Postgraduate Research
The School offers PhD, MPhil and Masters of Dental Science research degree qualifications. Our research degree schemes are individually structured to provide the opportunity to undertake original and independent research, enabling you to make an expert contribution to a field of knowledge.
Many of our projects are interdisciplinary and translational in nature, contributing to the discovery of new knowledge relevant to orofacial medicine and allied subjects of medical science and engineering. Our primary objective is to provide internationally competitive research projects. To achieve this you will be supervised by an experienced academic team. Projects are therefore linked to the research interests of academic staff, many of whom are leaders within their field. Our research projects principally fall within the following research themes:
Applied Clinical Research and Public Health
Aim: to inform the effectiveness, efficiency and organisation of care including disease prevention, and health promotion
Learning & Scholarship
Aim: to improve the pedagogical understanding of dental education
Tissue Engineering and Reparative Dentistry
Aim: to understand the cellular and molecular control underlying soft and mineralised tissue repair and remodelling in health, disease and injury for developments of novel diagnosis and therapies.
To provide for high quality research, our research facilities have recently (2010) undergone a £2.5M refurbishment to expand and improve the clinical and translational research environment. Our research laboratories boast large modernised tissue culture, microbiology and pathology suites and modern, high-tech research equipment including automated time-lapse light and fluorescent microscopy, confocal microscopy, chromatography for protein purification, molecular biology facilities, including real-time PCR and 3D facial imaging.
The School has its own, in-house Clinical Trials Unit and excellent on-site IT and library facilities. You will work within a highly interactive research environment which aims to provide support and co-operation from all our academic staff, postdoctoral researchers and fellow postgraduate students. Our research is also supported through numerous research collaborations within the University, throughout Wales, the UK and internationally.
Through exploration and experimentation, your research project will provide a wide training in research methodology and technique and enable you to gain a thorough understanding of a specialised subject area. In addition, students undertake training to develop invaluable generic and transferable skills to improve personal effectiveness in scientific communication, team-working, networking, project design and management, decision-making, and creative and critical thinking. You will be encouraged to report your research through conferences and journal publications, and you will often be provided with networking opportunities through our numerous collaborative partnerships.
At Cardiff, you will join a diverse and thriving community of some 7,600 postgraduates from a wide variety of cultures, countries, social, religious and ethnic backgrounds. Cardiff University is committed to providing a high-quality postgraduate experience, academically, socially, and culturally, and delivers many varied opportunities to make all its students feel comfortable and happy and a part of the wider research community within the University.
Contact: Professor Rachel Waddington
Email:dentaladmissions@cardiff.ac.uk
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