Autumn term 2020-21

Courses will begin on schedule in Autumn and we look forward to seeing new and returning students in person, if travel and visa arrangements allow. If students can’t travel to campus in time for the start of term, the Department has made plans to still provide them a high-quality remote educational experience during the Autumn term.

Teaching will be a combination of on-campus (in-person) and remote learning (online), known as ‘multi-mode’ delivery. For more information about multi-mode delivery, the learning experience and the steps we’ll be taking to keep students safe on campus, please see our Covid-19 information for applicants and offer holders page.

We will update our course pages with further details once they are finalised.

The Department of Life Sciences offers excellent facilities for advanced taught courses in a wide range of subjects considered to be essential aspects of the life sciences.  As a recognised centre of excellence in both training and research, we receive one of the highest levels of funding in the country. This enables us to support a large number of research groups with a diversity of research interests.

Many of our postgraduate courses and most of our staff are based at the South Kensington Campus (SK), but several of our postgraduate courses are held at Silwood Park (SP), our campus in Berkshire near Ascot.  The latter have formal links and joint appointments with both the Natural History Museum (London), the Royal Botanical Gardens (Kew), the zoological Society of London and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

Masters courses

The full list of the Masters courses within the Department can be found below. Please see each course description page for further details.

	Course name	Degree type	Campus
	Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology	MSc	South Kensington
	Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology	MSc	South Kensington
	Biosystematics	MRes	South Kensington
	Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution	MSc or MRes	Silwood Park
	Conservation Science COURSE SUSPENDED	MSc	Silwood Park
	Ecological Applications	MSc	Silwood Park
	Ecology, Evolution and Conservation	MSc or MRes	Silwood Park
	Ecosystem and Environmental Change  (formerly Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment)	MRes	Silwood Park
	Molecular and Cellular Biosciences	MRes	South Kensington
	Molecular Plant and Microbial Sciences	MRes	South Kensington
	Structural Molecular Biology	MRes	South Kensington
	Systems and Synthetic Biology  (hosted by the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology)	MRes	South Kensington
	Taxonomy, Biodiversity and Evolution	MSc	South Kensington
	Tropical Forest Ecology	MRes	Silwood Park