Undergraduate Prospectus 2022

1 Undergraduate Open Days Contents

Step into QMU Step ahead: Your future Our courses 2 Graduation and beyond 52 Join us at our Open Welcome to QMU 3 Days to gain a better Our courses 54 insight into our range Why QMU? See page 2 for full course list 10 reasons to join us 4 of undergraduate A campus university with all the benefits of a capital city 6 Is QMU right for you? courses and a real feel All you need to know before for studying at QMU. Your learning experience: applying Giving you a step up Your next steps before applying 150 Our Undergraduate Open Days for The application process 152 2021 have been set as Saturday, 25 How we teach and how you will learn 8 September and Saturday, 23 October. Preparing you for employment: placements, careers and Writing a personal statement 154 We hope to deliver an online and an on employability 12 Application and access 156 campus Open Day however, due to uncertainties regards the COVID-19 Inspiring entrepreneurs 16 Terms and conditions 160 pandemic, we are unable to confirm Your personal development: extracurricular learning Student fees and funding 162 details at the time of print. Please keep opportunities and funding 20 an eye on our website for updates. International scholarships 166 Broadening your horizons: study abroad 22 QMU bursaries 167 Helping you succeed: student support services 24 MORE INFO: Making the most of your time at university 28 Other useful information www.qmu.ac.uk/open-days-and- The international student experience 30 meeting-us How to get to our campus 170 Useful contacts and more information 172 Your individual needs Acknowledgements 173 Joining us from college 34 Our research 174 Associate students: an alternative way to get a degree 36 Alphabetical course index 176 “I was keen to study something in Your student lifestyle City of Edinburgh, coast and countryside 38 the arts and had Edinburgh: a city of events, attractions and festivals 42 At QMU you will be part of a thriving Your accommodation 44 student community looked at other Your Students’ Union 46 Clubs, societies and sports 48 where you need never be lost in the crowd, universities, but after going Budgeting and living costs 50 based at a along to the open day, QMU Please be aware that the COVID-19 modern campus with easy access pandemic may alter delivery of some became my first choice.” courses. For the latest information, to Edinburgh. please see the COVID section of our Charlotte Barron website: www.qmu.ac.uk/coronavirus BA (Hons) Drama

2 1 Our courses Welcome to QMU Step into QMU

Drama and Performing Arts 54 Health Sciences 106 Acting and Performance 56 Nutrition 108 Costume Design and Construction 58 Nutrition case study 110 Drama 60 Physical Activity, Health and Wellbeing 112 With a heritage going Welcome from the Principal the highest level in pioneering expertise Drama case study 62 that cuts across our specialisms in back to 1875, Queen Thank you for considering Queen health and rehabilitation, creativity and Performance 64 Management 114 Margaret as your university. QMU offers culture, education and sustainable Theatre and Film 66 Business Management/Business Management with Margaret University you the opportunity for an outstanding business. Enterprise/Business Management with Finance/ education founded on innovation and Business Management with Marketing 116 has consistently excellence. You will get a warm Queen Margaret has an excellent Film, Media and Business Management case study 120 focused on improving welcome as a member of a thriving reputation for its distinctive approach. university community. Our lovely, We promote an engaged and nurturing Communications 68 Business Management (Graduate Apprenticeship) 122 Film and Media 70 the quality of the lives modern campus provides great learning environment with students at Events and Festival Management 124 facilities in which to study and enjoy all the centre. This is underpinned by Film and Media case study 72 Events and Festival Management case study 126 of individuals through aspects of university life. In addition, digital technology that forms a Media and Communications 74 International Hospitality and Tourism Management 128 immediately relevant you can take advantage of all that fundamental part of the University and Public Relations and Marketing Communications 76 Edinburgh has to offer. student support infrastructure. Our International Hospitality and Tourism Management 130 campus, and our approach to teaching, Public Relations and Marketing Commuications 78 education and case study Queen Margaret is a university with an encourages people to work together in case study research. We are open and inclusive outlook that warmly a friendly, supportive and stimulating Psychology and Sociology 132 committed to social embraces people from all backgrounds. way. Health Professions 80 Indeed, that openness, to people, to Psychology 134 ideas and to working in partnership, is I wish you all the best with your studies Dietetics 82 justice and to helping Psychology and Sociology 136 fundamental to our ethos. We are and I look forward to welcoming you to Dietetics case study 84 Public Sociology 138 our students make a committed to social justice and to Queen Margaret University. Nursing 86 helping our students make a positive Public Sociology case study 140 positive difference in Sir Paul Grice FRSE FAcSS Occupational Therapy 88 difference in the world. We perform at the world. Principal and Vice-Chancellor Occupational Therapy case study 90 Teacher Education 142 Paramedic Science 92 Education Studies (Primary) 144 Physiotherapy 94 Education Studies 146 Podiatry 96 Podiatry case study 98 Radiography: Diagnostic 100 Radiography: Therapeutic 102 Speech and Language Therapy 104

2 3 10 reasons for Student statistics (2020/2021) Total undergraduate student numbers* 3,434 joining us Undergraduate students by school Why QMU? Health Sciences 1,465 Arts, Social Sciences and Management 1,967

Undergraduate students by age (years) 20 and under 2,142 21 and over 1,290 Thinking about studying at QMU?

These are 10 reasons why... Undergraduate students by location Scotland 74% Rest of UK 4% EU 20% Outside EU 2%

*excluding students studying with us at partner 1. QMU is ranked in the top 68% of universities 6. We offer a variety of learning and teaching methods institutions abroad. worldwidein the QS World University Rankings to maximise your student experience: lectures, 2021. seminars, tutorials, group work, placements, study abroad, independent work and hands-on projects with real clients. 2. QMU is among the top three Scottish higher education institutions for employment of our undergraduate leavers, with 97.1% in The campus is located less than six minutes by train employment or further study six months after 7. from the centre of Edinburgh. graduation (HESA, 2018).

3. Our range of undergraduate degrees focus on 8. Our staff are experts in their field and are actively preparing you for a meaningful and interesting involved in research activities ensuring that our career, and aim to provide the optimum balance of courses are up to date and relevant. theoretical and practical training.

9. We are a socially responsible university that 4. We have a contemporary, student-friendly campus emphasises the importance of social justice and with superb facilities for learning and teaching. have won numerous ‘green/sustainability’ awards.

10. We have an impressive range of career-enhancing 5. You need never be lost in the crowd, our size and extracurricular opportunities and our size means campus environment mean it is easy to get to know that a high proportion of students can easily take alot of people, and to get support from staff. full advantage of these benefits. These include awards, scholarships, internships, overseas travel, special paid employment projects, community MORE INFO volunteering opportunities, the list goes on! W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/

4 5 A campus university with Why QMU? all the benefits

of a capital city “Choosing to stay in halls at QMU is a great move. You get to meet new people and make lifelong friendships.”

Calum McEachern BSc (Hons) International Hospitality and Tourism Management graduate

Sports facilities at QMU include a gym If you choose to live on campus, you QMU is an attractive Location Campus living and an impressive sports hall, as well will quickly become part of a campus university as an astro turf pitch, weights room welcoming and friendly community. Located less than six minutes by train A campus university offers everything and a dance studio, for more Living on campus is a great way to located to the east of from Edinburgh city centre, the position you need in one place and at QMU information, check out pages 48—49. meet people and make lifelong of our campus affords spectacular everything is close to hand. friendships. Our ResLife programme Edinburgh. The beach, views across Edinburgh, including For students on our drama and offers a range of fun social, educational Arthur’s Seat, an extinct volcano in the Our main academic building houses the performance courses, there is a and cultural opportunities for you to get countryside and middle of Scotland’s capital city, and core teaching areas including lecture dedicated theatre space, which is used involved in. It is a great way for you to East Lothian’s attractive coastline. theatres, classrooms, seminar rooms, for learning and teaching, as well as for relax, create a social life and settle into shops are all nearby, labs and clinics for our health courses, public performances on campus. your new university community. For The campus is easy to reach by car and other specialist learning facilities. Drama students have access to more information on our and it’s just a six and public transport, in particular, by In addition, it includes our Learning rehearsal and workshop spaces within accommodation and ResLife, see train, from Edinburgh city centre. It Resource Centre, the hub of our this area of the campus. pages 44—45. minute train ride from offers easy access to the coastal town campus, that, aside from library of Musselburgh and beyond into East facilities, offers numerous study spaces Students on our film courses also all the amenities of Lothian. The N1 Cycle Route runs and a plethora of IT facilities to support benefit from our one of only two Edinburgh’s stunning alongside the campus, making QMU your studies. ‘infinity’ green screen facilities in easily accessible by bike. The A1 is Edinburgh, as well as digital editing located next to the campus, which We offer great catering facilities are suits and post-production equipment. city centre. ensures quick access to the east, west located within the main academic and south of Edinburgh and beyond. building. Our food court offers a wide Less than half an hour’s drive away is variety of eating options. There is a Edinburgh International Airport which shop on campus offering basic Student accommodation offers flights across the UK, Europe groceries and snacks, and a Starbucks and many international destinations. outlet. Less than a one-minute walk from the academic building is our Student Across University Square, a central Village, which has 800 study bedrooms outdoor space with tables and benches each forming part of a self-contained is there for you to enjoy during the flat. These flats accommodate three, summer months, and there are the four, five or six people sharing. Each sports centre, drama and performance shared flat is well equipped with all the spaces, the Students’ Union (SU) bar/ facilities that you need for ‘home life’. cafe area (Maggie’s) and the SU office Importantly, 24/7 security on campus area. For more information on the SU, means you can feel safe, and relax and see pages 46—47. enjoy your time as a student.

6 7 How we teach and how you will learn

Our teaching is Course length Modules focused on building classroom into practice in a real-life You can find staff profiles by subject on Many courses at QMU offer the All of our courses follow a modular Class sizes opportunity to study over three (Ordinary pattern. Core modules, and examples of environment and better prepare you for our website at www.qmu.ac.uk/ Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your your knowledge and level) or four (Honours level) years. The optional modules, if relevant, are listed your future career. In addition to your schools-and-divisions/. Please note that classes, you will be required to Class sizes at QMU vary according to our staffing is subject to change. four-year degree system in Scotland is on each course page in this prospectus. your course. However, the relatively confidence, different from that offered in the rest of While modules listed are correct at the undertake self-supported learning, making use of online resources and small size of the University means that developing your the UK (although qualifications are time of print (March 2021), they may you can quickly get to know our staff recognised and accepted across the UK differ slightly from those offered in 2022 those in the Learning Resource Centre to complete independent research or and fellow students on your course, and External review problem solving skills and internationally). The four-year and later years. Where optional modules experience a range of teaching and honours degree is designed to allow are listed, please be aware that not all work on group projects. learning opportunities aimed at All Scottish universities, including QMU, students to study their chosen subject in options may run in an academic year. and preparing you for Assessment take place in a variety of enhancing your overall student are subject to regular periodic external greater depth and breadth. A number of Placements are considered as modules. ways, including written, oral and experience. You need never feel lost in a review. This is undertaken by the Quality a successful career. our healthcare courses offer only a four practical examinations, depending on crowd of students in a huge lecture Assurance Agency. The review process year honours degree option. your course of study. Most courses theatre. is called Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR). ELIR focuses on the We offer four-year integrated Location include forms of continuous assessment, University’s arrangements for managing Academic year and timetables undergraduate master’s degrees in our such as essays, group work and academic standards and enhancing the health profession specialisms. Students Teaching mainly takes place in our presentations. Our assessment Staff expertise providing real-life quality of the student learning QMU’s academic year is divided into two commence their chosen course with a academic building on campus. However, regulations, which include our policy on learning experience. QMU’s most recent ELIR semesters. Semester One runs from view to graduating with a master’s if you are following a course that assessment turnaround times, can be visit was in 2018. The outcome was a September to December with degree in four years. Years Three and includes a practical placement (see found on our website at: www.qmu.ac. We take pride in ensuring that our judgement of effectiveness. This is the assessments taking place before the Four are taught alongside postgraduate individual courses), this will normally uk/about-the-university/quality/ teaching is relevant to today’s highest of three possible outcomes. The Christmas break. Semester Two runs students studying on the relevant take place off campus. More information committees-regulations-policies-and- workplaces and prepares students for full ELIR report is available at: www.qaa. from January to May, culminating in Pre-Registration* postgraduate course. regarding placements is on the individual procedures/regulations-policies-and- their chosen careers. You will be taught ac.uk/reviews-and-reports/ assessments. The majority of our Students have the opportunity to exit course pages. Some courses offer a procedures/ by academic staff with in-depth provider?UKPRN=10005337#. undergraduate degree courses are with a BSc (Hons) at the end of Year study abroad option; please see the For more information on teaching, knowledge and experience of their Wl3D25q7KJB modular, most students undertake six Four and will still be eligible to apply for individual course pages and page 22 for learning and assessment activities for subject area. Our staff ensure that they modules each academic year (three in registration with the Health and Care further information on this. individual courses, please visit the are up to date with the latest knowledge, each semester). Professions Council (HCPC). relevant course entry on our website (the thinking and developments in their field URL is noted on each course page in and have strong links with industry and The Academic Calendar will be available *Pre-Registration postgraduate courses professional bodies. Some continue to Teaching and learning activities and this prospectus) and refer to the to view at: www.qmu.ac.uk/about-the- are for students who already have an practise professionally in their own areas university/quality/committees- undergraduate degree in a relevant area assessment methods ‘Teaching, Learning and Assessment’ section. of expertise, and others are involved in regulations-policies-and-procedures/ who want to gain a health professional world-leading research, shaping future As a student at QMU you will benefit academic-calendar/. During term time, qualification. discussion and methodologies in their from a range of teaching methods teaching is usually between 09:15 and profession. You may be taught by ensuring you have the opportunity to 18:15 Monday to Thursday and 09:15 visiting lecturers from across the globe, make the most of your chosen course. and 17:15 on Friday, with undergraduate attracted to the University and its teaching normally ending by 13:15 on Part-time study Teaching methods include lectures location in Scotland’s capital. Doctoral Wednesdays to allow participation in students with a relevant and current sports and societies activities. Our undergraduate courses are (some of which may feature interactive approaches including live voting research focus make an important Timetables are available from mid-July designed to be studied full-time, contribution to teaching on some of our (but subject to change), with continuing although it may be possible to study systems), and seminars and tutorial groups allowing for more in-depth undergraduate degrees. QMU provides students able to see their personal some on a part-time basis. Please initial training and ongoing development timetables at this time. Efforts are made contact Admissions (admissions@qmu. discussion of the topics being studied. A number of our courses include practical opportunities for doctoral students to make the timetables as student ac.uk) for advice on part-time study acting in this role. friendly as possible, teaching can take options. placements. These allow you to put the place at any time during the teaching knowledge and experience gained in the week, and may not be consistent on a week-to-week basis.

