A professional doctorate, catering exclusively for experienced practitioners in the built environment professions.

Hello, and welcome to my professional doctorate website. I am the programme leader for the built environment professional doctorate at the University of Salford.

Based on my conversations with potential doctoral candidates over the last few years I have prepared this personal website to provide my own candid answers to some of the questions most often asked – about professional doctorates in general, and about the Salford programme in particular.

I hope you find it informative but please let me know if you would like any further information about studying for your doctorate.

You can contact me at p.chynoweth@salford.ac.uk or on my mobile number: +44 (0) 7970 39 2008. Alternatively, please come and talk to me in person, either at the University, or at one of our informal drop-in sessions in Manchester, Amsterdam, Dublin, and London during May and June 2012.

A copy of the programme brochure can be downloaded here.

Dr Paul Chynoweth
Programme Leader, Doctorate in the Built Environment
University of Salford

Welcome to the Salford Research Community

At Salford we regard our professional doctorate candidates as research colleagues, as well as students. As soon as you register you become a valued member of a thriving, and highly regarded, international research community. This will provide you with unique opportunities to interact with leading specialists in the discipline, and to play an active part in the development of knowledge within the field. In the process you will discover new ways of working, writing and thinking, as well as making many new friends along the way.
 

All our professional doctorate candidates pursue their studies within the University’s prestigious Built and Human Environment Research Group. The Group - the largest in the UK - has an enviable reputation worldwide, and has consistently been rated as the best centre for built environment research in successive UK government research assessment exercises. Please download the list of our existing candidates' research topics for an indication of the range of research currently being undertaken on the programme. 

Significant numbers of our current candidates have already presented papers at international research conferences, including the annual RICS COBRA Conference which takes place every September in a variety of locations around the world. And in due course all candidates will have the opportunity to demonstrate real leadership in their subject by publishing the findings of their research within some of the most reputable international peer-reviewed research journals within the field.