Neuroscience Master of Research - MRes

Utilise exciting cutting-edge neuroscience techniques to advance our understanding of the nervous system. Our nervous system is the most complex and highly organised system within our body. This incredible network controls sensation, movement, behaviour, learning, and adaptation throughout life. During your course, you will explore how the nervous system functions across molecular, cellular, systems and whole-organism levels before using this understanding to tackle real-world challenges such as ageing, neurological disease, stroke recovery, and spinal cord injury repair.

This research-focused Masters is suitable for students from a range of scientific backgrounds, including biological sciences, biomedical sciences, psychology, natural sciences and engineering. All you need to do is show evidence of your passion for the subject while applying. The flexibility of the programme combined with the breadth of topics covered, ensures any student with a relevant background will be able to adapt and flourish during the course.

What sets our Neuroscience Masters degree apart from similar programmes, is the extended laboratory-based project. This major research project will provide you with the opportunity to not only develop and learn innovative techniques, but also apply them in a hands-on setting. You will build invaluable practical experience, crucial for your future career or PhD.

The broad nature of this postgraduate degree includes topics such as coding, data analysis and presenting, all of which are vital for advancing in the field of Neuroscience. On this course, you will have the opportunity to engage with a diverse range of neuroscience research areas and contribute to projects led by active research groups. Research projects may span neurophysiology, neuroengineering, rehabilitation science, motor control, neurobiology, biomedical imaging, computational neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience, and data-driven approaches to understanding nervous system function.

Each of the four subject areas listed below contains a multitude of speciality teams which you may be able to join.

Research areas include:

* Behaviour, Brain Function and Human Neuroscience

* Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

* Neuroscience of Disease, Injury and Repair

* Systems, Computational and Translational Neuroscience

* Behavioural and Human Neuroscience

Here are just a few examples of past research topic chosen by students:

* Role of muscles and central drive in the dynamic and static phases of a task

* Virtual Reality Therapy and Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

* Predictors of habit strength in health behaviours

* Optical measurements of neural plasticity in mouse models of brain disorders

Find out more about our Neuroscience research

### Course highlights

* Undertake an extended (about a year) laboratory-based research project.

* Develop skills in coding, quantitative analysis and data interpretation.

* Gain practical training in contemporary neuroscience research techniques.

* Benefit from an intuitive student-led research techniques module.