8 9 Our teaching aims We aim for our graduates to be: Teaching and learning facilities on campus

Based on student and employer - Traditional lecture theatres and smaller seminar-style classrooms feedback, we have identified a number Confident and self-reliant with the Creative problem solvers who can Teaching of qualities that will put you in a great academic, professional and bring together skills of enquiry, spaces - Specialist teaching facilities for students on some of our health courses, including; clinical skills position to take advantage of future personal skills for successful research evidence and critical laboratories, biochemistry laboratories, and a fully functioning podiatry clinic used by the public personal and career development. analysis to investigate problems and opportunities. These qualities are - Film and video editing suites, including one of only two infinity green screen facilities in Edinburgh known as our ‘Graduate Attributes’ and propose solutions. are set out opposite. Through our - A drama studio and spaces teaching, we aim to help you develop - A nursing simulation suite these attributes. Positive contributors to building a Adept at using many sources of - A range of technology facilities including a TV studio, photographic and graphic studios, and a video just and sustainable society. information to sift, create and share conference suite knowledge.

Learning - Open 24 hours a day and forms the heart of our campus Resource - Contains resources and facilities that are an essential support to your learning and teaching at QMU Professional and ethical employees Lifelong learners who can reflect Centre Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your - A combined facility for directed and independent study, based on integrated library and information with an understanding of how other and build on their experiences to service provision fields relate to and work with their achieve success. own. - More than 1,000 study spaces are available with a variety of social, quiet and silent study areas and bookable group study rooms - Access to a range of books and journals, both print and electronic, other electronic resources and audio visual material to support your studies - Help and support for users is provided - Liaison librarians ensure you are trained in accessing the wide range of electronic resources available to support your learning

Assistive - Designed to meet the needs of students with disabilities Technology - Contains a range of assistive software, ergonomic and accessible peripherals, and adaptive furniture Room

Computing - Study spaces offer access to the QMU networked IT and research facilities via cutting-edge facilities thin-client technology - Each terminal provides access to up-to-date software including the Microsoft Office applications suite, subject-specific specialist applications, and internet and email access via our own high-speed network - Access to high-quality printing, copying and scanning, and a variety of academic and research software - All rooms in our student accommodation offer high-speed wireless internet access - Our ‘Remote Desktop’ service enables you to access the majority of applications and electronic resources off campus wherever an internet connection is available

Effective - Supports you in developing and enhancing your learning strategies and skills for university study Learning - Offers informal workshops as well as one-to-one appointments offering individual guidance and advice Service on a range of topics including essay writing, referencing and exam preparation skills. Provides specialist English language support for international students - Offers easily accessible study resources

Personal - You will receive guidance in producing a PDP that encourages students to carry out key learning development processes, including reflecting on what you are learning, planning and recording your personal plans (PDPs) objectives, and communicating these to others - Plans help you to develop the key skills you require for learning and employment, and prepare for your future career - The process is used to support student learning in different ways, according to the course of study

10 11 Preparing you for employment: placements, careers and employability

Our courses aim to enable you to have a With the jobs market positive impact on people’s everyday Placements lives and the type of careers that our becoming ever more Many of our courses include an integral

Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your graduates enter are ones that will bring competitive, we want job satisfaction and the opportunity to placement as part of the curriculum. This contribute to society. can range from a few weeks to several to ensure that our months of each year depending on the We are one of the leading providers of course, and some courses offer graduates are fully courses allied to medicine, and the opportunities in the UK and overseas. professional accreditation, approval and Our placements are set up to provide equipped with the registration provided by these courses students with an environment for allows our graduates to begin working practical learning, utilising what you knowledge and skills immediately, often in the National Health have learnt in the classroom in a As a QMU graduate you continue Another great way to strengthen your CV Service (NHS), as, for example, real-world setting and offering the Careers and employability to receive support from us throughout and enhance your time at QMU is to be to compete physiotherapists, podiatrists, opportunity to learn on the job, within your career. involved with the Students’ Union, occupational therapists, radiographers the supportive environment of the You may have clear ideas about what whether it is as a Class Rep, part of the successfully in the and dieticians. Our other health sciences University. career you are heading for. However, you For more information about Careers and student officer team who run the Union courses can lead graduates into may be uncertain the direction to take or jobs market. Employability visit our website at: or by joining a sports team or society. commercial research work, further Placement opportunities are an even what your options are. invaluable tool in the learning process, www.qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/careers- academic research and and-employability Paid internships and other and they help students towards their The Careers and Employability team at entrepreneurship. extracurricular opportunities (see pages future career. By gaining real-world QMU assists all students regardless of Our employment rate 20—21) can develop your skills and Our range of business courses produce experience, our students are more degree discipline, level of study or stage prepared for the working world and often confidence, helping you to stand out 97.1%* of those graduating from a graduates who go on to very successful in career planning. Our team of find their placements help them with job Strengthen your CV from the crowd and enhancing your full-time undergraduate degree course at careers running their own businesses or professionally qualified advisers work opportunities. Getting a ‘foot on the employability. QMU go on to employment or further working in the marketing, retail, events, closely with each subject area to ensure We recognise that it is not just your ladder’ when at university can help training within six months of graduating, hospitality and tourism sectors. Our arts that support is tailored to your needs. qualifications that employers will take secure a job in the future, and the which demonstrates that our graduates and social sciences graduates go on to into account when interviewing and network of contacts you build can prove have the skills and knowledge that have successful careers in a variety of Our Employability Centre provides a selecting candidates. We have worked invaluable over time. Part-time or holiday employment employers value. QMU’s graduate fields, with many now carving out comfortable space to conduct your hard to ensure that our courses employment rate is well above the self-employed careers, for instance, career research and to chat with More information on the placement enhance your employability by providing Many students choose to obtain Scottish university sector average of establishing their own theatre members of the careers team on a opportunities in each course can be opportunities for you to reflect on your part-time work throughout their studies, 95.3%. We are third in Scotland for companies. There are also excllent drop-in basis. You can attend seminars found on the individual course pages in learning and skills, recognising your key sometimes with more full-time hours employment of our graduate leavers. career opportunities for our education and workshops on topics such as CV strengths and developing areas you wish over the summer break. Whether you graduates. this prospectus. Many of the student writing and preparing for interviews. Our case studies in this prospectus and on to enhance. Many of our courses want something specifically related to *Source: HESA, July 2018 annual recruitment fair puts you directly provide opportunities to engage actively your studies, or just some extra cash, Examples of the variety of jobs in which our website also mention placement in touch with employers, and our experiences. with employers through formal practical our Careers and Employability team can our students have found employment Employer Mentoring Programme helps placements, and through guest lectures provide you with information on are provided on the individual course you gain an invaluable insight into the or other informal opportunities. part-time jobs and seasonal work. Due Courses designed for a satisfying pages and case studies in this graduate world of work. to the location of the University, there career prospectus, and on our website at www. Internships At QMU there are countless are numerous opportunities for qmu.ac.uk/study-here/student-stories/ You can access the Careers and opportunities for you to hone your skills employment for QMU students. QMU provides a range of professionally Employability Team online through the We offer a number of internships through and experience, making you highly relevant courses, at undergraduate and University’s learning intranet platform, Santander Universities that give attractive to future employers and postgraduate level, and produces and their Facebook and Twitter students and recent graduates the equipping you to compete in the jobs graduates who are well prepared to accounts. In addition, our online opportunity to gain invaluable work market. enter a career after graduation. vacancy service provides you with experience: see pages 20—21 for more access to part-time jobs, seasonal work, information. voluntary work, internships and graduate opportunities.

12 13 “We benefited greatly from the Business Innovation Zone. Aside from free access to office space and equipment, we have also received advice from experts from the Business Gateway, as well as academic and support staff at Queen Margaret University.”

Michal Korzonek BA (Hons) Film and Media graduate Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your

Business Gateway and the Business Further study Innovation Zone When you have completed your QMU is the first Scottish university to undergraduate studies, you may be have an on-campus Business Gateway interested in undertaking a postgraduate service. Located within QMU’s Business qualification. Dedicated to lifelong Innovation Zone (BIZ), the Business learning and continuing professional Gateway offers advice and support to development, QMU offers a range of students who are interested in postgraduate qualifications to enable developing as entrepreneurs and setting you to expand your knowledge and up their own business. perhaps specialise in a specific area of your chosen field. With an BIZ provides business incubation space undergraduate degree in a relevant area, for QMU’s start-up companies, including you could progress to a course at desk space, meeting facilities and easy master’s level immediately upon access to Business Gateway services. completion of your undergraduate BIZ tenants have won a number of degree or after a period in employment. entrepreneurship awards and you can Graduates of the University who hold a read about a few of our ‘inspiring verified QMU undergraduate or entrepreneurs’ on the next few pages. postgraduate award and who are admitted to a postgraduate award at For more information on BIZ, visit our QMU will be eligible for a 10% discount website at: www.qmu.ac.uk/services-for- on the published fees. You can check business-and-industry/business- out our range of postgraduate courses innovation-zone-entrepreneurship/. In on our website at: www.qmu.ac.uk/ addition, see pages 16—19 for stories of study-here/postgraduate-study our student and graduate start-ups.

14 15 Amy Elder, BA (Hons) Drama and Performance Company name: Elderberry Arts

At Elderberry Arts we believe in creating memorable Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your moments! Our goal is to Jake Elliott-Hook and Amee Ritchie, BA (Hons) Psychology spread passion and Inspiring and Sociology enjoyment for performing arts Company name: S’wheat across generations. We deliver fun and stimulating S’wheat is an ethically and sustainable minded brand, which experiences during our produces eco-friendly reusable water bottles. The S’wheat interactive musical theatre entrepreneurs Bottle is pure, practical and made from plants, making it fully classes. Our early years ‘adult biodegradable and ensuring that it will never end up in landfill or and me’ programme has been the oceans. specifically designed to provide adults and their little “We began our journey after adopting a healthier lifestyle, which ones the chance to bond included drinking more water. We purchased many re-usable when developing their water bottles but found they did not last as long as we had creativity, imagination and hoped due to unwanted smells, inpracticality and poor quality. confidence. This presented to us a great business opportunity where we could create a bottle that would meet our needs and benefit the “The support I received during environment.” my time at QMU and thereafter when joining the BIZ helped to reassure me We are passionate Our commitment to this is exemplified and attributes that are essential for that I had the necessary skills through the wide-ranging services we success. and knowledge needed to about developing offer to support innovation and build a business in my field. Our aim is to create an ecosystem that enterprise in our BIZ and the unique My previous training in partnership that we have established nurtures creative, innovative and entrepreneurial skills musical theatre meant that I with East Lothian Business Gateway. We entrepreneurial ideas with a focus on and attributes in our are very proud to be the only university health innovation, creative was fortunate enough to gain in Scotland to have a Business Gateway entrepreneurship and social enterprise. lots of experience working for students, staff and office on campus and our a variety of different groundbreaking collaboration has been These four pages bring together a companies as a performing selection of our student and graduate graduates. pivotal in establishing QMU on the arts and musical theatre Eadaoin McCormack, BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy entrepreneurial map in Scotland. entrepreneurs supported by BIZ. These teacher when studying at Company name: Mums Empowered

reflect the breadth of talent and ambition university. These work We are incredibly proud to support our at the University and our aim is to give a opportunities as well as Mums Empowered is an innovative pre- and post-natal healthcare app that BIZ membership of over 40 studen and flavour of the enterprising spirit that offers mothers easy access to advice and education from healthcare graduate start-ups in film and media, abounds in our staff, students and placements I went on during costume design, arts and festival alumni. We hope it will inspire you. university modules gave me professionals, as well as safe and tailored exercises they can do in the management, drama and performance, the chance to build up my comfort of their own home to improve their physical and mental health. food and drink, business and skills and confidence, and physiotherapy. Their businesses may be helped me to realise not only The first pre- and post-natal healthcare app of its kind, Mums Empowered diverse but they share a passion to drive my ambitions as a business aims to revolutionise women’s health, helping mums regain control of their forward their ideas, taking control of woman but also where there body and embrace motherhood.

their professional and creative lives and was a gap in the market.” learning the key entrepreneurial skills

16 17 Tess Whittaker, BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy Company name: Teresa-May Whittaker Voice-Over

“I’m a voice-over artist and am registered as a sole trader. My voice has been used for audiobooks, adverts, corporate videos, animation films and much more! Clients include HSBC, Nivea, Royal Mail and many different authors. I have a home recording studio, which allows me to create the final, polished audio tracks.

