Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Pharmacology and Health Science

at University of Bedfordshire - Luton Campus United Kingdom

With its strong emphasis on real-world and real-work experience, this entrepreneurial-focused course gives you the skills you need to achieve success producing first-class television studio and film work.

The degree offers a business-based approach to TV and film production, providing you with the knowledge and expertise you need to establish a successful career in this dynamic industry.

In your first year, you explore creating content; film and TV studio production; and reading the screen. Later units include freelancing; fiction film-making; and writing for the screen. You also work independently on a special film or TV project of your own choosing.

Why choose this course?

• Produce your own work in our industry-standard production and post-production studio facilities, giving you a head-start if you wish to set up your own production company
• Learn from studying with an academic team with key roles in the British film industry, many of whom have made documentaries and dramas for TV, cinema and gallery exhibitions
• Develop your skills and take on live creative briefs through our links with the local film and TV community, including Luton Culture and Clearhead Productions
• Broadcast your own work and assist with the running of a TV studio through BedsTV, the University’s student-run online television channel  
• Build your professional knowledge by exploring the business issues that affect television broadcasting in the UK
• Benefit from learning key transferable skills in communication, team working, critical evaluation and analysis
• If you need a step up into higher education, start with a Foundation Year which guarantees entry to the undergraduate degree

The MSc Mechanical Engineering is aligned to the University’s development of a new STEM building, and a developing relationship with The Welding Institute based in Cambridge. This course development will bring together postgraduate taught courses with a new exciting research centre development to offer a distinctive offer in which students will undertake field trips in a state-of-the-art engineering and business facility whilst benefiting from access to state-of-the-art facilities in our new STEM building in Luton.

Why choose this course?

• Study in Cambridge with an opportunity to work with cutting-edge business
• Explore the latest technologies and techniques for mechanical engineering
• Have the potential to complete a project on an industrially relevant topic

The media industry is constantly changing, and you need to go into it with up-to-the-minute skills and expertise. At Bedfordshire, you gain cross-industry editorial and production skills - gained through working in radio studios, edit suites and our high-tech newsroom - so you're ready to hit the ground running when it comes to your career.

With our multimedia approach and real-world platforms, this course covers all aspects of journalism: news gathering and reporting (including location work); feature writing and editing; and producing and presenting your work across radio, internet, film and print.

You’ll be based at our well-equipped media arts centre, which features industry-standard radio studios and edit suites as well as our newsroom, which has the latest Apple technology and access to the Press Association news-wire feed.

We give you an essential understanding of the industry back story by teaching media law, ethics and regulation; the theory and current practice of journalism; and the global nature of modern journalism. We also offer insights into future developments.

Why choose this course?

• You’ll be taught by a team of industry and academic specialists
• We organise regular, experience-widening trips and masterclasses from industry guest speakers
• You can specialise, taking optional units in PR and marketing, radio, and magazine and online publishing
• There’s the opportunity for you to gain work experience and build links within journalism through an extra work placement year
• You can put your skills into practice, reporting for our news website or developing your own radio show for our on-site community radio station, Radio LaB
• It opens up additional career paths including research; editorial production (sub-editing and proofreading); new media production; and broadcast presenting
• Past graduates have taken up positions within the broadcast sector at Radio One, Kiss FM, Channel 5 and CBeebies

The global aviation industry is expanding rapidly, and our close proximity to London Luton Airport – the UK’s fastest-growing major airport - means you can enjoy a truly hands-on approach to learning.

Using the latest interactive teaching technologies, this course equips you with the knowledge and experience you need to establish your career in this field, covering a range of business, leadership and specialist areas including aviation law; business planning and entrepreneurship; crisis management and communication; and aviation safety and security.

With our campus close to London Luton Airport, you have plenty of opportunities to take up work placements with airlines and related organisations, placing you in an ideal position to get real-life experience, build your CV and make contacts for the future.

Why choose this course?

