Professional Doctorates in the UK

Tony Fell

Emeritus Professor, School of Chemistry and Bioscience, University of Bradford and past trustee, UKCGE

Ian Haines

Emeritus Professor at London Metropolitan University and former Director of the Graduate School

Kevin J Flint

Dr Kevin Flint was Joint Programme Leader of the Professional Doctorate programme at Nottingham Trent University established in 2008.

This report on the Professional Doctorate (PD) in the UK was commissioned by the UKCGE to inform debate on the design, validation, audit and relevance of PDs to the needs and aspirations of the doctoral candidate, the requirements of Universities, the industrial and professional employers and society at large.

A Professional Doctorate is a programme of advanced study and research which, whilst satisfying the University criteria for the award of a doctorate, is designed to meet the specific needs of a professional group external to the University, and which develops the capability of individuals to work within a professional context 
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Contents

  1. Professional Doctorates and the Doctorate of Professional Studies (Professor Carol Costley)
  2. Some Philosophical Issues Raised by the Current Development of the Doctor of Education in the UK (Dr Kevin Flint)
  3. The Engineering Doctorate (Dr Tina Barnes)
  4. Doctor of Business Administration: DBA Programmes in the UK (Professor Colin Fisher and Professor Susanne Tietze)
  5. The DClin Psy (Professor Ingrid Lunt)
  6. Professional Doctorates in Health and Care (Dr Nancy-Jane Lee)
  7. Professional Doctorates for Social Science (Dr Adam Barnard)
  8. Practice-Led Doctorates in the Arts, Design and Architecture (Dr Sophia Lycouris)
  9. Towards a Metric for Measuring the Value of Professional Doctorates (Dr Pauline Armsby and Professor H Michael Dreher)
Professional Doctorates in the UK (2011)
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