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POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2017 ADMISSIONS Contents POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2017 ADMISSIONS Contents HELPING YOU MAKE AN PROGRAMME LISTINGS INFORMED CHOICE Arts and Law 46 Life and Environmental Welcome 5 Sciences 118 Birmingham Law School 48 The value of postgraduate study 6 School of Biosciences 120 Why choose Birmingham? 8 School of English, Drama and A global university 10 American & Canadian Studies 51 School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences 124 Our postgraduate community 12 School of History and Cultures 61 Help and support 16 School of Psychology 127 School of Languages, Cultures, Visit the University 19 Art History and Music 74 School of Sport, Exercise Our campus 20 and Rehabilitation Sciences 131 The city of Birmingham 24 School of Philosophy, Theology Which programme is right for you? 28 and Religion 82 Taught programmes 30 Medical and Dental Sciences 134 Flexible learning 32 Engineering and Taught programmes 137 Research programmes 34 Physical Sciences 88 Doctoral Training Partnerships Masters-level research programmes 140 and Centres 36 School of Chemical Engineering 90 Doctoral research programmes 142 Funding 38 School of Chemistry 94 Costs 40 Entry requirements 41 Department of Civil Engineering 96 Social Sciences 144 Making your application 42 School of Computer Science 100 Birmingham Business School 146 Accommodation 44 Department of Electronic, Electrical School of Education 156 and Systems Engineering 103 School of Government and Society 162 School of Mathematics 106 School of Social Policy 174 Department of Mechanical Engineering 109 Programmes index 182 School of Metallurgy and Materials 112 General index 187 School of Physics and Astronomy 115 The small print 188 Virtual Tour 194 3 CHAT TO OUR POSTGRADUATE MENTORS Use our support network for prospective Masters and PhD students. Mentors are experienced postgraduates who have previously studied, or are currently studying, at Birmingham. Throughout this prospectus you will see profiles of some of our mentors, all of whom you can contact online. www.pg.bham.ac.uk/mentors POSTGRADUATE OPEN DAYS Our next campus open days are: n Wednesday 23 November 2016 n Friday 3 March 2017 We also run monthly guided tours of the campus by postgraduate mentors from your subject area. www.birmingham.ac.uk/pgvisit VIRTUAL OPEN DAYS Can’t make it to campus? Chat with our staff and students online. Join live Q&A sessions, watch videos and take HELPING YOU TO MAKE AN INFORMED CHOICE a virtual tour to get a taste of our WE WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT POSTGRADUATE COURSE TO beautiful campus. MEET YOUR NEEDS. TO HELP YOU DO THIS, WE PROVIDE A SUITE OF RESOURCES AND www.pg.bham.ac.uk INFORMATION ONLINE AND ON-CAMPUS TO HELP YOU MAKE AN INFORMED CHOICE. 4 Helping you make an informed choice 5 Welcome For more than a century, Birmingham Our Graduate School provides the postgraduate students have been at the best possible research and education heart of our University life. Whether you environment – from dedicated postgraduate join us on one of our taught programmes space in which you can work, to events or to embark on doctoral research, you and training programmes to support your will be an integral part of our vibrant development. We ensure that our teaching, academic community. learning and research support is first class, enabling you to fulfil your potential. The value of postgraduate study is both inherent and transferable, helping We are a truly global university, with you to develop as a person, boost your over 5,000 international students from professional prospects or even change over 150 countries and representative direction in your career. Beyond the offices and collaborative partnerships transferable skills that you will take with with leading universities around the you into the workplace, a postgraduate world. But we also recognise that in qualification from Birmingham will give an increasingly fast-paced world, flexibility you the chance to engage in critical in terms of how and where you undertake enquiry, to grow as a scholar, and your studies is important. From PhDs become internationally recognised and Business Masters programmes as an expert in your field. undertaken by distance learning, to programmes taught in short, intensive We share your ambitions and are blocks to meet the needs of those working hard to boost the employability working while they study, our portfolio of our students. Indeed, our strengths of programmes offers a modern solution in this area have been recognised by for today’s postgraduate students. The Times and The Sunday Times, which has chosen Birmingham as At Birmingham you will benefit from the University of the Year for Graduate experience of over a century of academic Employment 2016. This award recognises success, the UK’s most striking and the breadth of support and services we beautiful campus, an academic reputation provide, giving you the edge in the job for innovative research focused on the market whether your career lies in world’s greatest challenges, and a proven academia, in business, in public record of ensuring our students receive service, or in the professions. a high-quality education. What makes us stand out today is our commitment We are proud of Birmingham’s to, and investment in, even greater unparalleled reputation for ambition and success in our second century, and the attainment. The most recent UK Research impact that our graduates and research Excellence Framework (REF) rated 81.4% will make around the world. of our research activity as ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, confirming Professor Sir David Eastwood Birmingham’s position amongst the Vice-Chancellor world’s top universities for research. 