I am doing a project/case study at university into Virus and was wondering if anyone knew a place to download safely packaged virus that i can deploy into a sand-boxed network to monitor what happens?
I think that you need to talk to your tutor for some guidance. Right now I believe that there are some 22,000,000 different types of malware so I would recommend that you pick on something interesting and specific, as the subject is just too large.

The only place you are likely to get examples is on the "darkside" unless you are an accredited professional or you know someone with examples they have captured in the wild. Hence my suggesting your tutor. Another possibility is your Uni's IT people as I am sure they get asked to clean out malware quite regularly, or even a local PC repair shop.