What are Professional Doctorates?

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What is Professional Doctorates?

Professional Doctorates have been around in the UK since the early 1990's, although some more established doctoral programmes have also been brought under the professional doctorate umbrella. The aim of these programmes is to find novel approaches to integrating professional and academic knowledge.

Students undertaking a professional doctorate are expected to make a contribution to both theory and practice in their field, and to develop professional practice by making a contrbution to (professional) knowledge.

The course structure will vary from subject to subject and institution to institution. Common to all professional doctorates is the completion of an original piece of research. The research should then be presented as a thesis, and as with a traditional PhD, is examined by an expert in the chosen field. Usually the research project would relate to real life issues concerned with professional practice. In many cases research is carried out within the students own organisation.

Most professional doctorates include a large taught or directed study element, which is formally assessed. These components frequently include both the teaching of research methods, and also components related to broadening or deepening the students' understanding of the disciplines in which they are researching or providing them with appropriate transferable skills.                               

Is Professional Doctorate Similar to Ph.D. ?

Both taught professional doctorates and traditional PhD’s confer the title "Dr" on a successful candidate, but the two qualifications are distinct in format and function. A PhD is a research based doctoral programme of study which involves little or no taught elements (although transferable skills programs may be made available to candidates, these do not make up an assessed element of the program) and is usually of an academic nature. The aim of institutions providing taught professional doctorate programmes is to produce a qualification which is equivalent in status and challenge to a PhD, but is more appropriate for  those pursuing professional, industry based careers and who are interested in gaining accreditation or the chance to reflect on best practice, rather than in pursuing academic careers.

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