Explore Biology

There are a wide range of options available for secondary school pupils and university students to find out more about a career in biology.

You may enjoy studying biology and want to learn more about it, or you could be planning for a future career within biology or even a mixture of the two. Either way there are many resources available to help you enjoy biology and succeed in it as a career.

Student membership

This is an extremely useful opportunity for all post-16 secondary and university students. As a biology student it is important that you keep well informed about the latest advances in your subject. By joining us as a student member at a discounted rate, you will receive a whole host of invaluable benefits. Student Membership also entitles you to discounts on life science books from many of the UK’s leading academic publishers to help you with your studies.

Biological Student Competitions

The Society of Biology runs competitions for secondary school pupils including the British Biology Olympiad and Biology Challenge. These not only test your knowledge of biology but allow you to gain awards to show your achievements. (The highest scorers in the British Biology Olympiad get the opportunity to travel abroad and represent the UK in the International Biology Olympiad).

Member Organisations also run competitions designed for university students (undergraduate and postgraduate).

More information can be found on the Biological Student Competitions page.

Future Morph

Future Morph is designed to show you just some of the amazing and unexpected careers that studying science, technology, engineering and maths can lead to. It contains dedicated information for 11-19 year olds and other careers resources.

More information can be found on the Future Morph page.

Career Paths

There are many areas of biology that you can choose to study, some of which you may never have heard of before let alone considered!

This resource provides an overview of the many different areas of biology that you can study including useful links to the relevant careers pages. From here you can see the possible routes into that area of biology as well as information such as potential jobs, salaries and employers.

All of this and more can be found on our Career Paths page.