Food and Nutritional Sciences and Human Biology Liverpool Hope University

Overview

The Food and Nutritional Sciences and Human Biology programme from Liverpool Hope University curriculum includes the disciplines of: anatomy and physiology of the human body, cell and molecular biology, genetics and immunology.

These are covered in the context of both normal healthy bodily-function and in contemporary disease states, including: obesity, cancer, diabetes, CVD, ageing and a selection of other diseases. Students will benefit from being taught by research-active staff with different research specialisms from across the School of Health and Sport Sciences.

Graduates leave the programme with a rounded set of subject-specific and key-transferable skills, and with experience in a wide range of biological science lab techniques. Students will gain experience, competence and confidence through small group learning, preparing them to succeed in a competitive and demanding employment market.

Career opportunities:

Human Biology graduates offer key discipline-specific and transferrable skills suitable for research, scientific report writing, lab-work, data analysis and other types of written and oral communications. 

Recent graduates have entered careers in public health, medical writing, research laboratories, healthcare and scientific/technical roles in the biosciences. Others have pursued postgraduate study in the form of Masters degrees or doctorates. Others have pursued general graduate vacancies and training programmes teaching, academia, management and accountancy.