Fieldwork
Prospective students often want to know what opportunities there might be for travel in a life science career. While not all types of job will involve this, we caught up …
Course: So You Want to Study Life Science?
A career in science communication
The field of taking some of the complex concepts in science and successfully explaining them to others is a rapidly expanding one. It is vital that as life scientists we …
An overview of life science careers for graduates
Often when we think of a career in science, our thoughts are limited to what we’ve seen depicted on TV and this often seems to revolve around working in a …
Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology
Genetics is a subject that we often hear discussed in the media – and is full of interesting challenges and ethical issues. Related subject areas include molecular and cellular biology …
Sports science and physiology
We’ll now move on to two increasingly popular subject areas – sports science and physiology. At some universities you can also study nutrition in the same group of subjects.
Plant science
In the next couple of steps we’ll look at some of the diverse areas within life science. We start with ‘plant science’ – a sometimes overlooked but hugely important area. …
Many pieces in one subject?
If you’ve studied biology at school you’ll likely have covered a wide range of life sciences, but probably only have touched on each very superficially. If you’ve looked at cells …
