Other Research Areas in the Department Applicants should make contact directly with potential supervisors to discuss research possibilities. Students are not accepted unless members of staff consent to act as supervisors. The Department of Biological Sciences is a multidisciplinary department conducting research on a wide range of contemporary biological problems.
Staff collaborate strongly, generating multidisciplinary and innovative research funding.
This has been recognised in the proliferation of research grants from both government and industry, special research centres and the many high-quality research publications from the Department. All postgraduate research students are required to give one seminar each year in the BIOL801 Postgraduate Seminar series, which is conducted during the November examination period. All members of the department attend this course. All postgraduate students who are taking their degrees by thesis must submit a report on their research work to their supervisor in order to progress to the following year. In general the report should be as concise as possible and written in the same format as a scientific paper.