Faculty of Life and Health Sciences

As a leading provider of health-related education, with almost 6,500 students and approximately 250 academic staff, we offer an extensive portfolio of accredited degree and research programmes covering eight exciting yet diverse disciplines.

Our Schools

We are eight schools committed to improving quality of life by addressing some of the most important issues of our time including climate change, sustainability, peace building, poverty, and helping others by creating healthy and active societies.

Biomedical Sciences

Offering a range of healthcare, scientific and technical professions undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Geography and Environmental Sciences

Help address challenges of the 21st Century by studying our innovative courses.

Health Sciences

Learn from professionally qualified staff in state of the art facilities along with a close...

Medicine

Community-Focused, Globally Ambitious Doctors.

School of Nursing and Paramedic Science

Award-winning School of Nursing and Paramedic Science ranked 1st in Ireland and 7th in the...

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Marrying modern and innovative teaching with state of the art facilities, helping you to work...

Psychology

Offering flexible and interesting courses, we work in partnership with our students to ensure that...

Sport

Our high-quality and innovative courses allow us to lead, inspire and shape the future of...

Our Research

Major breakthroughs and make a difference to future generations
Helping change the way others understand the world in a time of rapid societal and environmental change
Creating the cutting edge medicine of the future
Helping manage illnesses and rehabilitation to make lives better
Leading, inspiring and shaping the future of sport
Informing and influencing government policy to make positive impacts on society

Biomedical Sciences Research

Study of the biological mechanisms associated with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, blindness and various diseases...

Geography and Environmental Sciences Research

Addressing regional and international challenges and impacts in the 21st Century.

Nursing and Health

Enhancing the knowledge, expertise and engaged scholarship of nursing, midwifery, public health and allied health...

Psychology Research

Research across three main themes of research in 'Mental health', 'Children, Young People and Schools',...

Sport and Exercise Sciences

World-leading research that enhances the quality of life and addresses the changing needs of sport...

Further Information

Whether improving the quality of life or the quality of our environment, life and health science students really do make a difference. Well-established links with government agencies, public bodies, and the private sector, play an important role in the design of our high-quality provision.

Faculty of Life and Health Sciences

Our Schools

Biomedical Sciences

Geography and Environmental Sciences

Health Sciences

Medicine

School of Nursing and Paramedic Science

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Psychology

Sport

Our Research

Biomedical Sciences Research

Geography and Environmental Sciences Research

Nursing and Health

Psychology Research

Sport and Exercise Sciences

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