Clinical Sciences MRes

University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool’s MRes in Clinical Sciences is designed to provide advanced, research-led training grounded in real-world laboratory and clinical environments. This programme combines specialist academic teaching with the opportunity to undertake a substantial, tailored research project aligned to your interests and career ambitions. A defining feature of this MRes is our close integration with leading NHS partners, including the Walton Centre, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Liverpool Heart and Chest. Through these collaborations, students can access exclusive, clinically embedded research projects, offering hands-on experience and research project opportunities in active healthcare settings. This level of direct engagement with these specialist hospitals is a distinctive advantage to studying this programme with the University of Liverpool. Through this programme, you can follow a general clinical science pathway or specialise in cardiovascular and metabolic medicine, eye and vision science, musculoskeletal and ageing science, or women and children’s health. Across all pathways, you’ll engage with cutting-edge science and clinical research, explore current healthcare challenges, and examine how evidence-based practice drives innovation in diagnosis, treatment, and patient care. The year-long research project provides opportunities for publications including presentations at conferences. The programme provides intensive preparation for future careers including academia, clinical research, the healthcare sector or further education including PhD study. You’ll develop the skills to design and deliver high-quality research – from formulating a proposal and identifying relevant evidence, to conducting research, analysing and communicating your findings with impact. Alongside this, you’ll build key transferable skills in critical thinking, project management, and scientific communication. You’ll be supported by expert researchers within the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, whose work addresses pressing health challenges across the lifespan and contributes to improving outcomes for patients locally and globally. To explore the range of projects previously available and the kinds of opportunities you may be able to access through our academic and clinical partnerships, explore the research project choices available.