After a serious accident in 2009, I plucked up the courage to return to university to retrain in a career that I was really passionate about. During my first year, the voice-over world exploded and with new technology emerging it became possible for me to utilise my previous acting skills from home. Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your The Senior Experimental Officer for the Speech and Hearing Department at QMU was a fountain of knowledge in getting my home recording studio up and running. My Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) training helped me to safely develop character voices and accents.

Due to university contacts, I’m now in the amazing position Hannah Gordon, BA (Hons) Film and Media to also be part of Fitvoice, a community interest company, Company name: Crossroad Games which allows me to combine my skills as an actress and SLT.”

Crossroad Games is a Community Interest Company that provides a client-based, visual novel games development service with tailored illustrations and interactive, dialogue-driven storylines that are highly informative and engaging. Our aim is to construct compelling storylines to motivate players to develop emotional connections and engage with the messages being portrayed.

“Coming to QMU has restored my confidence and self-belief. While rediscovering my skills and creativity, Anton Winters and Louise Duncan, BA (Hons) Film and Media I realised the potential use of gamification in certain Company name: Naka Media areas of business, particularly community engagement. I have always loved creating visual novel “At Naka Media we work to create innovative media products, primarily for advertising, video games and I’m now passionate about how it with a focus on videography, photography and graphic design. Our goal is to has the potential to help young people in Scotland as empower local businesses and charities using our understanding of digital culture to well as changing the perception of video games.” deliver content with a contemporary look and mindset. For several years, we have been working diligently on our own freelance work, however, we both recognised that our skillsets were complementary and that by combining our talents we could work on more ambitious projects. This also allows us to spread our time collaboratively across a wider array of projects, giving us space to continue to be creative.

We established Naka Media with the goal of creating new engaging products, larger than the sum of their parts, developing our current skills to create videos for business that have heart and soul. We wanted to step away from traditional, corporate ideas, and work towards a brighter, more personal future that everyone involved is proud of.”

18 19 Harry Jackson Your personal development: BSc (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen graduate Graduate Harry is Artistic Director for Amplify Time Productions, which was awarded funding from the Student Development Fund.

extracurricular learning This funding helped Harry’s theatre projects get off the ground, allowed his company to support 30 students in a classical production of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and to perform Antigone by Anne Carson at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. These productions allowed the students to widen their personal skill sets, get opportunities and funding company experience, and had an opportunity to show what they could do and market themselves for future work outside of the University and in industry.

Harry said: “Amplify is bringing arts into Scotland and supporting students. By producing shows open to the public, we are contributing to the culture of Edinburgh my time here to be very beneficial. It intensely competitive nature of funding. and showing friends, family, professionals and other creatives what we have Initiatives, including made me more confident in my skills in Therefore, I genuinely do appreciate achieved, alongside an amazing show experience that can be enjoyed by all. I internships and communication and presentation. I also knowing that the University is willing to cannot put into words my gratitude and thanks to the Student Development Fund. learned about health in a different provide support for someone starting The support it gave helped students such as myself and all those in Amplify Time environment”. out in this industry. With this film, I am special funds, enable Productions opportunities to shine and show our skills and talent in their individual

Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your hoping to be accepted for a our students to BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy student, postgraduate course to further my rights”. Lucy O’Brien, received funding to travel portfolio and understanding of the enhance their learning to Singapore to complete a four-week industry to enable me in my filming Harry’s company is now based within the BIZ at QMU, where he benefits from elective physiotherapy placement. Lucy career. With these funds, I will be one access to small business start-up support and guidance from the campus-based experience, build their said: “My course required me to step closer to achieving my goals and Business Gateway, as well as QMU’s rehearsal facilities. complete a self-arranged elective hopefully be able to fulfil my aspirations confidence, improve placement in my final year, anywhere I once I leave university”. chose. Being able to do an acute their employability and placement in Singapore was a great The Become a Producer Fund provides learning opportunity. My support for students on the BA (Hons) sector. Funding from the Crerar Hotels For more information on the Saltire broaden their communication was greatly challenged Film and Media course. The grants cover Trust and the Lord Forte Foundation Santander Universities Internships Scholarship, visit www.scotland.org/ as I interacted with a wide range of the costs of producing your final year horizons. See some ensures that restricted finances do not study-in-scotland/scholarships/ ages, cultures and nationalities”. piece of work — this can be costumes, limit students’ personal development Through the Santander Universities SME saltire-scholarships travel, hiring professional actors etc. examples below. opportunities. Internship Programme, QMU offers a For more information on the Student & variety of paid internships with small to Vice-Chancellor’s Development Fund, Beth Hendy received £440 towards her medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from a film. She said: “As a young female Megan Gillis was the University’s first visit our website at www.qmu.ac.uk/ wide range of sectors. These internships The Student Development Fund creative in Scotland, I am acutely aware recipient of the Crerar Hotels Trust The Student & Vice-Chancellor’s alumni-and-friends/funding- Access Bursary. She said: “I’m really give our students and graduates the Development Fund opportunities-for-current-students of the limited arts funds and the chance to secure valuable workplace Grants from QMU’s Student intensely competitive nature of funding. grateful to The Crerar Hotels Trust and QMU for their support and for helping experience, gain insight into the relevant Development Fund are designed to The Student & Vice-Chancellor’s Therefore, I genuinely do appreciate industries, put theoretical knowledge support specific student-led projects, knowing that the University is willing to me secure my place at university. I now Development Fund is designed to help feel able to achieve my full academic into practice and work on real-life initiatives and activities that have a our students develop their potential in a Become a Producer & Become a provide support for someone starting projects and build professional positive benefit for the student, the Costumier out in this industry. With this film, I am and career potential without the financial much wider sense. constraints. My hope is that this course networks. For further information about University, or both. hoping to be accepted for a Santander Internships, please see our The Become a Producer Fund and the postgraduate course to further my will allow me to not only progress Support for specific student-led towards my career, but also gain website at: www.qmu.ac.uk/alumni-and- Whether students are continuing their projects, initiatives and activities enrich Become a Costumier Fund provide portfolio and understanding of the friends/opportunities-to-give/santander- personal development, building on their support for students on the BA (Hons) industry to enable me in my filming valuable insight into how the hospitality our students’ academic experience, industry works”. universities/ knowledge or expanding their horizons, broaden their outlook on the world by Film and Media, and the BA (Hons) career. With these funds, I will be one the Student Development Fund helps providing the means to travel abroad to Costume Design and Construction step closer to achieving my goals and them to take advantage of a unique embrace new cultures and courses. Grants from these funds help hopefully be able to fulfil my aspirations opportunity. The Fund is designed to experiences, and continue with their students with the costs of creating their once I leave university”. Santander Universities Support The Saltire Scholarship support only those projects, initiatives personal development. final year piece of work - film or and activities that would not happen costume. The Become a Producer Fund Santander Universities provide a range The Saltire Foundation provides paid without additional financial support. The The Fund helps our students make the helps cover video production costs such of outstanding opportunities for QMU internships in international businesses to Student Development Fund is an Industry Support most of the unique opportunities as actors’ fees, costumes, equipment, students through a variety of Scotland’s most talented students – an ‘opportunities fund’ supported by available to them and have the best props, and travel. The Become a opportunity to which they may not Every year QMU students are fortunate scholarships and awards. These include donations from QMU graduates and possible experience as a QMU student. Costumier Fund assists with the costs of otherwise have access. to have the opportunity to apply for generous scholarships and bursaries for friends. The Fund can help students fabrics and other specialist materials financial support from the corporate new and existing students, awards for make the most of their time at QMU. All With funding from the scheme, BSc etc. A number of QMU students have been sector. Funding from the hospitality and overseas exchanges or research and students are eligible to apply. (Hons) Nursing student, Ross selected to take part in summer tourism industry, from companies such grants for community projects involving Macdonald, travelled to Uganda with Beth Hendy received £440 towards her internships as part of this competitive For more information on the Student as Apex Hotels, Dakota Hotels and the students. For further information about First Aid Africa to provide first aid film. She said: “As a young female programme. Development Fund visit our website at: Kitchin Group, enables students to take the funding available from Santander training to local communities. Ross creative in Scotland, I am acutely aware www.qmu.ac.uk/alumni-and-friends/ part in activity that enhances their Universities contact santander@qmu. commented on the experience: “I found of the limited arts funds and the opportunities-to-give/our-funds/ learning and their understanding of the ac.uk

20 21 Broadening your horizons: study abroad Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your Studying abroad With great links across the world, you From 2022/23 Queen Margaret can choose to study part of your QMU University will no longer operate under Current exchange partners through our exchange degree in Europe, Australia, New the Erasmus+ scheme. Over the coming Zealand, Canada, the USA or Hong year we will be working with new and Kong. Living in another country, and existing partners on study abroad and Griffith University, Australia programmes can be “I chose to study at studying at another institution, allows exchange opportunities for the 2022/23 La Trobe University, Australia one of the most you to make new friends from across the academic year and beyond. Saxion University of Applied world and acquire invaluable life skills. Acadia University, Canada exciting and rewarding Importantly, it will help you develop a Brock University, Canada Sciences. When on my exchange greater feeling of independence and MacEwan University, Canada challenges for a confidence. An exchange programme QMU courses that offer an exchange I experienced a different allows you to stretch your wings, and include: Metropolitan University College, Denmark student to experience. undoubtedly brings you benefits for Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland learning environment, different • BA/BA (Hons) Business years to come. ESCE International Business School, France The opportunity to Management (all routes) cultures and had the opportunity ETOS Osnabrück, Germany travel and live in Where exchanges are available, students • BA/BA (Hons) Drama to travel to many new places. can spend a semester at an overseas Kempten University of Applied Sciences, Germany • BA/BA (Hons) Events and Festival university. Care has been taken to select another country, learn Management Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong I gained so much from studying appropriate international partnerships, different customs and ensuring that a period spent on • BA/BA (Hons) Film and Media Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary abroad, from increasing my exchange gives QMU students credit • BA/BA (Hons) International Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands independence and confidence to traditions, meet new towards their studies. Hospitality and Tourism AUT University, New Zealand Management broadening my mind people and build a A number of scholarships up to £5,000 Escola Superior de Saude do Alicoitao, Portugal • BA/BA (Hons) Media and exist to help fund study abroad for Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Communications and enhancing my employability.” future career draws students facing financial difficulties. Malmo University, Sweden • BSc/BSc (Hons) Nutrition many students into Please note that exchange opportunities California State University: Chico, USA • BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy Kevin Thomas are subject to availability. Central Connecticut State University, USA the exchange • BSc/BSc (Hons) Psychology BA (Hons) International Hospitality Eastern Connecticut State University, USA programmes. On December 24th 2020, the UK • BSc/BSc (Hons) Psychology and and Tourism Management Government announced that as an Sociology Southern Connecticut State University, USA outcome of Brexit negotiations, the • BA/BA (Hons) Public Relations Slippery Rock University, USA United Kingdom would not be seeking to and Marketing Communications St Edward’s University, USA participate in the Erasmus+ successor • BSc/BSc (Hons) Public Sociology programme. UMass Amherst, USA • BA/BA (Hons) Theatre and Film University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Going forward Queen Margaret University hopes to be able to offer grants to students undertaking qualifying MORE INFO: mobilities under the Turing scheme. The E: [email protected] breadth of financial support available W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ under Turing will not be confirmed until international-students/exchanges-and- the Summer of 2021 when Turing study-abroad/ application outcomes for the 2021/22 academic year are expected.

