Location
Cornwall Campus
The Master of Research (MRes) in Environment, Energy and Resilience engages the latest critical thinking on risk management, critical infrastructure, public regulation, policy studies and the environmental sciences. It is designed to develop your understanding of key debates relating to environmental challenges, energy resource use and security, and the resilience and adaptability of human systems. It aims to equip you with a broad based and relevant knowledge of research approaches and methods in the interdisciplinary fields of environment and energy studies, and the social responses to issues therein.
The programme aims to prepare you for a career as a professional researcher in either academic or non-academic environments. The core training in interdisciplinary social scientific philosophy, epistemology, methodology and analysis is set within a contemporary context, allowing you to apply the wider concepts and skills introduced in the broader social scientific setting to specific topics of enquiry in environment and energy. You will be encouraged to review and critically evaluate approaches to research and their application, and to identify and investigate your own research questions.
The MRes Environment, Energy and Resilience is accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of the larger ESRC funded South West Doctoral Training Centre, a partnership off the universities of Exeter, Bristol and Bath. The programme builds on the research strengths of each institution through the inclusion of collaborative units (delivered jointly by the three institutions). The MRes also forms the first year of a collaborative 1+3 (MRes + MPhil/PhD) pathway, which includes further collaborative elements with all three institutions.
