Master of Science in Advanced Naval Architecture

at University of Strathclyde United Kingdom

This course focuses on how the body defends itself against disease. Immunology helps us understand processes of viral, bacterial or parasitic infection and how the immune system is sometimes tricked into attacking its own tissue, leading to diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes or allergy.

It will provide you with comprehensive postgraduate life sciences training including a broad range of practical laboratory skills. This is complemented by classes that develop your transferable skills in:

• Statistics 
• Presentations 
• Career development 
• Ethics 
• Science writing skills 
• Your ability to design experiments and analyse sophisticated datasets 

Our taught classes capture the excitement of cutting-edge research fields. You'll be taught by active researchers or practising clinical professionals.

Study with us

• Specialise in a fundamental research areas
• Develop a range of current and relevant laboratory skills
• Benefit from teaching by active researchers and practising clinical professionals
• Gain in-depth understand of the life sciences

As a politics student, you'll look at the work of governments and their policies and study the behaviour of those who govern - and who they are governing - both at home and abroad. You'll also gain knowledge of domestic and international institutions and issues relating to conflict and cooperation. We cover diverse and relevant issues, such as international terrorism to the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.

Politics graduates can go on to work in a number of areas, with many pursuing academic research careers in the UK, Europe and North America.

We also offer some of the best teaching in Human Resource Management (HRM) in both Scotland and the UK.

HRM is about the relationship between employers and employees and the ways in which people are managed in the workplace. This covers areas such as recruitment and selection, training and developing and managing conflict at work. These are an important part of the management process in all organisations.

Study with us

• Join a vibrant research and teaching environment for a first-class student experience
• This is a leading School with a global reputation for both teaching and research
• Learn about recruitment and selection, training and developing, rewards, diversity and managing conflict at work
• Benefit from award-winning international academics engaged in real-world research in various fields including elections and voting, public policy, political parties, comparative political systems, international relations and security studies
• Join our HRM Society and share knowledge and practice, awareness of careers and build relationships with alumni and employers

Product design is an exciting industry that continually evolves alongside technology, product advancements, the demand for quicker turnaround times, unique and personalised products and environmentally friendly supply chains and production.

Product design is about understanding people and their emotional connections with products, questioning existing ways of doing things and seeing opportunities to change things for the better.

Product design and innovation encompasses a variety of skills including an engineering theoretical understanding with marketing, branding, user experience, entrepreneurship and provides our graduates with all of the skills to successfully benefit both their own ventures or to become innovators within other businesses.

This is integrated with manufacturing processes, CAD, rapid prototyping and digital prototyping technologies, software and practical skills to turn the design into reality which is fundamental to global market success and requires not only customer appeal, aesthetics and brand awareness but also consistent and correct functionality, superior quality and fitness for purposes all at a competitive price.

Study with us

• Learn how to develop new and innovative technology products for the global marketplace
• Work with cutting-edge design and making technologies including 3D digital design and 3D printing
• Gain skills and knowledge in design, making, creativity, innovation, technical analysis and communication
• Undertake summer placements in industry. Study abroad options include Australia and Singapore
• Professional accreditation by the Institution of Engineering Designers and Institution of Engineering and Technology

Accreditation

• Our BSc Product Design and Innovation has been awarded academic accreditation from two institutes. This demonstrates the degree meets the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC) as outlined by the Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes (AHEP).
• This accreditation is achieved through a panel of trained and expert accreditors looking closely at our programme’s content and delivery, including its relevance, coherence, challenge, assessment, staffing, quality assurance and resources.
• The accreditors also monitor that the programme is continually improving and in line with the latest best practice, providing assurance to our students that they are getting a relevant and quality degree.

This MRes provides advanced study in Integrated Pollution Prevention & Control, within Europe and globally. The course is largely research and project-based but there is also a taught element to it.

This course is ideal if you are looking to further your knowledge and develop your research skills, contribute to new knowledge on environmental pollution and related topics.

An MRes offers a unique and bespoke experience; you can tailor your studies to suit your own research interests and career objectives. You will be taught by an interdisciplinary group of professionally qualified civil engineers, environmental scientists, geoscientists, and chemists. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has strong industrial links which contributes to the overall student experience, too.

An MRes takes one year full-time or two years part-time to complete. While full-time study is available to UK and international students, part-time study on-campus is only available to students from the UK or EU. You can also study this course part-time through online Distance Learning, over 36 months, offering a flexible mode of study. Distance Learning is available to UK and international students.

Our approach to the English & Creative writing course is innovative, modern and friendly, giving you a comprehensive understanding of English literature as a core basis for your creative work.

Social Policy examines the ways in which societies distribute resources and develop services to meet individual and social needs. Key social policy issues examined include poverty; economic, race, age and gender inequality; social justice health; education; criminal justice and housing.

It utilises a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to improve our understanding of how societies organise their resources to meet individual and social needs and how they measure progress in these areas. 

