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Description

This advanced programme is designed for students who have completed a BSc (Hons) degree in a related health or medical science area and are seeking the opportunity to specialise their Biomedical Science skills as part of their career aspirations. Additionally, the programme has been designed to support Biomedical Scientists who require postgraduate level training as part of their career development and advancement. The course is designed to enable students to develop personally and professionally and attain competencies in key cellular and molecular pathology biomedical skills.

The programme features two specialist modules:

• Principles and Practice of Diagnostic Histopathology: Gain comprehensive knowledge in the processing and analysis of tissue and cell samples and how their clinical interpretation is used to direct patient management and treatment.
• Molecular Pathology Diagnostics for Biomedical Scientists: Explore concepts involved in the use and application of existing and emerging molecular pathology diagnostics in Biomedical Science. Including genomic and proteomic approaches, to diagnose and study complex diseases.

The programme will have a strong emphasis on practical application and real-world case studies, and is designed to provide students with the skills and confidence to excel in the field of biomedical sciences. This course is not IBMS Accredited.

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The Diagnostic Histopathology module will cover tissue recognition of major diseases, including cancer, exploring the structural changes that may occur in disease alongside tissue staining and imaging techniques. The module will incorporate a case study approach to allow students the opportunity to apply and integrate knowledge from a patient management perspective.

The Molecular Pathology module will take a case study approach to analyse molecular applications in disease and explore technical advances in molecular pathology analysis, including digital PCR and microvesicles. Practical considerations of sample preparation for molecular analysis and common molecular diagnostic techniques such as in situ hybridization will be explored.

From the programme students will develop a wide range of transferable skills; including creative problem-solving, evaluation, independent learning and working, planning and organisation, research and practical laboratory skills.   

Intended Start Date

September 2026

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Description

This course has been designed for Biomedical Scientists who wish to support their career development with postgraduate study, and students who have recently completed a degree in a related health or medical sciences subject, who want to specialise their Biomedical Science skills to support their career aspirations.

 

This advanced course will enable students to attain competences in key cellular and molecular pathology biomedical skills, with a strong emphasis on practical application and real-world case studies, as well as a wide range of research and laboratory skills, to excel in the field of biomedical sciences.

 

This is not an IBMS accredited course.

 

Topics Likely To Be Covered

The programme features two specialist modules

• Principles and Practice of Diagnostic Haematology: The module will provide a comprehensive knowledge of sample collection, processing and analysis of common and complex haematological disorders. And how their clinical interpretation is used to direct patient management and treatment The module will incorporate a case study approach to allow students the opportunity to apply and integrate knowledge from a patient management perspective.
• Principles and Practice of Blood Transfusion Sciences: The module will explore a comprehensive range of analytical approaches currently utilised in transfusion sciences and examine the importance of quality management and regulation within blood transfusion sciences.

Intended Start Date

September 2026

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Description

As the NHS and other healthcare providers are put under increasing strain from the burden of diseases related to physical inactivity, the demand for graduates with skillsets in clinical exercise science and physiology is growing.

The MSc in Clinical Exercise Physiology at Swansea University will equip students with the critical research-informed knowledge and understanding, along with the diverse range of applied and practical skills, that are needed to work with patients to optimise health, physical function, and quality of life through physical activity and exercise. Specifically, students will learn how to design, conduct and interpret a range of disease-specific health and fitness assessments, as well as design and deliver evidence-based physical activity and exercise interventions, and support patients to promote meaningful behaviour change, in order to optimise the prevention, treatment, and long-term management of a range of complex health conditions.

Students will then likely have the option either to complete a clinical placement module or undertake a research dissertation depending on their future career aspirations.

Ultimately, this MSc course will provide students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to go on to a successful career working as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist in a variety of healthcare and/or research settings. 

Topics Likely To Be Covered

The MSc will have a heavy practical emphasis and develop student’s practical competencies in a wide range of physiological and phenotypic measurements related to clinical exercise science and physical activity.

