MRes in Health and Wellbeing

This collaborative, interdisciplinary pathway brings together key academics within the South West Doctoral Training Centre (SWDTC) who possess research and teaching strengths in the broad area of health and wellbeing, in particular, lifestyle behaviours and public health.

Students on this pathway acquire a range of skills to develop and evaluate interventions and strategies to improve health behaviour. Your work will make a major impact on understandings of the social science underpinnings of avoidable health problems, and will build research capacity at the interface of biomedical and social sciences within and beyond academia.

All students have two supervisors representing different disciplinary perspectives on health and wellbeing.

Core units

• Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Design
• Contemporary Debates in Lifestyle
• Behaviours and Public Health

Optional units

These can be taken at either Bristol, Bath or Exeter. Please see our website for details on the units offered by the Universities of Bath and Exeter. Please note: units may be subject to change.

Units available at Bristol

• Researching Health and Social Care
• Further Approaches to Qualitative Research
• Researching Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
• Researching Child and Family Welfare
• Domestic Violence: Research, Policy and Activism
• Physical Activity, Disease and Public Health
• Nutrition, Disease and Public Health
• Determinants of Activity and Eating Behaviour
• Physical Activity and Nutrition Interventions: Conceptualisation and Design
• Inclusive Research with Disabled People
• Psychological Statistics
• Advanced Psychological Statistics

Dissertation

Over the summer you will complete a research-based dissertation of up to 15,000 words, individually supervised by a member of staff from one of the centres in the School.