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Admission to Doctoral degree programmes in 2026/2027 (beginning: Spring 2027)
Educational Sciences
Doctoral degree in full-time or combined form. The language of instruction is Czech.
The programme can be studied only as a single subject.
Application deadline depending on the admission procedure chosen (midnight 15 September 2026 or 30 November 2026)
What will you learn?
The aim of the doctoral studies program is to provide a scientific education in the fields of education and andragogy. A graduate with a doctoral degree in the educational sciences program is ready for highly professional scientific research activity in the field of education. Graduates possess the knowledge and skills of basic and advanced teaching disciplines, the methodology of educational research, the design and execution of empirical research and the evaluation of its results, and the ability to disseminate research results to the professional community and collaborate with experts from other universities at national and international levels.
For continuing scientific careers, long-term foreign experience in postdoctoral positions is actively promoted for graduates.
Main research topics:
- Distributed leadership in schools
- Adult education in the world (comparative study)
- School climates through pupils’ eyes
- Communication between pupils in group classes
- Digital technologies in formal and informal learning (life) for children, young people, and adults (digital technologies in school, family, work; digital technologies as part of normal day-to-day activities in different contexts and environments including virtual environments)
- Informal learning for school leaders
- The role of pupils’ language equipment in their involvement in teaching communication
- Arguments in dialogic teaching
“We create and transfer knowledge.”
Practical training
Doctoral student practice takes four forms: (A) doctoral students are involved in empirical research conducted in the workplace, resulting in the acquisition of methodological skills from senior academic staff directly in the conduct of the research; (B) students learn to write professional articles using their own empirical data in the course of the Copyright Workshop; (C) in the context of a foreign study semester placement, students attend prestigious universities and adopt new methods of data analysis; (D) doctoral students gain practical teaching experience in their trainers’ courses, tandem classes, and courses of the Pedagogical Competence Development Centre (CERPEK).
Further information
https://pedagogika.phil.muni.cz/en/studies/doktorske-studium
Career opportunities
Successful graduates are able to pursue separate and highly professional scientific research activities in the field of teaching, to design and implement pedagogical research and to evacuate its results, to convey the results of their research to the professional community, and to collaborate with experts from other places of work at national and international levels.
The graduates of our doctoral studies program are very well prepared for scientific work, as evidenced by the fact that they are successfully hired at many Czech universities and continue to work in the field. Our graduates are employed by the Technical University of Ostrava, the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University, the University of Pardubice, Mendel University in Brno, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, the University of Hradec Králové, the Global School of Science in Nepal, the Royal University of Bhutan, and Comenius University in Bratislava. A detailed list of graduates is available here: https://pedagogika.phil.muni.cz/pro-applicants/doctoral-studies/pedagogy/graduates.
Admission requirements
— Submission deadline until midnight 15 Sep 2026
Deadline for submitting applications: August 15 - September 15, 2026
Deadline for submitting documents for the admission procedure: September 15, 2026
Entrance Exam Date: 18th September, 2026, 13:00
Documents for the admission procedure (1st round):
- Master’s degree diploma or a certificate of completion of a Master’s programme submitted as an authorised conversion of the original document; if your previous higher education was completed abroad, please provide the documents required for the verification of foreign education;
- signed CV;
- list of publishing activities;
- doctoral thesis project.
- A completed Master’s degree in Education, Psychology, or a related field;
- Excellent knowledge of quantitative methodology and statistical data analysis;
- Experience with data analysis in R;
- Very good command of English, enabling work with scholarly literature, preparation of academic texts, and presentation of research findings at international conferences;
- Ability to work independently on analytical tasks as well as collaboratively within a research team;
- Academic interest in educational inequalities, schooling, and spatial aspects of education.
- Knowledge of structural equation modelling;
- Experience with the analysis of longitudinal data, particularly using CLPM or RI-CLPM models;
- Experience with other methods for analysing longitudinal and hierarchical data, such as latent growth models or testing longitudinal measurement invariance;
- Previous publication or research experience;
- Educational inequalities and student development in peripheral and central areas;
- Reciprocal relationships between school well-being and academic achievement;
- The development of student school engagement and its relationship to academic achievement;
Documents for the admission procedure must be inserted into the e-application (rubric “Documents”) by 15 September. Applicants are required to include their full name and application number on all attached documents.
Proposed Supervisor: Associate Professor Martin Sedláček
The successful applicant will join the project Research on Peripheries for Strengthening the Resilience of Czech Society, specifically the research programme Peripheries in Education, and will participate in activities focused on questionnaire-based research and the comparison of characteristics of primary schools in peripheral and central areas.
The doctoral candidate will be involved primarily in data preparation and processing, statistical analyses, interpretation of results, and the preparation of publication outputs. An integral part of the doctoral studies will be active participation in the research team’s publication activities and presentation of results at national and international scientific conferences.
The dissertation project will be closely linked to the research project and will make use of data collected within it. Its specific focus will be determined in cooperation with the successful applicant and the supervisor.
Applicant Requirements
Applicants must meet the general admission requirements for the relevant doctoral study programme.
In addition, the following are expected:
Preferred qualifications:
Expected Dissertation Topics
The specific topic and methodological design of the dissertation project will be refined with regard to the project focus, available data, and the academic profile of the successful applicant.
