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Doctoral Studies

The Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies offers postgraduate programmes in Educational Work and Subject Matter Education with specialization.

Doctoral Positions

Doctoral Positions in Educational Work and Subject-Matter Education with Specializations (up to five positions)

Advice for applicants

  • Make sure that the application is complete, i.e. that all parts requested are included.
  • The quality of the thesis/examination project is usually the most important part in the weighing of the quality of the various parts of the application.
  • The research sketch is important. Take care to relate your planned study to an overview of relevant research. Formulate feasible, interesting and well-founded research questions that relate to both the third cycle subject applied for and the research environment you wish to be associated with. Please feel free to contact the respective research environment's contact person.

Meetings for questions

  • Further information and possibilities to ask question was offered at a meeting November 13 at 18.00. The meeting was held digital in Zoom. Presentation from the meeting.
  • An additional meeting will take place at Campus Pedagogen,  January 9 at 18.00. You will be able to ask further questions on the application process. A registration link will be published here.

About doctoral studies at the department

An important part of the departments work is teacher education, research and developmental work that concerns school and teacher education. School-related work is often conducted in collaboration with, for example, the National Agency for Education (Skolverket), municipalities and individual schools.

The study programme

The study programme for a doctoral degree comprises 240 credits (equivalent to 48 months of full-time studies) and includes a course component of 85 credits and a thesis component of 155 credits. A licentiate degree comprises 120 credits and includes a course component of 50 credits and a thesis component of 70 credits.

Subjects

The Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies offers postgraduate programmes in Educational Work and Subject Matter Education with specialization.

Research programmes at the department

The Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies host three research programmes; Didactic classroom studies, Critical education research and Phenomenography, Variation Theory and Learning Study.