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MSc

Sustainability, Health & Wellbeing

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Campus

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Duration

3 Years

Start

September 2023

Delivery

Distance Learning

This master’s course in Sustainability, Health and Wellbeing has been directly tailored to address the urgent need to confront sustainability issues related to health, wellbeing and healthcare provision. Delivery is via e-learning with live interactive sessions, so that study can be undertaken entirely from your own home.

This programme is only available as an online distance learning course, which provides high quality learning and teaching combined with flexible study.

The current challenges facing global health are substantial. This course seeks to explore shared global challenges, as well as those specific to individual regions, and be applicable to public health and healthcare personnel around the world.

It has been designed to meet the needs of those holding strategic positions within organisations as well as individual practitioners and healthcare workers who wish to learn more about how to enhance sustainability, health and wellbeing.

Why study with us

This part-time course is delivered entirely online.
You’ll examine the key 21st century challenges facing societies and the requirements for achieving sustainability, health and wellbeing outcomes in an equitable and just manner, for current and future generations.
You’ll explore the sustainability impacts of health and care systems and increase understanding of the potential health and wellbeing co-benefits of minimising negative and maximising positive impacts.

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What you'll do

The emphasis within this programme is the creation of a challenging, yet facilitative, online learning environment, supporting a student-led approach.
You’ll be encouraged to challenge, deconstruct, debate and reconstruct your conceptual understanding of sustainability, health and wellbeing – and of their interconnections and interdependencies.

Module overview

Course delivery

This is a distance learning course which is taught entirely online with no face-to-face teaching.

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Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Whether online or campus-based, all our students have access to a vast array of online resources and materials.

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Future careers

An MSc in Sustainability, Health and Wellbeing can lead to career development opportunities and continuing professional development in a range of professions and sectors.

The optional modules allow for the differing needs of individuals to be met through differing pathways. For example, a person wishing to pursue a career in research may opt for two additional modules in research, whereas a person who has, or is aiming for, a position of responsibility within an organisation or community may benefit from the optional modules in Leadership and Healthy and Sustainable Settings.

Fees and funding

2022/23

Distance Part-time£867 per 20 credits

2023/24

Distance Part-time£900 per 20 credits

International

Distance Part-time£900 per 20 credits

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of bursaries, scholarships and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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We aim to foster a learning climate in which we will all develop as individuals and as part of a group. An essential part of this process is developing the ability to reflect on the meaning and implications of various theories and models proposed to help understand health, wellbeing and the nature of sustainability.

This unique e-learning programme uses tutorial workshops where you are required to take an active, and in many cases a leading role. You will learn through interacting with lecturers and other course members, attending online tutorials and interactive sessions, but also through your own personal development. Bringing learning to the forefront of what we, the lecturers and you the students do, facilitates a mutually supportive learning relationship.

Learning will mainly be achieved by way of structured directed study and debate through discussion with other students using online discussion tools within the virtual 'managed online learning environment', Blackboard. The idea of an electronic tutorial in this context involves the undertaking of various learning activities, using the internet, over a period of time.

Each module has a series of units. Each unit includes questions that have provided the main focus for study and for discussion. This will enable consideration of relevant theoretical perspectives and thus enhance application to practice.

Depending on choice of optional modules, assessment will include: written assignments, critical reflective account, project work, oral presentation, patchwork text, preparation of papers for Research Ethics Committee, development of a research proposal, analytical report and thesis.