The Faculty responds to the pandemic

The Faculty of Health and Medicine has been at the forefront of the University's response to the Covid pandemic. From medical students to virologists, you can read some of their stories here.

Covid Response

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Undergraduate Degrees

Flexible degrees with options for professional accreditation, study abroad and placements in industry.

Postgraduate Courses

Full and part-time courses are available, by on-campus study or blended learning.

PhDs and Professional Doctorates

Study for a PhD alongside world-leading academics at the forefront of their field, or gain your professional MD or DClinPsy qualification.

Continuing Professional Development

Opportunities for those working in the biomedical sector, the health care sector and allied professions.

A Lancaster medical student working with a patient in hospital.

Medicine and Surgery

Top in the north west for students’ overall satisfaction with their medicine degree (National Student Survey 2018).

MBChB Medicine and Surgery

Lancaster Success Programme

We want to ensure that all our students have the chance to benefit from a range of experiences available at Lancaster. Students from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented at university are not always aware of the breadth of support opportunities available to them.

For more information please get in touch on outreach@lancaster.ac.uk or 01524 595232.

Lancaster Success Programme

Research

We pride ourselves on the real-world impact of our research and its practical applications for human and societal benefit, including ageing and palliative care, infectious disease, and mental health.

Research in the Faculty

Our unique blend of internationally acclaimed expertise allows us to approach problems from novel directions.

Research Strategy

Research activity is integral to the function of the Faculty of Health and Medicine.

Research Ethics

All of our research is conducted to our comprehensive ethical guidelines.

Research Studentships

Thinking about applying for a PhD?

See our current Research Studentships

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Work With Us

We believe advances in healthcare are achieved through strong mutually beneficial partnerships, working with external organisations to support research, innovation and professional development in health and medicine.

Welcome to the Health Innovation Campus

The new Health Innovation Campus at Lancaster University brings together industry, research partners, health and care providers, the voluntary sector and local authorities to create an innovation eco-system.

The Health Innovation Campus is all about collaboration, co-design and co-production. Its purpose is to develop sustainable solutions for some of the most important health and care challenges we face as a society. Work at the Health Innovation Campus will take a solution-led, place-based approach to addressing health and social inequalities and their impact on wellness, with an emphasis on innovative thinking and disruption.

Health Innovation Campus

Innovation in Healthcare

We work with the NHS, public sector, industry and voluntary sector organisations to develop solutions to health care problems; innovating for the benefit of patients, the NHS, industry and the wider economy.

Knowledge Exchange Strategy

A novel platform across Lancashire and Cumbria for supporting knowledge exchange between Lancaster University and the NHS, introduced by the Collaborative Partnerships initiative in 2009.

Athena Swan

The Faculty of Health and Medicine holds the Athena Swan Silver Award recognising our commitment to advancing the careers of women in higher education and research.

Divisions

The Faculty of Health and Medicine's multidisciplinary research and teaching operates across three divisions, delivering high quality teaching and research with national and international impact.

Biomedical and Life Sciences

The Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences is responsible for coordinating biomedical teaching and research activities at Lancaster.

Health Research

The Division of Health Research specialises in postgraduate study and high-quality research with national and international impact on health and wellbeing policy.

Lancaster Medical School

In addition to offering our medical degree and course in sports science, Lancaster Medical School conducts research into biomedicine, social and ethical aspects of health and medicine, and medical education.

Latest News

Public events at the Faculty of Health and Medicine

From public lecture series, to student-focused webinars, there's always something going on at the Faculty of Health and Medicine.

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Lancaster Professor is President-elect of the British Society of Gerontology

Professor Carol Holland is the new President-elect of the British Society of Gerontology.

£10,000 studentships for Lancaster’s new MSc in Health Data Science

A new postgraduate degree in Health Data Science will see Lancaster University award 22 £10,000 studentships in the first two years of the programme.

Almost half of women using long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) felt pressured to accept this method

Almost half of users of long-acting reversible contraceptives felt under pressure from health professionals to accept these highly effective methods of contraception say researchers.

“Wild North” puts cold water swimming on the map

Two friends from Lancaster University have set up their own business catering to wild swimmers after discovering the sport during lockdown.

Professor Dame Sue Black and the artist Ken Currie in front of Currie’s portrait of Black, Unknown Man (2019), in The Modern Portrait exhibition in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, which opens Friday 30 April 2021. Photo by Neil Hanna.

Lancaster Professor’s portrait unveiled at Scottish National Portrait Gallery

A striking new painting by the celebrated Scottish artist Ken Currie, depicting the pre-eminent forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black, will go on public display for the very first time when the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG) reopens this coming Friday 30 April 2021.

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