Overview

Health Sciences is a friendly and dynamic department that offers a variety of science based undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. These include Health, Sport & Exercise Science, Biology, Human Biology, Nutrition, Sports Studies, and Health, Nutrition & Fitness. 

All staff in Health Sciences are experts in the areas in which they teach, as evidenced by their research profiles, which you can find in the staff index. Staff in the Department publish at international level, and bring their research findings into the curriculum.

The multidisciplinary team also pride themselves on providing a supportive environment for student success across the whole of its provision. We help students develop their academic, practical and personal skills to their full potential. Tutors know their students by name, and offer regular opportunities for individual support giving published 'office hours'.

An overarching aim is to enable Health Sciences student to develop into confident, independent learners. All our single honours students undertake an individual supervised research project towards demonstrating this, which is generally of much interest to employers, as well as being the highlight of their studies for most students.

Health Sciences students also benefit from undertaking the laboratory and field work we offer, which again add value to their studies, and increase employability. 

Research

Links to all our three research centres give details of the main the centres and research institutes pages, which should include:

• The Bioscience Pedagogy Research Centre

• Sport & Exercise Physiology Research Group

• Health and Wellbeing Research Team

Partnerships

We have well developed links with higher educational establishments in India through the Institute of Applied Social Science in the Faculty of Sciences and Social Sciences at Hope. This includes close academic and working relationships with Bishop Heber, Tamil Nadu, Stella Maris College and Madras Christian College in South East India. This also includes a visiting Professor in Biology, Professor Alex Jesudasan from Madras Christian College for teaching and research collaborations.

The department has NEBOSH (National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health) accreditation and offers the professional qualification: NEBOSH Certificate in the Management of Health and Wellbeing at Work.

Academic Staff

	Dr Rosanna Cousins Associate Professor and Head cousinr@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Razak Abubakari Lecturer in Health abubakr@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Jim Adie Lecturer adiej@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Farzad Amirabdollahian Senior Lecturer - Nutrition (Public Health) amirabf@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Tony Finnegan Senior Lecturer - Sociology finnega@hope.ac.uk
	Becky Gobbi Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow gobbib@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Joanne Hogan Lecturer in Health hoganj@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Kat Holloway Lecturer in Health Sciences hollowk@hope.ac.uk
	Simon Kawyczs Lecturer kawyczs@hope.ac.uk
	Carl Larsen Senior Lecturer - Biology larsenc@hope.ac.uk
	Dr John Malone Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow malonej1@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Simon Marwood Senior Lecturer - Physiology marwoos@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Mark McAuley Lecturer in Nutrition (Public Health) mcaulem@hope.ac.uk
	David Merryweather Lecturer merrywd@hope.ac.uk
	Professor Ebrahim Naderali Professor of Human Physiology  naderae@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Liam O'Callaghan Lecturer ocallal@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Damian Parry Senior Lecturer parryd1@hope.ac.uk
	Edd Pitt Lecturer pitte@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Denise Roche Senior Lecturer roched@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Joel Rookwood Senior Lecturer rookwoj@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Barbara Tigar Lecturer in Biology tigarb@hope.ac.uk
	Dr Cathy Walsh Principal Lecturer walshc@hope.ac.uk

Contact Us

For more information, contact the Department Office:

Shelley Wynne

HCA E 112

healthsciences@hope.ac.uk

0151 291 3441