School of Health, Sport and Bioscience
Industry links
Many of our courses boast strong links with prestigious industry partners including West Ham United and Great Ormond Street Hospital as well as excellent collaborations across primary and social care with Barts NHS Health Trust, Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust and North East London Healthcare Trust.
Research Excellence
An impressive 86 per cent of research carried out by the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience was rated either 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent’ in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. It makes us the top modern university in London for our area of research and eighth in the country.
Financial Support
All degree-level nursing and many allied health students on courses from September 2021 will receive a training grant of at least £5,000 a year from the government.
Who we are
The School of Health, Sport and Bioscience (HSB) is a leader in providing hands-on, experience-led teaching across multiple disciplines in biological and chemical sciences, healthcare and sports.
As a careers-first university, we are proud of our industry links. You will be able to study closely alongside local NHS trusts, private healthcare providers and professional sports teams.
The School of Health, Sport and Bioscience at the University of East London is a leader in providing integrated teaching in Biological and Chemical Sciences, Healthcare and Sports.
You will gain valuable experience working across a range of specialisms with industry leading organisations such as West Ham United Foundation as well as pioneering NHS trusts and partners such as Great Ormond Street Hospital and HCA Healthcare.
We have excellent on-campus facilities, including our multi-million-pound SportsDock facility, bioscience labs and the state of the art clinical simulation building that supports our nursing and allied health degrees.
Our courses focus on practice-based experiences and research projects linking with both the regional London community and nationally renowned agencies. We provide you with opportunities to make an impact locally as well as globally.
- Our degrees prepare you to make an impact on the world both locally and globally.
- Our industry links will give you contact time with potential future employers.
- SportsDock provides a world-class environment for our sports courses to transform learning into doing.
- Our nursing courses were shortlisted in four categories in the Student Nursing Times Awards (2020).
- University staff and students have volunteered their clinical expertise and skills at NHS Nightingale, including nursing, physiotherapy and technician teams, as well as staff and students volunteering for non-clinical support.
- Emma Andersson, one of our BSc Physiotherapy students, observed a first for UK medicine in which a woman had a brain tumour removed successfully while playing her violin during the procedure.
Many of our courses are accredited by the relevant industry bodies. Our accreditations include:
The School has a growing network of partnerships and we are committed to extending learning, research and creative practice through partnership and collaboration. Our strong links with prestigious industry partners allows us to offer our students invaluable and unforgettable experiences out in the field. Our current partners include:
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Medical Sciences
On our medical science courses you will be immersed in practical work from the very start of your degree.
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Nursing
Nursing at UEL has excellent partnerships and apprenticeship routes in the North East London networks. Learn on the job with our NHS trust partners.
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Allied and Public Health Professions
Help transform people's lives on our ground-breaking Allied & Public Health courses. This important and rewarding work can change your life.
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Sport
Our sports department consistently ranked amongst the top three universities for sport in London by our students.
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School Office
Dean of School: Jane Perry
Ciddra Skerritt – School Business Manager
Jackie Cottrell – Deputy School Manager
Catherine Edeam – Nursing and Healthcare Support Coordinator
Claire Mansfield – Programme Placement Officer
Victoria Sobotie – Practice Administrator
Claire Greene – Practice Administrator
Monica Roach – Departmental Officer
Department of Allied and Public Health Professions
Head of Department: Dr Matthew Almond
Anthony Bone – Principal Lecturer/Director for External Affairs
Dr Julie Botticello – Senior Lecturer
Anna Caffrey - Senior Lecturer
Barbara Catwell – Principal Lecturer
Dr Graham Copnell – Senior Lecturer
Hayley Edwardson – Lecturer
Dr Jill Ferrari – Senior Lecturer
Janice Forbes-Burford – Senior Lecturer
Dr Kellie Gallagher – Lecturer Professional Health Sciences
Manizha Hadi – Senior Lecturer
Dr Mahwish Hayee Shahid – Senior Lecturer
Dr Alexander Izod – Senior Lecturer
Odette Jack – Lecturer
Raymond Lam – Senior Lecturer
Stephanie Messner – Lecturer
Liz Nicholls – Senior Lecturer and Course Leader, Physiotherapy
Dr Carol Resteghini – Lecturer
Dr Patricia Smith – Senior Lecturer
Irantzu Yoldi – Lecturer
Charlotte Vannet – Senior Lecturer
David Watkinson – Senior Lecturer
Paul Watts – Senior Lecturer
