This programme is a professional doctorate designed to be taken part-time to prepare the next generation of practitioner experts and leaders in education. It focuses on the development of new knowledge and scholarship in educational practice. It is designed with working professionals in mind, providing a flexible and convenient approach to further study. Undertaking an this qualification will enable you to generate new knowledge to advance educational practice and policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and other contexts. A Doctor of Education degree has the same status as a PhD. This is a unique, cohort-based doctoral programme where students work with cohort lecturers for the first two years and then with their own research supervisors, who have knowledge and expertise in their area of study and a range of research methods.