Placements

What we can offer your business

Highly-motivated students from a top ranking, research-led, Russell Group university. All students must perform well and show commitment to be put forward for a placement.
Our students are knowledgeable and experienced in the laboratory: their degrees provide a thorough grounding in theory and practical laboratory work.
Our students will already have gained a wide range of transferable skills through the University of Warwick 12 Core Skills Framework before they come to you.
Our students have had support to develop their employability and professional skills before they begin their placements such as presentation and communication skills.

Benefits of taking a placement student

An opportunity to forge links with the University of Warwick School of Life Sciences.
Placement students will retain close links with their department and will be supported and visited by a member of our academic staff.
Dedicated contact with the Life Sciences Placement and Student Experience Officer who can provide guidance on placement practice for the duration of the placement.
An opportunity to access Warwick talent, engaging students through your early talent pipeline and assessing options for graduate employment.
An excellent way of flexibly meeting short term staffing requirements.
An enthusiastic addition to your business who can offer fresh insights and ideas.
An extra resource to complete important projects.

Types of Placements

BSc Placements

BSc students normally undertake a year-long placement between the second and third year of their degree. These cover a wide range of work experience types and destinations, both laboratory and non-laboratory, preferentially (but not exclusively) related to their degree.

Integrated Master's (MBio) Placements

Integrated Masters (MBio) students carry out a one-year placement in the fourth and final year of their degree. These students are more experienced and so suitable for more advanced laboratory-based placements. Students must be involved (at least part-time) in a research project that will be appropriate for the writing of a research thesis, which will account for 75% of the student’s marks for the year. Students also carry out some coursework and the employer is expected to allow them sufficient time to accomplish this.

What makes a suitable MBio Placement Opportunity?

Must address a specific research question or hypothesis and allow the student to:
Think about experimental design
Plan experiments and develop project planning skills
Perform experiments and be involved in trouble-shooting
Collect and analyse data, and form conclusions

Our degrees

The School of Life Sciences offers Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught and Postgraduate Research programmes.

Undergraduate Courses:

Biochemistry
Biological Sciences
Biomedical Science
Neuroscience

Click here to find out more about all of the courses offered in Life Sciences

Taking our students on placement

The Life Sciences department has forged relationships with a number of organisations who take our students on placement each year.

Contact the Team

If you have any queries about what makes a suitable placement opportunity, taking on a University of Warwick Life Sciences student or would like to discuss how to promote your placement opportunities then please get in touch with the Placement and Student Experience Officer:

Kirsty Piotrowski

slsplacements@warwick.ac.uk