Department of Bioscience
Head of Department: Dr David Guiliano
Dr Abdessamad Ababou – Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry
Dr John Allum – Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences
Dr Samir S Ayoub – Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology
Dr David Bringloe – Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology
Dr Roger Carpenter – Senior Lecturer in Physiology
Dr Amrutha Chilumuri – Senior Lecturer in Cell Pathology
Professor Sally J Cutler – Professor of Medical Microbiology
Dr Eva Galante – Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
Dr Hanieh Khalili – Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr Sarantos Marinakis – Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
Dr Mohammed Meah – Senior Lecturer in Physiology
Dr Winston Morgan – Reader in Toxicology and Clinical Biochemistry
Dr Barbara Pendry – Principal Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science
Dr Mukhlesur Rahman – Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science
Rane Ranasinghe – Senior Lecturer in Anatomy
Dr Tony Raynham – Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
Dr Tummala Rama Krishna Reddy – Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry
Dr Prashant Ruchaya – Lecturer in Physiology
Dr Marco Saia – Lecturer in Oncology
Dr Claudio Scotti – Principal Lecturer in Biomedical Science
Professor Michael Seed – Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology
Dr Lesley Smyth – Senior Lecturer in Immunology
Dr Geoffrey P Webb – Senior Lecturer in Nutrition
Dr Elizabeth Kebede Westhead – Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences
Department of Nursing
Head of Department: Dr Beverly Joshua
Clara Calvete – Lecturer
Don George Padam – Technician
Jane Murphy – Senior Lecturer
Joshua Onyango – Senior Lecturer
Madhini Sivasubramanian – Senior Lecturer
Stephen Thompson – Senior Lecturer
Vinod John – Simulation Manager
Robert Waterson – Senior Lecturer
Department of Sport
Acting Head of Department: Dr Stewart Bruce-Low
Earle Abrahamson (SFHEA) – Programme Leader for Sports Therapy
Maria Antritsou – Senior Lecturer in Sport, Physical Education and Development / Link Tutor for Metropolitan College (Greece).
James Beale – Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology, Programme Leader for MSc in Applied Sport & Exercise Science
Dr Nick Bourne – Senior Lecturer in Strength & Conditioning / Level leader 4 for SES
Lee Brown – Lecturer in Sports Science
Dr Richard Buscombe – Programme Leader for Sport & Exercise Science
Adnan Chowdhury – Lecturer in Sports Science
Michael Cole – (NTF) Senior Lecturer in Sports Therapy
Gerry Diver – Programme Leader for Foundation Degree in Community Sport Management
Gary Doyle – Senior Lecturer in Sport Biomechanics
Dr Andy Galbraith – Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology / Level Leader (Level 4) SES / Programme Leader MSc Exercise Physiology
Dr Kara-Aretha Graham – Lecturer in Sport
Dr Nadia Grubnic – Programme Leader SPED / Senior Lecturer in Sport, PE & Development
Dr Alireza Monajati – Programme Leader for MSc Sport Analytics
Andy Preston – Co-Programme Leader for Sports Coaching & Performance
Sarah Williamson – Lecturer in Sports Therapy
Facilities
UEL houses both sports science and sports therapy labs at our Docklands campus and biomechanics laboratories in Stratford - both serviced by full-time laboratory technicians. The sports science facility allows the assessment of fitness components from those that are vital for every day health to those important for elite performance. The sports therapy lab, along with the sports therapy clinic, allows you to gain much needed applied, practical experience.
Recently, £2.5 million was spent on a new high-tech bioscience lab at our Stratford campus, increasing teaching space by 150% and creating more space for project and collaborative work.
Our Centre for Clinical Education provides clinical training facilities in podiatry and physiotherapy as well as adult nursing. The Centre is London's only provider of clinical and training facilities in podiatry and builds on our excellent reputation as a provider of education in physiotherapy, podiatry, sports science, professional health studies and subjects allied to medicine. Our Simulation Centre boasts cutting-edge tools including 'Stan', a high-tech patient simulator mannequin.
Research
Our research has impact both locally and globally.
Our internationally-renowned former Institute for Health and Human Development (IHHD), regularly carried out research across the UK and also overseas. Its Reach Pregnancy programme worked with Barts Health NHS Trust to improve access to antenatal care for pregnant women living in areas with high levels of poverty and high ethnic diversity.
Other key research groups in HSB include our Medicines Research Group led by Dr Mukhlesur Rahman and the Applied Sport Sciences Research Group , led by Dr Andy Galbraith.
For more information on our research interests and groups, and research degrees, visit our Research page.
I chose UEL because they offered the course I wanted to study and saw the progress they were making in sports. Also, previous students told me how good the lecturers were at delivering the course. Being at UEL opened up some great opportunities for me, including working with the US Olympic team and placements at Leyton Orient Football Club and Mile End Hospital.
Samuel Amponsah
Sport and Exercise Science, BSc (Hons)