Master’s Programme Awards in Humanities and Social Science: MScR (Bioethics) (360G-Wellcome-213394_Z_18_Z)

Established in 1996, the Centre for Ethics in Medicine has a longstanding record of providing excellent postgraduate education in healthcare ethics and law/bioethics, through PhD, taught Masters and research Masters courses. Our current MSc by Research (MScR), which is designed to equip students for future bioethics research, offers students the opportunity to develop their own research in a structured and supported environment. It provides a distinctive opportunity in UK higher education to engage in a research-focussed bioethics Masters’ degree, which supports the acquisition of topic knowledge, skills and research experience essential for progression to PhD study but rarely provided in PGT programmes. We seek to provide an immersive experience, with MScR students joining our thriving research community. Beyond core training and research activities, and auditing other relevant teaching and training, students attend and present at the Centre research seminar series, and participate in Centre conferences and workshops. Significantly, our MScR students are also closely supported by Centre staff to develop funding applications for doctoral study. We specifically aim to grow this programme into a national feeder programme for research careers in bioethics, including as a feeder into our own PhD programmes, to develop the next generation of talented bioethics researchers.