Students will cover a range of different chronic disease conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, metabolic conditions such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes, musculoskeletal conditions (e.g. arthritis, sarcopenia), neurological conditions (e.g. stroke, multiple sclerosis), and cancer.

In each case, students will learn about:

• The pathophysiology of the disease
• The assessment of health status and functional capacity, as well as screening and risk stratification.
• The physiological responses to acute and chronic physical activity and exercise and how they might be altered by the disease.
• Design and delivery of appropriate physical activity and exercise interventions
• How to promote effective behaviour change

Students will also develop their critical thinking skills through the lens of contemporary issues and research themes related to clinical exercise science/physiology.

Intended Start Date

September 2025

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Description

The MSc in Drug Discovery, Development and Translation is a Master's programme designed to equip students with the expertise needed to navigate the complex drug discovery and development process. This programme provides a comprehensive understanding of the entire drug development process, from the initial discovery of active molecules to the translation of research into effective therapies. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical experience, students will learn to manage drug development projects, make critical decisions, and apply translational science to bring innovative therapies from the lab to the patient. The programme is ideal for students with a background in pharmacy, pharmacology, chemistry, or biosciences, who are aiming to enhance their skills for leadership roles in the pharmaceutical industry or for those interested in further postgraduate study and research in the field of drug development. Whether you're currently in the industry or seeking to enter this dynamic field, this MSc will enhance your skills and prepare you for the challenges of modern drug development.

Topics Likely To Be Covered

Through a multidisciplinary curriculum, you will explore key advanced subjects including drug discovery and in silico design, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, drug delivery, nanomedicine and regulatory sciences.  The programme covers the entire drug development process, from targetidentification and preclinical research to clinical trials and regulatory approval. You will gain expertise in translational science, focusing on how to turn lab-based discoveries into real-world therapies.

Skills developed include project management, critical decision-making, and advanced research techniques. You'll also learn about the regulatory landscape, ethical considerations, and the latest innovations in personalised medicine, preparing you for leadership roles in the pharmaceutical industry or further academic research.

Intended Start Date

September 2025

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Description

This programme explores academic, policy and practice debates in the specific field of gendered harms, considering contemporary issues through multiple disciplinary lenses. This programme’s focus on understanding and responding to gendered harms is at the forefront of current policy and practice issues and academic debates, such as tech-facilitated gendered harms, perpetrator interventions, engaging men and boys, and online misogyny.

The programme also grapples with debates about how we can develop theory-led interventions and improve research capabilities in this field to produce higher-quality evidence about “what works” to reduce and eliminate gendered harms. The central ethos of teaching will be your involvement in cutting-edge developments for public benefit, created by staff involved in delivering this programme; for example, developing pioneering Virtual Reality techniques as a first response to gender-based harm and trauma to create virtual training scenarios that are too dangerous or complex to recreate in real life settings.

You will have the unique opportunity to be involved in these developments and be encouraged to apply your learning and explore how to address different forms of Gender-Based Violence in your own communities. In its diverse forms, GBV poses issues of increasing concern that Governments at home and internationally are committed to addressing, ensuring strong prospects for graduates.

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The programme will combine theoretical, empirical and applied content to explore how gendered experiences of abuse and violence can be explained, experienced, researched and challenged in local and global contexts.

Underpinned by critical perspectives on gendered power relations, the programme’s framework will broaden the lenses with which we understand the diverse nature of gendered harms, prioritising intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches.

You will develop a critical, advanced and nuanced understanding of relevant feminist theories of gender, violence and harms, as well as feminist epistemologies and ethical methods for conducting research into gendered harms.

The programme considers emerging forms of gendered violence and harms, and the key policy and practice responses to them in local and global contexts. You will also learn to develop, implement and evaluate innovative theory-led interventions to gendered harms.

Intended Start Date

September 2025

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Description

The MSc Global Challenges in Health & Medicine programme draws upon Medical School expertise and knowledge to explore contemporary global health challenges. The programme will cover topics such as child health, health systems, inequality, maternal health, power and politics in a global context. This interdisciplinary programme aims to produce global scientists who will be impactful, analytical, assertive, creative, and embracing change.

