Advanced Biological Sciences MRes
The School of Life Sciences has developed bespoke pathways to MRes awards across all of its research interests, affording applicants the opportunity to develop their own postgraduate degree programmes. These new programmes can therefore be based around your particular areas of interest. The title of your degree award will reflect your pathway of choice.
Programme Outline
You will be able to choose from a series of taught modules to ensure that you develop the correct academic background and skills to excel in research. An important component of the programme will be the opportunity for non-native English speakers to take a specially designed module in communication skills. This module is taught by members of our English Language Unit and will be designed to improve your English in a scientific context. Please see www.liv.ac.uk/elu for details.
MRes pathways have a greater research element than MSc programmes for students who wish to progress to a career in research and as such a good first degree in a relevant discipline (2:1 Hons or equivalent) will be required. The normal expectation is that students who have completed an MRes will progress to a PhD degree. Please contact Dr. S Scott for information on these pathways.
Programme outline
| Module code | Module title | Level | Credit rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Students have a choice between PGSC008 or PGSC001 depending on their English Language background. All students take PGSC002 and either BIOL704 and BIOL705 or BIOL706. | |||
| PGSC008 | Communication Skills and Employability (1st and 2nd semester) | M | 7.5 |
| PGSC001 | Personal and Employability Skills (1st semester) | M | 7.5 |
| PGSC002 | Research Skills (1st and 2nd semester) | M | 7.5 |
| BIOL007 | Statistics for Biologists (1st semester) | M | 15 |
| BIOL731 | Research Methods and Applications in Biological Sciences (1st and 2nd semester) | M | 15 |
| BIOL704 | MRes Research Project 1 (1st and 2nd semester) | M | 60 |
| BIOL705 | MRes Research Project 2 (summer) | M | 60 |
| BIOL706 | Long Research Project (all year) | M | 120 |
The remaining 15 credits will be chosen from existing M level modules offered in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences and possibly elsewhere.
Each pathway has a defined set of modules but there is some flexibility to allow the programme to be tailored to an individual student’s needs.
Example pathways:
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Animal Sciences)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Bioinformatics)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Biotechnology)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Cell Signalling)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Chemical Biology)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Conservation Biology)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Evolutionary and Behavioural Biology)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Evolutionary Psychology)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Food Security)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Functional and Comparative Genomics)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Host: Parasite Biology)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Microbiology)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Molecular Oncology)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Plant Sciences)
- Advanced Biological Sciences (Structural Biology)
Further information
For full details of modules and further information please download our postgraduate brochure (PDF)
- Chemistry (PDF, 455Kb)
- Computer Science (PDF, 499Kb)
- Earth and Ocean Sciences (PDF, 603Kb)
- Mathematical Sciences (PDF, 410Kb)
- Physics (PDF, 2.32Mb)
