Chemical Engineering Postgraduate Offer-holder Hub 2022

One step closer...

We are absolutely thrilled that you have an offer to start your postgraduate studies with us. Our Offer-holder hub is designed to provide you all the information to help you make an informed decision on where you wish to continue your studies.

Over the coming weeks and months, there will be opportunities to hear from students and staff in the department and ask them any questions you might have about the fantastic community here at Birmingham. 

Please also take a look at our FAQs which should help you in your decision-making.

Food for thought...

New spinout Healome Therapeutics to speed development for ocular disease and eye trauma therapeutics

The spinout has been created to commercially deploy a platform that delivers a ‘pro-healing’ microenvironment for the leading causes of preventable blindness.

The company’s leading application will be in ocular surface diseases, which are notoriously challenging conditions to treat, and have progressively larger impacts on quality of life as the diseases run their course. Read the full article >>

A new 'supercritical water' approach to recycling plastic packaging waste

The University of Birmingham has licensed the rights to a ‘supercritical water’ technology to Stopford, to develop a novel process for recycling mixed plastic packaging, that delivers a greater proportion of high value recycled plastic with less emissions, fewer processing steps than current recycling methods, and no solvent residues. Read the full article >>

Taster Lectures

We recently ran a taster lecture on Zoom entitled 'Introduction to Colloids and their Uses'. If you weren't able to join us you can now watch that webinar back on Youtube. Watch the video >>

We also ran another taster lecture on Zoom entitled 'Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals'. You can also watch that video >>

Access video content and previous questions and answers

We regularly run virtual events within the School where we invite enquirers and offer-holders to engage with our video content and ask any questions they may have. All of these events are archived and can be viewed back. Visit our webpages to gain access.

Become part of our postgraduate community

Join us for a postgraduate degree and you'll become part of a supportive network of students and alumni who help to create change. Visit our offer guide pages which will help guide you through the postgraduate admissions process and what to do next in order to accept your offer, as well as how to prepare for your first few weeks as a postgraduate at Birmingham.

Careers support for postgraduate students

Whether you're looking for a career as an academic, moving into a new sector or building your professional experience, we can offer you advice and guidance both during and after your degree. Find out about the support that is available >>

Updates from the School of Chemical Engineering