School of Education, Sport and Health Sciences

Specialist facilities

We're located on the university's Falmer campus which has been redesigned, renovated and upgraded for the 2024 academic year.

Our innovative facilities are designed to develop your professional skills and experience throughout your studies.

They include:

• sport and exercise science labs
• specialist subject classrooms and a curriculum centre for student teachers
• clinical skills and simulation suites
• daily living suite and community flat
• clinical imaging suite
• virtual anatomy lab
• strength and conditioning suite
• extensive sports facilities including a swimming pool, fitness suite, football pitches, and tennis, netball and badminton courts. 

Find out more about the facilities for your subject.

Partnerships

Regulatory and professional bodies

• Advance Higher Education Academy
• British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES)
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA)
• College of Radiographers
• College of Paramedics
• Department for Education
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists
• Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Ofsted
• Royal College of Occupational Therapists
• Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS)
• The Royal College of Podiatry
• World Federation of Occupational Therapists

Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Partnership

We're one of the largest providers of initial teacher training in the UK, and the largest in the region. In our 2024 Ofsted inspection we were rated 'outstanding' for primary and secondary, and 'good' for early years and further education. 

• Learn more about the ITE partnership
• Information for school-based training mentors and professional tutors

Relationships through association with NHS Trusts

• Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Children's Trust
• East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
• Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust
• Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
• Sussex Community NHS Trust
• Sussex Partnership NHS Trust
• Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust

Patient and public involvement

We are committed to the common values of the NHS constitution where patients come first in everything the NHS does. These values include respect and dignity, compassion and working together for patients.

The work of our service user and carer involvement strategy group helps students understand the patient experience, what it is like to be a patient or client receiving health and social care, and how this affects family and friends who may also be giving some of that care.

Find out how you can get involved.

Equality charters

Athena Swan

The School is committed to advancing equality and diversity by transforming our culture to have a real effect on the lives of our staff and students.

We are actively involved in promoting Gender Equality via the Athena Swan equality charter with an action plan related to our existing bronze awards.

Other areas of activity aim to foster Race Equality, Equality for people with disabilities or long-term health conditions, as well as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender equality.

Learn more about equality charters and benchmarking.

The Malagiri School

The Malagiri School is a charity supported by the school and university that provides education in a rural area of Nepal.

The school opened in 2011 thanks to four years of fundraising by students and staff at the university. The school has been visited by many staff and students since if opened. 

We continue to support the project with fundraising initiatives to maintain the school and cover running costs.