Program Overview

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Fieldwork

You’ll conduct fieldwork both on campus and further afield, with the opportunity to practise your scientific skills in a non-controlled environment. You’ll visit several sites, including Birdworld, the Natural History Museum, Merristwood College, the Millennium Seedbank and the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

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Facilities

You’ll benefit from hands-on learning in our £12.5 million

Innovation for Health Learning Laboratory

, where TV screens are used to show you how to conduct experiments and follow scientific protocols.

The Laboratory is fitted with the latest industry equipment that you’ll use to carry out a full range of experiments. These include studying the microorganisms used in biotechnology and those that cause human infectious diseases, exploring cell biology to understand the make-up of cells and tissues, and delving into molecular biology to study genes and their biochemistry, physiology and regulation. You’ll complete your first experiment within your first two weeks.

The time you spend in our facilities will give you the opportunity to familiarise yourself with biological science methodology and develop the practical laboratory experience that’s essential in a research career and valued by a wide range of employers.

In your final year, depending on your research project, you may also get to use our dissertation laboratory.

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Teaching staff

We have a research-led focus to our teaching, ensuring everything you learn is up-to-date and relevant to employers. You’ll be taught by

lecturers

who are active researchers. These may include:

Dr Kikki Bodman-Smith

, an immunologist with expertise in inflammatory diseases

Dr Alison Cottell

, an expert in antibiotic and biocide bacterial resistance who’s previously worked as a biomedical scientist

Dr Lorenzo Santorelli

, an evolutionary biologist with expertise in co-operative behaviour in macro and microorganisms.

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Professional recognition

BSc (Hons) - Royal Society of Biology

Accredited by the Royal Society of Biology for the purpose of meeting, in part, the academic and experience requirement of membership and Chartered Biologist (CBiol).

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Careers and graduate prospects

We offer

careers information, advice and guidance

to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.

This course will prepare you for a wide range of careers, from scientific and technical roles in specialised areas, through to those which draw upon the breadth of biological sciences, such as teaching and science journalism.

97% of our biosciences and medicine students go on to employment or further study.* Typical roles include:

Healthcare scientists

Laboratory technicians

Quality officers.

Our alumni can be found in hospital, academic and industrial research laboratories around the world, with recent graduates working for:

AstraZeneca

GlaxoSmithKline

Novartis

Procter and Gamble

Public Health England

The Food Standards Agency

Thermo Fisher Scientific.

With the critical thinking, analysis, problem solving, decision-making, and communication skills learnt throughout the course, several graduates have sought alternative careers in leisure, management and retail industries. Many students also use this course to apply for further study, including postgraduate research, and graduate dentistry and medicine programmes.

*Graduate Outcomes survey 2022, HESA