This programme gives you the opportunity to learn more about the social and economic challenges facing Scottish society and place these in a broader international perspective. It draws on disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, psychology, social anthropology and politics.

Our BA degrees in Humanities & Social Sciences are initially broad-based. In Year 1, you'll study three subjects, including your chosen subject(s).

This course explores the frontiers of science on the nanoscale. It provides a strong grounding in basic nanoscience before progressing to advanced topics.

Taught classes have been developed from the many years of nanoscience research at the University in areas such as:

• Nanoscale imaging
• Nanoparticle fabrication and functionalisation
• Chemical physics
• Computational modelling of the nanoworld

Who’s the course suitable for?

• The course will be of interest to physical science graduates looking to work in the field of nanoscience. It’s also suitable for those with an industrial background as a further training opportunity and a way of gaining insights into topics at the forefront of academic research.

Study with us

• Master state-of-the-art research and methods in nanoscience in an interdisciplinary course connecting physics and chemistry 
• Become equipped for a research-based career in industry or to progress to a PhD
• Provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in nanoscience, along with the opportunity to develop the skills necessary for this emerging area
• Mainly designed to equip you for a research-based career in industry, but it can also serve as a way of progressing towards a PhD

Our main focus in psychology is the study of human behaviour.

Studying with us, you'll look at conditions of behaviour – how we learn, remember, co-ordinate our actions and interact with others – and the reasons for differences between individuals, such as personality or intelligence.

Due to the popularity of the course and performance criteria for entry into Honours (Year 4) the numbers admitted to Years 2 and 3 of the course are limited.

Human Resource Management (HRM) is about the relationship between employers and employees and the ways in which people are managed in the workplace. This covers areas such as recruitment and selection, training and developing and managing conflict at work. These are an important part of the management process in all organisations.

Study with us

• Study human behaviour and the reasons for differences between individuals
• We offer some of the best teaching in Human Resource Management (HRM) in both Scotland and the UK
• The course covers areas such as recruitment and selection, training and developing and managing conflict at work

The course provides the opportunity to explore and master a large range of optical technologies, enabling you to put devices in the context of an optical system and/or application.The course is based on the strong record of optical technologies across research divisions in the Department of Physics in collaboration with:

• Optics Division (Physics)
• Plasma Division (Physics)
• Nanoscience Division (Physics)
• Institute of Photonics
• Centre for Biophotonics
• Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

You’ll put the knowledge gained in the taught components to use in a cutting-edge research project.

Study with us

• Gain hands-on experimental research experience using modern instrumentation
• Suitable for those with science or engineering background wanting to gain a vocational degree
• Establish a foundation for an optics-related PhD
• Explores the versatile field of optical technologies which supports many aspects of modern society
• Optical technologies are expected to be a key enabling technology of the 21st century

The aim of the MSc Economics & Finance is to produce highly skilled professionals who can analyse, understand and explain the complex economic and financial issues that arise in a globalised world. 

Jointly delivered by the Departments of Economics and Accounting & Finance, you will study the interaction between economics and finance, which is now critical to understanding the world we live in. 

Training in these subjects will equip you for finding employment in the public or private sector as economists, analysts or consultants. 

There is a strong emphasis on developing and applying skills learned in classes to real-world situations. 

The practitioner seminar series within our Professional Development for Economists class provides you with opportunities to learn from senior figures in business, consultancy and government about the key economic issues of the day and their own journey to the top of their chosen career. Many of the speakers are our own graduates.  

We're ranked 2nd in the UK for Accounting & Finance in the Complete University Guide Subject Tables 2020.

Study with us

• Enhance your knowledge and skills in a range of economics, finance, analysis and quantitative methods
• Learn to analyse, understand and explain complex economic and financial issues
• Develop specialised skills through choice of options

The International Marketing programme is a specialist course for those who want to build on a previous business and marketing degree and study marketing at an advanced level. It’s also appropriate for recent business graduates or established executives who are seeking either to acquire new skills or supplement the skills they have developed in a practical context.

You’ll gain the technical and personal skills to operate across a range of dynamic and competitive international environments.

Our students are truly international with representations from all parts of the globe which further enhances your learning experience.

Accreditations & Affiliations

• Our Department of Marketing is one of the oldest and largest marketing departments in Europe. We’ve an international reputation for the quality of teaching and research. Our staff also act as advisors to private and public organisations; some hold senior positions in the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Marketing Research Society and other professional associations.
• We’re affiliated with the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Marketing Society.
• Our courses are accredited by AACSB – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, based in the USA and EQUIS – the quality assurance scheme run by the European Foundation for Management Development (efmd) and based in Brussels.

Study with us

• Specialist course reflecting current diversity in global marketing practice
• Acquire new skills and enhance your existing experience 
• Benefit from industry collaboration
• Study within a student cohort from across the globe
• Programme reflects the dynamic and technologically innovative nature of contemporary marketing, spanning private, public and third sectors