Do you have an interest in developing your career in regulatory or quality role in the pharmaceutical, medical device or healthcare industries? Do you want to enhance your employment prospects with a new and emerging career pathway? The Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Regulatory Sciences may be just the right course for you!

This level-9 Postgraduate Diploma offers students a qualification in how to apply a science-driven approach to ensure medicines are developed and manufactured to the highest quality standards. Programme content has been designed to meet the existing needs and emerging trends of the pharmaceutical industry. Graduates will not only be trained on the regulatory affairs applied in the pharmaceutical industry, but will also develop skills on the science and risk based methods applied in drug development and manufacture. The course is designed in a blended learning format combining online learning elements with face-to-face workshops, providing students with a modern ‘flipped classroom’ approach to learning. Finally, this course is designed to broaden the professional development of all candidates, including challenging students to use critical-thinking to overcome industrial problems and to develop transferable skills to advance their careers.

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The Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Regulatory Sciences is suitable for those wishing to pursue a career in a regulatory and/or quality assurance role in the pharmaceutical, medical device and/or healthcare industries. The course is designed in a blended learning format, with learning material available both online and in a face-to-face format. Student workload will be up to 20 hours per week with a minimum of 20 additional study hours per week. Students will complete 60 credits as follows:

• ST6024 Introduction to Probability & Statistics (5 credits): To provide a strong foundation in the principles of statistics & probability and its application to an industrial setting
• ST6025 Statistical Modelling (5 credits): Theory of regression models and generalised linear models and its application in predicting outcomes.
• ST6026 Basics of Machine Learning (5 credits): Foundational theory and applications of statistical learning, data science and machine learning
• PF6026 Pharmaceutical Technology and Unit Operations (5 credits): Scientific theory and technologies behind the manufacture of drug substances and drug products
• PF6027 Pharmaceutical GxP and Regulatory Science (5 credits): An overview of regulatory affairs in the pharmaceutical industry and the scientific tools applied in evaluating quality of medicines
• PF6028 Process Control and Validation for Pharmaceutical Processes (5 credits): Introduction to the principles of validation, qualification and process control in the pharmaceutical industry
• PF6029 Biotechnology-derived & Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) (5 credits): An overview of the development, production, translation and regulation of biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals and ATMPs (e.g., vaccines, gene medicines)
• EH6136 Pharmacoepidemiology (5 credits): To develop skills in the study of the utilisation and effects of drugs in large numbers of people
• EH6137 Pharmaceutical Data Management and Pharmacovigilance (5 credits): Introduction to pharmacovigilance, incorporating drug safety, comparative effectiveness, adverse event detection and reporting.
• PF6030 Industrial based project and skills development for an industry-based setting (15 credits): Practical experience in addressing a research question and conducting a research project on a topic of relevance to the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, this module will provide careers training