one year postgraduate taught courses provide an innovative programme of study in which students are challenged to achieve their best; developing specialist skills and knowledge sought after by employers, as well as establishing an ideal background for PhD research. Polymers and polymer composites are increasingly important in our everyday life and can be found everywhere around us. At the same time, more and more high performance speciality polymers and polymer nanocomposites have been developed for advanced engineering, plastic electronics, and biomedical applications. Bringing together expertise from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemistry, and further supported by the Polymer Centre, the UK’s largest single-university academic network in the field of polymers, this course will provide you with a thorough understanding of advanced topics on polymer and composite science and engineering. You’ll have access to state-of-the-art facilities and expertise in the areas of polymer and composite synthesis, manufacture, characterisation and testing. The course is taught through lectures, tutorials, seminars and a dedicated laboratory-based practical module. Through group work and individual oral and written presentations you’ll develop a set of skills that will give you a solid foundation for the rest of your career.