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Chemistry student wins Reckitt Sustainability Challenge prize
Jed Walsh, a final year Chemistry MChem, BSc student, was awarded the second place prize in the Reckitt Sustainability Challenge 2024.
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'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'
Submitted research outputs, REF 2021
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in the world
QS World University Rankings 2025
Silver
award for our commitment to gender equality
Athena SWAN Charter
Research and innovation
Our world-leading research cuts across the fields of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. The themes of our research groups are all at the disciplinary interfaces of chemistry, with: physics, geology and biology, physics and mathematics, biology and medicine, materials science, medicine and chemical engineering.

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