Doctorate
Our doctorate candidates are all senior professionals. They undertake research into significant areas of practice and deliver research, which has real impact in both business and the professions. PDF has supported practitioners as researchers since the early 1980’s. We have taken candidates through doctorate programmes at a number of institutions or provided advice upon which programmes to follow. We continue to support a large number of candidates across the globe to conduct practice based research. Much of this work has been published and has impacted on practice.
We focus on professionals wishing to undertake a research project intended to make a significant and original contribution to their field. As part of this we also support candidates seeking professional membership of appropriate bodies.
We support candidates by offering advice on suitable degree options, support their registration in various universities, and run programmes in association with different institutions. We provide teaching and supervision in the following areas:
- Understanding the role of Literature in research and conducting a formal review
- Support to run small scale pilot projects or Client or Provider led service projects
- Education on conducting major research projects and identifying appropriate supervision support
- We have a particular interest in helping practitioners to reflect on the implications of research for professional practice
- We have always worked to combine a scientist practitioner and reflective practitioner model.