Masters by Research
The Scottish Marine Institute offers one-year full-time research projects (two-year part-time) leading to the award of Masters by Research from the University of the Highlands and Islands.
Research projects are offered within research areas including:
- Marine renewable energy
- Physical oceanography
- Climate processes
- Marine ecology - from coastal to deep sea
- Arctic seas and sea ice dynamics
- Modelling
- Marine policy and governance
- Aquaculture and fisheries
- Microbial and molecular biology
- Sediment geochemistry
- Palaeoceanography
- Biogeochemistry
Funded projects are advertised here...
Follow this link for a list of titles for self-funded MSc projects.
If you have an interest in becoming a postgraduate research student at the Scottish Marine Institute, please contact us with some details.



