Overview

• Based in the inter-disciplinary Wellcome Centre for Cultures & Environments of Health, you will benefit from engaged and transformative research, which draws on medical humanities, social sciences and medical sciences.
• Examine how experiences of health, illness and medical knowledge are shaped by diverse environments, cultural practices and beliefs.
• Explore how diverse types of evidence about health and wellbeing are used across different disciplines and sectors, and the impacts this has on the ways we conceive, respond to, and experience health and social care.
• Investigate how evidence from the medical humanities and social sciences can be used to help develop and evaluate innovative and effective public health initiatives.
• Upon graduation, you will be equipped to become a leader in transforming health research and health and social care practice within a range of professions.

Careers

Graduates of this Masters programme are well placed to become leaders in transforming health research and health and social care practice within a range of professions. Some examples include:

• Public Health
• Health Promotion
• National and international NGOs
• Statutory sector e.g. housing, social care
• Civil society and social enterprise innovating in transformative health

The programme also prepares you for further research, and some graduates may want to go on to PhD study within the Wellcome Centre or elsewhere.