- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 4 to 6 Years
Course details
The overall aim of the Structured PhD Programme is to facilitate the students in making an original contribution to the knowledge base in the field of adult and community education through research. This is part of a University-wide programme, which provides modules that students can undertake in the course of their studies. These are broadly categorised under three headings:
Subject Specific Skills/Advanced Specialist Modules
- Generic Skills
- Transferable Skills
Entry Requirements
PhD entry requirements:
Primary degree (or equivalent) and a Masters degree in a relevant discipline.
Proposal of approximately 5,000 words which needs to be sent to the academic co-ordinator Dr Bríd Connolly and then approved by the Structured PhD Team. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
Year 1
- ENGAGING WITH SCHOLARLY COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
- PERSONAL PROGRESS PROGRAMME
- PRIOR LEARNING PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT
- QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- PUBLISHING IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
- ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ADULT EDUCATION
- CRITICAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN ADULT EDUCATION
- HISTORY OF ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION
- FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE
- GROUP WORK IN ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION
- ADVANCED GENDER STUDIES IN ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION
- CRITICAL MEDIA AND CULTURAL PEDAGOGY FOR COMMUNITIES
- THESIS & RESEARCH COMPLETION
- ADVANCED THEORIES IN ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION
- RESEARCH METHODS IN ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION
- POWER, POLITICS AND SOCIETY: ADULT EDUCATION IN CONTEXT
- PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT PRACTICE
- THE MARKET, THE STATE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- THE CRAFT AND LOGICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH II
- TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- THE CRAFT AND LOGICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH I
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY MODULE
- FINDING INFORMATION FOR YOUR THESIS
- ACADEMIC WRITING MODULE
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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