Course Overview

The MRes History is a taught postgraduate research course that sits in between our MA provision and Ph.D. research degrees. It equips you with the advanced historical research skills and conceptual framework needed to complete an individual, large-scale research project. The program centers on the research and writing of a 30,000-word dissertation which allows you to demonstrate the advanced historical research skills learned in the two core modules. This course is ideal for self-motivated and committed students who already have an MA in a humanities subject, and wish to research and write on a defined historical topic from pre-history to contemporary history. Students who take this course often do so because they wish to do independent, professional research or in preparation for research at the Ph.D. level. Graduates can pursue careers in research and archiving, education, the heritage industry, publication, and the media, the charity sector, and journalism. Possible professions include historian, higher education lecturer, or archivist. This degree provides a range of transferable skills, which may be useful in becoming a journalist, heritage manager, politicians assistant, academic librarian, or museum/gallery curator.

General Eligibility

A second-class honors degree (2.2 or above) and an MA degree (with a Merit or above). At least one of these degrees should be in history.

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, the requirement for this course is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 7.0, with not less than 6.5 in each of the sub-tests and at least 7.0 in writing.