MRes Bioscience uel.ac.uk/pg-mres-bio Our MRes Bioscience is designed to help you develop and demonstrate the key skills necessary for a career in research. This course contains a structured programme of research skills training and the opportunity to study a range of specialist bioscience subjects in depth. The primary focus is a year-long research project undertaken with one of the School’s esteemed research groups. Through this project you will have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking research and publications in areas such as drug development, and infection and immunity. You will work alongside PhD students and staff, many of whom have trained in worldrenowned institutions.
Course content • Essential Research Skills (core) • Research Project (core) • Please see website for optional modules. Career opportunities This MRes course will provide you with excellent training for a career in the competitive environment of scientific research. Your new skills will equip you for any career requiring independent and team-working skills – as well as the ability to create, synthesise, analyse and communicate information and data in a job post.
Duration One year full-time Two years part-time Entry requirements Minimum 2.2 Honours degree in a relevant subject and a research proposal. Start date September January
MRes Health Science uel.ac.uk/pg-mres-health This course will develop your understanding of research techniques and management principles. It will give you the tools for a career in scientific research, or to develop a career as a health professional. You will spend two-thirds of the course on a supervised individual research project, working within one of the School’s research groups or at our world renowned Institute of Health and Human Development. The remainder of the course will involve a research skills module and an optional module covering a range of specialisms within public health, health promotion and health science.
Course content • Essential Research Skills (core) • Research Project (core) • Please see website for optional modules. Career opportunities This course provides an invaluable insight into what a career in scientific work entails. Some overseas students have become professors or lecturers at universities in their home countries. Other graduates have returned to careers within the NHS or other healthcare sectors with the skills required to take up new levels of responsibility.
Duration One year full-time Two years part-time Entry requirements Minimum 2.2 Honours degree in a relevant subject and a research proposal Start date September January
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