This module provides the interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills needed for your future career. You will develop a broader awareness of the bigger picture of where your degree fits within the life sciences and the professional environment. Key themes include stakeholder engagement, ethical decision-making, and sustainability. You will build communication skills through group work, presentations, and pitching ideas to diverse audiences. Seminars and collaborative projects will help you apply entrepreneurial thinking and develop your leadership abilities. By integrating sustainability principles with commercial awareness and policy insight, this module enhances your employability and prepares you to drive meaningful change in your chosen field. You will have the opportunity to gain an additional qualification in Carbon Literacy within this module.

This module explores a wide range of conservation theories and techniques, focusing on their practical application in the management of wild animal populations. You will examine how your existing knowledge of genetics, ecology, and animal behaviour can inform and enhance conservation strategies. Through a combination of key case studies and hands-on activities, you will gain practical experience in genetic analysis, including techniques used to investigate population structure. The module also introduces new perspectives in conservation genetics, wildlife forensics, animal behaviour, and management, encouraging you to critically evaluate their relevance and applicability to real-world conservation challenges.

In this module, you will engage in the research of a selected topic relevant to your course. You will have the opportunity to delve deeply into a subject of your choice, utilising primary and secondary sources to inform your work. You will consider the ethics and health and safety aspects of conducting your project, and apply your prior training in experimental design and analysis. Throughout the process, you will develop your critical thinking and analytical skills, whilst conducting this independent research with the support of a lecturer. The dissertation represents a substantial piece of scholarly work that demonstrates your understanding and application of scientific concepts relevant to your course. Additionally, you will refine your skills in academic writing and effective communication of complex ideas. Overall, the dissertation represents the culmination of your education, preparing you to become a biological scientist.

Biotechnology aims to use biology to enhance society. Covering areas ranging from generating new approaches to improve human health, creating improvements to food production, improving the environment, to generating new and improved biomaterials, biotechnology is a developing industry that has the potential to hugely benefit humanity and the world at large. This module will build your knowledge of the underlying principles, techniques and technology needed to apply biology positively and for the benefit of all.

This module aims to provide you with an understanding of pharmacology and toxicology and the way that medicines and drugs impact the body. The module will provide you with an overview of the methods used to evaluate the effectiveness, and toxicity, of these molecules, and consider the mechanisms in action when exposed to major classes of medicines, drugs and toxins.