Faculty of Science and Health
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The Faculty of Science and Health is the University's largest faculty, and offers courses in environmental, health, and life sciences. We support these courses by offering an excellent research and innovation base and with our professional and clinical practice.
We work in strategic partnership with Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHT), which aims to make both the Trust and the University centres of excellence for collaborative education, training and innovation.
By supporting new capacity, projects and infrastructure, the partnership will also enable us to deliver excellent research that's relevant to local people – with a particular focus on the development and application of new healthcare technologies.
We also work in partnership with many other businesses and organisations – from Adidas to the Ministry of Defence – and our graduates have gone on to pursue successful careers across many industries.
Academics, clinicians and practitioners work together to provide a rich learning experience for our students. Our courses reflect this by allowing our students to learn through a variety of methods – mixing practical, research and theoretical content alongside direct experiences, such as work placements, experimentation or simulations.
Our students also enjoy a shared working and learning environment that reflects the workplaces they will encounter when they graduate. Students participate in our innovation and research work, and build networks through these experiences.
More than 60% of our research is world leading or internationally excellent (Research Excellence Framework 2014) and it delivers beneficial social, environmental or economic impact – like our research into developing environmental management tools to help the Ukraine better manage the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Explore our faculty
Teaching
Explore the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees we offer within the following areas.
Research
Explore the work we're doing across the 8 research areas that sit within the Faculty of Science and Health.
Our research centres
Much of our exceptional research takes place within the following cross-disciplinary research centres – find out more below.
Our staff
Professor Sherria Hoskins
- Job Title Executive Dean
- Email Address Sherria.Hoskins@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Dr Jason Oakley
- Job Title Interim Head of School of Health and Care Professions
- Email Address Jason.Oakley@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr Alan Thorne
- Job Title Associate Dean (Research)
- Email Address Alan.Thorne@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Dr Neil Weston
- Job Title Associate Dean (Global Engagement and Education Partnerships)
- Email Address Neil.Weston@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Dr David Franklin
- Job Title Associate Head (Education)
- Email Address David.Franklin@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Professor Gordon William Blunn
- Job Title Theme Professor (Health and Wellbeing)
- Email Address gordon.blunn@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Contact us
To get in touch, please contact our Faculty office.
University Coronavirus Information Line
We're preparing to reopen the campus ready for the new academic year starting on 5 October 2020.
We have set up an information line to manage enquiries from students, parents and guardians, as university life will be a little different in 2020/21 due to the Coronavirus.
Email: infoline@port.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)23 9284 5588
The phone line is open Monday–Thursday 8.30am–5.00pm, Friday 8.30am–4.00pm and Saturday–Sunday 10.00am-4.00pm.