Overview

The Special Education PhD programme from Masaryk University aim is to prepare researchers specializing in research, teaching and professional activities in special education focusing on following fields: speech therapy, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, physical disability, visual impairment, specific learning disorders, multiple disorders, special andragogy and addictology.

The aim is to enable outstanding students to continue their chosen profiling in the doctoral study Special Education, to enable them to carry out research activities that many of them have been doing since master's studies and to prepare highly qualified specialists for their further work at the university or at the research institutions in our country and abroad.

Career opportunities:

The graduates from the doctoral studies in Special Education are highly qualified specialists and find their positions mostly at universities or at the scientific and research institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Programme Structure

After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

know deeply and systematically the subject and scope of their special pedagogical field, both in the historical and contemporary wider contexts and at the level of the contemporary state of knowledge;

gain profound knowledge in the field of special education with a focus on inclusion, inclusive education, and social inclusion;

design, implement and evaluate results of special education research; be able to enrich scientific knowledge with ethnical principles in scientific projects;

engage in the life of the national and international scientific community, including publishing activities, planning research projects, obtaining resources for their implementation;

present results of own research to the professional community: in the form of monographs, papers at domestic and international conferences;

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-09-18 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-04-30 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

240 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Special Education

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Student insurance

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Other requirements

General requirements

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Tuition Fee

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International

2200 EUR/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 2200 EUR per year during 48 months.
EU/EEA

2200 EUR/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 2200 EUR per year during 48 months.

Living costs for Brno

13555 - 21979 CZK /month

Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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Scholarships Information

Below you will find PhD's scholarship opportunities for Special Education.

Available Scholarships

You are eligible to apply for these scholarships but a selection process will still be applied by the provider.

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