School of Biological Sciences

About the School

The School of Biological Sciences currently has 26 academic staff, 36 postdoctoral fellows, research assistants and research technicians, a teaching support team of 7 and a central administrative team of 6.

The undergraduate and postgraduate student population is around 550.

We pride ourselves on our supportive and friendly atmosphere, the excellent standard of our teaching and the diversity and quality of our research.

We teach degree courses and undertake research across the whole spectrum of modern biology, from biomedicine and molecular genetics through to organismal biology, ecology and conservation.