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Why Education at LSBU? 2nd for graduate prospects in Education in London (Sunday Times League Table 2020) and top 3 for career prospects amongst London universities (Guardian University League Tables 2020).

The Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC) started at LSBU.Research Excellence Framework (REF) awarded 75% of our research 3 out of 4 for 'environment' - quality that is defined as conducive to producing research of international excellence. Advantages of an MRes / PhD Undertaking an MRes or PhD means making an original contribution to knowledge. They are distinct from a taught Masters in that your final output will be an extended dissertation or creative project relevant to your field of interest, rather than module-based coursework and exams.

You can complete an MRes in one year or part-time over two years, as opposed to a full PhD which can take up to five years. Students are expected to self-direct their learning with support from a supervisory team.

The School also offers a Professional Doctorate in Education, which consists of two years taught classes, followed by three years independent research.

Employability Research skills development All research students are required to participate in a Key Skills Development programme aimed at developing transferable skills in addition to those employed in carrying out research. Training in research methods is available through frequent research seminars.

When necessary the research student can follow, in part, relevant Masters courses available within the School and in particular units on research methodology. In some cases, research students are encouraged to follow other courses available within the University or externally aimed at improving their general expertise in their chosen areas.

In addition, they may be encouraged to follow language courses aimed at improving their oral and written skills - both essential in their future careers.

Transferable skills A research degree will equip you with many transferable skills. The self-discipline, the demand for clear analytical thinking, and the ability to turn criticism of others work into something constructive of your own, all constitute a unique training for almost any kind of career. The excitement and satisfaction of finding new facts, a new idea, or a new way of looking at something can be highly rewarding.

Attending conferences Research students are often sponsored to attend national and international conferences to meet leading scientists in their fields and to present their research findings. The progress of all research students is formally monitored by the University's Research Degree Committee.

Employability Service We are University of the Year for Graduate Employment for the second year in a row - The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018, 2019.

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As one of London's oldest universities we have been committed to meeting the needs of the city and our students for over 100 years. Since 1892 we've been providing students with relevant real world opportunities, meeting the needs for a profession-focused workforce. Vocational courses were at the heart of what we do even before the term was thought of and today we offer one of the most strongly vocational-orientated course portfolios around. By learning with us our students become equipped to take on their first full-time role or pursue their next promotion through their Continuing Professional Development. Through their research, knowledge of the work place and professional links our teaching staff maintain strong relationships with industry and the local community. This is a huge benefit to our students who can be confident they are being taught by academics with highly relevant knowledge and skills. Starting in Borough Road we have been educating our community for over 100 years and are a major local landmark With over 25,000 students, LSBU is one of the largest universities in London. Our students are drawn here from across the globe, throughout the UK and from just around the corner. Our flexible courses attract many part-time students and we offer qualifications at a variety of levels.

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From Italy to South Sudan and back again: MGA graduate aims for peace through shuttle diplomacy

Since she first began working for the Rome-based Community of Sant’Egidio as an intern in 2021 , Elizabeth Boyle MGA ’23 has boarded more flights to Juba, South Sudan than she has to her Long Island hometown in the United States.

As an international relations officer for Sant’Egidio, a lay Catholic organization whose diplomatic arm has laid the groundwork for multiple peace processes, Boyle has traveled to Juba 10 times to support mediation between South Sudanese government officials and armed opposition groups, A 2018 peace agreement in the country served as an attempt to end a yearslong civil war, but some groups refused to sign it and violence persists. Boyle has focused on broadening the country’s peacebuilding efforts by incorporating civil society groups into the conversation. 

“South Sudan is a country that has been struggling for peace since it was founded in 2011,” Boyle said. “We set out to create a strategy that made a place for civil society in peacebuilding.” 

Boyle has helped bring together groups such as the South Sudan Council of Churches, the Catholic University of South Sudan, university student organizations, artist collectives and women’s empowerment groups. She solicits their on-the-ground perspectives and incorporates them into the discussions at the mediation table. In a particularly memorable visit, she met with Pope Francis during his 2023 apostolic visit to the country.

Civil society plays a critical role in achieving sustainable peace, Boyle said. 

“Often mediation is envisioned as a table with mediators and ‘elites’ in a high-level discussion,” Boyle said. “While this is of course part of the process, at the Keough School we learned that the conflicts we face today are complex and nuanced and require innovative, multifaceted responses. Engaging civil society around the table, both literally and metaphorically, is necessary to address the burgeoning complexity of conflicts.”  

Supporting the mediation in South Sudan has proven to be a lengthy and complicated task, but Boyle said she has been able to catch glimpses of hope.

