POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH
As a research-intensive university with a proud heritage of discovery – from splitting the atom to advancing materials science and pioneering AI – we offer an environment where ambitious minds are supported to turn potential into impact.
Go beyond your master’s and take on new challenges through postgraduate research.
Completing a master’s degree is a significant achievement – and at The University of Manchester, it can also be just the beginning. Many of our postgraduate taught students go on to pursue postgraduate research, building careers that contribute to the ideas and innovations that help address global challenges and improve lives.
Postgraduate research offers an opportunity to explore a subject you're passionate about, make original contributions to your field, and help solve real-world problems. The analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills you’ve developed at master’s level are precisely those needed to thrive in a postgraduate research environment – and continue to be valuable throughout your career, whether in academia, industry, public policy or beyond.
Choosing to pursue a research degree is more than continuing your studies – it’s the start of a career driven by curiosity, purpose and possibility.
To explore your options and discover where postgraduate research could take you, visit our Faculty of Science and Engineering postgraduate research page.
You’ll work with internationally recognised academic supervisors, collaborate across disciplines and access facilities at the forefront of innovation.
Explore what our PhD researchers do in the lab from daily experiments to major discoveries on our website
Find out what it costs to live and study as a PhD researcher in Manchester on our website
Discover what life in Manchester is like for our PhD researchers and their top city tips on our website
Watch PhD researchers Modinat and Georgie share what postgraduate research is really like – from funding and daily life to working at the edge of innovative, and sometimes unpredictable, science.
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