Introducing Our School
The School of Health, Sport and Bioscience at Stratford is an exciting, friendly and innovative School, which is rapidly growing in both popularity and size, having nearly doubled in the last few years. The School offers a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes in scientific, medical and health subjects. These include Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Health Studies, Sports Science and a wide range of Bioscience Subjects. We also have an Extended Degree which provides the skills and knowledge required for progression onto a full UEL degree programme.
Our research also includes that in conservation ecology and public health, and we have a specialist centre for this in our Institute for Health and Human Development. In the recent Government Research Assessment (RAE) we came in the top 3 Universities in London overall for our Unit of Assessment in Allied Health Professions and Studies.
The School has a wide range of newly upgraded and modern facilities. The Stratford Campus has just benefited from a complete facelift, all our laboratories have just completed a round of refurbishment and our new Centre for Clinical Education opened in 2007. The building incorporates the London Centre for Podiatric Education, which is unique in London, and offers NHS treatments for local patients. It is one of the finest facilities of its kind in the UK. Building on our growing reputation for physiotherapy, sports science and podiatry, the Centre also houses our Acupuncture Clinic, the Stratford Centre for Herbal Medicine and the UEL Sports Clinic.
In addition to having the only Podiatry programme in London, we also have the longest established BSc in Physiotherapy in England, being the first University to offer this programme. We are the 3rd biggest provider of sports science and coaching programmes in London and rated in the top ten in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2007. We will benefit further from our proximity to the 2012 Olympic facilities, being the nearest University to the Games, in fact they will be only a stroll away!
All this against a background of regeneration and exciting developments, including a new City Centre, in Stratford. So if you want to be part of a established and growing School, in a rapidly developing and dynamic area of the UK, then come and join us!
East London is now recognised as a great place to live, work and study. With the success of London's bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we are on the threshold of tremendous change, and at the heart of the most exciting urban development project in Europe.
The School of Health, Sport and Bioscience was created in 2002 to bring together UEL's innovative research and teaching in the fields of Health Studies, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Microbiology, Biomedical Science, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Forensic Science, and Sports Science. It comprises of four subject fields; Biosciences, Sports Science, Professional Health Sciences and Health Studies. There are currently just over 2,000 on campus students and in excess of 160 staff.
The School offers a wide range of facilities, including the Centre for Clinical Education which provides clinical training facilities in Podiatry, Physiotherapy and Sports Science. This outstanding clinic incorporates a foot hospital for London offering NHS treatment, and is one of the finest facilities of its kind in the UK. It is London’s only provider of clinical and training facilities in Podiatry. Building on our growing reputation for as a provider of education in Physiotherapy, Sports Science and Podiatry, professional health studies and subjects allied to medicine.
Within the School are; the Institute for Health and Human Development. The Institute and its people have a track record of research geared towards policy and intervention development in both developing and developed countries; a commitment to community participation in research, and a focus on the potential of the cultural and creative industries to influence consumption lifestyles and promote health and wellbeing.
The Centre for Disability, Sport and Health, is based in the School Board and UEL. The principal function of this centre is as a research centre which focuses on individuals with a disability and their differing relationships to sport and health. To this end the Centre provides research into various types of human disability and gathers data across all age ranges and gender.
The School hosts Pro-Active East London which is one of five sub-regional sport and physical activity partnerships in London, that mirrors the East London Sub Regional Development Framework Area in representing and working directly with 10 Local Authority areas including City of London and the boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Greenwich, Hackney, Havering, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Redbridge. Pro-Active East aim to develop existing and establishing new ways of using sport and physical activity to bring about positive change in the social and economic well being of East London’s communities.
In addition, the School has newly upgraded laboratories, and our sports studies programmes - in which we are rated in the top ten in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2007 - will benefit even further from their proximity to nearby Olympic facilities.
