PhD in Education

Plymouth Marjon University

Research undertaken within education encompasses the full range of sectors of informal and formal education and addresses education pedagogy, policy, practice. Our researchers have developed innovation in education theory and methodology leading to equally innovative impacts on education pedagogy, policy and practice in early years, community, school, further, higher and career-long education at local, regional, national and international levels.

We are particularly interested in research proposals around the areas of Education, Sustainability and Health and Wellbeing. Some ideas for possible areas of PhD research:

• The Embedding of Sustainability in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education in UK Higher Education. Potential supervisors – Dr Andreas Walmsley, Dr Laura Wallis, Dr Lynne Wyness
• Spatial equity and teacher supply in rural schools in England. Potential supervisors – Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Professor Sonia Blandford
• ‘Is a small school a failed big school? Making sense of small schools in the UK’. Potential supervisors - Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Professor Sonia Blandford
• Communicating climate change and sustainability. Potential supervisors: Professor Debby Cotton, Dr Lynne Wyness
• How do pro-social attitudes align with developing an entrepreneurial identity? Dr Laura Wallis, Dr Andreas Walmsley
• Sustainable Performance Making in Austere Climates. Potential supervisors: Dr Natalie Raven, Professor Jennie Winter
• Understanding behaviour change towards sustainability. Potential supervisors: Professor Jennie Winter, Dr Andreas Walmsley, Dr Laura Wallis