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Doctor of Coaching and Mentoring (DCM)

Admission: September

The Oxford Brookes Doctor of Coaching and Mentoring Programme (DCM) fosters excellence in professional practice by developing your capacity to become a leader in the field. You are challenged to augment your existing expertise and push the boundaries of knowledge and understanding so that you may operate at the highest level, be confident in providing facilitation and consultancy, and be competent in the research and evaluation of coaching and mentoring.

The DCM programme is aimed at experienced professionals seeking to extend and deepen their knowledge and understanding of coaching and mentoring, and to demonstrate their commitment and professionalism. The programme provides the setting for developing deeper, more critical insights into professional practices and provides support for becoming an autonomous, published researcher.

Typical participants include coaching psychologists, freelance coaches and consultants, mentor co-ordinators, counsellors, senior managers, HRD or leadership professionals from across a range of public and private sector organisations.

Course Content

The programme comprises two stages. During the first stage, which normally takes two years to complete on a part-time basis, you focus on taught components of the curriculum. Once this is successfully completed, you move to the second stage: research design and the thesis. Normally this takes three years to complete part-time. The programme integrates professional expertise and scholarly inquiry and culminates in doctoral research training and the design of original empirical research that leads to the completion of a doctoral thesis.

The course is designed as a five-year part time programme (or three years with M level exemptions), delivered through monthly study days held in Oxford (approx eight per year). In addition there are regular online workshops and discussions to support learning at a distance. There is individual coaching and academic support (face-to-face, telephone and email as appropriate) and assessment is through a variety of coursework assignments and a thesis, which is examined by traditional viva voce (oral examination).

Course Length

3-5 years part-time.

Entry Requirements

For graduate entry to Year 1, applicants would normally be expected to have a good honours degree, plus three years' experience in a related field. Those with appropriate master’s level qualifications may be eligible for exemptions from certain elements of the programme and could enter either in Year 2 or Year 3, depending on experience and qualifications.

Course Fees

Part-time (3-year programme): £19,100 (UK/EU and Non-EU).

Part-time (5-year programme): £33,150 (UK/EU and Non-EU).




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