I'm Dr Vivien Rolfe and lead Healthcare Science and Biomedical Science courses at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Many of these photographs were produced when I was at De Montfort University in Leicester.

I'd like to acknowledge De Montfort student Jacob Escott for designing the artwork for this profile when he worked on the "Sickle Cell Disease Project" (sicklecellanaemia.org), and other materials were produced for the "Biology Courses" project (biologycourses.co.uk).