University of Nottingham Lead it Exceed it Postgraduate prospectus 2018 prospectus Postgraduate Postgraduate prospectus 2018 1 Challenge it Discover it Shape it Lead it Exceed it Prove it Refine it Develop it Award-winning Contents teaching and career prospects Teaching Excellence Framework 2017 Start your journey The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 Teaching and learning 6 Medicine and Health Sciences 60 World-leading research 8 Our partnerships 10 Taught courses 61 Innovation and enterprise 11 Research courses 66 Inspiring academics 12 From the schools of: Ranked Graduate School 14 Health Sciences Careers and employability 16 Life Sciences 8th Ranked in the Services for students 18 Medicine International student support 20 Veterinary Medicine and Science in the UK top 100 English preparation 22 for research UK campuses 24 Science 68 International campuses 26 power Biology 69 universities Student life 28 Research Excellence Biosciences 69 Accommodation 30 Framework 2014 Chemistry 71 Funding your studies 32 worldwide Computer Science 72 by the QS World University Mathematical Sciences 73 Rankings 2018 Doctoral Training Programmes 36 Pharmacy 74 Physics and Astronomy 75 Arts 38 Psychology 76 American and Canadian Studies 39 Classics and Archaeology 39 Social Sciences 78 £200m Culture, Film and Media 41 English 42 Business 79 History 43 Economics 82 investment History of Art 44 Education 83 in our vision Geography 86 for research Modern Languages and Cultures 45 Music 47 Law 87 Philosophy 48 Politics and International Relations 89 Theology and Religious Studies 48 Sociology and Social Policy 90 Engineering 50 Useful information 92 Cross-faculty courses 51 International qualifications 92 How to apply for taught courses 94 Architecture and Built Environment 51 How to apply for research courses 96 Chemical and Environmental Engineering 52 How to find us 98 Civil Engineering 53 Get in touch 99 Electrical and Electronic Engineering 54 Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing 44,500 Engineering 55 students from over An inspiring Research courses 56 150 countries across research all our campuses portfolio worth £600m 4 5 Teaching and learning Inspiring places and spaces We have eight UK libraries, including the refurbished Excellent teaching to £19m George Green Library, with each offering a variety of study environments, from silent spaces through to vibrant collaborative learning hubs. Our opening hours are extensive and include 24/7 periods support your learning throughout the year. With NUsearch, our online resource discovery tool, you can access all our physical and digital collections and resources, including over one million books, around Our academics use the latest half-a-million ebooks, journal articles from around the research to inform and develop their world and Open Access research from the University. Our Manuscripts and Special Collections archive also teaching, and our courses aim to holds approximately 3.5 million items – the majority of produce graduates with a critical which are unique to the University. approach to their work and the Digital support world around them. As well as having access to a wide range of standard and specialist software, in the UK, you can also make use of our Smart Bars and Laptop Loan and Repair Service, and receive 24-hour IT support from the University’s IT Service Desk. Your tutors will guide you through lectures, seminars, tutorials, and practical lab and field work, giving regular Our libraries offer feedback on your progress and supporting you to over 4,500 achieve your potential. study spaces, including dedicated Flexible learning Developing your study skills postgraduate study We offer a range of distance and online courses If you’re studying for a masters at Nottingham, rooms that allow you to access part or all of our programmes we have created a free online course, ‘On Course remotely, giving you the option to study around existing for Your Masters’, designed to support your transition employment and family commitments, no matter to postgraduate study and your engagement with where you are based. the books and resources you will need to succeed in your studies. nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/distancelearning In 2015/16, Accredited courses students could access Many of our courses are accredited by professional bodies, giving you a head start in your chosen career. 42,825 journals, over Our accredited courses are identified on our course listings (see pages 38–91) with this symbol 500,000 ebooks and 1.3m print books 6 nottingham.ac.uk/teaching 7 World-leading research Our Precision Propulsion £200m Rights Lab Imaging Futures Helping to Transforming At the heart end global healthcare of a revolution slavery with pioneering in greener vision for imaging transport research We are making the largest research investment in our history. This £200m investment in our resources, infrastructure and people will help us achieve our ambition of being among the very best in the world. Our goal is to attract and retain the highest- quality researchers to work in multidisciplinary teams with inspiring leaders to become a powerhouse for world-changing discoveries. With this investment we will maximise our ability to capture exciting new ideas and deliver solutions that help transform many more lives and societies around the world. We are investing in six Beacons of Excellence, areas of world-class research excellence that champion our response to today’s global challenges. Smart Industrial Our Research Priority Areas also bring together Green Chemicals researchers from across disciplines to tackle Systems Future Food Securing the key issues facing society. Exploring Towards smart low carbon new ways to This investment includes an ambitious production bio-economy expansion of our prestigious Research feed the world of smart of the future Fellowship schemes, which recruit the products research leaders of tomorrow. 8 nottingham.ac.uk/research 9 Innovation and enterprise No.1 University for Innovate UK research and innovation funding Beauhurst, 2017 Supporting innovation We have over 200 At Nottingham, inventions Student-led enterprise industrial are taken from initial ideas to Nottingham Entrepreneurs is one of the University’s sponsors of most ambitious societies, aiming to provide an inspiring commercial business ventures. community for students and support those looking to research launch their own ventures. Our support for innovation attracts the brightest minds The University is also home to student-led organisation from around the world, who know that our infrastructure Enactus Nottingham, who aim to improve livelihoods by can take their ideas and inventions to the global setting up and running enterprises in the UK and abroad. marketplace. All our students benefit from learning and In 2016, the Nottingham team represented the UK at working alongside these leading academics, and many the Enactus World Cup in Toronto, where students of our PhD and postdoctoral students play a large part from around the world met to showcase the impact in the development of new technologies. of their entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial skills development Our partnerships Among Europe’s leading centres for enterprise education, The Haydn Green Institute provides an outstanding We’ll help you deliver programme of education with the aim of developing the innovators and entrepreneurs of the future. We have dedicated teams who can advise on At Nottingham, we are proud of our international collaborations, protecting your work, obtaining funding and Students and alumni are nurtured through The Ingenuity working with business partners to help you Lab, where members gain access to business mentors working with thousands of partners worldwide to ensure that commercialise your ideas. and free advice surgeries relating to finance, marketing, our research has a lasting impact in the real world. sales, intellectual property and legal issues. nottingham.ac.uk/go/ ipcommercialisation Strengthening As global landscapes evolve, we Industrial partners constantly seek new opportunities international and partnerships, and respond Our researchers work with connections proactively to international funding hundreds of organisations, and collaborations, wherever they from global businesses to We passionately believe that are generated. start-ups, to find innovative international challenges are Our international collaborations solutions to the challenges best addressed globally. This is they face. accomplished by collaboration and are generated at every level. Early knowledge exchange between our career researchers and PhD students Sponsors of research include far-reaching international partners. benefit from a range of awards AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and funds designed to promote Jaguar Land Rover, Network Rail, We actively encourage our networks across the world. Rolls-Royce, Siemens, and Unilever, researchers and academics Investment in our world-class digital which means we’re engaging to seek collaborations with the with partners and projects at best institutions in the world. research environment means better connectivity with colleagues wherever the forefront of industry. they are based, removing barriers to conducting transformative research. 10 nottingham.ac.uk/research nottingham.ac.uk/enterprise 11 Inspiring academics Dr Ehab Saleh Research Fellow, Faculty of Engineering Dr Ehab Saleh is investigating new aspects of Our 3D printing as part of the Jetting of Electronics Tracks (JET) project, focusing on incorporating