Working Lives Research Institute
Want to understand the changing world of work and working lives? Keen to explore the meaning of work, globalisation and social change? Actively engaged in the trade union movement, the social, community, non-governmental or voluntary sector and wish to enhance your own working life through further study and pursue your own doctoral level research into an area related to your work?
Download our new leaflet, July 2011, as a PDF, here:
Professional Doctorate (Researching Work).pdf
For more information please email workinglives@londonmet.ac.uk or telephone 020 7320 3042.
The Professional Doctorate in Researching Work, taught by internationally recognised experts at London Metropolitan University’s prestigious Working Lives Research Institute, could be for you.
Read some comments on the DProf from our first intake of students.
This new course encourages you to reflect and draw upon your professional experience, to develop your own theoretical approach and practical research skills. Studied part time, it is delivered flexibly to fit around your own working life. Our DProf course integrates your doctoral level research into the vibrant WLRI community and provides you with full support, rather than leaving you to the isolation that is typical of PhD studies.
Modules include:
You would normally have completed an MA, but relevant experience or professional qualifications can be considered. Want to know more? Call Cilla Ross for further info, on 020 7320 3042, or email workinglives@londonmet.ac.uk
This doctoral programme is for people interested in researching the changing world of work, in a lively,collaborative and supportive environment.
This innovative course draws upon your professional experience to develop theoretical approaches and practical research skills for making sense of work and working life.
If you work for a trade union, a voluntary, non-governmental, social or community organisation, this Professional Doctorate is for you.
You will normally have completed an MA but relevant experience or other professional qualifications will be taken into account in your application.
The course is run by the Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University and is taught by internationally recognised experts in the field.
The course combines six taught modules and independent study leading to an original doctoral thesis in an area of direct professional interest to you. This ensures that you will work with a group of students throughout your study, joining a vibrant research community which provides you with full support, rather than leaving you to the isolation that is typical of PhD studies.
The six taught modules are:
Each module seeks to explore and understand the place of work in the context of a range of key experiences and formations, such as class, race and gender.
The programme is part time and delivered flexibly to fit around your working life. The modules are taught over the first two years. In each year there are two two-and-a-half day sessions (Thursday afternoon to Saturday) and four two-day sessions (Friday and Saturday).
After completing the taught modules students continue to work on their doctoral thesis for a maximum of two years. During both group and individual research work there will be full pastoral and academic support as well as peer group meetings and activities.
The programme offers a stimulating and supportive group learning experience. It is delivered face-to-face through lectures, seminars and group work and students will become a part of the WLRI research community. Each student will have their own personal tutor as well as academic supervision for their coursework and thesis. The University’s libraries including the TUC and Women’s Library are accessible to all students both on and offline.
Assessment is via literature reviews, essays, group presentations and case studies, all of which are likely to reflect and support aspects of your work and inform your final thesis. The aim is to develop skills which inform your work and help you develop new knowledge which will further your professional practice.
You will be expected to present coursework (6 assignments, including your thesis proposal) to peers, academics and where relevant, your employers and colleagues. Your final piece of work will be your original doctoral thesis.
The fees are £2835.00 per year, excluding accommodation and travel costs. In many cases employers or trade unions will sponsor students.
Please email for a full information pack: j.emefo@londonmet.ac.uk
Or telephone the Working Lives office: +44 (0) 20 7320 3042