Bioscience Futures: Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This is an innovative course for creative bioscience students with an entrepreneurial spirit, keen to explore possibilities for impactful and rewarding careers beyond the lab.

You'll learn how to use your knowledge of biosciences in an ethical and sustainable manner to find innovative, marketable and future-facing solutions to global problems and carry out your own research in predicting future possibilities in bioscience. We will empower you to become an agent for change in this sector.

You'll gain deep insights into the latest and most advanced biotechnologies, setting the stage for your own exploration into the future of bioscience investigating how biotechnologies can work together with fields like artificial intelligence and big data to address global challenges.

You'll have access to our Advanced Hackspace, located at the White City campus. This is where you can bring your ideas to life. You'll also receive guidance from our team of Hack Fellows and Hackspace experts.

You will have opportunities to hear from many professionals at the top of their game, including entrepreneurs, policy makers and communicators in the biosciences.

Our course modules are created with input from experts in these fields. The course and assessments are designed to nurture entrepreneurial skills, making you a flexible thinker who can spot opportunities and evaluate risks. There are no formal timed exams but instead a range of formative and summative assessments.

For the work placement-based project, you will have the opportunity to gather real-life experience in a start-up or biotech company, in bioscience communications or outreach activities; or identify your own placement.

Once you graduate, your career possibilities are wide-ranging. Among others, you could start your own business, work with social enterprises, join technology transfer offices, or dive into biotechnology companies.