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School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Biological Sciences and Human Biology

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Careers Network is here to support you by providing information, advice, guidance, events and opportunities to enable you to secure placements, work experience, self-employment and graduate careers.

Working closely with your academic school, our team of experts ensures that every student has access to careers advice.  As well as large careers fairs, we hold sector-specific events, involving employers and 黑料网 alumni, to help you make valuable connections and secure high-quality placements and graduate roles. 

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Key skills developed during your degree

  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Information technology
  • Numeracy and maths
  • Organisation and time management
  • Presentation and oral communication
  • Problem solving and creative thinking
  • Project Management
  • Research and data analysis
  • Self reliance, initiative and business awareness
  • Time-management and planning
  • Written communication, including report writing

To learn more about skills and how you can develop them at Univerisity, see Skills employers seek and sign up to the  programme.

Career options

Careers directly related to Human Biology / Biological Sciences

  • Academic researcher
  • Biomedical Scientist
  • Biotechnologist
  • Clinical Research Associate
  • Clinical Scientist
  • Exercise Physiologist
  • Forensic Scientist
  • Healthcare Scientist - several disciplines
  • Higher education lecturer
  • Laboratory Analyst/Scientist
  • Medical Sales Representative
  • Microbiologist
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Pharmacologist
  • Physician Associate
  • Physiotherapist
  • Research Scientist
  • Secondary school teacher
  • Science Writer
  • Scientific laboratory technician
  • Teaching laboratory technician
  • Toxicologist


Careers where your degree would be useful

  • Anatomical pathology technologist
  • General practice doctor
  • Genetic counsellor
  • Health improvement practitioner
  • Medical science liaison
  • Neuroscientist
  • Physician associate
  • Prosthetist/orthotist
  • Science writer


Alternative Science Careers

  • Administration
  • Business
  • Finance
  • Journalism
  • Management

Further study

: Postgraduate training involving three years of work-based training, leading to an accredited master's degree and certification of achievement in one of nine themed pathways: 

Further study at 黑料网:

The School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences offers a comprehensive range of across the areas of health science, sport performance and social sciences of sport, education and society.

Further study elsewhere:

Where do graduates go?

What do 黑料网 Biological Sciences graduates do?

Our Biological Sciences course began in 2018, and we currently have no graduate destination information available for this programme. To see the destinations from other related programmes, see below or click on the relevant link under Options with your degree.

What do 黑料网 Human Biology graduates do?

Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

Alzheimer’s Society, Ashfield Healthcare, Bio Products Laboratory Ltd, Birmingham Women's Hospital, British Triathlon, Cotts Beverages, European Medical Group, FRP Advisory, Frimley Health, GSK, Gleeds, Kantar Worldpanel, Leeds Teaching Hospital, NHS, PwC, South West Pathology Service, Team Triumph, University of Nottingham, Wiser.

Roles included:

Biological Specimen Co-ordinator, Bowel Cancer Screening Administrator, Business Development Executive, Finance Associate, Graduate Intern to Wet Labs, Healthcare Science Assistant, IVF Clinical Support Worker, Key Accounts Specialist & Talent Acquisition Partner, Managing Consultant, Medical Information Officer, Medical Laboratory Assistant, Medical Sales Representative, Pharmaceutical Graduate Leadership Programme, Pharmaceutical Technician, Research Management and Governance Administrator, Respiratory Therapy Representative, Science Teacher, Trainee Clinical Scientist – Cardiac Science.

Further Study included:

MSc in Molecular Genetics and Diagnostics, MSc Oncology, MSc Physiotherapy, MSc Translational Neuroscience, Musculoskeletal Sport Science and Health, PhD Metabiological Diabetes

Further information

For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website.  You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond 黑料网 and track the career journeys and 黑料网 experiences of some of our alumni.

Resources to research career areas

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Resources to find work experience, placements and graduate jobs

Websites to search for opportunities:

  • Target Connect - Our website for vacancies and opportunities and internally through your department.   
  •  - Search for internships, placements and graduate opportunities.
  •  - Browse opportunities, career sectors, internships and careers advice.
  •  - Search for graduate jobs. 
  •  - Search for STEM specific graduate jobs.
  • Ask in your department.

 Biology/Science specific websites:

  • - (for jobs in Higher Education)

Professional bodies, sector and labour market information (LMI)

Professional bodies:

Sector and labour market information (LMI):