The School of Chemistry has a vigorous and internationally leading research portfolio and a reputation for the quality of its teaching:
- the Quality Assurance Agency rated its teaching as ‘Excellent’
- with 85 per cent of research rated as internationally excellent or world-leading in the latest Research Assessment Exercise, the School is positioned second place in the national rankings between Oxford and Cambridge
Research in the School covers:
- inorganic and materials
- organic and biological
- physical and theoretical chemistry
- their interfaces with physics, biology, biomedical sciences, materials, nanosciences and engineering