University of East Anglia (UEA), BSc (Hons), Chemical Physics

Chemical Physics is a major subject, established at UEA nearly fifty years ago. Today, a great deal of the most adventurous scientific activity is to be found in the wide field it embraces. The UEA degree course draws on topics in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, leading into rapidly developing interdisciplinary areas such as nanotechnology, quantum computing, laser processes and molecular modelling. Students on the course acquire expertise and transferable skills in these and many other topics, built on firm foundations across the whole subject area.

The three-year Honours degree programme comprises core Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Physics and Mathematics modules, plus laboratory work providing access to sophisticated instrumentation.

UEA offers a positively integrated approach by delivering the primary Chemistry and Physics teaching for this degree programme within a single department.. The Course Director is a Professor of Chemical Physics; all other lecturers in the School of Chemistry are also professionally qualified chemists and physicists. As an internationally recognized centre of interdisciplinary research, this provides a richly research-led context for state of the art teaching.

We are an integral partner of the Norwich Research Park, which is also home to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and four independent world-renowned research institutes – the John Innes Centre, Institute of Food Research, The Sainsbury Laboratory and The Genome Analysis Centre. As well as housing over 40 science and technology based businesses, the Norwich Research Park is one of Europe’s leading centres for research in food, health and the environment, exposing our students to cutting-edge developments in science.