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Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

Open University, ESRC ‘Grand Union’ funded PhD Studentships in Health and Wellbeing and Innovation in Learning commencing October 2021, based in Milton Keynes

Health and Wellbeing Pathway

The Open University is offering full and part-time PhD studentships in health and wellbeing funded in collaboration with the ESRC funded Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership. Achieving good health and supporting wellbeing for all is essential to achieving social justice, and this lies at the heart of the Open University’s mission. We are keen to attract students to work with us on research that locates the experiences of service users, ‘patients’, carers, family members and practitioners at the fore of inquiry. We place value on participatory and inclusive research particularly with individuals that are marginalised, ‘hard to reach’ or have complex needs. We also have research expertise in population-level research. Our research draws on various methodologies and forms of analysis and much is based on multidisciplinary work across the social sciences, in particular drawing on medical sociology, critical psychology, public health, anthropology and other critical, applied social sciences.

Applications are invited on one or more of the following themes:

  • age, ageing and later life
  • children, young people, parenting and families
  • death, dying and bereavement
  • disability and long-term conditions
  • reproductive and sexual health
  • care and caring
  • mental health

Interested?


For more information on the application process see:

https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/research-degrees/how-to-apply/mphil-and-phd-application-process

To inquire about these studentships contact philippa.waterhouse@open.ac.uk

Closing date 5pm 12th January 2021. Interviews will be held in early February 2021.

 

Innovation in Learning Pathway

This pathway is dedicated to supporting research into innovative approaches to learning, teaching and assessment.  Innovation in Learning welcomes and encourages research into novel and imaginative approaches to learning, teaching and assessment.  Our focus is on the use of digital technology to support openness and inclusion in education.  We are especially interested in work that explores the interface between formal and informal learning.

Specific areas of interest include:

  • technology-enhanced learning (learning analytics, innovation, openness)
  • technologies for inclusion (assistive technology use by disabled learners)
  • child-led research (e.g. digital storytelling)  creativity and technology use
  • online intercultural and language exchange
  • technologies for social and global justice  life histories: technology, learning disability and the ‘good life’
  • what (and how) children learn about food from the digital media
  • how translators use digital tools
  • using digital tools for international development:
  • MOOCs for the continuing professional development of teachers
  • using eye-tracking to research language learning and teaching

Interested?


For more information on the application process see:

https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/research-degrees/how-to-apply/mphil-and-phd-application-process

To inquire about these studentships contact WELS-student-Enquiries@open.ac.uk

Closing date 5pm 12th January 2021. Interviews will be held in early February 2021.

         

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