Postgraduate Programmes

Our innovative integrated health programmes provide inter-professional postgraduate education and training in a supportive learning environment informed by research. Students successfully completing our programmes will develop a critical understanding of specialist areas in health as well as advanced skills in working collaboratively, creatively and effectively in health related disciplines.

Our taught courses use the English NHS as a model for examining and comparing medical education, health policy, public health and the management of health care provision in different systems and how these can be improved. International students are encouraged to examine and critique their own country's systems and approaches against this model. Through seminars and discussions all students learn from each other as well as from course experts. In this way every student, whether UK-based or from further afield, gains an international education at the forefront of professional education and health system improvement.

All our programmes are underpinned by world class research. Most of our staff and Postgraduate Researchers are Fellows of the Wolfson Research Institute of Health and Wellbeing, a multidisciplinary research institute engaging in research on health and well-being in developed and developing countries. The School is also in a unique collaborative arrangement with other research institutes within the University, such as the Institute of Advanced Studies, and local and regional healthcare organisations including the NHS and North East Public Health Observatory. Together these research bodies offer students an unparalleled opportunity to develop and apply knowledge and skills at the cutting edge of local and global health issues.

The postgraduate community at Queen's is growing rapidly, particularly in health and pharmacy related studies. The School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health is currently home to approximately 94 staff, 37 PhD and 38 taught postgraduate students working and reading in research on health, medicine and the environment, and the links between them, and upon regional and urban regeneration. Our postgraduate population consists of a diverse and inclusive community of students from the local region, wider UK and across the world.

Wolfson Research Institute of Health and Well-being

Fellows within the Wolfson Research Institute of Health and Wellbeing undertake cutting edge research in medicine, health and the wellbeing of people and places, with a special interest in the people of the Northeast of England. They contribute to the teaching of the taught masters courses, play a key role in strengthening academic and practitioner links across the region and contribute to policy formation and implementation within the University, across the region and nation. Through our unique collaborative agreements with the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, we offer highly inter-professional contact and access to the application of the principles taught on our courses.

Institute of Advanced Study

Is a prestigious, ideas-based Institute which brings together some of the world’s finest researchers from every discipline to examine themes of major intellectual, scientific, political and practical significance.

Learning Environment at Queen's Campus

Our programmes are delivered at the Queen's Campus in new, contemporary, purpose-built premises on the banks of the River Tees, Northeast England, which contains excellent laboratory and computing facilities, a specialist teaching library, dedicated postgraduate study areas, student residential accommodation and leisure and water sport facilities.