22 23 “The support I received from QMU’s Helping you Disability Service team has had one of the most positive influences on my experience at QMU. The help succeed: I’ve had has given me a huge confidence boost and has allowed me to reach my academic potential, student support as well as opening doors to new career opportunities.” services Annie Fowden BA (Hons) Events and Festival Management Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your

Pre-entry services or meeting, please contact a Disability If you are considering joining the We provide high- Adviser (see contact details on page University, having studied an Higher Support for care leavers QM Cares quality facilities in If you are contemplating going to 27). National Certificate (HNC) or Higher National Diploma (HND) programme at We recognise that care leavers who QM Cares is our student-led support university, we recognise that it is not have spent time in local authority care, group for students with caring which to study and only information about the course that It is helpful to contact a Disability college, we can provide guidance and Adviser as soon as you have firmly information on opportunities to enter the either in residential accommodation, responsibilities, care experience and you need. Everybody’s circumstances foster care or under supervision orders those who are estranged from their excellent support are different and new students may have accepted an unconditional offer of a University directly into Years Two or place on a course at QMU. This helps Three of our degree courses (often at home, may require additional advice families. to consider issues such as finance, and support during both the pre-entry services, to ensure childcare or disability. We are well aware to provide us with useful information so referred to as articulation, direct entry or that we can begin to put support advanced standing). Direct entry period and during the transitional As part of QM Cares you will have that you will require information on these period. We offer all care leavers access to: you have an all-round areas before making your final choice. arrangements in place for you as soon students will benefit from the Direct as possible. Entrant Induction programme that individual support through our Our Admissions team, Student Funding • advice and guidance to support positive experience includes a range of activities in local Widening Participation and Outreach Adviser and Disability Team are available team. We can work with care leavers your application; to ensure you obtain all the information colleges and a designated induction during your student event for direct entrants at the start of and their social workers to ensure that you need before and during the • the chance to become a paid Funding the academic year. For more information applicants are supported appropriately journey. decision-making process to come to through their time at QMU. student ambassador; university. on joining us from college, see pages Our Student Funding Adviser provides 34—35. information on the funding that will be • help with accommodation options You can make contact with any of the available to you to support your and services highlighted on this page by studies, for example, student loans, phone, email or in person to discuss • funding advice guidance. bursaries, tuition fee loans and Mentoring issues in a confidential and accessible childcare funds. For more information For more information about QM Cares, manner, before or during the application on funding and how to contact the QMConnect, our mentoring scheme, please contact: [email protected] process. Funding Adviser see pages 162—163. offers new students the opportunity to be matched with a trained mentor. This service is open to all new students. Disability Mentors are current students in Years Mature students and college leavers Two, Three or Four who have We aim to support all students in our volunteered and have been trained to If you are returning to education after a support other students. We aim to diverse learning community to long gap you may feel a little anxious participate fully in their studies and recruit mentors who are studying the about learning and studying again. Our same or a similar subject to you, but university life. For students with Widening Participation and Outreach disabilities such as sensory we cannot guarantee this. Mentors and team can answer queries that you may mentees meet regularly to discuss a impairments, medical conditions, have on studying at higher education mobility issues, mental health variety of issues, social and academic, level. Eligible students will be invited to which can help to make that first year difficulties and specific learning join QMAdvance, a short pre-induction difficulties such as dyslexia, we offer a of study at QMU a more enjoyable course that helps ensure that new experience. wide range of support. If you would like students have a smooth transition into to find out more information, or arrange QMU, as they embark on their chosen a personal and confidential phone call course.

24 25 “I gained a wide range of experience while undertaking an internship through QMU’s Careers and Employability Service. The opportunity has been an integral part in my successful achievement of a graduate role and has further enhanced my employability.”

Callum Shearer, BA (Hons) Public Relations and Marketing (now PR and Marketing Communications)

Post-entry services Professionally trained ‘Wall Guides’ Funding monitor the community to ensure the Personal Academic Tutor Personal Development Planning Useful contacts/ If you decide that QMU is the right safety and anonymity of all members. In more information Our Student Funding Adviser provides addition to togetherall’s online Each student is assigned a Personal Our Personal Development Planning choice for you, there are further services information on funding to support you Academic Tutor (PAT) who will help to (PDP) process aims to help all our and facilities available when you community, students have access to

Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your when you are studying. In addition, useful resources and can work through guide you through your studies. Your students develop the key skills they College Partnership Manager commence your studies. The majority of advice is given to students regarding PAT will normally be your main source require for learning and employment, tailored self-help courses covering E: [email protected] these are located in one central area support that may be available if they of advice and guidance relating to your and to prepare for their future careers. within our main academic building, topics such as anxiety, sleep, stress, encounter financial difficulties, for depression and many more. academic studies and can refer you to PDP is used to support student providing a one-stop shop for all your example, childcare funding and other support services if needed. learning in different ways according to Student Services needs. discretionary and hardship funds. For the course of study. It is a guided W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ more information on funding, see process that encourages students to student-services/ pages 162—165. Health regularly carry out key learning E: [email protected] School Office processes. It can involve reflection on Careers and Employability QMU works in partnership with local what you are learning, planning and Careers and Employability QMU’s School Office provides a bridge Our Careers and Employability Service medical practices to ensure you can recording your personal objectives, and W: www.qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/ Counselling access NHS services when you need between you and your academic communicating these to others. careers-and-employability/ provides information, advice and subject area. Staff in the School Office them. All students are advised to E: [email protected] guidance on all matters related to your The Counselling Service offers can assist with timetabling or general career. Armed with information on register with a local medical practice confidential one-to-one, professional, after they arrive at QMU. subject area queries, receive and return part-time jobs, seasonal work, voluntary brief counselling for any emotional or assignments and make contact with Counselling work, internships and graduate psychological issue affecting your lecturers or tutors on your behalf. W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ opportunities, the service assists you to academic work or your general health student-services/counselling-service/ find employment during your degree and wellbeing. E: [email protected] and after graduation. Advisers are Worship and reflection pleased to help you make decisions There is a contemplation room on Disability Service about your career and support you in campus that is open to all students for W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ making successful applications. The aim Wellbeing prayer and quiet contemplation and is student-services/disability-service is to ensure you make a successful designed to reflect the multi-faith transition into the graduate world of E: [email protected] Our Wellbeing Service offers support for nature of the staff and students at work or on to further study. See pages your mental, emotional and physical QMU. 12—15 for more information on careers. wellbeing and facilitates building up Student Funding resilience and healthy living to support W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ you on your journey through university. student-services/funding-advice- We can offer advice on help and support Learning Resource Centre and Effective service/ Disability for mental health issues. In addition, our Learning Service E: [email protected] Stay-on-Course Programme provides Working closely with a network of key rapid support to students identified as The Learning Resource Centre and Effective Learning Service academic and non-academic staff, we needing help through monitoring Effective Learning Service provide a W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ offer reasonable adjustments and academic engagement and referrals range of facilities and services to support assessment arrangements, as well as student-services/effective-learning- from staff and students. your learning needs. These include providing guidance for eligible students service-els/ 24-hour access to printed and electronic about Disabled Students’ Allowance QMU is working with togetherall to resources and access to group and (DSA) funding. DSA Needs Assessments Learning Resource Centre provide a supportive, online community individual help on enhancing your study can be arranged, as can specific W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ to support students. Togetherall is a techniques. one-to-one support such as note-takers digital mental health support service learning-facilities/library/ or individual dyslexia tutors where that is available online, 24/7, and is appropriate. For more information about completely anonymous; therfore you Wellbeing DSA please contact the Disability can express yourself freely and openly. W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ Advisers (see contact details on page student-services/wellbeing-service 27). E: [email protected]

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There are many different opportunities available to you at Socialising and CV-enhancing Learning experience Funding opportunities QMU to help boost Wellbeing and support networking SUPPORT FOR YOU experiences VARIED LEARNING METHODS FUNDING TO ENHANCE YOUR your confidence, gain PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT experiences Our Student Services Team (see pages GET INVOLVED WITH THE STUDENTS’ Apart from lectures, we offer numerous

Your learning experience: Giving you a step up Your transferable skills, 24—27) offer support and guidance on UNION learning opportunities including field We offer a range of funds, which can MAKE NEW FRIENDS EASILY issues such as disability, mentoring, trips, guest lectures, placements, real help facilitate a unique educational enhance your student funding, life as a mature student, The Freshers’ Fair takes place during life projects and networking experience. Previous students who experience and boost The community learning environment at counselling and health and wellbeing. your first few weeks at QMU and is an opportunities. have benefited from the funds have QMU helps to ensure that you can opportunity to find out what the travelled overseas to attend your career. Take full quickly meet new classmates, and SUPPORT FOR YOUR CAREER Students’ Union (SU) can offer you. Get GET SOME WORK EXPERIENCE conferences, shadowed professionals through combined seminar groups, you involved in the numerous schemes and for a time in a relevant organisation or advantage of them. will study alongside students from other Our Careers and Employability Service initiatives launched by the SU – you will If your course does not include a obtained a placement/internship that courses, ensuring that you will soon (see pages 12—15) are there to provide meet new people, learn new things and placement, our Careers Service can has given them a significant step up on recognise many faces around campus. information, advice and guidance on all gain confidence and skills. help you find some related work the career ladder (see pages 12—15). Learning from different people and matters related to your career. They can experience. Pursuing internship hearing different viewpoints is great for help you find part-time or seasonal Become part of a club or society, or opportunities will help you to gain your personal development. work. even start your own, it will improve your invaluable work experience, enabling social life, help you relax and meet you to learn more about a profession NETWORKING FITNESS AND WELLBEING different people, as well as developing and what part of the job you really you personally. enjoy. This helps direct your future We provide many opportunities for A fit and healthy body makes for a fit development and career plans (see students to meet with industry and healthy mind. Take advantage of BECOME A CLASS REP pages 12—15). professionals. Whether it be through QMU’s low-cost sports membership placements or guest lecturers, you will and facilities on campus. Become a class rep to ensure your OVERSEAS EXCHANGES have the opportunity to meet with views and the views of your classmates current professionals working in your are heard. Taking responsibility and Many of our courses offer exchange field of study. QMU runs an Employer stepping into a representative role will opportunities (see pages 22—23) where Mentor Scheme where graduates, who help you develop new skills and you can spend a semester at a are willing to share their career confidence as well as looking good on university overseas. Exchanges will help experiences, come into QMU to your CV. you spread your wings, experience a support students. Our students tell us different culture and learn in a new that they value the opportunity to SEEK OUT GREAT OPPORTUNITIES environment. Many of our students discuss how they can apply their describe their exchange experience as studies to the workplace as well as QMU offers an impressive range of ‘life changing’. In some instances, you hearing invaluable advice about the career-enhancing extracurricular may also be able to complete your recruitment and selection process and opportunities (see pages 20—21) and course placement overseas. Continuing Professional Development. our size means that a high proportion of students can easily take full advantage REGISTRATION AND ACCREDITATION of these benefits. Working at open days/evenings, applying for internships, Our health professions courses make scholarships and awards, taking part in you eligible to register with the Health the employer mentoring scheme, and Care Professions Council (HCPC) helping with new student induction and practice in your professional area programmes, or working as a team at immediately on graduation. Many of our our community health science festivals courses are accredited/approved by are all a great way to boost your relevant regulatory bodies ensuring that confidence and improve your CV. they meet industry standards.

28 29 “Edinburgh, as the Scottish capital, is The international renowned not only as a centre of commerce, but also for its Belfast Edinburgh student experience rich history and culture. The city is home to countless

London historical attractions, Cardiff libraries and theatres.”

Ming Ming Chau BA (Hons) Business Management

restrictions stated in your immigration fees-and-funding/scholarships-for-new- documentation and check that the students/. Living in Edinburgh employment meets your visa criteria. Edinburgh is an established QMU’s Careers and Employability international centre with a reputation for Service is open to all students and Medical services academic excellence that attracts provides help and advice about students from all over the world to its employment opportunities in Edinburgh. Medical and hospital treatments are institutions. Rich in culture, history and This includes assistance in obtaining a currently available under the NHS to architectural splendour it is an ideal QMU has a growing team members are approachable and make friends and enhance your student UK National Insurance number that you international students in Scotland. location in which to spend your student responsive and want to ensure that you experience, we organise a programme will need to work and pay tax in the UK. Currently, International students who years. With a multicultural population, and vibrant have all the information you need of social events throughout the year, as For more information on the Careers apply to come to the UK to study for the city has numerous specialist food before you move to Scotland. well as hosting in person and online and Employability Service, see pages more than six months may be required shops and places of worship for many international drop-in sessions. These ensure that you 12—15 or visit our website at: www. to pay an immigration health surcharge. religions. Edinburgh is well connected For more information on events that our have access to all of the information qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/careersand- Further information about the by air, road and rail to other major cities community that is International Office team will attend, you need to make your time at QMU employability/ immigration health surcharge can be within the UK including Aberdeen, please visit our website at: www.qmu. enjoyable and successful. found at: www.gov.uk/healthcare- Glasgow, London, Manchester and sure to enrich your ac.uk/study-here/international- immigration-application. Birmingham. Internationally, students/ Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt are just student experience. Post study employment over an hour away by air, with direct Accommodation flights to the USA, Norway, Qatar, A new graduate route for international Student services Turkey, UAE and elsewhere possible Orientation programme and social Staying on campus is a great way to students has been introduced. This from Edinburgh International Airport. Our friendly international team events meet people and make new friends permits eligible students to remain in The University offers a range of More links reflecting the economic welcomes you to QMU, Edinburgh quickly. It means that the teaching, the UK to live and work for two years services and support to students on success and cultural diversity of Before joining us, you will receive a learning, support and leisure facilities at following graduation. For the latest issues related to careers, disability, Edinburgh and Scotland keep being We recognise that studying in a different pre-arrival guide. This is designed to QMU are easily accessible to you. We guidance see: www.gov.uk/browse/ health and funding to assist you when added. country is often a completely new answer any questions you may have would that you apply for a place in our visas-immigration. you are studying. See pages 24—27 or experience for international students before departure and also prepares you accommodation as soon as possible. visit our website at www.qmu.ac.uk/ Here, you will undoubtedly find a quality and we are keen to ensure that we for your journey to QMU. To help ease For more information on study-here/student-services/ for further of life that provides a thriving and safe make your transition to living and you into student life and help you accommodation, see pages 44—45. information on the full range of services environment in which to study for your studying in a new country as easy, become familiar with your surroundings, Scholarships available. chosen degree. For more information informative and welcoming as possible. we host an international students’ on Edinburgh, see pages 38—43. induction programme before your A number of scholarships are available Our International Office staff will be course start date. This will include Employment when you study to self-funding international students for your first point of contact at QMU if you information on settling in and what you undergraduate study. Scholarships are Contemplation Room are interested in studying with us in can expect during the year ahead, as If you require a Student Visa to study £3,000 and are discounted from your Scotland’s capital city. You can meet well as an opportunity to meet some of with us, you will normally be allowed to course fees. Information about how to We have a room on campus that is the team at numerous events that they your fellow students. We organise a tour work for up to 20 hours a week during apply for one of these scholarships is open to all students and staff of all attend, either online or in your home of the city of Edinburgh, which is very term time and full-time during holiday available on page 166 or on our faiths and denominations to use for country. The team run regular webinars useful and always great fun. To help you periods. We advise you to refer to any website at www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ prayer and quiet contemplation. and can be contacted by email. The

