• Learning in the field and lab, focusing on local and global biological issues, students will join the Biosciences team – ranked 6th nationally for student experience by the Guardian and The Times.
  • Students will explore the form and function of animals, their adaptions to the environment, interaction, physiology, and evolution. Students will examine animal behavior from ants to primates and learn how to conduct surveys for a variety of animal populations.
  • Students will have the opportunity to progress from field training in the UK to field research overseas, in the Savannah of South Africa, the tropical rainforests of Borneo, or the mountains of Switzerland.
  • Throughout, students will be guided by lecturers awarded for their teaching excellence and media work, and internationally recognized for their frontline conservation research in bioscience.
  • Students will learn through fieldwork, laboratory analysis, seminars, debates, and lectures. Around 75% of the assessment is by coursework, through consultancy reports, presentations, essays, scientific reports, and practical tests with an emphasis on active research areas.