Everyone could be the one Undergraduate Prospectus | 2021 Welcome Who we are 4 Welcome to Our community 6 Where you’ll be studying 8 Queen Mary University of London Student Life Life as a student 10 Your support network 12 Where you’ll live 14 Innovative learning 16 We’re proud to introduce you to our University. This prospectus Global opportunites 18 will give you a glimpse of a unique place: a place of world-leading Studying abroad 20 Be the one Preparing for your career 22 research; a place of unparalleled diversity and inclusivity; a place Work while you learn 24 that lives and breathes its history and heritage; and a place that Subject Areas is truly embedded in the communities it serves. Foundation Programmes 28 Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30 In short, we are a Russell Group university with a difference – one Business and Management 32 who asks that opens the doors of opportunity to anyone with the potential Chemical Sciences 34 to succeed here. Regardless of your background, if you have the Comparative Literature 36 Computer Science 38 potential, we have a place for you. Dentistry 40 Drama 44 Economics and Finance 46 Engineering 48 English 50 Film Studies 52 Geography and Environmental Science 54 Global Health 56 History 58 Law 60 Linguistics 62 Materials Science 64 Mathematical Sciences 66 Medicine 68 Modern Languages and Culture 74 Physics and Astronomy 76 Politics and International Relations 78 Psychology 80 Professor Colin Bailey Talhah Atcha Our courses by subject 82 Principal of Queen Mary Students’ Union President How to apply 102 University of London at Queen Mary University Student funding and finance 104 of London International student admissions 106 Getting here and getting around 108 Terms and conditions 109 Discover how you could be the one at qmul.ac.uk 03 Our values At Queen Mary, we’re proud of being a Russell Group University with a difference. Russell Group graduates earn, Who we are on average, around 10% higher salaries than other students, and recruiters specifically target Russell Group universities. Queen Mary has always stood out, though. Throughout our history we’ve put social justice and improving lives at the centre of our mission, pushing for academic excellence that goes hand in hand with public outreach. Scan here to find Great ideas can, and should, come from anyone with a USP WHO WE ARE – INSTITUTIONAL curious mind, wherever they are. When views collide, when out more subjects interact, and when perspectives change, world-changing things happen. Queen Mary is an international hub of education and research. As a member of the University of London and the Education Awards Russell Group we embrace being part of one of the world’s great cultural and economic centres, but we’ll never forget Innovative and exciting learning environment our East End roots. Our reformer legacy is still impacting World-class education how we operate and driving what we do. We’ve formed “The excellence of the learning experience at Queen Mary partnerships with like-minded institutions in the UK and stems from our vision for staff and students to work together across the world, and work with local schools, charities, with no limits. to create an outstanding, all-inclusive, world-class university, community groups and businesses to continue what we enhanced by the richness of our diverse student population. started so many years ago. That’s Queen Mary. “We do this by focusing our efforts on four key areas: excellence in education (ensuring that our staff have the necessary A Russell Group University knowledge, skills and behaviours to be highly effective “I just felt honoured that I was starting in one of the Russell teachers), excellence in student engagement (providing Group universities.” Miranda Xie opportunities for the student voice to influence approaches Queen Mary is one of the UK’s leading research-focused to teaching, curriculum development, and assessment for universities. Across the humanities, social science, law, learning), excellence in employability (providing a range medicine, dentistry, science and engineering, we are of opportunities to support graduate success, including committed to the highest quality research – and invest internships, placements, masterclass presentations and by recruiting the best academics from across the world. career management), and excellence in the learning Their innovation, unique ideas, and discipline-changing environment (using the student voice to help make sure the work is all reflected in their teaching, where students campus takes account of the diverse needs of our students are introduced to ideas, experiments and research that’s and supports their well-being).” changing the subject as it’s taught. Stephanie Marshall (Vice Principal, Education) “I wanted to come to Queen Mary mainly because it was a “The things our academics are producing and defining in terms Russell Group uni in London, but with a campus. You’re in of the future of medicine and dentistry is just phenomenal.” the middle of the city but you still get that campus feeling Megan Annetts and everyone’s around and you just bump into people on the day-to-day.” Maddy Stichbury Queen Mary President and Principal 04 Discover how you could be the one at qmul.ac.uk Professor Colin Bailey To learn more about Queen Mary University, visit qmul.ac.uk/about/ 05 “At Queen Mary we are proud to be part of our local community. We collaborate with community organisations and groups on a number of different projects, from research projects to co-creating our Our community annual Festival of Communities, a two-day festival for local residents featuring the best of Queen Mary research and local opportunities.” OUR COMMUNITY Scan here to find Sarah Barnes, Public Engagement Manager out more Festival of Communities day Megan Annetts knows first-hand how important community is among medicine and dentistry Festival of Communities day students. “Community is pretty much everything to the students. The way that the older students will support you through your academics, the way that the younger students are willing to be your patients whilst you’re practising to get through your end of year exams. And the community and the networking with the alumni is fantastic – the links that you can form and how it can help you progress with your career post- SU Bar uni is really quite special and something that I think is really quite unique.” Community at Queen Mary matters – among our students, and with our neighbours. “A lot of the Queen Mary sports clubs will have a set community sports officer whose role is to organise volunteering – usually going in to schools and teaching PE lessons, encouraging various members I’m Talhah Atcha, President of I’m Megan Annetts, Vice-President I’m Miranda Xie, International I’m Shamima Akter, Vice-President I’m Annika Ramos, Vice-President I’m Maddy Stichbury, Sports I’m Alice Jones, Sports Officer for of the club to get involved. Their main role is to give the Students’ Union. My job is to of Barts and The London. I Education rep for the Students’ of Welfare. I work on things such of Education. My role is representing Officer for Mile End campus. As Barts and The London School of back to the community.” Maddy Stichbury lead the reps that make up the represent students and anything Union. My job is mainly to help as mental health, security and students to the university about an elected representative, we Medicine and Dentistry. Living Students’ Union and the staff relating to the education and improve international students’ residences. A big thing for us is also things like teaching rooms provide the link between the staff in London is just such a great “I’m part of the Medical Educational Support Service, who work on providing services welfare of Barts and The London, academic experiences in Queen liberation campaigns, celebrating accessibility within education, the and the students, which is really opportunity, and to be able to be a basically providing peer learning. You go and teach to students. I make sure that the School of Medicine and Dentistry Mary. I love Queen Mary because different protected characteristics, digital side, and offerings that the important. Staff in the Sports student here for three or five or six lectures to the younger years. I also do Street Doctors, student voice is at the heart of students. I’m responsible for it’s very culturally diverse, which so celebrating Black History University provides, I make sure Development team really help years – depending on what course going out into the community and teaching young, everything the University does. implementing relevant Students’ makes me feel welcome in the Month, Islamophobia Awareness that everything is actually centred us and support us and they’re you’re doing – is such a great quite vulnerable people. We teach them how to deal I’ve actually come back to Queen Union policies and I work hard to community. Month, LGBT+ History Month and around the student voice. always there. They want to make opportunity to take. There are so with people who are bleeding or unconscious, so Mary, and the reason is simple: I improve students’ educational Asian Heritage Month. I have a lot sport the best it can be. many things around you that you they’re prepared if something happens.” Alice Jones love the student community. Our experience. of contact with the students and can engage in. As Sports Officers students work really well together societies and get them involved we’re supporters, supporting the “It really comes across with international students. and they’re very supportive of with these campaigns as well. presidents of our sports clubs – but I think they really feel a sense of community when each other.