MRes Health Informatics

Start date: 1st October

The MRes in Health Informatics is designed for those with experience in health informatics and who want to make a contribution to the field by helping develop the knowledge base.

This developing discipline is becoming an increasingly important component of health provision in the 21^st Century.

Your course builds on the successful MSc in Health Informatics which has been running at Swansea University since 2001.

Your two-year part-time programme will feature:

• Focus on primary research
• Research skills developed through three short modules as you develop your health informatics research project in the first nine months of the course
• The second-year comprises of supervised completion of a research-based thesis
• The research project may be undertaken within your place of work
• The research is supported within an organisation with a strong research reputation and you will have one-to-one supervision at all stages of the research process
• Through partnerships with National Health Service (NHS) bodies in Wales, we can offer a range of research opportunities
• Practice-focused learning
• You will draw on skills from the broader academic community

During your course, you will benefit from our highly regarded specialist facilities and our top-ranking research programmes. Your degree is based within the award-winning Centres for Excellence for Administrative Data and eHealth Research at Swansea University, as awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the Medical Research Council (MRC).

• Swansea University Medical School is a leading UK centre for medical research
• Top 5 for overall research quality (REF2021)
• Postgraduate students will have access to facilities in the £100 million Institute of Life Science (ILS)
• Academics conducting leading world research