Chemistry > Research-led learning environment

How does the department define a research-led environment?

" Warwick Chemistry has a fantastic team of academics, who are world leading in their research (iChemistry), and education. They act as teachers, mentors and personal advisers to both undergraduate and postgraduate students with great enthusiasm"

Chemical Biology

Materials Chemistry

Physical Chemistry - Chemical Physics

Synthetic Chemistry

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Note: although prospective undergraduate are directed to this page, links from it lead to information for postgraduates e.g. funding for PhD study

"Warwick Chemistry has an excellent international reputation for innovative chemistry research. The latest developments are incorporated into our courses by a dedicated staff who are committed to educate at the highest level"
"The contemporary nature of the curriculum is maintained and enhanced by the research activity of the whole staff and by the Department's extensive links with the chemical and pharmaceutical industries"

"These programmes reflect Departmental interests ranging from the synthesis of new compounds with clinical potential to the study of DNA/ drug interactions using state-of-the-art spectroscopic techniques (e.g. Fourier Transfer Mass Spectrometry) and molecular modelling"

"The programme reflects the Department's research interest in biological aspects of Chemistry, including enzymology, glycobiology, natural product biosynthesis, biological mass spectrometry, bio-inorganic chemistry, and computational chemistry"

Students in their First, Second and Third years take Laboratory modules which teach them skills for research:

CH115 Chemistry Laboratory and Assesed work

CH222 Chemistry Laboratory

CH3C6 Extended Laboratory Work

CH3C4 Laboratory work

These four modules (there are two above to choose from in the third year) lead on to research projects involving Laboratory skills in the 4th year:

CH401 Research Project and Methodology

CH410 Research Project for MChem Industrial Training

On the opening page there is a news item about £2.1 m for an upgrade of the Chemistry Teaching Laboratories
Guardian Rankings for Warwick as the 4th best Chemistry department in the UK are mentioned

"The MChem degree aims to produce graduates able to function as independent self-motivated researchers"

"The MChem degree is more suitable for those whose interests develop towards a research career:...aims to develop the knowledge and skills required by those who have postgraduate study and and employment in Chemistry as their career goals"
"All students take a research project worth half the credit for the year. This project is undertaken within one of the Department's research groups, thereby training the student in the latest research methods using advanced instrumentation"