Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc

Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc was launched in response to the demand for a new generation of experts to drive the health and wellbeing agenda in the built environment. The convergence of the sustainability, health and wellbeing agendas has led to the emergence of a more holistic, human-centred approach to design, and made health and wellbeing an increasingly influential research area.

Students on the Health, Wellbeing and Sustainability MSc are taught by research-active leaders in the field and have opportunities to network with and learn from industry experts, to develop their understanding of commercially applicable, research-oriented tools and approaches, and to benefit from opportunities for hands-on experience and exposure to real-world scenarios.

The programme aims to:

• Provide students with the knowledge, critical understanding and skills needed to address health, wellbeing and human performance for the design, assessment and operation of new-build, retrofit and existing buildings (residential and non-domestic)
• Develop in-depth understanding of the interactions between human-centred outcomes and other sustainability issues and challenges involved in addressing multiple outcomes
• Ensure that graduates have the skills and knowledge to understand the range of social and built environment factors that impact upon health, wellbeing and human performance, covering multiple spatial scales (e.g., buildings to urban environments).
• Equip students with the ability to design solutions and establish operational strategies for the remediation or alleviation of health and comfort problems within buildings, and for enhancing wellbeing and human performance.
• Introduce and develop methods and tools for evaluating/predicting the impact of building/built environment features on health, wellbeing and human performance
• Produce confident, articulate professionals who are competent and able to tackle the swiftly changing set of challenges in providing sustainable, safe and healthy built environments.