PART ONE: EMBARKING ON A DOCTORATE
What is a Doctorate and Why do People do them?
How Did I Get Here?
An Auto/biographical Approach
Learning on the Doctoral Journey
PART TWO: CONCEPTUALISING AND FOCUSING THE STUDY
Framing the Research
Reviewing the Literature
PART THREE: THINKING ABOUT METHODOLOGIES
Doing Research
Reflecting on Methods, Methodology and Ethics
Approaching Research as Lived Experience
PART FOUR: WRITING THE THESIS
Writing and the Writing Process in a Doctorial Programme
Production Values in the Doctoral Thesis
PART FIVE: PRESENTING AND SHARING RESEARCH
Presenting Your Work at the Viva
Whatever Next?
Spreading the Word and Becoming Part of the Research Community
My current interests and publications lie mainly two areas: firstly
in the study of research methodology and methods; and secondly in
the area of practice and policy in post-graduate education,
particularly at doctoral level. In this second area, I am currently
looking at the impact of the professional doctorate on people´s
lives and professional practice. I am also writing in the area of
educational publishing and how this has evolved, building on some
of my earlier publications in this area. Research Interests
My research is in the broad field of lifelong learning, focusing in
particular on further education and vocational education and
training. I am interested in the relationship between policy
and practice, and in how policy is experienced, formed and reformed
at micro levels of practice. I have an underlying interest in
social justice and in/equality in the context of people’s changing
experience of learning, education and training, and the
relationship between learning, education and people’s wider
lives.
I am on the editorial board of the Journal of Vocational Education
and Training and I convene the British Educational Research
Association Special Interest Group in Post-Compulsory and Lifelong
Learning.
Teaching
I am course director for the professional doctorate (EdD)
programme. I also teach on a range of other programmes, including
the Cert Ed/ PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training and the
MA in Lifelong Learning. My main areas are: the formation of
learner identities and professional identities; 14-19 vocational
education; widening participation in further and higher education;
and qualitative research methods. Dr. Cheryl Hunt is an Honorary
University Fellow in the Graduate School of Education, University
of Exeter. She is interested in adult and inter-professional
learning and has extensive experience of working with postgraduate
students, including as programme director for professional
doctorates, as a research supervisor, and as a tutor on
professional development courses for university lecturers. She is
the Founding Editor of the Journal for the Study of Spirituality;
Executive Editor of Teaching in Higher Education; a Director of the
British Association for the Study of Spirituality; and a
long-standing Council (now Honorary) Member of the Standing
Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of
Adults (SCUTREA). My principal interests are in the history of
education, including curriculum history, the history of secondary
education, the history of teachers and teaching, the history of
educational policy, historical perspectives on current educational
issues, historical theory and methodology relating to education,
and documentary research methods Pat Sikes is a professor of
qualitative inquiry in the School of Education, University of
Sheffield. She became interested in narrative auto/biographical
approaches in the late 1970s and throughout her career has
undertaken research which has used them to investigate topics
around teachers’ lives and careers and, from 2014, the perceptions
and experiences of children and young people who have a parent with
a young onset dementia. Research ethics are another key concern and
focus of Pat’s work. In 2018, the British Educational Research
Association awarded her the John Nisbet Fellowship for an
outstanding contribution to educational research over a career.
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