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The MA Education Futures and Technology is a pioneering, future focused programme exploring how education and technology shape contemporary and future societies. Rooted in interdisciplinary study, it brings together creative, analytic and technical learning to help students engage with the complex challenges facing education today.

The programme examines the social, economic, political and ethical dimensions of technological change — including questions of equity, sustainability and social justice — and supports students to develop the deep, holistic understanding needed to make sense of education systems in a rapidly transforming world. Through this lens, students gain the tools to navigate, critique and help shape the educational futures that lie ahead.

Key benefits

  • A genuinely future focused programme that examines education and technology as interconnected forces shaping society.
  • A carefully designed curriculum with a strong compulsory backbone, alongside optional modules that students can tailor to their interests across pedagogy, policy/leadership or technology.
  • A critical, ethical approach that goes beyond practical “how‑to” questions to examine purpose, power and values in education and technology.
  • Delivered by a uniquely interdisciplinary community working across sociology, history, geography, political economy, philosophy, technology, leadership and creative practice.
  • Designed to equip graduates for the future labour market, with skills aligned to emerging roles in digital transformation, leadership, research, policy and education innovation.
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Once or twice in your career, you get the chance to design the degree you wish you could’ve studied yourself. This is that degree—a unique blend of critical social sciences and technology skills spanning a rich, diverse set of disciplines and perspectives.
Dr Sara Black
Dr Sara BlackProgramme Director

Application closing date guidance

This course is not open for applications yet, and will be open in Autumn 2026. Please check back at a future date for the application information for 2027 entry

Please check back in Autumn 2026 for application information.

Base campuses

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Waterloo Campus

Centrally located and well connected, Waterloo brings together students from health, science and law, just steps from the South Bank. It's also home to the world's #2 nursing school – the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery (QS 2026).