Students will engage with a mix of face-to-face and online learning, building skills in research methods, ethics, project design and management, and proposal development. Students will have the opportunity to collaborate with international researchers in the Medical School at Swansea University through shadowing and benefit from a diverse network of guest speakers, including international clinicians, practitioners, and researchers with extensive real-world experience in global health. The programme places a strong emphasis on developing students’ impact-driven research skills, particularly through participatory action research, allowing students to cultivate the skills required to address real-world challenges in diverse global health settings.

This course will provide high-quality graduate training and skills for further postgraduate study or for those seeking employment in the global health sector, humanitarian emergency settings, policy making, academia, research and advocacy roles.

Topics Likely To Be Covered

Aging global populations, climate change and global health, epidemics and outbreaks, famine and food crisis, forced migration and displacement, global child health, health in conflict zones, mental health, methods, evaluation and ethics in global health and medicine research, non-communicable diseases, participatory action research, project management in global health and medicine and urban health.

Intended Start Date

September 2025

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Description

Swansea University is introducing the World’s first MSc in Marine Restoration and Conservation; a unique programme focused on training the next generation of scientists in the emerging field of marine ecosystem restoration.

This MSc is well positioned to meet a critical global need. The UN have declared this as the “Decade of Ecosystem Restoration”, with numerous international frameworks now highlighting the urgent need for the restoration of ocean habitats, and for nations to be meeting vital carbon reduction goals. The programme also neatly aligns with the Welsh and UK Governments’ marine conservation and restoration plans, ensuring strong prospects for graduates.

The programme looks to equip you with core skills in marine science by exposing you to active research in marine ecosystem restoration. You will gain expertise in areas such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, as well as in sustainable aquaculture through our Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research (CSAR).

You will have the opportunity to work alongside globally renowned scientists on marine restoration projects, such as seagrass and saltmarsh restoration, offering hands-on conservation experience. You will also be able to conduct your own independent research on marine conservation and restoration topics.

As global awareness and funding for ecosystem restoration grow, this MSc programme looks to educate the marine scientists of the future.

Topics Likely To Be Covered

The focus of this programme will be enabling you to develop your key skills in relation to marine science, which include the analysis of data, and statistics using the R statistical software.

In addition to this, you will also gain essential conservation and restoration expertise by conducting assessments of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, participating in fieldwork focused on conservation planning in tropical marine environments, and engaging in restoration fieldwork in temperate ecosystems.

The modules available on this programme also support the development of practical aquaculture skills, ensuring you are well equipped to enter the field of marine conservation and restoration science.

Intended Start Date

September 2025

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Description

MSc Medical Sciences is the integrative study and research of scientific disciplines, such as biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, genomics, immunology, and nanomedicine to address challenges in healthcare, diagnosis, treatment, and public health. The interdisciplinary nature of biomedical sciences underscores its importance in advancing medical knowledge and enhancing the effectiveness of healthcare interventions, bringing together these disciplines.

The overarching aim of this course is to enable students to develop personally and professionally, in order to produce scientists who will be analytical, assertive, creative, safe, confident, and decisive, embracing change, become leaders and be consumers and users of research. The programme has been developed in association with the Medical School research themes (Biomarkers and genes; Microbes and immunity; Medical Technologies) as a route to further postgraduate research and industry. The course will be designed to have a research-focus approach to applying scientific principles and research techniques to develop practical solutions for understanding and managing diseases, drug development and public health initiatives.

The ethos of this postgraduate programme is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary and will provide graduates with the skills needed for further postgraduate study e.g. PhD, and employment opportunities across the public and private sectors involved in research and development in fields such as healthcare, diagnostics, and drug development.

Topics Likely To Be Covered

• Research Skills
• Biochemistry
• Microbiology
• Immunology
• Molecular Biology
• Genetics
• Genomics
• Nanomedicine
• Pharmacology

Intended Start Date

September 2025

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Description

This programme provides an opportunity to learn the theoretical principles underpinning project management and develop the critical knowledge and skills to apply them in related professions.

