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Expert Guidance

Our students are taught by world-class researchers starting in year one, and this contact with researchers and research issues continues throughout their programmes.

Tutorials

Our first year students in groups of 5 or 6, meet regularly with an academic for tutorials.

Here Adam Price is discussing a data analysis exercise with Conservation Biology students. The tutorials are great because they help students meet other students, help students become part of the school, help students develop a relationship with staff; they also are good for learning about science.

Guest lectures

In our Organismal Biology course (BI1005), once a week students have a guest research lecture. These lectures are hugely popular because they provide insight into how science is done and the speaker's passion for their own research is infectious.

One example from this year was Ewan Campbell explaining his work with Alan Bowman on molecular approaches to addressing the infestation of honey bee hives by deadly mites.

Expert teaching

During the fourth year, a range of courses are offered that capitalize on our expertise.

For example, in Sustainable Aquaculture (ZO4811), students work with Sam Martin , a fish diet specialist, Chris Secombes , a fish immunologist, and Alan Bowman , an expert on sea lice.

Find out more about our innovative teaching methods and how our students engage with research

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