MRes Experimental Neuroscience

Deepen your practical experience of neuroscience research and receive broad training to prepare you for PhD study

The aim of this one-year full-time course is to provide you with a broad research training in neuroscience, which will prepare you for PhD studies and enable you to make a more informed choice for your research.

You will complete three projects during the year, designed to give you practical experience of laboratory research, and chosen to cover a wide range of skills. Projects are provided by academics who are leaders in their fields of research and cover a wide range of disciplines including:

Cell and molecular biology

Genetics

Neuropathology

Imaging

Computational

You will also be required to write three mini-dissertations on set topics covering all aspects of neuroscience.

Study programme

You begin the course with an introduction to the College and transferable skills sessions.

The programme is comprised of three modules and each module consists of a research project and a coursework component. The projects lasts at least 12 weeks and is designed to give practical experience of laboratory research.

You will complete a written report of 4,000–6,000 words for each research project. You will also give a poster presentation or an oral presentation on your project work. Each project accounts for 25% of your overall course mark.

The coursework components include the formulation of a PhD proposal, a problem-solving team exercise and a mini dissertation on a topical area of neuroscience. Together the coursework components account for the remaining 25% of your overall course mark.