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Meet EdD Programme Leaders Online - HKU SPACE and University of Plymouth
- Subject
- Education, English for Academic Purposes, English
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- Date & time
- 30Sep 2025 (Tue)20:00 - 21:00
- Type of Event
- Online Attendance
- Online Platform
- Zoom Meeting
- Fee
- Free
- Speaker
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- Professor Verity Campbell Barr (Director of Plymouth Institute of Education) ;
- Dr Amos Yung (EdD Programme Leader (HKU SPACE))
Professor Verity Campbell Barr
I am a Professor in Early Childhood Education and Director of Plymouth Institute of Education. I teach on the BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies, the MA Education and the EdD, along with supporting PhD students. I am an active researcher, currently undertaking a project exploring Child-centred Diversity in Quality Early Childhood Education and care , which has been extended to look at developing a child-centred competences framework. I am also the Principal Investigator on a project looking at graduate qualifications for working in Early Childhood Educations and Care in England and another looking at childminder sustainability. Prior to this I was a European Research Fellow in the Faculty of Child and Adult Education at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. Whilst in Hungary I conducted a research project on the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudinal Competences for Quality Early Childhood Education and Care.
Dr Amos Yung
Dr Amos Yung, Programme Leader, Professional Doctorate of Education - a non-local doctorate degree programme in collaboration with the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. Dr Yung specialises in applied linguistics, professional communication, and language education. He holds a Doctorate in Applied Language Sciences from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, along with an MA in English Language Studies, an MBA from the University of Hong Kong, and a BSocSc in East Asian Studies. Dr. Yung’s research interests include interprofessional communication, clinical handover, and corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on how language functions in professional and institutional contexts. He also explores the use of natural language processing (NLP) tools to support language analysis and communication research.
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- 2975 5741 / 3762 0930 (edd@hkuspace.hku.hk)
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Get ready to start your EdD journey with HKU SPACE and the University of Plymouth
Join this online session to meet Professor Verity Campbell Barr, EdD Programme Leader (University of Plymouth) and Dr Amos Yung (HKU SPACE) for information about your journey in our EdD programme.
Spring 2026 intake is now open for application
Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD)
Awarding body: University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.
Course code: EN028A
If you are responsible for leading learning in your organisation, whether it’s a school, college, higher education institution or as an educator in the public or private sector, this doctoral-level programme is a fantastic opportunity to study education at a deep level and relate this back to your own practice. The EdD helps you expand your knowledge and understanding of how education works and allows you to transform your own practice.
This EdD programme helps you expand your knowledge and understanding of how education works, allows you to transform your own practice, and makes an original contribution to knowledge. This doctoral-level programme is a fantastic opportunity to study education at a deep level and relate this back to your own practice.
The Professional Doctorate in Education enables you to:
- Study an internationally recognised UK EdD qualification in Hong Kong supported by in-person and virtual lectures and seminars.
- Focus your attention on the nature of educational practice itself in an international context. Approach education in its broadest sense. Study and theorise the nature of your work from a social perspective – then relate this back to your own practice.
- Engage with a range of new ideas with which to re-think educational practice on a carefully organised course with a clear structure based on a social perspective on education.
- Study on a flexible and work-friendly programme that has been structured to fit around your existing commitments.
- Begin to engage with new educational theory at the University-based sessions. Participate in lively discussions and share ideas with others on your course in seminars, lectures and workshops.
- Access a wide range of support and resources to fuel your independent study. Draw on books, journals and an online environment where you will communicate with and draw support from your peers and from research active academic staff with a long history of excellence in professional development.
- Meet and share ideas with others in your cohort from a range of disciplines. Tap into this diversity to compare the interrelationship between policy and practice across different educational areas, institutions and international contexts.
- Make your mark on the future of education as part of our learning community where you can link into active and renowned research networks.
- Join the international professional doctoral symposium held at the University of Plymouth, either in person or virtually/online.
Non-Local Higher and Professional Education (Regulation) Ordinance - This is an exempted course under the Non-local Higher and Professional Education (Regulation) Ordinance. It is a matter of discretion for individual employers to recognise any qualification to which this course may lead.
