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Health Sciences School

We're leaders in health professions education, training and research.
Our Health Sciences School brings together expertise from across our three core areas of strength: human communication sciences; nursing; and orthoptics.

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Health sciences research

Our multidisciplinary research focuses on understanding health, illness and disability, to enable the effective delivery of health and social care across the life course.

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Strategic Research Alliance with the Royal College of Nursing

We are delighted to be working with the Royal College of Nursing on a five-year (2018-2023) Strategic Research Alliance.

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News

20 January 2020

Health professions students to receive £5,000 payment a year

Students studying to become orthoptists and speech and language therapists will be among those receiving the new financial support from September.

GOV.UK

10 January 2020

Nursing students to receive £5,000 payment a year

All nursing students on courses from September 2020 will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year which they will not need to pay back.

Gov.UK

9 January 2020

Blog: Orthoptics or Optometry? Seeing the difference

Making the decision of choosing the career path that’s right for you is challenging enough, but a good starting point is choosing a degree that puts you on the first step of the ladder to achieving your goals.