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English Language Testing System skills are integrated throughout the Applications and qualifications (IELTS). Our minimum IELTS programme. Academic reading and requirements are an overall score of 6 writing skills are developed and We recognise and warmly welcome a with no individual elements lower than practised. wide range of international school 5.5. This is our minimum entry level and leaving certificates, matriculation some courses require a higher level of certificates, junior college and language proficiency. Please refer to the polytechnic diplomas as standard entry individual course pages for more The main areas covered include: qualifications to our undergraduate information. courses. Every effort will be made to • planning and writing academic essays; equate international qualifications with MORE INFO: UK standards of entry, and offers will be • reading and writing critically; W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ made on a like-for-like basis Quick facts Pre-Sessional English course international-students/ Applications for entry to all years of our • conducting effective research; E: [email protected] undergraduate courses should be made Our intensive four-week Pre-Sessional We have a diverse student through the Universities and Colleges English course helps to prepare • using evidence to support claims; T: +44 (0)131 474 0099 population with people Admissions Service (UCAS) by applying international students for study at QMU. coming from over 80 online at www.ucas.com. If you would It provides students with the opportunity • giving presentations; countries. like an initial assessment of your to settle into life at QMU and to establish • listening to lectures and taking notes; qualifications, please contact our friendships with other students before You can benefit from living Admissions Office staff who will be able the beginning of the semester. This and studying in one of to offer advice. course is extremely useful for students • participating effectively in seminars Europe’s most stunning wishing to develop their academic and and language skills before beginning their capital cities. studies. It will build their confidence in • improving vocabulary and grammar. English language requirements using English in an academic QMU offers students an environment and enable them to For more information, please see our orientation programme and As well as the academic requirements understand more about the cultural and website at: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ ongoing support. for your studies, you will have to study environment at a UK university. studentservices/effective-learning- demonstrate a proficiency in spoken There is a strong practical element with service-els/pre-sessional-courses/. and written English. We consider a wide an emphasis on student participation. range of qualifications to assess your Students prepare for and deliver a English language ability, including many presentation in their subject area, school-based qualifications. Where we participate in seminar discussions and include an English language conduct research for a written requirement as part of your conditions, assignment that is submitted in the final we will typically refer to the International week. Opportunities for practising these

32 33 Joining us from college Your individual needs Your

At QMU we recognise that not all of our We welcome College engagement students come to us straight from high applications from school. Many students access our Staff from the University visit local degree courses through alternative colleges regularly to give presentations students studying routes. Whatever your circumstances, to students*. If you would like to find we appreciate that the transition to out where and when we will be visiting Access courses and mature students QMAdvance Direct Entrant Induction Highers, Access university is a big step. We are here to your college, please contact the help and guide you through the Widening Participation and Outreach At the beginning of the academic year, programmes, Higher process, providing all the relevant Students who have completed, or are Eligible students studying at college will Team by email (see page 35). In students entering directly into Year Two information and ensuring that you are currently studying towards, an Access be offered the opportunity to attend addition, local college students on HNC or Year Three of one of our degree National Certificates prepared for life as a university student. qualification (often as part of the QMAdvance. QMAdvance is designed or HND programmes will benefit from Scottish Wider Access Programme to give you the opportunity to meet courses attend a dedicated week-long opportunities to visit the campus before and Diplomas (HNC/ We can provide ongoing support before (SWAP)) can apply for entry into Year other new students who have come to induction programme before starting submitting their applications. They can applying, during the application One of a wide range of our degree QMU via a similar route and aims to the course. Direct Entrant Induction is get a feel for QMU during a post-offer HND) at college. Each process, after you have been made an courses. The most common Access ensure that you feel confident in your run by a team of former advanced entry visit that will provide tailored offer and once you have entered the courses accepted for entry into our abilities and gives early access to a students in partnership with academic year, approximately information relating to the area of University. Advice is available on entry degrees are listed on our website at: range of key services and staff. The and support staff, and will ensure you interest and an opportunity to meet requirements (including directing you to www.qmu.ac.uk/college-qualifications course takes place over three days in are fully preparedto join your course at 37% of our staff from the subject area. the appropriate college courses that are the week before the new academic year an advanced level. The induction offers starts. We send out information about subject-specific input and general undergraduate accepted for entry to the University), *Please note that there may of course the application process, student finance the programme to eligible students over university information, such as be restrictions on staff doing this during College articulation routes the summer, but if you think you would timetable, IT and support service entrants are over the and childcare information. You will be the COVID pandemic. able to visit the campus so that you can like more information please contact the information. Students will receive age of 21, and If you are studying or have recently Widening Participation and Outreach guidance on how to develop the find out more about studying at QMU. completed an HNC or HND There is a wealth of information and Team at any stage during the academic and research skills needed approximately 18% qualification, you may be able to enter application process. for degree level study. Our aim is to advice on our website at the link under directly into Year Two (with an HNC) or ‘more info’ on page 35. make the transition from college to have gained direct Year Three (if you have an HND) of one university as smooth as possible and of our degrees. Advanced entry give all students the best start to their entry onto the second (articulation) may not be possible in all lives at QMU. subject areas, advanced entry into or third year of one of Years Two or Three is often possible If you would like any advice or where your HNC or HND is in a similar information about coming to QMU from our courses. subject area to the degree course you college, please contact the Widening are applying to study. The most Participation and Outreach Team. common articulation routes are listed on our website at: www.qmu.ac.uk/ MORE INFO: college-qualifications W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ access-to-higher-education/college- leavers-and-mature-students/ E: [email protected]

34 35 Associate students: Courses that are part of the Associate Student scheme:

Newbattle Abbey College West Lothian College Fife College

an alternative way BSc (Hons) Psychology BSc (Hons) Psychology BA (Hons) Media and Communication

BSc (Hons) Psychology and BA (Hons) Public Relations and BA (Hons) Public to get a degree Sociolog Marketing Communications Relations and Marketing Your individual needs Your Communications

BSc (Hons) Public Sociology BSc (Hons) Public Sociology

BSc (Hons) Psychology and Sociology

Not everyone goes straight from school • If you have been out of education Facilities and services Funding QMU has worked with to university. People take different for a while, or have been working “This is a fantastic a number of local pathways into education depending on in industry and now want to gain a During the first year you will be enrolled You can apply to the Student Awards their circumstances. Our Associate relevant qualification, college may at both institutions and can take Agency for Scotland (SAAS) for funding opportunity to secure further education Student scheme offers a different route be a more suitable entry route for advantage of the facilities at each. for your course. As long as you meet to securing a place on a degree course you. Colleges specialise in helping College facilities could include catering, the eligibility criteria, SAAS will pay the colleges to develop an at QMU. people returning to education after library services, student support course fees and you can apply for a an alternative route to a break and learning styles are a services, health and fitness facilities, student loan to help with your living alternative way to get Associate students are fully enrolled as lot more vocational and practical spa and hair and beauty salons and costs. When applying to SAAS you will QMU students from day one, but study than in higher education. The first sometimes accommodation. At QMU, need to have a conditional offer from degree level study.” onto a degree course. for the first year at a partner college on year of the associate student you can use the Learning Resource QMU, and be sure to apply for the full a relevant Higher National (HN) course. routes is designed to reflect these Centre, student support services, the Degree Fee Waiver (not the HNC Fee Find out about our On successful completion, associate types of learning styles. Sports Centre, the Students’ Union and Waiver which is less). For further Callum Maguire exciting Associate students have a guaranteed place at its clubs and societies and our information, see www.saas.gov.uk. Head of Widening QMU to complete their degree. A • Your Higher results after school excellent accommodation and catering Participation and Outreach Student scheme here. number of our degrees are available might not be good enough to get services, details of which can be found MORE INFO: through the Associate Student scheme into university. The Associate in this prospectus. W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ and are listed in the table on page 37. Student routes offer entry to QMU access-to-higher-education/associate- The entry requirements for all of our degrees with slightly lower entry Associate Student routes are CCC at qualifications because the first student-scheme/ Higher, or equivalent. year is spent at college. E: [email protected]

• As you progress through your HN course we will arrange visits to the Benefits University campus, workshops on academic skills and guest • If you are unsure about making lectures, this will ensure you are the leap from school to university, well prepared for the transition to then studying at college can be a QMU. good way to prepare for the move, and one of the benefits may be • You will be in a class where there the smaller classes at college. As are other associate students, you work through the HN, the therforeyou will be able to make college and QMU will prepare you friends with the people you will for the more independent learning study with for four years, before style and the academic standards joining a bigger cohort of students required at university level. at QMU to complete the degree.

36 37 City of Edinburgh, coast and countryside Your student lifestyle Your

With four universities and a large further East Lothian is a beautiful county with Edinburgh and the education college, the city is highly over 40 miles of stunning coastline, surrounding area is an populated by students and is very golden beaches, rolling countryside, student friendly. Most of the culture and historic sites, award-winning ideal location in which activity of the city is focused around attractions, excellent food and drink student life, with students able to share and the world’s finest links golf courses. to spend your student some facilities, such as student unions East Lothian enjoys the sunniest and libraries, that each institution has to climate in Scotland, great local years. offer. Part-time job opportunities and produce, spectacular natural beauty graduate job opportunities are excellent and year-round recreational As a student at QMU you will have easy and many students choose to remain in opportunities including cycling, walking, access to Scotland’s beautiful and Edinburgh or the local area during golfing and watersports. vibrant capital city, Edinburgh, and also holidays and after graduating. the stunning coast and countryside surrounding the campus. Edinburgh is atmospheric and vibrant, with all you would expect from a capital A hop, skip and jump to the wider city; packed with chain and world independent shops, cinemas, theatres, Edinburgh restaurants, pubs, clubs, supermarkets, Transport links to Edinburgh are museums, tourist attractions, excellent, you can easily head north to Situated in the central belt of Scotland, landmarks, art galleries, concert spend a weekend skiing or hillwalking. south of the Firth of Forth Estuary, venues, parks, sports facilities, and a You are only 45 minutes from Glasgow, Edinburgh is easily accessible from all zoo. The city is home to Edinburgh or four hours from London by train. In areas of the UK and beyond. It is one Castle. Dating back to the Twelfth the city centre, the bus services are of the most beautiful cities in the world century, the spectacular landmark sits extensive, providing frequent links in and continues to rank high in opinion in the city centre on the top of a and around the city. Air links are polls, see page 41. It is a top tourist dormant volcano. The Scottish convenient and widespread, it takes destination, particularly in the summer Parliament is situated in Edinburgh. just over an hour to get to Paris, Dublin months when the city comes alive and or Amsterdam. You can check out the plays host to the acclaimed Edinburgh destinations you can fly to from Festivals. The Fringe Festival is Edinburgh airport at: www. particularly enjoyed by students in the The campus local area edinburghairport.com/flights/ city who embrace the month-long destinations-and-airlines. spectacle of comedy, music, drama The QMU campus is located to the east and art. Late December is a popular of Edinburgh city centre by the coastal time for visitors to ‘Auld Reekie’ as they town of Musselburgh, in the county of “Edinburgh is a wonderful place come to experience a ‘Scottish New East Lothian. Musselburgh has a MORE INFO: Year’ at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay population of approximately 22,000 and in which to live, especially at celebrations, now one of the world’s offers a theatre, sports centre with Edinburgh: www.edinburgh.org/ biggest outdoor parties! swimming pool, supermarkets and shops, a racecourse, golf courses, a East Lothian: www.visiteastlothian.org/ harbour and beach, restaurants and Christmas time with the home bars, a public library and a peaceful riverside. The campus is only a short festive markets all around the walk or bus ride from Fort Kinnaird, a large outdoor shopping complex offering high street chain stores, centre of the city.” restaurants and a multiplex cinema. There are several supermarkets in the immediate vicinity. Amie Beswick BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy

38 39 Edinburgh: Recent accolades and awards

st 1 Top UK City (best prospects for economic growth) (The UK Vitality Index, 2019)

st Your student lifestyle Your 1 Best city (UK) for students to live and study (Liberty Living Survey, 2018)

st 1  The UK’s most attractive city to live and work (Royal Mail, 2018)

“Edinburgh combines

st everything you could ask 1 The healthiest high street in the UK (The Royal Society for Public Health, 2018) for, great heritage and

cultural spots and stories, st 1 Most liveable city in the World (Arcadis’ 2018 Sustainable Cities Index) beautiful green spaces and historic landmarks, st 1 Britain’s best city to visit and not forgetting (Top 20 travel destinations, Telegraph Travel Awards, 2018) “Edinburgh is the greatest city its friendly people.” in the world. I’m not shy to tell Renaad Al Balushi BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy anyone that. Where else in the world can you stand on the main shopping street and see a castle on top of a volcano?”

