Hello I'm Paul Trowler. I'm the director
of the PhD in Research, Evaluation and
Enhancement, the Doctoral Programme HEREE
as we call it. It's designed for anybody
who's working in higher education be they
academics, education developers, managers
or professional staff and it's also
designed for their institutions for
enhancing the provision of learning and
teaching, research, whatever the function
is.  The programme is a hundred percent
online so you don't need to worry about
visas and all the rest of it coming to
the UK but don't think of it please as
simply a programme where we put materials
up online for you to quote "consume". We
make the programme personal, interactive,
collaborative and engaging. There'll be
no more than somewhere between 25 and 30
participants on the programme and we break
those down into small groups, different
small groups for different activities
and we use multiple technologies to make
the programme accessible, personalized and
mobile so you'll be using video,
animation, sound and so on. There are
three core modules on the programme; one
about learning, teaching and assessment,
another about policy and change in
higher education and the third about
evaluation and you could probably see by
the titles that they are all designed to
integrate, to look at the higher
education processes and practices and
think about enhancement of them. You
publish as you go on this programme so
even before you get to the end of it you
should have at least one, maybe two
publications because the assessment on
those three core modules is designed
just like publishing an academic article,
about 7,000
words. There is a review before your final
submission so that you get good
feedback, extensive feedback just as you
would from peer reviewers on in a
journal. It's a PhD and not an EdD and
that really means that it's to develop
your research skills. It is related to
professional practice but from a
research perspective so when you come
out of this programme you will be an
excellent researcher and one who thinks
about the implications, the impact if you
like, about making a difference through
your research skills. We offer three
subsidiary modules to those three core
ones and they're designed to give you
more formative feedback of that sort, to
give you a toolbox for the skills that
you need for pursuing the three core
modules. So the department itself has
nearly 50 years of specialism in higher
education. It consists of academic
specialists who will be
teaching you and there are also really
excellent professional staff, a top-class
administrator and a dedicated online
support officer for this programme and the
three other doctoral programmes that we
offer in the department. So we've got a
large amount of resources, human
resources and other kinds of resources,
that you can take advantage of in the
department and I'm sure you'll enjoy the
programme. It begins on October the first
each year and I do hope you'll join us.
