Programme summary for D.ConsOrg (Professional Doctorate) Consultation and the Organisation
About the programme
This doctorate aims to develop highly skilled, reflexive practitioners, able to offer consultation in a variety of contexts and carry out research to extend the knowledge base of this profession. In particular, it gives emphasis to both professional practice and research. The professional practice element develops consultancy skills, theoretical understanding and enables you to build a portfolio of practical experience. The research element aims to develop your research knowledge and skills.
Programme structure
The doctorate comprises the following modules:
- Consultancy Work Discussion Seminar
- Professional Practice Seminar
- Professional Practice Specialist Seminar
- Professional Practice Supervision
- Research Ethics, Design and Method
- Research Seminar
- Research Supervision
- Review and Application Group.
Career opportunities
Applicants will be engaged in appropriate work as an organisational consultant or a manager. It is expected that the research undertaken will make a significant contribution to the field. The academic standard of the Professional Doctorate is equivalent to a conventional PhD, but it also enables advanced and intensive learning to be rooted in professional practice.
Support
Students are supported by their personal tutor, thesis and professional practice supervisors, work discussion and thesis seminar leaders. There is a range of support services organised by UEL which students are able to access.
Admission
To enter the Professional Doctorate programme, students must have achieved the MA in Consultation and the Organisation: Psychoanalytic Approaches (D10) or equivalent and must be engaged in current work of an appropriate nature, ascertained at interview. This may include work as an organisational consultant, employed or self-employed, or as an employee within an organisation with managerial responsibilities. To be admitted to the doctorate, students will need to demonstrate a commitment to professional, personal and intellectual development. As the programme's teaching methods rely considerably on learning from experience at many different emotional, social and intellectual levels a capacity to work in this way is essential.
Students wishing to enter the Professional Doctorate programme without the MA in Consultation and the Organisation: Psychoanalytic Approaches would need either to have followed an equivalent programme to MA level and in this case they would need to demonstrate (via APL) that the programme content covered the syllabus achieved on D10, and that the quality assurance procedures in relation to the programme were equivalent.
Alternatively those wishing to enter the Professional Doctorate programme who do not have an equivalent degree must present evidence (APEL) of equivalent levels of competence in all assessed areas, including academic, professional and practice. This may include published work demonstrating professional practice and competence, curricula vitae that includes academic achievements of equivalent standards, including teaching and lecturing on equivalent and related programmes, and curricula vitae which include significant examples of consultancy work, and history of involvement and ongoing learning (CPD) in psychoanalytic, systemic and group relations interests.
In some circumstances students may wish to have credit for elements of the doctorate programme taken into consideration. Such academic credit would be dependant on the level, and quality of the programme undertaken by the student and on the quantity and quality of professional practice since then. Exemptions will not normally be given for more than one third of the programme and no exemption will be given for any part of the Research programme.
All applicants will need to have completed, or will complete by the end of the programme, a minimum of two Group Relations Conferences, at least one of which is residential, totalling a minimum of 10 days experience.
Key facts
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Tuition Fees - 2013/14
Home/EU Fees
- Module fee: Pending
- Full time fee: Pending
International Fees
- Module fee: Pending
- Full time fee: Pending
Fees based on 30 credit modules (unless otherwise indicated) For further information regarding postgraduate fees please refer to www.uel.ac.uk/fees/