Greg Stark BSc (Hons) Public Sociology

40 41 Edinburgh – a city of events, attractions and festivals Your student lifestyle Your

Scotland’s capital has to be one of the best places to be in the world if you want to enjoy special events and festivals. It truly has something for everyone. When you are not studying, why not immerse yourself in the pleasures of this cultural capital. The events listed below were scheduled for 2020, with some not going ahead due to COVID-19 restrictions, and 2021 events not yet confirmed, but the list will give you a flavour of what to expect to take place in the city at certain times of the year. April - Edinburgh International Science Festival A warm day in April is a - Beltane Fire Festival good time to take - Edinburgh Comic Con a city bus tour. - Prosecco and Gin Festival January Warm up your January by - Edinburgh’s Christmas celebrations run until early January and include fun leisure activities, taking part in Edinburgh’s theatrical performances and beautiful stalls in Princes Street Gardens. May - Edinburgh Marathon Festival world famous Hogmanay Whisky Month is celebrations and - Edinburgh’s Hogmanay (31 December) is one of the world’s largest New Year celebrations taking place over a significant area within central Edinburgh. Bring in the New Year with your celebrated throughout celebrate the life of the the month of May. internationally acclaimed new university friends when listening to the music in Princes Street gardens and watching the Scottish poet Robert fireworks at the Castle. Burns. - Burns Night, on 25 January, is another highlight of the Scottish calendar. Take part in a Burns June - Leith Festival Supper, which celebrates the life, poetry and songs of Scotland’s most famous poet, Robert Highlights include the - Edinburgh International Film Festival Royal Highland Show and Burns. Burns was the author of ‘Auld Lang Syne’. Typically, at a Burns Supper you will have - Let’s Rock Scotland Festival the opportunity to sample some haggis and enjoy a wee dram of whisky! the Edinburgh - Royal Highland Show - BANFF Mountain Film Festival World Tour International Film Festival. - Edinburgh Pride - Edinburgh Chinese New Year July and August - Edinburgh Art Festival February August is Edinburgh’s - Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, held in the Castle Esplanade Brighten up a cold - Edinburgh Wellbeing Festival busiest festival month February with a trip to - Edinburgh Festival Fringe, one of the world’s largest arts events, the Festival stages more than Edinburgh Castle or the - Capital Sci Fi Con 2,000 shows in hundreds of theatres National Museum of - Disney’s The Lion King (musical) - Edinburgh International Book Festival Scotland with its 8,000 - Rugby: Scotland v England - Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival treasures waiting to be discovered. September - Doors Open Day — gain free access to hundreds of fascinating buildings across Edinburgh and Scotland Markets and Fairs A wide variety of markets and fairs take place in Edinburgh throughout the year. These sell - Kiltwalk Edinburgh artisan foods and gifts, as well as vintage and craft goods. October - Comic Con Scotland March March is a busy time of - Wee Dub Festival, Scotland’s biggest celebration of reggae, dub and sound system culture year for festivals. There is November and - The autumn and winter months are a great time to visit Edinburgh’s beautiful galleries and the Six Nations rugby - Rugby: Scotland v France December museums tournament. - Meadow’s Marathon (Half, 10k, 5k) - Edinburgh’s Christmas celebrations

42 43 Your accommodation Your student lifestyle Your

Many students choose to live on ResLife campus in their first communal TV lounge, bike storage, six minutes. There is a bus stop on plenty of green space, an outdoor gym campus with frequent local services, By choosing to live on campus, you will become part of a friendly and year and beyond. It is and a BBQ area for when the sun including a night bus. supportive community of like-minded people. You can take advantage of our comes out. exciting ResLife programme that includes a diverse range of social, a great way to make educational and cultural opportunities for you to get involved in, on and off campus. These events and activities include BBQs, film nights, charity new friends and Safe and secure challenges, coach trips, fun competitions, bake-offs, first aid sessions, Price quickly settle into life Our on-campus residences are budgeting workshops and lots more. In the academic year 2020/21 the designed with safety and security in at QMU. Living on campus can enhance your university experience and provide you all-inclusive cost of a standard room mind. Each block of accommodation is was £119 per week and a premium accessed by swipe card entry with with opportunities to make new friends and create memories that will last a Living on campus is very convenient. lifetime. Our ResLife team are committed to fostering a welcoming, vibrant You are only two minute walk from the room was £144 per week. Prices for each flat having its own entry phone and inclusive community. The team is equipped with the skills and experience main academic building, Learning 2022/23 will be set in early 2022. system. The entire campus is to provide you with access to wellbeing support and services that will help you Resource Centre, SU and sports monitored by CCTV and security staff facilities. Our campus offers a safe regularly patrol the area 24/7. successfully settle into life at QMU. environment to study and relax in, with How to apply hassle-free all-inclusive rents that include electricity and heating bills, You can apply for accommodation on Disability needs MORE INFO: basic contents insurance, wi-fi and 24/7 our website at: www.qmu.ac.uk/ W: www.qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/accommodation/ security. campus-life/accommodation/ QMU is committed to providing a E: [email protected] Applications open in April and we comfortable environment that is easily Our Accommodation Services team recommend that you apply as early as accessible for students with disabilities. and ResLife Assistants are on hand to possible as demand for our on-campus If you have a disability of any kind and ensure that you quickly feel at home accommodation is generally high. are thinking of applying to live in the and have the necessary facilities and Please contact us to check availability halls, it is essential that you contact support to make the most of your life if you join after the start of term. During Accommodation Services before on campus. the application process students can confirming a place on a course, to indicate particular requirements such determine if the existing accessibility as being placed in an all-male or features meet your needs fully. Where Facilities all-female flat. We will also try to place possible, QMU will work with you to postgraduate and mature students make adaptations or install equipment Our campus houses 800 study together. Further information on the that may be necessary. bedrooms across nine blocks. Within application and allocation process can each block there are separate self- be found on our website. contained flats for three, four, five or six Living off campus students sharing. Each flat has a kitchen and comfortable living area and each Parking and transport If you decide to live off campus, our bedroom is equipped with an en-suite Accommodation Services team can shower and toilet, wi-fi and well- Parking on campus is not normally advise you on finding accommodation. designed spacious storage. A number available for students living in our Students can apply for a permit to park of premium rooms are available, accommodation. However, transport on campus. However, permits are limited providing additional floor space and a links to and from the campus are and are allocated according to specified double bed. Unfortunately, family or excellent. Musselburgh train station is criteria. couple accommodation is not available adjacent to QMU with the journey to on campus. Students have access to a Edinburgh city centre taking less than

44 45 Your Students’ Union Your student lifestyle Your

The Students’ Union Student voice Activities

(SU) at QMU has lots The SU is run independently of the The SU offers a range of sports teams University and is run by students for and societies for all students to to offer. Getting students. Students elect a team of become involved with. There are officers every year to work on their competitive and recreational sports involved with the SU behalf on improving the overall student teams and clubs, interest-based can really enhance experience at QMU. The officer team societies and academic societies. An represents all students at QMU and up-to-date list can be found on the SU A few words from the Student President, Chiara Menozzi your academic and always want to hear from students website and if we do not have what about what’s working and what isn’t. you’re interested in we can help you to “I didn’t even know what a Students’ Union was when I first started at QMU, set something up. Check out pages social experience as a but that was quick to change. I moved to Edinburgh three days before my The SU works with the University to run 48—49 for more information. student and help you the Class Rep programme. Each class course in BA (Hons) Theatre and Film started and I could not have dreamed should have at least one Class Rep to of all the opportunities I would be able to take advantage of thanks to the in your future career. represent the students views and liaise Students’ Union. with academic staff. The SU provides Help Zone support and training for Class Reps I first got involved with the Students’ Union’s Sports & Societies by joining and runs the Academic Council that is The Help Zone provides support for the Musical Theatre Society. Alongside my course, that helped me boost my a forum where Class Reps come QMU students, particularly with confidence and language skills, and was also a great way to de-stress from academic issues. All advice and together. classes and assignments. In my third year, I decided to take it a step further support is free, confidential and MORE INFO: and became President of the Society, as well as volunteering to become a impartial. The team at the SU has a lot W: www.qmusu.org.uk of experience in student support and Class Representative. has good relationships with support staff in the University. Twitter: Throughout the years of attending QMU I discovered just how many other @QMUSU opportunities the Students’ Union offers: from support services to events (a lot of which take place in the Union’s Bar and Café). There really is something for every student who wishes to get involved or just needs a little Maggie’s Bar and Café Facebook: extra help. www.facebook.com/QMUSU Maggie’s offers a comfortable space After seeing all the amazing work the Students’ Union did, in my final year I with student-friendly menus and prices. You can socialise, study, relax or host decided to challenge myself and run for the role of Student President. My an event. It’s the main student social Instagram: experience at QMU was a very positive one, and I wanted to make sure this space on campus and we love to see @QMUSU was the same for other students. Thanks to my course as well as the as many students as possible enjoying extra-curricular activities I took part in, I developed a range of transferrable the space. skills that are proving very useful in representing the views of thousands of students. I’m so thankful to the Students’ Union for giving me an opportunity to develop my leadership and organisational skills right after graduation, as I’m sure they will be invaluable for my future.

As Student President, I am here to make sure that students have the best possible experience whilst studying at QMU. I work with a team of Student Officers to ensure that the SU is run by students, for students, and that we can offer all QMU students as many opportunities to further their personal development as we can.”

46 47 Clubs, societies and

Your student lifestyle Your sports

If you have a real passion for something, it does not The societies on offer at the SU give you students who want to start their own Our fitness studio plays host to a range Sports facilities need to take a back the opportunity to meet like-minded team. of fitness classes including Boxercise, people who have similar interests to you. Pilates, Kettlebells, Pump FX, Zumba seat when you are a Together you can dance, compete, sing, Some of our recent notable sporting Whether you are interested in competing in sports at the highest level or simply and Spin. You can opt to ‘pay as you act, debate, create, campaign, volunteer, successes include our men’s Basketball play’ or you can purchase an annual student. University fundraise and so much more. 1st team becoming the first QMU team wishing to keep fit, QMU has its own well-equipped sports centre on campus membership. to win the Conference Cup finals. We Stephanie Lee sports, clubs and Clubs and societies change every year, had three students selected for the offering a range of activities. A membership allows students access BSc (Hons) Nutrition but the table below gives you an idea of Scottish Student Sport National teams in societies can enable Our gym is fitted out with the latest to the gym, sports hall, the majority of the range of groups recently active. basketball, netball and hockey, as well fitness equipment including treadmills, fitness classes, all-weather pitch and I was keen to develop my social as sending a student to compete in the you to keep up your cross trainers, exercise bikes, fixed free equipment hire. Student high jump at the BUCS Nationals, from life at QMU and Clubs and weights and free weights. membership prices for 2022 will be hobbies, find new which he returned with a silver medal. published on our website. Societies offered a great Sports success opportunity to become more The sports centre includes a large interests and meet a MORE INFO: Within the campus grounds, you will find involved in uni life and meet As well as our established sports clubs, multi-functional games hall that can be our outdoor gym. This facility is open all which range in level from social games www.qmusu.org.uk/top-menu/ used for a variety of sports including: like-minded individuals. host of new like- year round and offers a range of to the British Universities and College your-union basketball, 5-a-side indoor football, cardiovascular and resistance minded friends. Sport (BUCS) national leagues, we are badminton, volleyball, table tennis and In my first year I joined the Good equipment. always adding new teams. That means netball. We have an outdoor all-weather Food Society, a very casual University life is not all about studying. It there’s something to suit everyone who astro pitch used for 5/7-a-side football. Studies show physical activity is good society which fitted in with my is important to relax and take time out wants to play sport at an institutional Members can borrow equipment to use for mental wellbeing and alleviates timetable. It aims to educate for other interests. level. And if there isn’t, we welcome in these sports free of charge. Personal stress levels, so make the most of our students on good food and training is available at an additional cost. Sports & Societies are led by the elected outdoor and indoor workout areas, sustainable eating. We visit local Student Vice-President and range from There are changing facilities on-site that especially during exam time. restaurants and attend food high performance sports such as are equipped with showers and lockers. festivals throughout the year. We football, rugby and badminton, to Current clubs and societies MORE INFO: have talks from local businesses popular activities such as theatre, anime www.qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/qmu- and charities, attend sports-centre/ and dance. The opportunities that masterclasses, and we fundraise Sports & Societies offers are endless. Sports clubs Badminton, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball, Men’s for the local food bank and a Anybody is welcome to join in with any currently exist in Football, Netball, Cheerleading, Hockey, Women’s Rugby ‘charity of the year’. We also hold sport or society and you can even create the following Men’s Rugby, Snow Sports, Gaelic Football (Women’s), social nights and international your own! Studies have proven that areas: Women’s Football, Yoga, Surf, Volleyball food nights, where members involvement in sports and societies bring dishes from different helps potential future employers see you Societies currenty Equestrian, Comedy, Dietetics and Nutrition, Dance, countries. demonstrate key skills and exist in the Christian Union, LGBT+, African Caribbean, Speech and characteristics, including leadership, I have loved being part of the following areas: Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Podiatry, teamwork, dedication and society, and have particularly Writers’, Music, Musical Theatre, PsychSoc,Techno, determination. So, taking part in a sport enjoyed being president. The or society can benefit your CV and International, Nursing, Drama, Marketing, Esports, Film, society offers the opportunity to employability. Photography, Environmental Sustainability make many friends with a shared interest from across the university, who you otherwise wouldn’t have met.