6 Helping you make an informed choice The value of postgraduate study THE VALUE OF POSTGRADUATE STUDY IS BOTH INHERENT AND TRANSFERABLE, HELPING YOU TO DEVELOP AS A PERSON, BOOST YOUR PROFESSIONAL PROSPECTS OR EVEN CHANGE DIRECTION IN YOUR CAREER. Given the diversity of the postgraduate Cutting-edge research conducted by population and the variety of postgraduate Birmingham postgraduates in our world- qualifications available, it is not surprising leading research centres has a major that the motivations people have for impact on the city, the region and the undertaking postgraduate study are many world. Our postgraduates shape policy, and varied. The prospect of improved change lives and influence society. As employment opportunities and entry to a Birmingham postgraduate you can specific careers is important to a large expect to engage with challenging proportion of postgraduates, but the debates, theories and concepts and, opportunity to explore your chosen area of in doing so, grow as an original thinker. interest in depth, giving you the chance to develop your understanding in a subject area about which you are truly passionate is also a major factor. THE POSTGRADUATE PREMIUM The advanced knowledge acquired through postgraduate study is highly The knowledge and expertise that you develop during your postgraduate studies valued by employers. Postgraduates are will go on to work for you long after graduation. A recent Sutton Trust report has highly employable: they are more likely revealed that somebody with a Masters degree can on average expect to earn to enter professional and managerial £5,500 more a year – or over £200,000 more across a 40-year working life – occupations and to earn more over than someone holding only a Bachelors degree. their lifetime. WHY CHOOSE POSTGRADUATE STUDY? www.birmingham.ac.uk/pgcareers Helping you make an informed choice 7 Our mentors’ reasons for undertaking a postgraduate degree ‘I felt that since my job led me to encounter various challenges, I needed to further my knowledge and keep updated with the latest research.’ CORINNE BORG, Inclusion and Special Educational Needs MEd alumna and Special Education Coordinator at Verdala International School. ‘I wanted to go on to do a ‘I knew that a Masters would PhD so I picked an MRes give me a competitive programme because it’s like a advantage in my career mini PhD and gives students a by enabling me to acquire taste of what it feels like to be practical skills that were in full-time researcher.’ high demand.’ APPY BHATTACHARYA, BRIAN DOWNER, MSc Computer MRes Molecular and Cellular Science alumnus and Director at Biology alumna and a Doctoral ‘I wanted to boost my DWNR & Co. Researcher at the State University academic credentials and of New York. gain experience in a field more closely related to my work. I saw an opportunity to develop new skills in areas ‘I am a keen linguist and of increasing importance in my wanted to use all of my sector. It was a while since I’d ‘I wanted to add an extra languages more in my job. I completed my undergraduate dimension to my career really enjoyed teaching English degree and the prospect of development that would not as a foreign language abroad, studying again was appealing.’ have been available to me so I decided to retrain as a through experience alone.’ HELEN CRUMP, Health Economics secondary school teacher.’ and Health Policy MSc alumna ALEX YOUNG, PGDipEd (QTS) in VICTORIA CONNELLY, Strategy and Fellow in Health Policy at the German alumnus and Teacher of and Procurement Management Nuffield Trust. German and Russian at Wellington MBA alumna and Global Category College. Manager at AstraZeneca plc. GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR MENTORS: www.birmingham.ac.uk/mentors 8 Helping you make an informed choice Why choose Birmingham? WITH OVER 14,000 POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS, WE ARE ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR UNIVERSITIES IN THE UK FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDY. FOUNDED IN 1900, BIRMINGHAM WAS ENGLAND’S FIRST CIVIC UNIVERSITY, ACCEPTING STUDENTS FROM ALL RELIGIONS AND BACKGROUNDS ON AN EQUAL BASIS. When you are choosing a university for postgraduate study, one of the most important things to consider is its THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM academic reputation.
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