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Secondary school students attending the UNIQ Summer school visited NDORMS for a morning of talks, workshops and practicals.

Student in the laboratory
UNIQ Summer School

UNIQ is a programme of free summer schools at Oxford University aimed at encouraging students from non-traditional backgrounds to apply. Over the course of the morning, students undertook a range of tasks from deciding how they might allocate health funding to flow cytometry experiments.

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