48 49 Under 21s living on campus Under 21s living off campus (in rented accommodation Budgeting and or with family) Rent At QMU, your rent for student halls includes your If you are renting a flat or a room in a flat/house, you accommodation, heating, electricity, hot water will often have to budget for gas, electricity, internet and internet access. Therefore you don’t have to access, TV licence, possibly insurance and landline, on living costs worry about being surprised by extra utility bills. top of your rent. You will have to purchase a TV licence if you wish to watch live TV in your room/flat.

Your student lifestyle Your Telephone You won’t have a landline but QMU does supply You may need to budget extra to pay for internet and landline and your internet/wi-fi access as part of your rent. landline access. But think about whether you really do internet access You will still need to budget for your mobile need a landline. phone.

Learning to budget Books You may need to buy books for your course. As opposite successfully helps to Mature students living off campus Food QMU’s student halls are self-catered, therfore If you are living in a flat or house, you will need to pay make student life a lot Childcare QMU’s Student Funding Adviser can provide information, advice you will need to budget enough money to pay for all of your food supplies. If you are living in your and guidance on funding available for childcare. for all of your meals. parent’s/family home, you may need to have a smoother. conversation with them about food/shopping costs. If you are coming straight from school to Council tax If you live alone you will be exempt from paying council tax for university, like most other the duration of your studies. If you live with a partner/spouse Mobile phone Mobile phone contracts can be expensive, look As opposite undergraduates, you will probably be there will be a 25% discount on council tax charge for the contract for the best provider and a cost-effective tariff. managing your own finances for the first property for the duration of your studies. time. However, if you are a direct entrant or mature student, there are still costs Travel pass If you stay in QMU’s accommodation you will If you live a distance away from QMU, you may need to Books You may need to buy books for your course. You may be able save money by not having to pay for a bus, budget for a train or bus travel pass to get back and forth that you should be aware of when to purchase second-hand books to save money. making the move to higher education. train or car to come to the University. The to campus. Student Village is right next to the main Here you will find some examples of Travel pass/ You may need to factor in the cost of a travel pass (for the bus Academic Building. However, you may wish to costs that you may need to budget for QMU parking or train) to and from the campus. QMU enforces a robust buy a travel pass, for either the bus or train, to as a student at QMU. Of course, your permit parking policy and the QMU car park is for permit holders only. get in and out of the city centre. finances will depend on individual Students are encouraged to take public transport or to walk/ circumstances, but the tables opposite cycle to QMU. However, if you have a car you can apply for an Hobbies Getting involved in hobbies is a great way to As opposite give you a rough idea of what you need annual parking permit during term time or you could opt to make new friends and can enhance your to consider. purchase a single day permit for each day you park on campus. student experience. Consider what costs are It’s important to read the parking on campus information on the If you are a mature student, you will involved in each hobby, do you need specialist QMU website so that you understand the restrictions and costs clothes, equipment or money for travel? probably already have a grasp of how involved. much your rent/mortgage, utility bills and Hobbies that are cheap (maybe even free) can food cost per month. However, you may be just as much fun as expensive hobbies. now need to factor in other costs as you make the move to become a student at QMU parking QMU enforces a robust parking policy and QMU enforces a robust parking policy. Students are QMU. permit students are generally not allowed to keep a encouraged to take public transport or to walk/cycle to car in the car park during term time. You QMU. However, if you have a car you can apply for a QMU’s Student Funding Adviser can should check out the parking information on parking permit. provide one-to-one information, advice the QMU website for specific information and and guidance on the funding available to costs: www.qmu.ac.uk/location-and-getting- you when you are studying with us, here/parking-on-campus/ including: USEFUL LINKS: • Loans, bursaries and tuition fees Council tax If you live in student accommodation you will If you live alone you will be exempt from paying council • Benefits and studying Accommodation not have to pay council tax. tax for the duration of your studies. You should refer to the website of the relevant council where you will reside • Childcare Fund E: [email protected] W: www.qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/ for your studies for information relating to shared • Discretionary Fund (formerly the accommodation/ accommodation. Hardship Fund) • Nursing Discretionary Fund Student Funding Adviser • International Hardship Fund E: [email protected] • Part-time funding Parking policy E: [email protected] W: www.qmu.ac.uk/location-and-getting- here/parking-on-campus/

50 51 Graduation and beyond Step ahead: Your future Step ahead: Your

Our graduates are hugely important to When you graduate us and we are keen for you to continue Career opportunities from QMU, you will to contribute to the life of the University long after your graduation. In turn, we Graduates can receive support from the remain an important will continue to support you long after University’s team of careers specialists graduation and we are proud to be one at every stage of their career during their part of the University of only a few universities that offer our working life. This includes one-to-one graduates career advice for life. Our appointments, events and online community and have QMYOU magazine and regular resources including access to the new access to a range of e-newsletters keep our graduates up to service www.qmploy.co.uk date with all the University’s latest We also offer a variety of internships and alumni benefits. developments, as well as alumni events work placements to our graduates, and reunions. We also provide our providing the chance to gain invaluable alumni with a number of other benefits experience in the workplace, to work on and services. live projects and put theoretical The graduation ceremony knowledge into practice.

Graduation is a particularly special Campus discounts occasion that marks the completion of Mentoring your studies. QMU normally holds one Graduates can continue to use many of graduation ceremony annually, usually in the University facilities including We are always interested in hearing from July. If you complete your studies after Maggie’s, Starbucks and 1875 (our food our alumni and having them share their July you will still have the opportunity to court), as well as receiving a special career stories. Career mentoring is an receive your graduation certificate and discounted rate for the Learning opportunity for our graduates to mentor attend the ceremony in July the Resource Centre and the Sports Centre. current QMU students who want to enter following year. The ceremony normally a similar field. Our students value the takes place at a venue in Edinburgh city We encourage our undergraduates to continue with their QMU education by opportunity to discuss how they can centre with a celebratory reception held apply their studies to the workplace as at the QMU campus afterwards. The undertaking a postgraduate degree on campus with a 10% discount on course well as hearing invaluable advice about reception offers a great opportunity for the recruitment and selection process. Graduation does not need to mean goodbye. We encourage you and your guests to visit the campus, fees. For more information about this socialise with your friends and lecturers discount opportunity, please contact our and celebrate your graduation success Admissions team by email: admissions@ MORE INFO: our graduates to stay connected with QMU. Our in relaxed surroundings. It truly is a qmu.ac.uk www.qmu.ac.uk/alumni-and-friends/ wonderful occasion. ever-expanding number of alumni, from the UK and Events and reunions Keeping in touch Invitations to a wide range of events and overseas, remain part of the University After you have graduated, it is not the class reunions help our graduates to end of your QMU experience. Graduates stay connected with QMU and their community throughout their lives. Through our alumni, we of the University are part of a community former classmates. We regularly hold of more than 30,000 alumni from over 90 informal alumni events around the world, countries around the world whose as well as assisting our graduates with extend our ideas and influence. They have a genuine stake in knowledge, achievements and expertise their own reunion events, whether it’s are recognised in fields such as politics, been five years or 50 years since our success, as we have in theirs. healthcare, business and the arts. graduation.

52 53 Drama and Performing Arts Warhammer 40,000, The National Drama and Performing Arts staff at projects. For example, the work of Theatre of Scotland, Dundee Rep and QMU are a mix of arts practitioners and Costume Design undergraduates can Research The Traverse have all recently featured academic researchers. Award-winning come in very handy for those on the the work of QMU alumni. It is not only staff have produced work for a variety Acting and Performance course. It is a Creativity is in your bones forever, and on stage and screen that our graduates of commercial, cultural, educational natural and creative way to prepare for our staff are active as creators and can be found; many will go on to use and local government clients, and have real-life team work after graduation. For researchers. Current staff research their creative skills in education, health exhibited and performed their work at performance activity, the University has topics include cutting-edge work on Let’s set the scene...the UK has the and wellbeing, tourism and arts festivals in the UK and internationally. a fully equipped and licensed studio digital performance, intercultural management. theatre and five rehearsal studios, two theatre training, collaborative devising largest creative sector in Europe. As the home of numerous international of which have sprung floors to facilitate practices, contemporary Scottish We offer courses in Acting and theatre, film and television festivals, movement work. We have a costume dramaturgy, film adaptation, place- Performance, Drama, Costume Design Edinburgh is the ideal place to study design and construction workshop, and based performance, cultural Scotland’s creative industries generate and Construction, and Theatre and the creative arts. There are five a green screen studio. The division has participation, theatre anthropology, Film. The creative industries are very purpose-built theatres showing digital editing suites and post- fandom, community festivals and art in competitive fields, and trying to enter everything from major West End hits to production facilities where students healthcare. more than £5.2 billion and employ in them can seem a daunting prospect. innovative, risk-taking new writing. For have access to Adobe creative editing However, employers are looking for film, it boasts two art-house cinemas, software including Adobe Premiere, graduates who have developed five multiplexes and two smaller After Effects, Photoshop and Audition. Career prospects the region of 60,000 people. Cultural and specialist knowledge, up-to-the-minute cinemas, and the city is frequently used working practices, and high-level as a location for film and television Through our wide range of industry At QMU we recognise the phenomenal communication skills that enhance their shoots. connections, students have regular potential that exists within the creative creative experiences stimulate individual natural creative enthusiasm. This is opportunities to hear directly from and cultural industries in Scotland and what you can expect to learn on all of those working across the creative and our courses open up a multitude of our Performing Arts degrees. cultural industries and a number of curiosity and expand our collective imagination. career opportunities, ranging from Approach to learning and teaching modules offer students the chance to creative practice to arts and festival Each course has its own specific undertake industry-based learning management, producing, teaching, emphasis, they all provide students All of our Drama and Performing Arts through going on placement or It is no wonder that the performing arts is such directing, fundraising and marketing. with a comprehensive critical courses combine academic enquiry undertaking real-world client projects. However, we know that establishing a understanding of the processes and with opportunities for practical Starting in their first year, students are sustainable career in this sector an inspiring field to study and work in and practices by which new creative work production, and the balance between encouraged to see themselves as requires adaptable and resilient is generated. Our teaching focuses on theory and practice will vary depending future contributors to the creative graduates who have a diverse range of the role that the dramatic arts has in on the degree that you undertake. sector in Scotland, the UK and knowledge and skills. Creative workers the theatre, film and TV the construction of public culture, in However, alongside traditional lectures internationally. At every level, students are far more likely to be self-employed At QMU, youlearn will skills and build the creation of new expressive forms, and tutorials, all of our courses include have the opportunity to develop vital or working for SMEs and need to be as relationships that will prepare you for a as the basis for a range of professional creative workshops, opportunities to creative enterprise skills including industries are always , skilled in managing a business as they rewarding career in the flourishing practices and in shaping everyday work on live performances in a variety collaborative working, new business are in developing their creative creative sector. Our highly respected social and psychological life. Through of roles and invaluable industry-based development, company formation, practice. As such, we provide support Drama and Performing Arts courses will theory and practice you will explore a learning opportunities. There are core budgeting, pitching and presenting, looking for graduates and mentorship for setting up new give you the theoretical understanding, broad range of creative and cultural modules at the heart of each of the fundraising, design thinking, idea businesses through the Business hands-on expertise and creative activity. In doing so you will engage courses complemented by electives formation and social media Gateway office located on campus and stimulation that will help you to turn with current debates in these exciting and options that let you specialise in management. We design our with creative talent, QMU’s Business Development Team. your creative ambition into an exciting fields of study, when critically engaging areas relevant to your future career assessments to put these skills into Since 2016 students have been able to and sustainable career. with the historical evolution of path. No matter what options you practice, therefore our graduates are establish start-up companies within our skills and ideas. particular genres, aesthetic traditions, choose you will be encouraged to well prepared for the work needed to BIZ, and our Performing Arts graduates and the way plays and screen texts examine the creative process closely, develop a sustainable career in the have been some of the most prolific in organise understandings, meanings find your own style, develop your creative and cultural industries. Why QMU? and effects. As part of this critical consciousness and think for launching new business ventures, many of them social enterprises. engagement, you will have yourself both creatively and as an Many of our students snap up the Go to the theatre, watch TV, listen to opportunites to work individually and in entrepreneur. opportunity to study for a semester Get ready for the performance of your the radio or play your favourite small groups to produce your own abroad during their course and we computer game and you will soon see performances, scripts, screenplays, Our approach to learning fosters have university partners in Australia, life. the work of one of our Performing Arts designs, costumes or short films. collaboration, with students from Canada and the USA (subject to graduates. Doctor Who, Peaky different courses often working availability). Blinders, The Cry, River City, Outlander, together on productions and creative CBeebies, Casualty, Hollyoaks, The Night Manager, Assassins Creed,

