. However, it is only relevant to campus based students.
The programme will run for a full academic year between Jan 2010 and December 2010. The following programme will be provided:
- Spring term – Jan to March 2010 – Join he campus taught modules, Scientific Methodologies (SM) and Designing and Communicating Research (DCR)
- Summer term April- June 2010 – study the Nature of Educational Enquiry (NEE) and Interpretive Methodologies (IM) modules by a combination of online lectures/presentations and face to face tutoring. Students will start planning their dissertation module research in this term too
- Autumn term Oct- Dec 2010 – work and complete Dissertation with supervisor.
For further information and specific questions contact Eleanor Monger, Admissions officer, edu-admissions@exeter.ac.uk or Professor Brahm Norwich, MSc programme director at b.norwich@ex.ac.uk.
Choice of Study: Full-time, Part-time or at a Distance
The programme can be studied full- and part-time by attending taught sessions on our St Luke's Campus in Exeter or at a distance, which is particularly useful for international students and UK students who cannot travel easily to Exeter: