About us

The Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences has a long and established history of delivering training for the education, health and social care professions. The Faculty benefits from close links with local NHS Trusts and healthcare providers, as well as schools and colleges throughout the Midlands, which ensure that our students are at the heart of innovation and developments in the health, social care and education sectors.

Over the last few years, we have spent around £45 million to extend and refurbish our building to accommodate new facilities which give us world-class research and teaching spaces.

Our healthcare facilities include:

• Anaesthetic room, operating theatre and pre-and post-operative simulation areas
• Hospital wards and home environment spaces
• Clinic rooms for speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and sports therapy
• A low and high-risk delivery and birth suite
• Digital anatomy tables - technically-advanced digital dissection tables
• Biomechanics, microbiology and nutrition laboratories
• Endoscopy suite
• Midlands Imaging Academy Hub featuring picture archiving and communication system reporting suite; ultrasound suite, and x-ray room.

For education and teacher training, we have a range of purpose-built spaces in the newly refurbished Benjamin Zephaniah Building (formerly University House) at our City Centre Campus. These include spaces for music, art, science, product design and textiles.

In 2024, our sports courses moved to our new home for sport at the Alexander Stadium. The University has invested £5 million into redeveloping the stadium, which was a flagship venue for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, hosting the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the athletics events.

Our staff are also active in research, exploring interdisciplinary research between life sciences, biomedicine, sport physiology and performance as well as health inequalities, gender, family and health, and education across subject areas and education phases.

Our facilities