• Expand your knowledge of the global airline and airport industry with a highly committed and motivating team of teaching experts
• Learn in small and engaging teaching environments using up-to-the-minute interactive technologies
• Benefit from a course that uses a hands-on, practical approach, including the use of strategic airline simulation
• Develop a range of specialist and transferable management skills which are valued by employers and which prepare you for a graduate career in the aviation and airport industries
• If you wish to step up to higher education, you can take advantage of our Foundation Year, which gives you guaranteed entry to the Undergraduate course

This course offers you the opportunity to develop a particular strength in the management of international business issues. You will focus on strategic areas of management, international business, intercultural competencies, brand management, and financial management, all framed by the lens of developing patterns of world trade and the global marketplace.

You will develop the skills required to adopt appropriate strategic responses to different market environments through the study of and working with an organisation. You will also understand and experience at first hand the impact of contextual forces on international organisations, including the management functions of business such as corporate and brand reputation, corporate governance and ethical, economic and environmental change issues.

You will develop your knowledge of the financing of organisations including the sources, uses and management of finance and the use of accounting for managerial and financial reporting. You will also study and experience the management and development of people in organisations within a cross-cultural context, the use of relevant communications within the global economy.

You will appreciate how cultural differences affect both buying behaviour and marketing approaches. As well as specific knowledge relating to international business, you will develop enhanced personal and interpersonal skills through work experience in a professional placement. These include critical thinking, team working, problem solving, numeracy and quantitative skills, self-management and negotiation skills.

The placement will provide the basis for the delivery of the Business Placement Dissertation and comprise one block of study on Campus preparing for the project in the organisation followed by four blocks of study in the organisation and a final block back in the University to complete the write up. The project will be fully academically supervised throughout the six blocks of study.

This course gives you an advanced understanding of molecular biology, computational biology and microbiology alongside teaching you valuable skills in project management that you can apply to planning and organisational change.

Modern biotechnology is a hugely complex subject, drawing from a range of scientific fields. On this course, you learn the latest new technologies in key areas; gain insights into how they are used in the global biotechnology industry; and discover how microbes can be used on an industrial scale to benefit humankind.

You also hone your research skills with a laboratory-based project in one of five taught areas: molecular biology; computational biology; applied microbiology; analytical biology; and biomaterials.

The project management units explore the complexity of implementing plans and achieving change in organisations as well as the methods managers can use to overcome these obstacles.

Why choose this course?

• Study the latest developments in applied microbiology and computational biology in high-quality, broad-based classes taught by dedicated staff with research experience in specialist subject areas
• Explore the latest technologies in molecular biology and the industrial processes that are used to exploit microbes for specific products and applications
• Develop the ability to use information from relevant sources, and independently and critically evaluate current research and advanced scholarship
• Gain the ability to use assured, accurate and fluent language to present your work, and learn to develop graphs and images that clearly illustrate complex points
• Benefit from a wide knowledge base and the key transferable skills that will give you the opportunity to take your career to new heights in the biotechnology and allied industries

This Postgraduate course gives you the flexibility to develop your own practice, whilst working on cross-disciplinary projects and building a research and practice portfolio.

The MA provides an exciting environment for you to develop your personal practice supported by established practitioner/tutors in your chosen field.

Why choose this course?

• This course has a wide range of facilities with access to technical and digital media such laser-cutting, 3D printing, image processing software, moving image software, high definition photographic equipment and high-quality photo screen-printing.
• A teaching and learning strategy that is aimed at giving a robust focus to your artistic or design practice.
• Dedicated studio space for you to work, access to workshops and technical support
• Collaboration and guiding undergraduate students hands-on practical
• One-to-one contact with staff with an emphasis on your personal creative development.
• Personal tutor in your discipline Data Analytics Units covers a wide range of topics including programming, databases, security, project management and computer networking, giving you both the underpinning theory and the ability to apply it to complex real-world problems, as well as an awareness of emerging technologies and developments.

Develop the skills and confidence to deliver real-world, research-informed health and social care, on a degree course that opens up a wide range of career roles.

This course gives you a broad understanding of contemporary health and social care and its application in the wider social, policy, legal and organisational environment, both within the UK and internationally.