The MSc in Project Management aims to provide you with robust training, covering project management fundamentals, models, tools and techniques, while incorporating essential elements of data analytics and big data systems, enabling you to become a well-rounded project manager.

You will study at sector-leading facilities in the School of Management, benefiting from existing research and teaching excellence in big data analysis and data analytics. You will be taught by academics with industry experience in project management, who have published leading research in this area.

Alongside this, you will be able to engage with the School’s established research groups in the areas of strategy, operations management, project management and business modelling, including financial analysis and strategic financial planning.

Industry collaboration will be an essential ingredient of this programme. We will be establishing close links with manufacturing, engineering, aerospace and construction sectors, and will encourage opportunities for experts in the field to deliver guest lectures. This will enable you to gain vital industry insights and learn first-hand from expert practitioners.

Once established we hope to gain professional body accreditation for the programme from the Association of Project Managers (APM).

Topics Likely To Be Covered

The programme looks to equip you with the essential knowledge and skills required for effective project planning, execution and management.

This master’s degree will provide you with numerous opportunities to develop advanced skills; using the tools and analytics techniques relevant to project management theory across a range of industries.

During your studies, the programme will look to promote strategic thinking, enable you to implement industry best practice, and enhance your leadership skills; fostering essential team management abilities that will set you up for a successful career.

Indicative topics include:

• Project Management /Advanced Project Management
• Managing Financial Resources
• Strategy
• Business Analytics
• Leadership

By the time you complete the programme, you will have mastered handling projects from inception, planning, risk management and budgeting, right through to time management in delivery, project execution, and monitoring and evaluation, covering the full spectrum of project management.

Intended Start Date

September 2025

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Description

Welcome to the Swansea University Schools’ Partnership (SUSP/PYPA), an innovative collaboration of school and university-based staff working together to ensure that ‘Tomorrow’s Teachers’ have the skills and experience to make a difference to pupils in Walesand beyond.

Well-qualified Geography teachers are in high demand across the UK. SUSP has developed an innovative Secondary Geography PGCE programme that is designed to provide new entrants to the teaching profession with confidence in their subject knowledge and in their understanding of how to teach it. This programme will prepare you to make a positive contribution to the learning communities you will be joining.

Swansea University is committed to developing research-informed reflective practitioners who can demonstrate creativity and flexibility in their teaching so that learners develop their subject competence in an environment that cultivates enjoyment.

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Swansea University’s integrated and rigorous PGCE programme will challenge you academically and professionally. The PGCE Geography programme aims to develop critical understanding of the nature of Geography and its position in the school curriculum. You will be encouraged to research and test your own approaches to Geography pedagogy to find those techniques that work best for you and for the pupils you teach.

The programme is structured to allow multiple opportunities to address all the Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership through rich learning experiences that reinforce, evaluate and support professional proficiency.

Intended Start Date

September 2025

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Description

Welcome to the Swansea University Schools’ Partnership (SUSP/PYPA), an innovative collaboration of school and university-based staff working together to ensure that ‘Tomorrow’s Teachers’ have the skills and experience to make a difference to pupils in Wales and beyond.

Well-qualified History teachers are in high demand across the UK. SUSP has developed an innovative Secondary History PGCE programme that is designed to provide new entrants to the teaching profession with confidence in their subject knowledge and in their understanding of how to teach it. This programme will prepare you to make a positive contribution to the learning communities you will be joining.

Swansea University is committed to developing research-informed reflective practitioners who can demonstrate creativity and flexibility in their teaching so that learners develop their subject competence in an environment that cultivates enjoyment.

Topics Likely To Be Covered

Swansea University’s integrated and rigorous PGCE programme will challenge you academically and professionally. The PGCE History programme aims to develop critical understanding of the nature of History and its position in the school curriculum. You will be encouraged to research and test your own approaches to History pedagogy to find those techniques that work best for you and for the pupils you teach.

The programme is structured to allow multiple opportunities to address all the Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership through rich learning experiences that reinforce, evaluate and support professional proficiency.

Intended Start Date

September 2025

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