Welcome to the School of Healthcare Sciences. We really hope you enjoy your time with us and that you are successful in your studies. You have chosen an important career as a healthcare professional. Your qualification and experience will provide you with a life-time of satisfaction and the chance to make a really important contribution to your client’s health and wellbeing.

The School of Healthcare Sciences is part of the College of Biomedical & Life Sciences and contains a wide spectrum of professional groups delivering a host of pre- and post-registration taught and research programmes. These groups include: Clinical Photographers, Diagnostic Radiographers, Midwives, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Operating Department and Perioperative Practitioners, Physiotherapists, and Therapeutic Radiographers. As a registered healthcare professional you will be working with these practitioners as part of multidisciplinary teams, in a range of health and social care settings. Your studies and your working life will never be boring!

 Our vision is to ‘make a transformative contribution to excellence in health and social care through the skills and quality of our graduates and the international impact of our research and scholarship’. The future quality of health and social care depends on the quality of our graduates, tomorrow’s professionals.

 Cardiff University is part of the Russell Group of Universities and our ambitions in the areas of education, research and engagement represent our ambition to be one of the best Healthcare School’s in the UK and beyond.         

Our School is one of the largest in the University and you are joining a community of 3000 other students. As you will read below, we are committed to listening to our students to ensure you have a great experience here in the School of Healthcare Sciences – so please join in those activities. We wish you every success!