Health and Social Care with Foundation Year

We'll help you develop core academic skills such as using electronic resources, planning and note-taking, communication skills related to essay and report writing and delivering presentations.

You'll learn to manage your time, prioritise tasks and manage stress, and become more confident in engaging with collaborative learning, debates, discussions and critical reflection.

Study areas of interest related to your chosen future academic specialisation in this highly personalised module.

You'll have 25 hours of workshop tuition to explore how you will be assessed and the form your project could take, which could be a written report, a presentation, a film or a series of blog posts.

You'll also explore topics your project could focus on, and get peer assessment of your ideas.

In the first semester, you'll get support through personal tutoring and learning hub liaison.

You'll also explore careers and employability pathways in sport and health with the Graduate Recruitment Team and the School of Health, Sport and Life Sciences.

In the second semester, you'll produce your negotiated assessment, focussing on existing academic literature and other secondary sources.

You won't undertake primary empirical research.

You'll be introduced to the concept of holistic care and how the study of human biology, psychology and sociology contributes to understanding how individuals, families and communities can achieve wellbeing and how barriers such as inequality and social injustic can affect positive health outcomes.

Examine your own professional identity and the professional characteristics and values set out in codes of conduct, developing an understanding of key concepts such as duty of care, accountability and ethical implications.

You'll study the importance of interventions including safeguarding, personalised care, equality and diversity and effective communication will be applied through case study examples to promote an appreciation of how inclusive practice is delivered in health and social care.

Study multi-disciplinary perspectives of the role of exercise and physical activity with the context of health. You'll gain knowledge on the basic key theories such as health and wellbeing, behaviour change, health and safety, intervention design and working with clients through a range of activities.

You'll build your knowledge through a combination of interactive lectures and workshops as well as in practical settings which may include lab sessions, field-based activities and practical workshops.

Get an introduction to psychological factors that influence health and wellbeing, such as lifestyle, personality, mental health, motivation and risk-taking.

You'll make links between major psychological theories, concepts and models, applying these to health promotion, prevention and treatment of disease and illness.

You'll develop knowledge and understanding of how people react to, cope with, and recover from illness.

You'll look at cognitive processes, behavioural insights, behaviour change and self-management.

You'll also consider the importance of health literacy, digital health technology and personalised care on self-management of health and wellbeing.

Explore social determinants of health and influencing factors, such as gender, culture, education, poverty, and employment.

You'll investigate the causes and effects of inequalities in health and social care for minority groups, vulnerable adults and ageing populations, including how this may change across the lifespan and within communities.

You'll examine national and international policy responses to address social injustice and how health data can inform our understanding.

You'll consider how sociological theories and concepts such as social conflict theory, feminism, symbolic interactionism and functionalism influence the wider determinants of health within individuals and communities.

You'll explore the basis of community care, the ways in which community health services are organised and driven by local, national and global perspectives, the forms they take and could take, and tackle some of the challenges faced by these services. 

You'll focus on strengthening the challenges community health services face around issues such as homelessness, violence, addiction, mental health, disabilities, ageing, gender, racial and ethnic inequalities and prison health.  

You'll explore ways to engage with and strengthen community health services as well as develop insight into the wide array of professions that an interest in community health services brings to health and social care practice.

You'll evaluate and develop skills relating to strengths-based approaches, motivational interviewing, health literacy, shared decision making, supported self-management, advocacy, restorative practice, behaviour change and cultural competence. 

You will critically review integrated care systems and interdisciplinary working to engage communities to improve their health and wellbeing.