This module (50% of the MSc) provides hands-on research experience within a skilled and supportive environment. You will join a research active group working...

MSc in Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine: Research Project (SURG0089)

This module (50% of the MSc) provides hands-on research experience within a skilled and supportive environment. You will join a research active group working within the fields of regenerative medicine or nanotechnology to complete original laboratory-based research, clinical-based research, data analysis, or modelling.

Students will choose their projects from a wide variety of research areas including (but not exclusively); 1) tissue engineering (e.g. bone, muscle, nerve or cartilage tissue engineering, whole organ engineering using decellularised scaffolds), 2) in vitro disease modelling, 3) nanomedicine (e.g. enhanced radiotherapy using nanoparticles, targeted nanoparticles, photodynamic therapy), 4) improved medical devices (3D printing scaffolds, auricular regeneration, improved orthopaedic implants, chronic wound healing) and 5) stem cell therapy (improving stem cell survival, IPS cells for in vitro disease modelling).

You will improve your scientific communication (written and verbal) and your critical evaluation of research.

CHILDREN|CHILDHOOD|SOCIAL THEORY|INTERSECTIONALITY|ADULT CHILD POWER RELATIONS|CULTURAL PRACTIC

This module explores a range of contemporary social theories, cutting-edge research and public debates about local and global childhoods. You will cultivate...

Critical Theoretical Debates about Global Childhoods and Society (SOCS0001)

This module explores a range of contemporary social theories, cutting-edge research and public debates about local and global childhoods. You will cultivate sociological understandings about the ways that social, political and economic changes produce varied, and often unequal, childhoods. The module will provide the basis for critical reflection on the social status of children and childhood in relation to generation and other dimensions, such as gender, ‘race’ and social class in light of their historically and spatially situated manifestations. It will lay the foundations for you to recognise, investigate and conceptualise children and young people’s social contributions, creative responses, and political activism in these shifting global contexts. You will hear from internationally renowned and research-active lecturers, take part in interactive seminars, and have the chance explore your own area of interest under the tutelage of expert module tutors.

Student testimonials

"I have thoroughly enjoyed this module and now look at childhood in a different way as a result of it." – Anonymous

"The tutors questioned every single assumption commonly held about children, made me question my own beliefs, and, ultimately, promoted novel ways of thinking about children in society." - W'Ayendjina Antchandie

"The knowledge, support and guidance of the Module Leader is outstanding and an invaluable asset in facilitating collaborative and independent learning." - Kate Wagner