Overview
About the programme
Past and present studies have focused on writing in different disciplines (e.g. history, geography, history of science, health and social care, business and management); digital literacies in teacher development; writing by UK and international students; at different levels of study; literacy practices in digital environments; developing teacher literacies through participation in e-reading groups; the writing for publication of scholars working in non-Anglophone contexts; writing in professional social work practice and higher education pedagogies around writing.
Methodologies include ethnography, multimodal analysis, corpus analysis, systemic functional linguistic analysis and discourse approaches, including critical discourse analysis and poststructuralist approaches. This Academic and Professional Literacies degree is offered at The Open University UK.
Programme Structure
Potential research projects:- Academic literacies (including literacies in further and adult education, undergraduate taught postgraduate vocational and doctoral education)
- The sociolinguistics of writing
- Writing for publication
- Digital literacies in post-compulsory learning contexts
- Writing in English as a lingua franca contexts
- Writing in social and healthcare professional contexts, including social work practice
- Writing in business and management education
- Literacy practices of higher education teachers and researchers
- Contemporary workplace literacies
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
- Part-time
- 72 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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- Application period: November to January
Language
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Disciplines
Linguistics Literacy Education View 8 other PhDs in Literacy Education in United KingdomAcademic requirements
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
Entry requirements:
- Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) and an MA or research methods training at MA level (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.
Tuition Fee
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International
11958 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 11958 GBP per year during 36 months. -
National
4712 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4712 GBP per year during 36 months.
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