This MRes in Linguistics is a pre-doctoral training programme designed to provide a critical, research led approach to the study of Linguistics, across a broad disciplinary range of subfields (sociolinguistics, formal linguistics, experimental linguistics, developmental linguistics), within each of which the Linguistics Department has world-leading expertise. This advanced subject specific training will be combined with training in the key research skills appropriate for Doctoral level study. Alongside a suite of substantive modules offered in conjunction with the Department's MA Linguistics, the programme includes core modules taken jointly with social science students from a range of disciplines across QMUL, Kings College London and Imperial College as part of the training offered by the ESRC funded London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership. The MRes Linguistics is in an approved pathway for ESRC funding, enabling students to apply for ESRC 1+3 funding to cover both the MRes and a PhD, and successful MRes graduates to apply subsequently for ESRC +3 PhD funding.