Programme aims

To help you: 

- Identify appropriate issues of educational significance for your enquiry
- Select appropriate methods and methodologies by which to investigate these
- Appreciate the epistemological and technical assumptions that underpin this choice
- Design and execute a well-founded enquiry
- Analyse and interpret findings with accuracy, rigour and originality
- Identify the practical and professional implications of educational enquiry

Structure

We ensure that you are supported by highly qualified supervisors with whom you work to a mutually agreed timetable and maintain regular tutorial contact throughout your research. An induction and research training programme is provided and you are normally expected to follow this. There is an annual appraisal of your progress, and every effort is made to ensure good communication between yourself, your supervisor and other relevant members of staff.

Students have additional support from Goldsmiths Graduate School, where there is a lively programme of interdisciplinary seminars, as well as core research training to support your studies. The Graduate School also has its own virtual research community, running in parallel to the physical School and providing online seminars and research training programmes.

All MPhil and PhD students and academic staff are invited to research seminars run by the Department’s three Research Centres: the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning, the Centre for the Arts and Learning and the Centre for Identities and Social Justice. In addition to academics from inside and outside the University, research students also have an opportunity to contribute to seminars on work in progress.

Facilities

In addition to the facilities available in the Graduate School the Department has good facilities for research students including a study room with networked computers, scanner and printers.