The School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy is a multi-discipline school with research and teaching activities covering a broad range of cutting-edge science. Degrees are offered in Pharmacy, Chemistry (and associated 'Chemistry with' programmes), Food Science, Food Science with Business, Food Technology with Bioprocessing, Nutrition and Food Science, and Nutrition with Food Consumer Sciences.

The School also offers a number of continuing professional development courses. Research activities are very broad, ranging from pure and applied life science through material science to physics.

Areas of interest include: pharmacology, drug design, development and delivery, functional foods, nutrition, flavour chemistry, polymer and nanoscience, atmospheric chemistry, and the physics of surfaces. The School has a state-of-the-art Chemical Analysis Facility, and shares a Biophysical and Pharmaceutical Science Building with the School of Biological Sciences.