The student experience

Student life - what's it like?

See: Life as a student for information on Manchester, accommodation and “a week in the life of” two of our students.

Profiles

Hanno Sjuts

Sundas Chohan

What we do for our students

  • Ensure each student has a supervisory team that will provide the highest quality research expertise
  • Assign each student with a Postgraduate Tutor, who will monitor progression and provide pastoral support
  • Provide a vast range of training opportunities, to build your skills in and out of the lab
  • Provide a bespoke system for monitoring your own progression and training (eProg)
  • Manage a dedicated Offer Holders website (password protected), containing essential pre-arrival information (registration, induction week)

Postgraduate Society

We have an established and supportive Postgraduate Society within the Faculty, who organise social and academic events throughout the year.

What our students say...

Nathan Truelove, snorkelling

“The Faculty provides students with numerous excellent opportunities to become well rounded early career researchers.”

Nathan Truelove

Hanno Sjuts

“I love the ability to use state-of-the-art core facilities to address the big questions in biology.”

Hanno Sjuts

“...an enjoyable, dynamic and exciting working environment, full of enthusiastic people, and with a positive attitude towards scientific research and post-graduate study. In turn, this provides a great environment to work and study in, and has made my experience of Manchester a very positive one”

Annette Allen

 

Louise Kung talks about being a Plant Science student in Life Sciences.