“As soon as you land on the tarmac in Juba you can feel the tension in the air,” she said. “It’s clear the country is still experiencing aspects of civil war. But I find a lot of hope in civil society – there’s a deep desire among the South Sudanese people to see their country flourish.”

Boyle is a two-time Notre Dame graduate, having earned an undergraduate degree in political science and peace studies in 2020. As a master of global affairs student she earned a concentration in international peace studies, taking classes with notable peace scholars such as David Cortright, Gerard Powers, Madhav Joshi, George A. Lopez, Mahan Mirza, Ann Mische and Atalia Omer, all of whom shaped her understanding of effective peacebuilding, she said.

“The intercultural setting of the MGA program was a great gift,” Boyle said, “Working on group projects and forming a tight-knit community with classmates from around the world prepared me well for working in Italy as an American woman while traveling frequently to South Sudan. Navigating cross-cultural spaces is a skill I rely on frequently.”

Boyle is the youngest and first non-Italian member of the Sant’Egidio’s International Relations Office staff (she learned to speak Italian on the job). In addition to her work in South Sudan, she supports the mediations that take place at the organization’s Rome headquarters. A longtime trusted diplomatic partner of the U.S. Department of State and several national governments, Sant’Egidio regularly hosts dignitaries from around the world. In the past two years alone the community has hosted the presidents of France, the Central African Republic, Italy, Colombia and Zimbabwe, along with Pope Francis and former U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Sant’Egidio prioritizes not only peace through diplomacy, but also communal prayer and alleviation of poverty through direct service. Boyle notes that the community often describes their three-fold mission as “the three Ps.”

Boyle said it’s a challenging time to engage in peace-focused work, but she continues to draw strength from her friendships with master of global affairs classmates, civil society groups in South Sudan and her fellow Sant’Egidio community members.

“In my travels I meet so many people who desire to have a future that is a peaceful one,” Boyle said. “It’s heartening to know that there are hundreds, thousands, of people ready to mobilize our world in that direction.”

Top photo: Elizabeth Boyle MGA ’23 greets Pope Francis at Sant’Egidio’s Rome headquarters in March 2023, where Sant’Egidio convened a meeting with the pope, Sudanese government officials and armed opposition groups.

All photos provided by Elizabeth Boyle .

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The PhD programme is closely linked to our growing and dynamic research culture. You'll benefit from engaging with highly qualified academic staff, working alongside a portfolio of dynamic and popular masters programmes.

A PhD, by definition, is an original contribution to knowledge. A research degree is different from a taught course. Research students are expected to self-direct their learning with support from a supervisory team.

The School of Law and Social Sciences Graduate School provides a focal point for the management and support of our PhD and Professional Doctorate programmes.

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All research students are required to participate in a Key Skills Development programme aimed at developing transferable skills in addition to those employed in carrying out research. Training in research methods is available through frequent research seminars. When necessary the research student can follow, in part, relevant Masters courses available within the School and in particular units on research methodology. In some cases, research students are encouraged to follow other courses available within the University or externally aimed at improving their general expertise in their chosen areas. In addition, they may be encouraged to follow language courses aimed at improving their oral and written skills - both essential in their future careers.

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A research degree will equip you with many transferable skills. The self-discipline, the demand for clear analytical thinking, and the ability to turn criticism of others work into something constructive of your own, all constitute a unique training for almost any kind of career. The excitement and satisfaction of finding new facts, a new idea, or a new way of looking at something can be highly rewarding.

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Treasure Coast leaders should try to land University of Florida graduate business school

Here are a couple of things I believe to be true: One, opportunities sometimes present themselves in unusual ways. And two, true leaders recognize those opportunities and act upon them rather than waiting around for someone else to take the initiative.

With those thoughts in mind, I'd like to share a bit of news happening to our south: Palm Beach County commissioners may approve a contract to bring a  Vanderbilt University  business school to West Palm Beach as soon Oct. 8. The  West Palm Beach  City Commission  voted unanimously  to donate $12.8 million worth of city land — about 2 acres — to the university for the campus.

So what does that mean for residents along the Treasure Coast? Well, it likely means plans for a satellite campus housing a University of Florida business graduate school in West Palm Beach are permanently scuttled.

Is a window of opportunity opening?

As our sister newspaper, the Palm Beach Post, has reported , UF had been considering a Global Technology and Innovation Campus in West Palm Beach as recently as last summer.

The 12-acre campus, first announced in 2021, was supposed to offer graduate-level  programs  in business, engineering and law with a focus on financial technology, or fintech, and cybersecurity.

