Stress, Ageing and Chronic Disease MRes

How this course is delivered

COVID-19 has changed everything. We’ve made some changes to the way our courses are taught to keep everyone safe and that will help you stay connected and involved in university life.

From the start of term in September, you’ll learn through a blend of on-campus and digitally enabled remote learning that will provide lots of opportunities to interact and engage. Together with carefully managed access to libraries, labs, workshops and studios this means your studies are as collaborative, practical and flexible as possible.

Course structure

The Stress, Ageing and Chronic Disease MRes is typically completed full-time in one year, but can be taken part-time over two years. The course is structured to include a significant research component which you will undertake throughout the course. In addition, a series of supporting taught modules further enrich your learning.

To be awarded the MRes, you must obtain 180 M-level credits: 40 credits from taught and subject-specific modules and 140 credits through the completion of the research project.

Areas of study

Core modules

• Research Project
• Evaluating Research in Biosciences
• Ageing: Pathology and Prevention

Options

• Cancer: Bench to Bedside
• Understanding Age-related CNS Disorders
• Advanced Diabetes Therapies
• Oxidative Stress and Human Disease
• Controversies in Science
• Clinical Microbiology in the Post-Antimicrobial Era
• Viruses and Human Cancer: the Evolution of an Idea
• Regenerative Medicine and Medical Devices
• Real-time Techniques for In Vitro and In Vivo Monitoring

Meet the team

Dr Mark Yeoman, course leader

Dr Mark Yeoman is a Reader in Neuropharmacology and Director of the Centre for Stress and Age-Related Disease. His research interests focus on the causes and consequences of the natural ageing process in both the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract.

His teaching focuses on allowing students to understand how the properties of electrically excitable cells are coordinated to produce a functioning organ system, and how the function of the system can be altered by pathology and corrected through the use of pharmacological agents.

The Centre for Stress and Age-related Disease has over 40 members at all levels of research career.

Facilities 

Our specialist facilities include:

• a dedicated genomics/ metabolomics/proteomics facility
• imaging and analysis unit (including both electron and confocal microscopy)
• extensive cell and tissue culture facilities
• high-performance liquid and gas chromatography, atomic emission, UV/Vis and IR spectroscopy
• nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
• modern synthetic and analytical chemistry equipment
• a range of specialist research equipment (for use in projects) including electrophysiology/electrochemistry rigs, a FACS machine and a dedicated histology lab.

Click to view a virtual tour of some of our biosciences facilities.

International requirements and visas

We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

Visas and immigration advice

Course fees

Scholarships, bursaries and loans

We offer a range of scholarships for postgraduate students. Bursaries and loans may also be available to you.

Find out more about postgraduate fees and funding.

What's included

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included in your fees, while studying a course in the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences are listed here.

• All students are provided with a laboratory coat, safety glasses and log book.
• A budget to cover laboratory consumables and equipment for your final year project is included in the fees for all students.
• Access to key subject journals and subject specific databases is provided, as well as a site licence for industry-standard chemical drawing software.
• Essential instruction booklets (laboratory handbooks) are provided, as is project poster printing and thesis binding. However, you should budget for books, printing and stationery for personal study.
• The school provides some financial support for social activities via the student societies and holds a free annual graduation party.
• Optional placements and day trips may include additional costs but this will vary depending on location of the placement.
• For our ecology and conservation courses there are compulsory field trips for which you should budget up to £200. There are also optional field trips for which you may choose to budget up to £2,700. You may also need to buy appropriate clothing for outdoor use.
• DBS checks for MPharm students are included in the fee.
• Costs for MPharm placement travel is reimbursed up to a specified amount depending on location of placement.

You can chat with our enquiries team through the Stay in touch panel at the end of this page if you require further information. Or check our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships, as well as more information about fees and advice on international and island fee-paying status.

Info

The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2020–21.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK/EU students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

Local area

Campus where this course is taught

Accommodation

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