Health and Social Care

The Faculty of Health and Social Care is one of the major providers of Health and Social Care education in the North West and offers a wide range of programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

All branches of pre-registration nursing can be undertaken, as well as pre-qualification courses in Midwifery and Social Work.

Social Work programmes are available at both undergraduate and masters levels. The Faculty also offers a wide ranging and exciting portfolio of post-qualifying programmes with an inter-professional focus.

Within the Faculty, research is viewed as integral to the working life of staff, in partnership with local and regional providers of care. The strategic focus is on further development in community/primary care, users and carers support and inter-professional learning.

There are opportunities to register for a PhD, with supervision from recognised experts in their field. Individual Professors, Readers and Teaching Fellows lead their own research developments in subjects closely related to practice-based care.

These include clinical interventions in eating disorders, supporting individuals with learning disabilities in the penal system, interventions in forensic mental health, supporting carers and users of services, inter-professional learning in social care, safety factors for single practitioners in the community and exploring how health care workers can access and use work-based learning.

The Dean of Faculty is Professor Michael Thomas.