Geographical Information Science (GIS) provides powerful solutions to real-world problems using the world’s most advanced technologies.

GIS captures, stores, manages and displays data related to positions on the Earth’s surface so you can better understand spatial patterns and relationships.

Every day around the world, GIS is used to solve complex problems. As a result, it is becoming integrated into almost every discipline.

From population dynamics, estate planning, logistics management, public health surveillance, and telecommunications to tracking deforestation, environmental management and predicting climate change - GIS is changing how the world works....

This programme offers a linguistic perspective on real-world problems of language in use, with a strong emphasis on developing skills and knowledge that can be applied in a wide range of professional settings. In Applied Linguistics, we draw on knowledge about language, how it works and how its used in order to contribute to real-life issues.

We:
- examine language and other communicative modes in a variety of social settings such as everyday conversation, educational settings, medical settings, digital and social media

- focus on language variability; for example, bilingualism, accents,...

Animal welfare science and ethics is an expanding topic of international concern. It aims to improve our knowledge and understanding of animals’ needs, which is required to provide a high standard of care to the whole range of animals kept in captivity.

**WHY THIS PROGRAMME**

- 1st in the UK for Veterinary Medicine (Complete University Guide 2021).

- Learn with the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine (IBAHCM), a grouping of top researchers who focus on combining ecology and evolution with more applied problems in animal health.
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This programme provides an intensive grounding in the philosophy of cognitive science, its methodologies, research questions and techniques of research with an emphasis on issues surrounding situated and embodied cognition.

By choosing this programme, you will be entering one of the most exciting areas of contemporary research in philosophy of mind, an increasingly popular field in which many large unsolved problems remain.

**Key research areas**

This programme examines the wide landscape of issues that arise where philosophy of mind meets the study of psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science.

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The Masters provides advanced training in creative practice with sound and audiovisual technologies. The programme offers topics relevant to practicing musicians, artists, and the creative industries, such as sound shaping and design, audiovisual composition, field recording, creative and experimental approaches to technology, live performance, interdisciplinary perspectives on sound, and sonic aesthetics. You then develop an individual portfolio of sonic and audiovisual artwork based on your particular skills and interests.

**WHY THIS PROGRAMME**

- We are Scotland’s leading research centre in Music, with a mutually supportive community of scholars and practitioners.

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From the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis to the question of managing economies during a global pandemic - the topic of sustainability has never been more pressing.

The MSc Ecological Economics prepares you to contribute to solving sustainability problems by focusing on the intersection between:

* the environment

* the economy

* and economic decision-making

This programme aims to equip you with a new way of seeing the world.

We will empower you to analyse how the economy and...

Infection Medicine (IM) is a multidisciplinary centre at the University of Edinburgh that consists of academic and clinical research groups within the Edinburgh Medical School working on infectious diseases. The centre focuses on basic, translational and clinical aspects of infectious diseases caused by a broad range of different pathogens, and is part of the Edinburgh Infectious Diseases umbrella organization.

Involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching for Biomedical Sciences, Biological Sciences and Medical students, the centre has developed an extended teaching and training portfolio.

Staff and students come from across the world...

**Why study this programme?**

Based in the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS), the MSc is uniquely positioned to draw expertise from the world class staff based in the vet school, Roslin Institute and the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security.

Globally, poor food safety affects 600 million people and results in 420,000 deaths in a year (World Health Organisation report; Estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases, 2015).

This report highlighted the importance of producing safe food to save human lives, reduce morbidity, conserve resources and improve...

Access to good and healthy food is a basic human right.

However, in 2022, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that about 29.6% of the global population is food insecure. In recent years, the prevalence of food insecurity has increased globally due to a global food shortage.

Several challenges are generating this complex situation, such as:

- climate shocks

- finite resources

- political crises

- globalisation

- the Covid-19 pandemic

- cost of...

The aim of this programme is to help you gain interdisciplinary knowledge “from molecules to mind” and develop research skills in cognitive brain imaging, fundamental neuroscience and brain disorders. Over the last two decades there has been an explosion of interest in brain science across academia, industry and the media. The integration of cognitive brain imaging with neuroscience plays a central part in discovering how the brain functions in health and disease in the 21st century, as illustrated by the Human Brain Project in Europe and The Brain Initiative in the USA.

**WHY THIS PROGRAMME**
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