Research Masters Studentships

The Research Masters Studentships provide valuable training for health and care professionals seeking to pursue a research career. They provide training and exposure in real world research.

The Research Masters Studentship application deadline is 17:00 (GMT) on 1 July 2024.

Applicants will be informed of the outcome by mid-July 2024.

As part of this studentship, you will be able to take one of the Master programmes outlined below. The Master Studentship can be undertaken full-time or part-time (availability varies by Master programme). Studentships are available to ‘top-up’ a Post-graduate Diploma to complete the Research Project Module for award of Master (availability varies by Master programme). 22 Master programmes are offered across the four partner universities:

King’s College London

Guidance on choosing between MRes Clinical research and MSc in Clinical Research Delivery

Clinical Research MRes/PGCert

Required Research modules:

- Advanced Quantitative Research Methods
- Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

Healthcare Technologies MRes/MSc

Required Research modules:

- Critical Skills for Translational Healthcare Technologies
- Group Research Project in Healthcare Technologies
- Extended Individual Research Project in Healthcare Technologies

Clinical Research Delivery MSc (three years Part-time, distance learning only)

Required Research modules:

- Year 1: Research Practice Experience 1, Evidence and Research as the Basis of Care, Issues in the Conduct of Healthcare Research
- Year 2: Research Practice Experience 2
- Year 3: Dissertation in Clinical Research

Palliative Care MSc

Required Research modules:

- Research Methods & Statistics in Palliative Care
- Research Study Project

Clinical Ultrasound MSc

Required Research modules:

- Ultrasound Physics and Equipment
- Clinical Ultrasound Practice
- Advancing Clinical Ultrasound Practice
- Research and Service Innovation
- Clinical Ultrasound Dissertation

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Required Research modules:

- Basic epidemiology & Statistics for Public Health
- Health economics
- Social Research Methods for Public Health Public Health and Primary Care Dissertation

MSc Global Health, MSc

Required Research modules:

- Research Methodology in Global Health credits)
- Global Health Dissertation Optional method modules:
- Health Economics
- Economic evaluation in mental health
- Basic Epidemiology & Statistics
- Designing Quantitative Research for Social Science and Health
- Designing Qualitative Research for Social Sciences and health

Women and Children’s Health, MSc

Required Research modules:

- Scientific and Clinical Research Skills in Practice
- Research Methods and Applied Statistics
- Research Project in Women and Children’s Health (scientific and clinical research focused – wet lab, clinic and literature based)

Global Health, Social Justice and Public Policy, MSc

Required Research method modules:

- Dissertation in Global Health, Social Justice and Public Policy Take two of the following:
  - Designing Quantitative Research for Social Science and Health
  - Designing Qualitative Research for Social Science and Health
  - Critical Policy Research for Health and Medicine

Mental Health Studies MSc

Required Research modules:

- Basic Mental Health
- Introductory Statistics
- Statistics for Mental Health Research
- Advanced Statistics
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Systematic Reviews in Mental Health
- Big Data in Mental Health Research

Health and Social Care Policy, MSc (Funded by the Department of Health and Social Care) - This is a ‘closed’ programme with direct recruitment of health and care professionals by the DHSC. Please email KCATO@kcl.ac.uk to connect with the course leads.

St George's, University of London

MRes Biomedical Science - Clinical biomedical research pathway

Required Research modules:

- Research Methods
- Statistics
- Research project planning and management
- Clinical biomedical research
- Research project

MSc Genomic Medicine

Required Research modules:

- Bioinformatics, Interpretation and Data Quality Assurance in Genome Analysis
- Fundamentals of Human Genetics and Genomics
- Omics Techniques and Technologies and Their Application to Genomic Medicine
- Research Project

London South Bank University

MSc Diagnostic imaging

Required Research modules:

- Research in health & social care
- Optional specialist modules

Advanced Paediatric Critical Care MSc (Evelina/LSBU Partnership)

Required Research modules:

- Research dissertation
- Specialist modules

Children's Nursing MSc

Research modules – required:

- Research dissertation
- Specialist modules

Nursing MSc (Neuroscience Care or PgDip; MSc Adult Nursing)

Required research module:

- Research dissertation
- Specialist modules
  - Nursing MSc
  - Nursing Cardiac Care MSc
  - Nursing Critical Care MSc
  - Nursing Orthopaedic Care MSc

Kingston University

Advanced Therapeutics and Public Health, MSc *Start 2025/2026)

Required Research modules:

- Technology enabled care, public health and policy
- Pharmacogenomics and precision medicine
- Immunomodulation and Innovative Targeted Therapy
- Clinical Pharmacology and Advanced Therapeutics
- Research dissertation

Public Health MSc (online)

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