Why choose us?
Find out more about some of the many reasons why international students choose to study at the School of Nursing and Midwifery:
International partnerships
The school's academics have extensive and wide-ranging expertise in curriculum development and consultancy on an international scale. Currently the following projects are being funded within the school:
Academic staff are working with colleagues at the Schools of Nursing, Midwifery and Theatre Nursing at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia in a funded project from EPA (Education Partnerships in Africa) supporting the development of a new nursing curriculum at their nursing school. This will provide continuing professional development for nurses in-country and will be the first of its kind in Zambia. This is also part of the LINKS project work whereby we work with colleagues at the Brighton University Hospital Trust.
This is also supported by the Southern African Scholarship scheme based at the University of Brighton See page 20 of the June/July edition of the university's Channel magazine (pdf 3Mb)
Mental health lecturers also contribute to developments in mental health education in Sri Lanka through the following networks: the UK Sri Lanka Trauma Group and Samutthāna. This is achieved via educational consultancy and training programmes with a view to providing updated competency-based workshops for mental health care workers. This work also has the medium term aim of exploring how feasible it would be to establish a sustainable community mental health nursing educational programme.
Staff have contributed to curriculum development in Somaliland through the Tropical Health Education Trust, and in 2006 academic staff visited Libya (funded by UNESCO) to develop a new undergraduate nursing curriculum.
Staff currently actively participate within COHEHRE and are members of the Federation of International Nurse Educators (FINE). There are also members of staff who are recognised within Sigma Theta Tau.
Staff recently travelled to Shanghai, China where they met with the Minhang Health District and an associate university to discuss future partnerships. Read more about our China Exchange.
Teaching staff actively engage in various teacher exchanges within Europe and participate in cross-cultural research and international projects such as participating in developing a curriculum for improving intercultural competencies in nursing with colleagues from across Europe.
Some of the other universities and organisations we have links with all over the world include:
Nursing
- University College, Sjaelland, Denmark
- Illinois State University, Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois, USA
- Otterbein College, Ohio, USA
- University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
- Shanghai Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai, China
- Artevelde Hogeschool, Gent, Belgium
- Over 20 other colleges and universities around Europe as part of the European Nursing module that we offer.
Midwifery
- Mälardalens University, Vasteras, Sweden
- Vysoka skola zdravotnicka o.p.s (College of Nursing), Prague, Czech Republic
Mental health
Health promotion
- EC Public Health Promotion
- EHMA- European Health Management Association
- EuroHealthNet
- European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
- European Community Health Development (ECHI) System
- HP Source- European Health Promotion Infrastructuret
- HPH- European Network of Health Promoting Hospitals
- International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
- WHO European Office for the Investment for Health and Development
Erasmus
- Högskolan i Borås, Borås, Sweden
- Universidad del Pais, Vitoria, Spain
- The School of Nursing in the County Of Aarhus, VIA University college Jutland, Denmark
- Kymenlaakso University of Applied Social Sciences, Kotka, Finland
- Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, Sweden
- Vyssi Skola Zdravotnicka, Prague, Czech Republic
For further information about Erasmus please visit the university's study exchange pages. Erasmus is part of the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013.
International research
The school's Centre for Health Research undertakes a range of research projects that include an international element.
The centre's health promotion research focuses on a socio-ecological understanding of health and disease determinants. Its projects include work related to the fields of health promotion, health education, public health, healthy public policy and related socio-ecological approaches to health development.
Find out more about our health promotion research
The Centre for Health Research also leads our research in the fields of nursing and midwifery, child and adolescent mental health, community and user group engagement, and pedagogical research.
Find out more about the CHR
Student support
The university runs an annual orientation programme for all of its international and European students, shortly before the start of the academic year. The programme is designed to help our international and European students adapt to life at the University of Brighton as easily as possible.
Find out more about our orientation programme
Extra support offered to international students as they begin their studies includes:
- A free Heathrow or Gatwick airport pickup (at the beginning of the orientation programme)
- Free English language tuition (throughout your first year)
- Guaranteed accommodation for all first year international students
- A range of discretionary scholarships and bursaries
- A team of support staff to assist you
See the university's international support pages
For further information on our European partners and network please visit the European Nursing Module Network website
