Research

Your own research

The Biomedical Science degree cherry picks the interesting parts of medicine, biochemistry and psychology (in my opinion) and allows us to choose which of these we want to study more of from our second year, and continue to specialise in our third year. This gives me a great deal of control over my learning.

My degree also includes an 8-week lab project, which gives you a real insight into experimental work.

Tamsin

Many of our undergraduate courses give their students the opportunity to follow their own research, in depth, for a dissertation or research project.

These pieces of independent research often take place towards the end of a degree, and allow you to focus on a subject that you've found particularly interesting and to develop excellent research skills.

Visit the website for your course to discover what research opportunities are built into the programme.

Oxford recognises the excellent research carried out by our undergraduate students by awarding many college, department or University-wide prizes each year.

Our undergraduates also compete for national and international prizes for their research - for instance, a multi-disciplinary team from Biology and Medicine won an international prize for their work to provide affordable, long term carbon capture an industrial scale by harnessing genetically modified cyanobacteria.

Find out about the research opportunities offered by your course.