作为一名研究型学生，您将对自己作为终身学习者的发展感兴趣，并将寻求进行批判性辩论以及教育和终身学习的关键问题。您将发展成为独立和积极学习者的技能，并以理论观点和对终身学习的理解来应用研究技能。在获得哲学博士学位/博士学位后，您将开发出研究和学术写作方面的先进技能，并将能够利用这些技能从事或进一步从事研究事业。MPhil / PhD是一项高级研究生研究学位，需要进行原创研究并提交6万到100,000个单词的大量论文。在伯克贝克（Birkbeck），您最初是在MPhil上注册的，经过一两年的令人满意的进步后，
As a research student, you will be interested in your own development as a lifelong learner and will seek to engage in critical debate and key issues of education and lifelong learning. You will develop your skills as an independent and active learner, and apply your research skills with theoretical perspectives and understandings of lifelong learning. On completing an MPhil/PhD degree you will have developed advanced skills in research and scholarly writing, and will be able to use these to embark on, or further, a career in research.An MPhil/PhD is an advanced postgraduate research degree that requires original research and the submission of a substantial dissertation of 60,000 to 100,000 words. At Birkbeck, you are initially registered on an MPhil and you upgrade to a PhD after satisfactory progress in the first year or two. You need to find a suitable academic supervisor at Birkbeck, who can offer the requisite expertise to guide and support you through your research.