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School of Applied Sciences

Talbot Campus

Applied Sciences encompasses Archaeology and Anthropology; Geography, Environmental, Forensic and Biological Sciences; Ecology; Heritage Conservation and Marine and Coastal Management.

The School consists of a community of scholars and scientists committed to understanding, managing and conserving the natural and human landscape.

We are a vibrant academic community of archaeologists, environmental scientists, geographers, forensic scientists and physical anthropologists. We offer high quality education, meticulous scholarship, and innovative delivery.

- Professor Matthew Bennett, Dean, School of Applied Sciences.

Facilities

Located on the Talbot Campus, the School of Applied Sciences has excellent laboratory and computer facilities with high specification analytical equipment and state-of-the-art field equipment.

The dedicated research and analytical laboratories have a wide range of instrumentation including an X-ray facility and a Scanning Electron Microscope, workshops and layout rooms, a GIS and spatial information suite, map library and a postgraduate student computer laboratory. The archaeology and forensic courses are also supported by a human osteology laboratory, with excellent human skeletal reference materials and archaeological collections of human remains.

The new 'crime house' facility with an attached, purpose designed lab and cctv monitoring, is available for 'criminalistics' studies. Students can gain experience in areas such as fingerprinting, footwear impressions and blood spatter analysis.

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