Health, Sport and Bioscience Graduate Profiles
Antonia - BSc Applied Biology
The University of East London become such a home from home for me that despite graduating in 2007 and presently knee deep in a PhD at Imperial College, my relationships with my former tutors and lecturers thrive to this day. In fact, I’m so passionate about the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience that I’d love to find a way to get back there one day; it would be a dream come true if I could set up and run a platelet laboratory in my much loved stomping ground.
Although I came from a traditional student background, rather than sit A-Levels I undertook a BTEC National Diploma in Science. Now it is quite wide spread for universities to accept students with a BTEC qualification. Five years ago it was less conventional. The University of East London was then and continues today to be a progressive institution and one that assesses each of its applicants on an individual and human basis. In 2004 I had various offers and it was an easy decision to make the University of East London my first choice.
I loved studying Applied Biology; as it’s a very broad, dynamic and exciting subject it provided huge scope with lots of room to specialise once you’d found your footing and strengths. The degree also encouraged independent and critical thinking, something I’ve come to value highly and use everyday. About half of the course modules can be elected which means you have the best of both worlds; a generic and essential foundation plus highly customisable degree, where you get to choose what you’d like to study, not what you have to. Most of all, I enjoyed and benefited from the inspiring relationships I generated with my lecturers and tutors. Their help never stopped at the end of the day involved both academic support and also general life guidance 24/7. To say I miss being at the University of East London is an understatement!
