• Develop you into a confident, independent researcher by teaching you essential research skills
• Enable you to plan, execute, and evaluate your own biological research
• Give you a stand-alone research qualification or bridge the gap between an undergraduate degree and PhD
• Allow you to study full-time or part-time to support your other commitments
• Provide you with the opportunity to conduct a substantial research project within your field of interest and under expert supervision

Specialised facilities

We have specialised laboratory facilities available for your research projects. Our facilities will help develop lab skills required for lab projects and laboratory experiments. These include a molecular laboratory housing qPCR and DGGE equipment, an imaging suite, human cell culture facility, a dedicated microbiology laboratory, and an analytical suite housing GC/MS, HPLC, AAS, UV-Vis, IC as well as a scanning electron microscope and transmission microscope. We have also recently secured £850k of capital funding to establish a new Omics facility. This ultra-modern, innovative research facility will provide training in the new and emerging fields of genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics.