Course summary

The PhD in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning allows you to select a topic of your choice linked to our expertise within adult education and lifelong learning. Warwick's Centre for Lifelong Learning (CLL) provides a rich, transdisciplinary academic environment with supported by a dedicated team including supervision and personal tutoring. This PhD provides an opportunity to undertake in-depth research within the broad field of adult education and lifelong learning. Adult education and lifelong learning encompass a wide range of learning situations from informal through to formal education and the workplace. We provide a pleasant PhD study room and dedicated personal tutor support in addition to the supervisory team. A combined staff and student seminar programme provides a collegiate forum for sharing and discussing current topics and ideas. Research themes for this PhD can include:

• Lifelong learning in any context including workplace, community, and formal education, plus informal learning in the family or elsewhere

• Lifelong learning at any age including childhood, young adulthood, mid-life, and/or later years

• Lifelong learning as it relates to career development work, coaching, counselling, early childhod practice, psychotherapy, social work, and/or social policy

• Theories of learning

• Professional and vocational education

• Popular and radical education

• Issues of culture, class, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual identity, and/or disability

• Access to learning, retention, and drop-out

• Transitions, learner identity, and career development

• Transformative learning

• Motivations to learning