The idea sounded great, but it ran into some snags that prevented a deal from being struck. West Palm Beach clearly moved on, finding a new economic dance partner in Vanderbilt.

Does that necessarily mean UF wouldn't consider a graduate business school campus at another location in the southern part of the state, perhaps within commuting distance of the original location?

I think Treasure Coast leaders should find out, rather than just assuming the answer is no.

Want to check a lot of economic boxes? Well ...

The potential up side to landing a UF satellite campus could be huge.

To bolster its case for the West Palm Beach campus, Vanderbilt commissioned a study projecting a school there would generate $7.1 billion in total local economic activity over the next 25 years, a figure that doubles to over $14.2 billion when stretched out for 50 years.

Vanderbilt is a private university and UF is a state school, but I imagine the economic benefits would be comparable.

A satellite UF campus on the Treasure Coast could address some key goals. Concerned about young people leaving the Treasure Coast? What better way to attract more young people than to have a college campus nearby?

Want to encourage more high-tech businesses to set up shop in the area? Having a school producing a steady stream of graduates trained in technology fields could only help with those recruitment efforts.

Want to attract more high-wage earners, also known as taxpayers, to the region? A graduate school could help with that, too.

So where would a hypothetical campus go on the Treasure Coast? If UF only needs about 12 acres, there are numerous possibilities.

There are more than 30 acres of developable land available at Port St. Lucie's  City Center . A satellite campus could mesh nicely with plans to turn the site near U.S. 1 and Walton Road into a commercial and residential hub.

Port St. Lucie officials have expressed interest in using Jupiter's Abacoa community as a model for developing the City Center. Guess what Abacoa has? A Florida Atlantic University satellite campus.

Or what about land in  Southern Grove , near the  Tradition Center for Commerce  and the Tradition Center for Innovation? The opportunities for synergy could be numerous.

(There are sites in Martin and Indian River counties, too, if their leaders were inclined to pursue this.)

Don't just assume problems can't be overcome

There were a couple of reasons why UF's talks with West Palm Beach fell through.

UF  couldn't agree on terms  with  Jeff Greene , a Palm Beach County billionaire who offered to donate part of the land needed for the project.

UF instead decided to conduct a six-month strategic review of its programs under the leadership of then-new president, former Nebraska U.S. Sen.  Ben Sasse .

Guess what? The Treasure Coast has available land Greene doesn't own. Guess what else? Sasse isn't UF's president any longer. The university is once again under the leadership of interim president Kent Fuchs, who might be amenable to resurrecting the business school plans.

I tried reaching out to UF's communications team, but didn't get a response before my deadline for this column. Although it hurts my ego to admit this, that doesn't necessarily mean UF administrators wouldn't pick up the phone, if the right people from our community were calling.

I've heard there might be another issue in play, with a dispute between two business school alumni who would both like to have the campus named after them.

Surely, if that's the main stumbling block, there must be a way to reach a compromise there. Why not name the campus after one of them and the building after the other?

That's how UF ended up with Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

Fortune usually favors the bold

The point is, we'll never know how discussions about a UF business school would go unless someone in the community is actually willing to initiate those discussions. Our leaders can do a little legwork now, or they can wait around to read about the business school campus being built in Sarasota, Fort Myers or some other community.

At that point, all we'll be able to do is wonder why we never get lucky breaks like that.

I'm not going to name names, but I have approached a couple of people in the community who I thought might have some interest in pursuing a project like this. They sounded intrigued, but I didn't get the sense they were spurred to action.

I understand why there might be some reluctance to go after another high-tech economic development project, in light of some of the community's past failures.

Port St. Lucie's recruitment of Digital Domain Media Group, a digital animation studio that  went belly up despite lavish government incentives , left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. The rest of the 2000s-era  Research Coast efforts  likely have created a cautious, if not downright cynical, mood about pursuing what might seem like pie in the sky.

The difference here is, this wouldn't be pie in the sky. UF isn't some fly-by-night operator we know nothing about. It's the flagship of our state university system. If UF decides to put a graduate business school anywhere in the state, it's likely to be successful.

The world of academia moves on its own timetable, but if UF administrators thought having a graduate business school outside of Gainesville was a good idea at one point, that idea is likely to resurface again.

Is it tough to imagine somewhere like Port St. Lucie being home to a campus where students learn about cutting-edge technologies? Maybe, but was it tough to imagine a major university campus in north central Florida before UF was built there?

I believe there's an unexplored opportunity lurking out there. I just hope at least some of our community leaders can see it, too.

This column reflects the opinion of  Blake Fontenay . Contact him via email at  [email protected]  or at 772-232-5424 .

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