Mres Applied Health Research

at University of Leicester

Modules

Core modules

• Fundamentals of Applied Health Research
• Quantitative Methods in Applied Health Research
• Qualitative Methods in Applied Health Research

Option modules
Choose one option module from:

• Patient Safety
• Human Factors and Ergonomics for Patient Safety
• Measuring and Monitoring in Healthcare
• Leading, Managing and Organising Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Plus your Dissertation (Applied Health Research) (MRes only)

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Dissertation
A Dissertation (Applied Health Research) is a substantial piece of written work that offers a detailed, sustained and critical treatment of a chosen topic. It gives you an opportunity to complete a project under expert supervision, demonstrating the knowledge and experience you have acquired during the taught modules. Your dissertation counts for 120 of the 180 credits that make up the MRes. (You will not do a dissertation if you choose to study for a PGCert.)

Examples of previous dissertations

• Participation in the UK bowel cancer screening programme: the importance of gender
• The barriers and drivers to recording of chronic kidney disease in primary care: a qualitative study of the experience of general practitioners
• Effect of electrotherapy on pain in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy; a comparison between electrotherapy and control (sham) a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Exploring and understanding patients' experiences of attending a diabetes education course, facilitated by a lay educator and health care professional and their acceptability of lay people as educators
• Mental health nurses' perceptions of barriers to research utilisation: A mixed methods study
• Clinical inertia in the management of T2DM in primary care. Retrospective analysis of Wandsworth data: 1998-2007
• Facing up to violence against doctors in china - A systematic review of its prevalence, causes, and actions to reduce the problem
• Pay for performance and the unintended consequences for patient-centred care: a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature
• A meta-ethnographic study exploring the perspectives of Canadian Aboriginal persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: What socioeconomic factors promote or impede access to and engagement with healthcare services
• Overcoming the barriers: An exploration of the experiences of practising clinicians who engage in research within an NHS Foundation Trust
• A comparison of myocardial strain and strain rates assessed by speckle tracking echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in asymptomatic patients with aortic stenosis
• A qualitative study of the health and social benefits associated with the provision of community based outdoor gyms
• Do outdoor gyms significantly increase physical activity levels and is this sustained?
• In-centre nocturnal haemodialysis: Three months of extended night time haemodialysis on physical performance and quality of life in prevalent haemodialysis patients
• An exploration of the relationship between the lunar cycle and admissions to the psychiatric wards of Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• What makes managing physical health challenging, from the perspective of staff working in an Early Intervention for Psychosis team?
• Interventions for improving fertility in women with tubal occlusion: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Relevant 2:1 degree (or equivalent).

English Language Requirements
IELTS 7.0 or equivalent. If your first language is not English, you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. If you do not yet meet our requirements, our English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) offers a range of courses to help you to improve your English to the necessary standard.

International Qualifications
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UK Students
This is the total course fee.

Starting in 2022

• MRes: £8,250
• PGCert: £2,875

If you are resident outside the UK and the Republic of Ireland, you will need to pay a deposit of £3,000 to secure your place. This will be subtracted from your total tuition fee.

Specialist Registrars may be able to offset the cost of fees from their study leave budget. Please discuss this with your Clinical Tutor before applying.  

International Students
This is the total course fee

Starting in 2022

• MRes: £21,750

PGCert: Part-time only - not available to international students
You will need to pay a deposit of £3,000 to secure your place. This will be subtracted from your total tuition fee.

From 2022 onwards, EU nationals will pay the International fee. If you are an EU national with settled or pre-settled status under the EU settlement scheme, you may qualify for the UK fee (subject to criteria).

For many graduates our MRes has been a gateway to a research-based career or a means of advancing their career in health or social care using the transferable skills they have obtained. Others have found that the MRes is an excellent foundation for doctoral research and an academic career.

International students who study at the University of Leicester may be eligible for a Graduate Visa which grants permission to stay in the UK for at least 2 years after successful completion of their course.