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MRes - Master of Research
City Campus
Part Time
Feb 2027
2 Year
The Master of Research is a University wide, cross-disciplinary research training course available in most schools and departments. This is a level 7 qualification and can be taken as an alternative to a taught masters. It provides high-quality training to potential doctoral students as well as a stand-alone qualification for social science researchers.The course aims to:teach you to systematically review alternative approaches, methodologies and paradigms of research in your chosen fieldenable you to critically evaluate the application of these approaches in the specific areas in which you specialisesupport you within an active research community, in identifying and investigating your own original research questionsLike other research awards it engages one to one supervisory method to enable candidates to produce an academic research informed thesis relating directly to their practice.
