It impinges on Pharmacy and PCS degrees, in the analysis of drugs and drug metabolites, it also is found in the Biomedical Science degree where it is applied to the analysis of biological fluids, and it can also be found as an optional part of the Biogeography and Human Ecology degrees where it underpins the analysis of environmental pollutants. Analysis is based on both 'wet' chemistry, and instrumental methods of analysis. Analytical instrumentation is housed both in specialised labs and also more generally in the Chemistry Division.
Teaching is undertaken in small groups with a member of staff instructing each technique.
Staff have a range of research interests, but analysis in biological environments forms an interface between analytical chemistry and biomedicine, for instance, with the development of in vivo nitric oxide sensors. Also analysis using biological reagents is an interest, as in the development of quartz crystal microbalance technology.