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      Prof Carol Costley

      ROLE: Professor
      SCHOOL: Health & Education
      DEPARTMENT: Education
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 6524
      EMAIL: C.Costley@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Carol Costley is a Professor of Work and Learning. She is Head of Research and Head of  Research Degrees at the Institute for Work Based Learning. She gained her PhD (1995) from the University of Surrey and she holds a Master's Degree in Work Based Learning Studies. She also holds professional qualifications in teaching and learning.

        Carol works with organisations in the private, public, community and voluntary sectors internationally in the learning and teaching of work-based, taught and research degrees. She is Chair of the International Conference on Professional Doctorates www.ukcge.ac.uk/profdocs 2009- present, Chair of the 'Association of Practice Doctorates' www.ProfessionalDoctorates.org 2009- present and 'Researching Work and Learning' conference series committee member 1999- present. She was an executive member of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) 2005-2011 and convenor of the UALL network for Work Based Learning 1998-2011

        Qualifications

        PhD M.A. B.Ed. Cert. Ed.


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      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Carol's principal research interests are in  Professional Doctorates and Work based learning. She is especially interested in examining methodologies and epistemologies in work based learning and how they are additional to and support subject based approaches to knowledge. Within that looking particularly at approaches to research undertaken in work situations particularly issues for those researching their own practice as ‘practitioner–researchers’, doctoral pedagogies and related issues of equity, ethics and quality. She enjoys giving seminars and tutorials and meeting candidates in their work environment.  Other research interests include assessment and accreditation of work based learning and policy issues.

        Publication Feed

        Revisiting search and review for work-based projects

        Costley, Carol and Nottingham, Paula (2017) Revisiting search and review for work-based projects. Innovations in Education and Teaching International . ISSN 1470-3297 (Published online first)

        Transdisciplinary qualities in practice doctorates

        Costley, Carol and Pizzolato, Nicola (2018) Transdisciplinary qualities in practice doctorates. Studies in Continuing Education, 40 (1). pp. 30-45. ISSN 1470-126X

        A review of the basic elements, organizational and theoretical foundations of work-based learning (WBL) in the higher education

        Talbot, Jon and Costley, Carol and Dremina, Maria A. and Kopnov, Vitaly A. (2017) A review of the basic elements, organizational and theoretical foundations of work-based learning (WBL) in the higher education. The Education and Science Journal, 19 (6). pp. 91-118. ISSN 1994-5639

        The design of doctorate curricula for practising professionals

        Armsby, Pauline M. and Costley, Carol and Cranfield, Steven (2017) The design of doctorate curricula for practising professionals. Studies in Higher Education . ISSN 0307-5079 (Published online first)

        A review of the practice of work-based learning (WBL) at higher education level in the UK

        Talbot, Jon and Costley, Carol and Dremina, Maria A. and Kopnov, Vitaly A. (2017) A review of the practice of work-based learning (WBL) at higher education level in the UK. The Education and Science Journal, 19 (1). pp. 119-141. ISSN 1994-5639

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