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Information For Current Students

This page is to enable easy navigation to information useful to current and future undergraduates. 

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Degree Handbooks
For degree programme handbooks please refer to the Biological Sciences Moodle site.  Enrolled students only.

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Biology Society
After years of suffering, under a non-existent Biology Society, the 2007-2008 academic session sees it rise again from the ashes like a glorious phoenix. The Society will be organising and running several events throughout the year, and will hopefully cater to everyone’s needs. The society set’s out with a goal of bringing the department closer together and getting people involved across the various undergraduate and postgraduate year groups as well as the faculty.

Please see the Biology Society webpage for information such as committee members and upcoming events.

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General Careers Provision

A variety of careers fairs, ‘Get into…’ weeks, employer presentations, business games and challenges and other opportunities to enhance your career prospects and meet employers. See www.ucl.ac.uk/careers

Access to the general services that the UCL Careers service has to offer, including 1:1 appointments, CV checks, practice interviews, extensive Careers Information Library, including information about postgraduate study and funding options. See www.ucl.ac.uk/careers

A large range of careers events organised by our parent body, The Careers Group, including The Guardian London Graduate Fair. See www.careers.lon.ac.uk

Careers Events

Careers events for all Life Sciences students are arranged by the Careers Service, and you are strongly encouraged to attend. Details of these events will be posted here once confirmed.  For further information please contact Kathryn Ball

If there is anything in particular that would be a benefit to you please let Kathryn know so she can arrange this with the Careers Service.

The Biological Sciences Academic Careers Representative is Dr Barbara Kremeyer, who would be happy to hear feedback on the sessions given, or ideas for additional sessions.


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Staff Student Consultative Committee

Staff Student Consultative Committee (SSCC)

College regulations state that there shall be a Staff-Student Committee in every department to provide direct student input and feedback. This is an important forum and one that you are urged to attend.

Feedback from students raised at the SSCC about teaching and academic matters is discussed by the Biological Sciences Teaching meetings. Notices of SSCC meetings are emailed to all students and posted on the departmental notice boards. Minutes from previous meetings can be found below. We hope you will be willing to take an active part.

The activities of SSCCs are monitored by the College Joint Staff-Student Committee which is chaired by the Dean of Students and has student representatives nominated by UCL Union. Dr David Gems is the Convenor of the Biological Sciences SSCC.


2011-12 Staff Student Consultative Committee 

The SSCC Meetings will be:

  • Tuesday 22ndNovember 2011, 1pm – Darwin B.05
  • Thursday 23rd February 2012, 1pm – Darwin B.05


All students will be sent email reminders for the above meetings, please bring your lunch and come along. If any students have any issues they would like raised at the meetings please email Kathryn Ball.

SSCC Representatives

Any students wishing to be a representative should contact Dr David Gems.

The SSCC representatives for 11-12 are:

Student Chair:


First Year:

Second Year:

Third year:

IBSc:

  • TBC

Minutes from previous meetings 

For minutes of previous meetings please refer to the Biological Sciences Moodle page. Enrolled students only.

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Examination Prizes

Academic Year 2010-11

We would like to offer our congratulations to all our 2010-11 Finalist students who graduated in September 2011.


Dean’s List

The following final year students were named on the Dean’s List:

Catriona Munro (BSc Biology)

Alexander Davidson (BSc Biology)

Adam Radage (BSc Genetics)

Emily Alderton (BSc Zoology)

Lucy Girling (BSc Zoology)

Jacob Ressa (IBSc student)


Finalist Prizes

Lilian Clarke Prize awarded to Catriona Munro (BSc Biology).

Founded in 1934 under the will of Dr Lilian Clarke, a student of the College, 1887-1890 and 1892-1894. The prize is awarded to the most promising advanced student in Biological Sciences.

Francis Perch Bedford Prize awarded to Emily Alderton (BSc Zoology)
Founded in 1958 under the will of Mrs Wilhelmina Bedford in memory of her son. The prize is awarded to an undergraduate whose main field is Zoology, and who is judged to have achieved the best performance in the final year of their degree.

The Heaysman Prize awarded to Gabriela Carreno (BSc Human Genetics).

Awarded to the student with the best final year project. This is named after Dr Joan Heaysman, who was for many years the undergraduate Tutor in Zoology until her retirement in 1990.

The Harold and Olga Fox Intercalated Prize awarded to Jacob Ressa (IBSc Human Genetics).

The prize is awarded to the intercalated student in the Biological Sciences who is judged to have achieved the best performance in the final year of their degree.

To see what our Graduates are doing now please click here.

Sessional prizes for 1st and 2nd Year Students

The Darwin Prize, the Robert Hooke Prize, the Huxley Prize and the Medawar Prize are all Biological Sciences sessional prizes. These are awarded to first or second year students whose work during the session is considered to have been of an exceptional standard.

Darwin Prize – Agata Antepowicz (1st year MSci Biological Sciences)


Robert Hooke Prize –Nattaphong Rattanavirotkul (1st year MSci Biological Sciences )


Huxley Prize – Yuttapong Thawornwattana (2nd year BSc Biological Sciences)


Medawar Prize – Yu Lim (2nd year BSc Biological Sciences)

Congratulations to all our prize-winning students.

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Page last modified on 12 jan 12 16:21 by Kathryn Ball