Doctor of Professional Studies (Transdisciplinary) by Portfolio

Middlesex University

This exciting two-year doctoral programme has been designed to stimulate new insights from a critique of your own works and achievements in your field of expertise.

In this professional doctorate the emphasis is on practice and your agency as a practitioner, as well as your responsibility, accountability, curiosity, creativity and mediating perspectives, the quality of which is needed for a complex world.

The programme is unique in the UK for its transdisciplinary approach to thinking and practice, focussing on complexity and futures, and how these may be approached with confidence, imagination and pragmatism.

It Invites you to discover and recover a world of ideas and concepts of value to contemporary complexities.

Is the Transdisciplinary DProf by Portfolio for you?

• You will be a high achieving professional practitioner with a capacity for critical reflection, motivated by inherent curiosity
• You will already have a substantial portfolio of outputs in the public domain that evidence influence on practice and ideas recognised by colleagues, teams, members of your individual sectors and beyond
• You are looking for new forms of leadership in response to the increasing complexity of the local and global challenges facing us today
• You want to push the boundaries of your own thinking and practice and are prepared to challenge your assumptions.

The Transdisciplinary Doctor of Professional Studies by Portfolio recognises the impact of your professional achievements and contributions to knowledge and practice. This award is based on a critical reflection on the work you have already placed in the public domain using the insights that will emerge from your critique to influence your own practice, your sectors, and the wider community. The programme can be completed in two years.