Biosciences

  • 5th in the UK for Biosciences in The Guardian University Guide 2013
  • 90 per cent of Biosciences research classified as being of international quality with world leading research undertaken in all of our research groups (RAE 2008)
  • Excellent facilities with a £25 million investment in state-of-the-art laboratories and platform technologies
  • The current value of ongoing research within Biosciences is more than £40 million funded from research councils, charities, UK government, the EU Commission, and industrial companies
  • Research regularly published in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 8th for Biology in the National Student Survey (2011)1
  • High quality research supervision to develop and nurture the scientific potential of all graduates
  • Opportunities to enhance your learning on a field course in Africa, onboard the Cefas research vessel, or working with biotechnology or conservation organisation

1 based on the average percentage of positive responses across all survey categories for full service universities 

We are a vibrant and rapidly expanding centre for research and teaching across a broad spectrum of subject areas ranging from molecular genetics, biochemistry and bioinformatics to whole organism studies, conservation and ecology. We offer generous scholarships and have an excellent track record in graduate training, based on leading research and close collaboration with industry.

Biosciences play a central role in two of the University’s interdisciplinary research themes: Climate Change and Sustainable Futures, and Systems Biology, through which we have benefitted from a number of academic appointments and a £1 million investment in platform technologies. Thirty five new funded PhD students have joined us to undertake exciting and vital research in these areas, exploring diverse issues including turtle conservation, ocean acidification, human disease-related genes, the development of insecticide resistance and vaccine identification.