The entrance examination (2nd round) takes the form of an oral discussion over the doctoral thesis project. Assessment focuses on the quality of the project, its presentation, the applicant’s academic and language preparedness, and their motivation for doctoral study.
Criteria for evaluation
The admission procedure consists of two rounds. In the first round, the committee evaluates the written documents submitted by the applicant. If the applicant receives 70 and more points, the committee proposes admission; if they get 40 and less points, the committee proposes non-admission, if they get 41-69, they advance to the second round. In the second round, the committee evaluates the professional readiness and motivation of the applicant through an interview. If the applicant receives 30 points or more, the committee proposes admission; if they get less than 30 points, the committee proposes non-admission.
Admission to Doctoral degree programmes in 2026/2027 (beginning: Spring 2027)
— Submission deadline until midnight 30 Nov 2026
Deadline for submitting applications: August 1 - November 30
Deadline for submitting documents for the admission procedure: November 30
The admission procedure to doctoral study programmes at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University is two-round. In the first round, the documents submitted in advance are assessed. The second round takes the form of an oral interview. Only those applicants who succeed in the first round are invited to the second round.
Documents for the admission procedure (1st round):
- signed CV;
- list of publishing activities ;
- doctoral thesis project.
Documents for the admission procedure must be inserted into the e-application (rubric “Documents”) by 30 November. Applicants are required to include their full name and application number on all attached documents.
The entrance examination (2nd round) takes the form of an oral discussion over the doctoral thesis project.
Notice: Accepted applicants must submit proof of completion of a master's degree (an authorized conversion of the diploma, or, in the case of education obtained abroad, also known as nostrification) before enrolling in the program. Proof of completion of a master's degree is not required for the entrance examinations.
Criteria for evaluation
The admission procedure consists of two rounds. In the first round, the committee evaluates the written documents submitted by the applicant. If the applicant receives 70 and more points, the committee proposes admission; if they get 40 and less points, the committee proposes non-admission, if they get 41-69, they advance to the second round. In the second round, the committee evaluates the professional readiness and motivation of the applicant through an interview. If the applicant receives 30 points or more, the committee proposes admission; if they get less than 30 points, the committee proposes non-admission.
Admission to Doctoral degree programmes in 2026/2027 (beginning: Autumn 2026)
— Data from the previous admission procedure (1 Jan – 30 Apr 2026)
The admission procedure to doctoral study programmes at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University is two-round. In the first round, the documents submitted in advance are assessed. The second round takes the form of an oral interview. Only those applicants who succeed in the first round are invited to the second round.
Deadline for submitting applications: January 1 - April 30
Deadline for submitting documents for the admission procedure: May 15
Documents for the admission procedure (1st round):
- signed CV;
- list of publishing activities ;
- doctoral thesis project.
Documents for the admission procedure must be inserted into the e-application (rubric “Documents”) by 15 May. Applicants are required to include their full name and application number on all attached documents.
The entrance examination (2nd round) takes the form of an oral discussion over the doctoral thesis project.
Notice: A poof of completion of a Master’s degree programme (officially certified copy of the diploma, in the case of education obtained abroad also the so-called recognition) shall be submitted by the accepted applicants upon enrolment in the studies. For the entrance examination, a proof of completion of a Master’s degree programme is not required.
Criteria for evaluation
The admission procedure consists of two rounds. In the first round, the committee evaluates the written documents submitted by the applicant. If the applicant receives 70 and more points, the committee proposes admission; if they get 40 and less points, the committee proposes non-admission, if they get 41-69, they advance to the second round. In the second round, the committee evaluates the professional readiness and motivation of the applicant through an interview. If the applicant receives 30 points or more, the committee proposes admission; if they get less than 30 points, the committee proposes non-admission.
Study options
Single-subject studies
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Full-time studies in czech
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Combined studies in czech
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Supervisors
- doc. Mgr. Karla Brücknerová, Ph.D.
- doc. PhDr. Petr Hlaďo, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Bc. Libor Juhaňák, Ph.D.
- doc. PhDr. Vladimír Jůva, CSc.
- doc. PhDr. Dana Knotová, Ph.D.
- doc. PhDr. Bohumíra Lazarová, Ph.D.
- Tomáš Lintner, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Martin Majcík, Ph.D.
- doc. Mgr. Petr Novotný, Ph.D.
- prof. PhDr. Milan Pol, CSc.
- prof. PhDr. Milada Rabušicová, Dr.
- doc. Mgr. Martin Sedláček, Ph.D.
- Mgr. et Mgr. Bc. Zuzana Šalamounová, Ph.D.
- prof. Mgr. Klára Šeďová, Ph.D.
- doc. Mgr. Roman Švaříček, Ph.D.
- prof. Mgr. Jiří Zounek, Ph.D.
Study information
| Provided by | Faculty of Arts | |
|---|---|---|
| Type of studies | Doctoral | |
| Mode | full-time | Yes |
| combined | Yes | |
| distance | No | |
| Study options | single-subject studies | Yes |
| single-subject studies with specialization | No | |
| major/minor studies | No | |
| Standard length of studies | 4 years | |
| Language of instruction | Czech | |
| Doctoral board and doctoral committees | ||
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doc. Mgr. Roman Švaříček, Ph.D.
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