Location
Streatham Campus, Exeter
The MRes is designed as a preparation for anyone wishing to undertake research into tourism and its related disciplines. In addition to a substantial research-based dissertation, you will learn core research skills for the social sciences, their theoretical underpinnings, and data collection and analysis techniques. You will also learn the fundamental theoretical concepts of management and interdisciplinary studies of tourism.
You will gain an understanding of the position of tourism in the contemporary social sciences, learn how this links to management and business theory, and how management theory also draws on research in tourism studies. In doing so, you will acquire a range of skills in the capture, analysis and presentation of tourism data. These skills are especially relevant to careers in academic, public and private research in tourism.
In addition to the support and facilities provided by the University and the Business School, you will also benefit from a guest speakers forum with a number of practitioners and researchers who are invited to address students as well as the Centre for Sport, Leisure and Tourism Studies Research Seminar Programme incorporating visiting speakers and departmental researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds who will present the findings of their current research on topics in tourism. We also offer fieldwork assistance - competitive access to small bursaries where a student's independent research work for the dissertation has demonstrable application to external partners.
