Completing Your EdD: The Essential Guide to the Doctor of Education

Undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD) can be a daunting yet career-defining task. Through engaging with research, increasing your networks, and conducting your own research project, you will advance your professional practice and understanding of your field.

This second edition of Completing Your EdD is the newly updated essential text to guide you through your doctorate. It provides a thorough and comprehensive guide intended to accompany you as you successfully progress through your EdD. It is packed with critical information covering key topics from both the taught modules you will undertake and advice for conducting your own research project. Updated coverage includes the process of developing a research proposal, researcher positionality tensions and dilemmas, researching digital spaces and related ethical issues, conducting a literature review, theoretical frameworks, the relationship with your supervisor, and much more. Bridging theory and practice, chapters include practical, real-life examples taken from EdD students' experiences and work, as well as extracts offered by practitioners.

Written by current EdD teachers, programme leaders and supervisors, and featuring feedback from recently completed EdD students, this vital resource is a must-read for any EdD candidate and will remain a go-to guide for qualified professionals working in education and beyond.

Dr Iona Burnell Reilly is an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher in the fields of Sociology, Education and Positive Psychology. Based in the School of Childhood and Social Care at the University of East London, Iona’s current role is Research Degrees Leader. She also leads the Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Iona completed her own Doctor of Education at the University of Sheffield in 2013 and has continued to lecture, research, publish and examine on topics related to the psychology and sociology of higher education.

Dr Jodi Roffey-Barentsen is Principal Lecturer and Research Mentoring Lead at the School of Education, Sports and Health Sciences at the University of Brighton. She teaches undergraduate courses in Education and Early Childhood Education and contributes to postgraduate courses including the PGCE, Further Education and Skills, MA in Education and EdD. She supervises EdD and PhD students and is experienced in viva voce examinations (internal/external examining and chairing). Furthermore, Jodi is a member of the Education Research and Enterprise Group. Her research interests include Reflective Practice, Lifelong Learning, and Employability.