Faculty of Life and Health Sciences

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 working relationship with professional bodies...

Medicine

Community-Focused, Globally Ambitious Doctors.

School of Nursing and Paramedic Science

Innovative teaching & research culture. The best place to study your nursing degree.

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Marrying modern and innovative teaching with state of the art facilities, helping you to work as a pharmacist in today's...

Psychology

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

Sport and Exercise Science

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

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 associated with the ageing population....

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 professions research....

Psychology Research

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

Sport and Exercise Sciences

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

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.