Areas of study incorporate sociology, public health, law and the human services. In your second and third years, follow your interests with optional units in mental health, disability, safeguarding, addictions, human rights and care of older people. In your final year, undertake an independent research project, with the support of our experienced academic team.

There is a strong vocational focus, ensuring you develop transferable, employability-enhancing skills. Take this course over four years and include a fee-free one-year placement in industry* where you gain practical experience, build your CV and meet potential future employers.

Why choose this course?

• Understand and confidently apply evidence-based theory to practice, delivering excellent health and social care outcomes to all those who access these services
• Study with an academic team who have wide experience in the field and are actively involved in health and social care research
• Benefit from the opportunities offering by the University of Bedfordshire’s new Health & Social Care Academy, run in partnership with local councils and NHS Trusts, to recruit and train health and social care workers
• Take the course with a placement year (see below) and benefit from our wide range of relevant placement opportunities including roles in research assistance, social media and community advocacy as well as internships
• If you need to step up into higher education, start with a Foundation Year (see below) which guarantees entry to the undergraduate course
• The course opens up career paths within local authorities, public health, civil service, social enterprises and the NHS as well as in the private and not-for-profit sectors
• Our Health and Social Care course received a 91% satisfaction rate in the National Student Survey 2020

As one of the most established TV production degree courses in the UK, we have close links with the TV industry and an amazing track record in placing our graduates, many of whom now work on top shows and films.

This is a highly practical course providing a solid grounding in all aspects of TV production whether you are hands-on in our multi-camera TV studio or on location using a variety of camera, sound and lighting equipment. You develop an impressive set of skills covering cinematography, audio and visual effects, editing, sound design, lighting, scriptwriting, directing, producing, music videos, live magazine programmes and television drama.

We focus on your employability: it is our job to help you break into TV. So we create opportunities for you to develop industry links, often via networking events on campus or at external industry events such as BAFTA. We also help you find paid work or internships in TV and film during your time with us.

In the last few years, we have helped our graduates find placements and paid work on such programmes as The Graham Norton Show; The X Factor; Gogglebox; The Apprentice; The Only Way is Essex; and Dr Who, to name but a few.

Why choose this course?

• Taught by lecturers who have been working at the highest level in the television industry
• Benefit from masterclasses with professional TV performers and presenters
• Access high-end production technology including cameras, lighting, sound recorders, rigs, edit suites, OB kit and multi-camera TV studio
• Produce and broadcast your own programmes via our in-house, student-run TV station, BedsTV, officially affiliated with the National Student Television Association (NASTA). You could also take up a three-month leadership internship at BedsTV after your studies
• Take the course over four years and benefit from a fee-free year’s placement in industry (see below), where you gain experience and build contacts for the future

Models of work are constantly evolving, but one thing does not change: people still need to be recruited, trained, motivated and paid to meet an organisation's requirements. If your interests lie in effective people management, this course puts you on the right path.

You begin your journey with a thorough grounding in business before exploring the many aspects of human resource management (HRM): professional practice; leadership and motivation; creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship; business systems including international business; selection and recruitment; employee relations; and employment law.

Learn from expert tutors as you carry out practical projects that emulate working as a professional manager, and develop your practical experience with an optional year’s paid work placement in a HRM role.

In your final year, study strategic HRM, examining real firms with a view to solving people problems, and carry out an independent research project.

Why choose this course?

• Develop your understanding of how HRM works with other business disciplines, knowledge that will enable you to fit into numerous types of organisation in the future - private, public or not-for-profit
• Learn from experts in their field, active within the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and in both consultancy and research
• Challenge yourself with an optional sandwich year placement after your second year.
• If you want to step up into higher education, we also offer a degree path with an initial Foundation Year (see below)
• Equip yourself with a range of subject-specific and transferable skills suited to a career in specialist human management roles or professional business and management environments, both national and international

“The University has offered me numerous opportunities to develop my skills and expand my network, and has constantly pushed me outside of my comfort zone, helping me become a real HR professional. My lecturers have always been supportive and understanding, and put great effort into communicating with us. All in all, these have been the most important three years of my life!”