MRes Natural Products and Environmental Resources
Our Bioscience Department MRes programme gives you expert research training embedded in our world-class research groups. The first term is all about advanced skills training at postgraduate level with guidance for research project selection and refinement. Students start their 9 month research project phase at the end of January.
The formal teaching structure during the 1st semester ensures that students improve their skills in writing, analytical approaches and critical thinking to postgraduate level. Students also select two additional modules in line with research interests (e.g., GIS, biodiversity and health ecology, endangered species, biodiversity assessment). After module assessments, students are then ready to conduct an independent research project that is guided by a supervisory team in the department. We expect students to produce a research thesis that is of publication standard and many MRes projects are published after award of MRes.
Students do not need to have a pre-defined project to apply to the MRes course and we provide a list of potential projects to select during the first term. It is possible to switch from one programme to another during the first term because each of the four MRes courses in the Bioscience Department follows the same module pathway. The programme title reflects the nature of the research project: students can change the MRes Biosciences Department programme of study at any time during the first term once they have confirmed selection of a project.
Research theme overview:
Our research aims to maximise the benefits of natural resources while minimising disturbances to the environment. We address environmental and societal challenges through applied research, and in doing so, we champion healthy and sustainable ecosystems. Our focus is broad and ranges from harnessing microbial systems for novel product and process development (bioprospecting, bioremediation), to addressing aquatic and terrestrial food security (aquaculture, biocontrol, disease ecology), and environmental stewardship (invasive species control, human-environment interactions). Working collaboratively across disciplines with academics, businesses and policymakers are central to our research.
MRes research projects can be selected from any of these research groups:
Our Bioscience Department MRes programme gives you expert research training embedded in our world-class research groups. The first term is all about advanced skills training at postgraduate level with guidance for research project selection and refinement. Students start their 9 month research project phase at the end of January.
The formal teaching structure during the 1st semester ensures that students improve their skills in writing, analytical approaches and critical thinking to postgraduate level. Students also select two additional modules in line with research interests (e.g., GIS, biodiversity and health ecology, endangered species, biodiversity assessment). After module assessments, students are then ready to conduct an independent research project that is guided by a supervisory team in the department. We expect students to produce a research thesis that is of publication standard and many MRes projects are published after award of MRes.
Students do not need to have a pre-defined project to apply to the MRes course and we provide a list of potential projects to select during the first term. It is possible to switch from one programme to another during the first term because each of the four MRes courses in the Bioscience Department follows the same module pathway. The programme title reflects the nature of the research project: students can change the MRes Biosciences Department programme of study at any time during the first term once they have confirmed selection of a project.
Research theme overview:
Our research aims to maximise the benefits of natural resources while minimising disturbances to the environment. We address environmental and societal challenges through applied research, and in doing so, we champion healthy and sustainable ecosystems. Our focus is broad and ranges from harnessing microbial systems for novel product and process development (bioprospecting, bioremediation), to addressing aquatic and terrestrial food security (aquaculture, biocontrol, disease ecology), and environmental stewardship (invasive species control, human-environment interactions). Working collaboratively across disciplines with academics, businesses and policymakers are central to our research.
MRes research projects can be selected from any of these research groups:
