Social Work, Environmental and Public Health
As part of the School of Health and Social Wellbeing, you’ll learn from passionate and inclusive practitioners with real world experience. Gain in-depth knowledge of the latest practices and policies, and discover how these overlap within an integrated care system. Become confident in your specialist area and deliver results that make a difference to people and society.
93%
of BSc(Hons) Social Work students are in graduate-level employment 15 months after graduating. Graduate Outcome Survey, 2021-22 (published 2024).
96%
of Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work students are satisfied with the quality of their course overall. Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, 2024.
"The challenging course supports you effectively towards your first year of practice. It provides strong theoretical and practical foundations with an unrelenting focus on the lived experiences of those we work for."
Gavin Social worker, BSc(Hons) Social Work
Foundation Social Work, Environmental and Public Health courses (2025/26 entry)
- Foundation Programme for Professions in Health and Social Care - Foundation Programme
Undergraduate Social Work, Environmental and Public Health courses (2025/26 entry)
- Health and Social Care - BSc(Hons)
- Social Work - BSc(Hons)
Postgraduate Social Work, Environmental and Public Health courses (2025/26 entry)
- Advanced Practice - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate
- Environmental Health - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma
- Public Health - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate
Professional development Social Work, Environmental and Public Health courses
- Advanced Practice with Adults at Risk - Professional/Short course
- Affect, Emotion and Society - Professional/Short course
- Best Interest Assessment - Professional/Short course
- Clinical Leadership and Professional Development in Cancer Care - Professional/Short course
- Community Specialist Practice - Professional/Short course
- Complexities of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care - Professional/Short course
- Dissertation - Professional/Short course
- Enhancing Practice in Palliative Care for Children, Young People and Families - Professional/Short course
- Environmental and Ecological Consultancy - Professional/Short course
- Environmental Health Risk and Law - Professional/Short course
- Environmental Protection (PPP) - Professional/Short course
- Environmental Protection and Sustainability - Professional/Short course
- Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Disease - Professional/Short course
- Evidence and Research in Practice - Professional/Short course
- Evidence and Research in Practice - Professional/Short course
- Evidencing Work Based Learning (EWBL) - Professional/Short course
- Evidencing Work-Based Learning - Professional/Short course
- Food Control - Professional/Short course
- Health and Safety Management - Professional/Short course
- Health and Social Care Research: Methods and Methodology - Professional/Short course
- Health Promotion - Professional/Short course
- Health Promotion: Theory, Evidence and Practice - Professional/Short course
- Health Protection - Professional/Short course
- Housing and Healthy Neighbourhoods - Professional/Short course
- Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribing - Professional/Short course
- Integrated Practice for Sexual and Reproductive Health - Professional/Short course
- Introduction to Environmental and Public Health - Professional/Short course
- Introduction to Global Public Health - Professional/Short course
- Leadership and Innovation - Professional/Short course
- Leadership for Public Health - Professional/Short course
- Long Term Conditions - Professional/Short course
- Managing Fatigue in Long Term Health Conditions - Professional/Short course
- Managing Maternal Critical Care - Professional/Short course
- Managing Practice Learning for Social Work Students - Study day
- Mastering Emergency Care - Professional/Short course
- Medication Management in Mental Health Practice - Professional/Short course
- Mental Health and Well-Being of Children and Young People - Professional/Short course
- Mindful Eating - Study day
- Minor Illness and Minor Injury in Children - Professional/Short course
- Motivational Interviewing - Study day
- Motivational Interviewing: Strategies for Lifestyle Changes - Professional/Short course
- Pathophysiology and Diagnostic Reasoning for Advancing Practice - Professional/Short course
- Perinatal Mental Health For Health and Social Care Practitioners - Professional/Short course
- Physical Assessment and Clinical Reasoning for Practice - Professional/Short course
- Physical Assessment and Clinical Reasoning of the Presenting Child - Professional/Short course
- Practice Learning and Student Support - Professional/Short course
- Principles of Critical Care - Professional/Short course
- Principles of Dementia Care - Professional/Short course
- Professional Development - BA(Hons)/BSc(Hons)/FdA/FdSc/GradDip/Dip/CertHE/GradCert/Cert
- Professional Development - MA/MSc/PGDip/PGCert
- Professional Development (Social Work) - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate
- Promoting Sexual Health in Practice - Professional/Short course
- Promoting the Health of School-Aged Children in the Community - Professional/Short course
- Psycho-Social Interventions for Serious Mental Health Problems - Professional/Short course
- Public Health (Improvement and Protection) - Professional/Short course
- Quantitative Health Research - Professional/Short course
- Researching Beneath the Surface - Professional/Short course
- Specialist Health Protection Training Course - Professional/Short course
- Stroke Care - Professional/Short course
- Supervision Training for Music Therapists - Professional/Short course
- Supporting and Managing Those at Risk of Suicide - Professional/Short course
- Supporting Students in Practice - Professional/Short course
- Synoptic Module (without V100) - Professional/Short course
- Therapeutic Songwriting - Professional/Short course
- Understanding and Preventing Childhood Obesity - Study day
- V100 Prescribing Practice - Professional/Short course
- Work Based Health and Wellbeing - Professional/Short course
- Working with a Person Experiencing Mental Health Crisis - Professional/Short course
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