MRes Biosciences

Our Biosciences MRes at Sheffield is aimed at those with a strong motivation to pursue a career in research. The course provides you with opportunities to pursue in-depth research and further develop your scientific skills within a world leading, research-focused School of Biosciences. Youll be embedded within a lab with academics from one of our Research Clusters:
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Development, Regeneration and Neurophysiology, Molecular Biology: Biochemistry to Disease
Molecular and Cellular Biology, Plants, Photosynthesis and Soils.
Our research spans the full breadth of biology from cells and genes, to human biology to biodiversity and climate change.

Our world-class research will underpin your training whether you are interested in biotechnology, plant biology, photosynthesis, sustainable agriculture, stem cell biology, disease (cancer, ageing, covid), antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance, cell, human, molecular, population and evolutionary genetics, microbiology, conservation biology, biodiversity, or sustainability.

Your career
The immersive nature of your MRes course will equip you with the breadth of research experience and range of specialist skills to prepare you for a career as a leader in bioscience.
Our students go on to work in top 100 organisations around the world, government organisations and a variety of charities and NGOs. Many continue their postgraduate studies with a PhD. Whatever your career plans are, you will be supported by our Skills and Employability team to prepare you for the next stage of your career.