The DBA programme involves taught modules, which provide the theoretical and interdisciplinary foundations necessary for undertaking research at doctoral level. Outside the formal sessions, students are encouraged to participate in University and school-level events, such as research seminars and conferences.

They start by getting your bearings with research, then learn how to engage with academic literature at a doctoral level, before formally reviewing the literature relevant to your proposed study. Students are then asked to design a study, which brings to the fore some complex philosophical issues about what we can know from the data we obtain. Next they analyse and present their data in a meaningful way. Finally, they write up their study and prepare to defend it at an oral (viva voce) examination.