Our interdisciplinary MRes provides the perfect foundation for a successful research career
An accredited programme that involves a combination of theoretical and practical approaches. You’ll explore core topics and then have the option to take modules ranging from Manufacturing Processes to Nanotechnology and Advanced Functional Materials.
This MRes is accredited by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and will give you an excellent foundation for a research career in industry, the service sector, the public sector or academia. It’s a qualification in its own right, giving you immediate entry into a research career or a route to a PhD if you want to pursue further research.
This MRes programme provides you with specialised skills in research methods and practice, as well as giving you complementary transferable skills through your elective modules, which prepare you to conduct materials research in industry.
The course is interdisciplinary in nature and involves a combination of theoretical and practical approaches. You’ll explore core topics and then have the option to take modules ranging from Manufacturing Processes to Nanotechnology and Advanced Functional Materials.
You’ll work on your research project alongside your taught module classes throughout the academic year from within one of our materials-based research groups in the School of Engineering and Materials Science. Your research project may be focused in the fields of ceramics, polymers, composites, elastomers, functional materials or manufacturing technologies and may lead to publication at scientific conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.
The research project forms a major component of your degree and you’ll complete this under close supervision.
Recent Materials Research MRes research projects include:
- Synthesis of degradable polymers with controlled degradation profiles
- Interactions of nanomaterials with electromagnetic wave
- Nanomaterials as secondary energy carriers
- Bio-ceramics for dental applications
- Dielectrics for energy storage
Not only is this MRes’ curriculum closely aligned to current industry needs, but you can also gain significant practical experience in our world-class processing facilities, including the NanoVision Centre for Advanced Microscopy, combining high resolution imaging with structural, chemical and mechanical analysis.