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School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences

About us

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

At the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, innovation across different disciplines has always helped foster academic excellence, leading to world-changing discoveries. This pioneering spirit thrives today with discoveries at the interfaces between biology and psychology, biochemistry and healthy-ageing, and organismal biology and biochemistry. The impact of this research has included understanding the genetic basis of addiction and achieving changes in policy to protect ecosystems and the environment.

By bringing disciplines together and combining theory and experiment, the School of Biological and Behavioural Science has become a leading institution in the biological and psychological sciences.

Teaching

Our students experience inspirational teaching from high calibre staff who are leaders in their field. Many of our courses are accredited, further boosting our students’ employability. We are also an international school and operate a course with Nanchang University in China.

Research

As you’d expect from a Russell Group university, Queen Mary has a thriving academic community, and is ranked ninth in the UK for research impact among multi-faculty institutions. According to the REF 2014, the official UK-wide assessment of university research, 82% of our biology research is either world-leading or internationally excellent.

Industry

We have well-established research and teaching links with institutions such as the Natural History Museum and Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, as well as close links to industry partners such as Cefas and the Environment Agency.  

Facilities

Our school recently benefited from a £4.5m refurbishment to build brand new laboratories, as well as investing over £1m in state-of-the-art equipment. Our students enjoy living on central London’s only campus university.

Our Head of School is Professor Richard Pickersgill, Professor of Structural Biology.

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