This Is Bioengineering at Keele

I knew I really wanted to be in a lab, research-based kind of degree. On the Keele website, I saw Bioengineering and went oh, what's that? I came along to an Open Day, met some of the staff and just went, yeah, this is the place I want to be.

And what makes it really special is that we study regenerative medicine. So, you're not just studying bioengineering, you're studying it in this medical context. So, it's really for students that want to come and learn about innovative medicine and the ways that we can really help people by regrowing, replacing and regenerating tissues.

There are loads of facilities available to me as a student here, especially labs I think are really key one. There are loads of labs and many with researchers working towards very specific projects and the opportunities to be able to kind of go in and find out more about what they're doing has been really, really good.

The course balances biology and engineering by embedding core biological skills at the very beginning of your first year and then we start introducing the principles of engineering. And that's because when we're trying to regrow and regenerate human bodies and tissues, we need to understand forces and stretching and moving around to be able to recreate human tissue. And then we're bringing in practical skills and hands-on experience to really reinforce that theory.

There’s a number of different assessments and the way that we are assessed is very much beneficial because there's not just exams, but there's presentations making you able to talk to people, but also lab reports so knowing how to write an article is a very helpful real-world application.

Our graduates can go into a wide range of different sectors, and that's because we're teaching you biological and engineering principles. But to give a couple of examples, you could go into the biomedical research sector, into an industrial stem cell research lab, look at pharmaceuticals, or you could go for something a little bit more unusual one of the emerging fields that we have, such as robotics industries or even lab grown meats.

There is loads of support available for a student on this course. I could not speak more highly of all of the staff. They're very quick to be able to go, okay, what can we do to help you? How can we best implement support around you? It couldn't be any better in my opinion.