Postgraduate study
The UK is a world leader in health research and the University of Bristol offers outstanding postgraduate research training.
We offer high-quality collaborative translational and population health research using a wide range of techniques - from molecular biology to epidemiology.
Postgraduate research opportunities-PhD, MD, MSc by Research
Graduates with good undergraduate or masters degrees in relevant disciplines can apply for projects in either of our 2 departments:
- Postgraduate research: Population Health Sciences
- Postgraduate research: Translational Health Sciences
Short courses
Bristol Medical School Short Course programme offers intensive online short courses in research methodology, design and analysis in health sciences.
Clinical academic training
The University's clinical academic training pathway offers clinicians the opportunity to develop an academic career.
Taught masters courses
A truly international cohort of students study on our broad range of highly popular postgraduate taught courses. Part-time and distance-learning options are available on some courses.
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MSc Epidemiology
This MSc will teach you how to design and analyse experimental and observational studies covering aetiology, interventions, diagnosis and prognosis. There will be opportunities to learn about cutting-edge methods in causal inference and molecular epidemiology.
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MSc Healthcare Management
This innovative online programme is designed for those with an interest in pursuing a career in management or with managerial responsibilities in the healthcare sector. The programme aims to create a new generation of health and care professionals who not only understand the challenges faced by health systems and healthcare organisations but are able to instigate sustainable transformative solutions.
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MSc Health Economics and Health Policy Analysis
Health economics and health policy analysis can enable decision makers to improve resource use and service delivery across health and care systems. This MSc will enable you to apply economic and policy theory and practice for this purpose, and to a range of complex challenges facing the global community (for example inequalities, mental health, infectious disease, climate change, health and social care provision).
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MRes Health Sciences Research
This programme offers a firm foundation in biomedical research, enhancing your understanding and critical awareness of the scientific method and practical experience in an area related to your interests. Taught units provide training in research methodology, experimental design, statistical analyses and data interpretation. Skills training in verbal and written communication is also emphasised.
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MSc Medical Statistics and Health Data Science
The MSc in Medical Statistics and Health Data Science will enable you to engage with the complex statistical and data science healthcare challenges facing the global community, providing high-quality training in statistical and computational methods that are applicable to low-, middle- and high-income settings.
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MSc Molecular Neuroscience
Knowledge of the brain in health and disease is still in its infancy. Are you passionate about learning more about neuroscience and contributing to our understanding of the functioning of the brain? If yes, then studying the MSc Molecular Neuroscience will be an excellent starting point.
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MSc Clinical Perfusion Science
This blended learning programme integrates academic knowledge and understanding of perfusion science with both the needs of the working professional clinical perfusion scientist and the demands of professional registration with the Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists of Great Britain and Ireland (SCPS). This programme is only available to students who have secured a clinical perfusion scientist trainee position with an accredited hospital training centre in Great Britain or Ireland. Successful completion of the programme will lead to accreditation as a clinical perfusion scientist by the SCPS.
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MSc Public Health
This programme will develop your interest, knowledge and understanding of the three domains of public health: health improvement, health protection and healthcare services. Your learning will be informed by the highest quality research and be focused on, and reflective of, the public health challenges in the UK and internationally. You will experience and contribute to a wide range of face to face and lectures, workshops, practicals and guest talks as well as asynchronous lectures and activities.
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MSc Reproduction and Development
This innovative blended learning programme will provide you with a comprehensive understanding and set of skills relevant to the exciting and important field of human reproduction and development. Please note, this programme is delivered mostly via distance learning, with a short period of time in Bristol (up to three weeks per year).
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MSc Stem Cells and Regeneration
This innovative online programme will immerse you in the exciting field of stem cell biology and regeneration. You will be guided from the origins of this field through to its application (and potential applications) in treating human disease, covering the latest developments and technologies available for study in this area. Programme content is delivered by active researchers, giving you the opportunity to engage with the latest breakthroughs.
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MSc Translational Cardiovascular Medicine
This programme aims to develop your interest in translational cardiovascular research and medicine, and equip you with an enhanced knowledge, understanding and critical awareness of the current approaches and emerging research in this area. As you learn on our programme, you will gain an appreciation of how laboratory-based research into cardiovascular disease informs the development of novel therapeutics and clinical interventions in cardiovascular medicine; ‘bench-to-bedside’ research.
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MSc Health Professions Education
This is an opportunity to complete an online full time (1 year) or part time (2 years) MSc in Health Professions Education commencing in September. The programme provides current evidence based theoretical knowledge and practical skills aimed at those wishing to develop their educational expertise within their health profession context. The programme prides itself on the range of health professions who attend and achieve their qualifications.
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MSc Clinical Research Methods and Evidence-Based Medicine
This part-time MSc programme gives you the opportunity to complete a personalised and relevant master's-level degree that requires minimal study time away from clinical practice. It makes use of motivated and experienced clinical academics to deliver a programme that will translate to excellent, individualised academic surgical practice. The programme complements your clinical career, will expand your academic skills and offers the flexibility to focus on areas of practice that are relevant to your career plans.