MRes Animal Behaviour

Our Animal Behaviour MRes is research-based with a taught component. It provides a springboard into a career that involves scientific research.

About this course

The study of animal behaviour is an exciting and theoretically rigorous area of the biological sciences with possible applications in:

conservation
animal welfare
biomedical science
agriculture

The Centre for Behaviour and Evolution at Newcastle University brings together world experts in:

behavioural ecology
comparative cognition
neuroethology
animal welfare

Experts at Newcastle have discovered, among other things, that:

bees learn better when exposed to caffeine
starlings who were hungry as babies become heavier as adults
mice have pain faces

You can also be part of this exciting research community. The course is designed for graduates with a BSc in the life sciences, psychology or anthropology. It can be taken either as a stand-alone qualification or as an entry route onto a PhD.

Your development

Your research project comprises the major element of the course. This project will involve 24 weeks of research in an area of animal behaviour under the supervision of an expert academic researcher in the field.

The course allows you to experience an internationally competitive research area, predominantly in academia but also potentially in industry. Graduates from our programme have gone on to competitive PhD studentships, as well as jobs in research and in zoos.