54 55 This new two-year course

enables those with an  qmu.ac.uk/Acting-and-Performance BA/BA (Hons) Acting appropriate further education qualification to continue their studies through attaining an and Performance honours degree that provides the training needed to pursue a contemporary career as an actor. Drama and Performing Arts

An actor can be called upon to perform in a variety of venues, Structure Modules Entry requirements Other information Why QMU? media and styles and this You can opt to study for an ordinary Year Three Direct Entry: HND Acting and UCAS code: W410 QMU has been training actors course provides vocational and degree, completing one year of this Performance/Musical Theatre with B in since 1971 with 2021 marking the industry-relevant training that course or an honours degree, Advanced Acting: Skills/Advanced the graded unit for the second year. Duration: 2 years full-time (Years Three 50 year anniversary of our prepares you to work on stage, completing two years. You will Acting: Text and Techniques/Advanced Foundation degrees in appropriate and Four of an honours degree) teachign in this area. screen and beyond. complete a range of modules each year Acting: Screen and Media subjects considered. Two years of a as outlined. relevant degree considered. Start date: September 2022 This new degree draws on QMU’s rich Year Four You will be part of a large performing arts department, and highly respected teaching International: IELTS of 6.5 with no Delivery: On campus Showcasing Repertoire/Honours studying alongside students on expertise within the performing arts. element lower than 6.0 We focus on intensive stage and screen Teaching, learning and assessment Performance Project/Creative the Costume Design and Awarding body: QMU. Please see the actor training with additional options Entrepreneurial Project/plus options Construction, Drama, Film and A large portion of your course will be that could include: Playwriting/Writing Auditions: Final selection will be based ‘External review’ section on pages that allow you to expand your skills to Media, and Theatre and Film delivered through skills-based for Radio/Creativity with the on an audition. 8—9. include areas such as community courses. theatre, playwriting, directing, devising workshops, you will have the Community/Drama and Education/ opportunity to undertake student-led Directing, Designing and Performing Exchange opportunities: N/A and creative entrepreneurship. The rich Many of our staff are active and varied curriculum means that the research projects, perform in Shakespeare/Directing, Designing and theatre makers and bring that course will provide a distinctive and professional standard productions, Performing Contemporary Plays/ Placements: Depends upon options complementary course of actor training prepare a personal portfolio to support Devised Physical Theatre/Performance selected experience to our rehearsal in the conservatoire tradition and your career after graduation and Art Practices rooms. provide you with the knowledge and showcase your work to industry Teaching staff, class sizes and The modules listed here are correct at time of skills required for the diverse range of professionals. You will be assessed timetables: For more information, You can select from a range of through a range of performances, viva, print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to ways in which you might wish to those offered in 2022. Please check the please see ‘How we teach and how optional modules that workshops participation, reflective develop your career as an actor. website for any updates. you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. complement your training as an portfolios and reports. actor and will improve your future Our teaching staffl use practical and Course fees: See pages 164—165 employability. practice-led methods to explore the ways in which the skills you have Professional registration/accreditation: already developed through further N/A education can be modified and made appropriate to the constraints of Careers: Successful completion of the different contexts, media and course gives graduates the skills performance spaces. Core modules will necessary to work as an actor or to support you to deepen your knowledge apply these skills to a wide range of of the fundamental skills of acting, voice, movement, textual analysis and other roles in the performing arts such interpretation, examining the ways in as playwriting, community outreach, which they are deployed and and theatre in education. Many of our synthesised to create character and students go on to establish their own performance, on stage and screen and creative business. media work

This course enables you to convert an appropriate existing qualification into a degree and is equivalent to years three and four of an honours degree.

56 57 On this highly respected

qmu.ac.uk/Costume-Design-and-Construction vocational course you will  BA/BA (Hons) learn how to research, design and construct costumes for performers of many kinds. You will work on live projects with Costume Design renowned creative companies, and the course has a strong and Construction graduate employment record. Drama and Performing Arts

Think of a dramatic You can extend your knowledge of “Since graduating I have worked on performance that you loved these chosen skills in your industry Modules Entry requirements Other information placement and in your independent ‘Treasure Island’, a two part TV and you can probably picture Year One Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBB UCAS code: W451 the characters costumes. research and construction project. You will fulfil key production roles in live Minimum: BBCC feature film starring the comedian and Costume design and Introduction to Theatre Production/The Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time projects, at QMU and with partner actor Eddie Izzard and Rupert construction are vital when it companies and organisers, as a Origins of Theatre/Introduction to A Level: BCC Wardrobe Practice (including Start date: September 2022 comes to creating successful designer, supervisor or specialist Penry-Jones. One of the cutters theatre, film and TV maker. In Year Four if you decide to Professional Practice)/Introduction to Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H3 H3 productions. It is a creative and undertake the honours year as many of Costume Design Delivery: On campus that I worked with on that production our students do, the emphasis is on International Baccalaureate: 28 points challenging career: you need to Year Two Awarding body: QMU. Please see the know the theory and history of refining your chosen areas of future put my name forward for the George practice, using the independent International: IELTS of 6.0 with no ‘External review’ section on pages costume design, how to make Advanced Costume Design/Advanced Clooney and Sandra Bullock film professional practice options to gain element lower than 5.5. 8—9. costumes physically and how Costume Techniques/Professional practical experience and make Practice as a Wardrobe Assistant ‘Gravity’. This fantastic to manage the wardrobe of a contacts in the wider world. Required subjects: Two subjects from Exchange opportunities: N/A live production. Eng/Hist/Drama required and Art/ recommendation Year Three Design or Textiles preferred at Higher/ Placements: In Year Three, you will At the heart of the course are the A Level/ or equivalent. English required complete a three-week wardrobe enabled me to work as a stitcher Professional Practice in a Lead Role/ professional practice modules (one in Structure and Maths preferred at Nat 5/ GCSE/ placement with a professional creative the first year and two in the second and Practice Informed Research Project/ or equivalent. organisation, such as a theatre, film alongside a team of cutters and third years of the degree). In these, you You can opt to study for an honours Creating in Context: Design Project/ company or specialist costume designers to develop the space will work as part of a team delivering degree over four years or an ordinary Theatre of Ideas – Introduction to Mature/Access: Applications welcomed designer. If you have difficulty in finding the costumes for a series of live European Theatre/ Elective 1 from mature students with relevant a suitable position, we will assist you. degree over three years. You will suits worn projects working in collaboration with complete a range of modules each year qualifications/experience. In Year Four, half of your credits will be Year Four partner organisations and companies. as outlined. earned through one six-week OR two by Clooney and Bullock.” Direct Entry: Year Two, Relevant HND three-week independent practice Supporting this practical learning in Honours study/Creative Enterprise in with CB in the graded units see: www. placements. This is a fantastic way to the Performing Arts/Creating your Years One and Two are a series of qmu.ac.uk/college-qualifications extend your experience and build Ruth George Career, Work-based Learning/Elective 2 modules that will develop your research Teaching, learning and assessment contacts in the costume area of your BA (Hons) Costume Design and and design skills, your analytic and The modules listed here are correct at time of Other requirements: You must submit choice. Construction writing skills, and your construction You will be taught in lectures, seminars print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to an e-portfolio containing a minimum of and wardrobe management expertise. and practical workshops. You will work those offered in 2022. Please check the 14 images including any completed Teaching staff, class sizes and website for any updates. in a team delivering the costumes for garments that you may have timetables: For more information, Why QMU? In Year Three you can begin to live productions with well-known constructed photographed on a model. please see ‘How we teach and how specialise by working in greater depth companies. For full details see the Candidates will be asked to complete a you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. This course teaches costume on two or more of the varieties of course entry on our website. short design exercise and invited to design, period costume pathways that costume practice offers, take part in a 20 minute phone Course fees: See pages 164—165 perhaps masks, puppets and soft interview where the candidate will be construction and practical props, or the design of costume for able to discuss their design and Professional registration/ accreditation: wardrobe supervision and film, or historical cut and construction. portfolio. N/A management in parallel.

Careers: You will graduate with the We have very close links with competence, understanding and employers in the theatre industry. experience that employers in this creative field are looking for. Our Discover your vocation through graduates have gone on to perform working on live, audience-facing COURSE QUALITY fantastically well in theatre, opera, projects. SATISFACTION ballet, film and television. You could use the skills you will learn in museum See your work celebrated in our work, corporate entertainment, students’ annual runway show. advertising, arts and crafts, and online 100% multi-media. NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 58 59 Are you passionate about theatre?

See yourself as a future director, Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Drama BA/BA (Hons) performer, playwright, deviser, stage Edinburgh is known as the Festival City, and with the world’s biggest arts manager, scenographer, workshop festival happening on your doorstep every year, this is one of the best leader or producer? Our exciting and possible places to start your theatre career. innovative mix of theoretical and Your career path will be unique, and this course is flexible to help you direct Drama practical modules will enable you to your learning in the areas you’re interested in. Module options in Years Three and Four allow you to focus your interests to suit your own career try out all of these roles and then aspirations. focus on your career aspirations. Drama and Performing Arts

Visit the theatre in Scotland companies and are supported by QMU Years Three and Four options Required subjects: English and/or 22—23 for more information. and you will probably see the as they set up their businesses, Teaching, learning and assessment Drama at Higher/ A Level preferred. including the chance to be located in Photography and Visual Culture/ English required and Maths preferred at Placements: You will have the work of a QMU graduate. You will be taught in lectures, seminars Whether you see them our graduate start-up space called the Screenwriting/Student Initiated Nat 5/GCSE. opportunity to complete a placement in BIZ. The world’s largest arts festival and through practical workshops. Module/Scotland on Screen/Film and performing, hear the words of There is a strong focus on group work the Community Theatre and happens right here in Edinburgh and the Family/Photography Practice/ Mature/Access: Related Access Experiential learning options in Years their script or view their artistry many students successfully perform, and on independent study outside Storytelling in Convergent Media/The as director, scenographer or timetabled sessions. You will be course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ Three and Four. Students will source a produce or get involved in the Festival American West in Popular Culture/ college-qualifications. We welcome placement host with support from QMU producer, they are building a assessed in a variety of ways, including Problematic: Criticism, Culture and Fringe. applications from mature students with staff. Placements are usually in the essays, reports, portfolios, vivas, Social Justice/Experiential Learning successful and exciting career relevant qualifications and/or creative sector but we will consider By the time you graduate you will know post-show discussions and exams. You Placement/The Only Way is Ethics: Art, in drama thanks to their time at will complete a Year Four honours experience. other options suggested by students if QMU. how and why a theatre team brings a Participation and Ethics/Performance performance to life, and the many ways project. There will be individual and Art Practices/Site and Sound/ we feel they offer an opportunity for group assessments. Please check the Direct Entry: you to develop your practical skills. What is theatre? Why did it develop? in which drama can be understood and Playwriting/Writing for Radio/Creative made relevant to contemporary course entry on our website for full Learning and the Community/ What role does it play in society? To details. have a successful career in the theatre, audiences. Producing for the Stage/Directing for Year Two Teaching staff, class sizes and you need to understand its historical the Stage/Directing, Designing and • HNC/HND in related subject with timetables: For more information, context, techniques and craft. On this In Years One and Two you will work in Performing Shakespeare/ Directing, B/CB in the graded unit please see ‘How we teach and how collaborative experimental workshops, Designing and Performing you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. course you will learn the collaborative Modules finding creative solutions to the staging Contemporary Plays/Decoding Dress: • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced skills and process involved in creating Higher in relevant subjects plus and staging plays, and will experiment and performance of classic and The Cultural Significance of Costume/ Professional registration/ accreditation: Year One BB at Higher with key contemporary performance contemporary genres and texts. Staging the 20th Century: How N/A Bringing a range of interests and skills practices. Play and Performance/Introduction to Scenography Built the Modern • A Level: BBB in relevant subjects (performing, directing, playwriting, the Study of Theatre and Performance/ Imagination/Advanced Theatre Course fees: See pages 164—65 dramaturgy and scenography), students Production/Devised Physical Theatre/ You will explore all aspects of theatre Introduction to Theatre Production/The For details o;f related HNC and HND share their different perspectives and Devising Practices/ Theatre Laboratory Careers: You may know that you want front and back stage, including the Origins of Theatre/Analysing Texts and courses, see www.qmu.ac.uk/ insights. Lectures cover theatre history Practices/Drama in Education to work in the theatre, yet do not know audience. Who are they? (they may not Performance/ Performance Practices college-qualifications be like you!) What do they want from a and critical and performance theory, (Community Workshop Placement)/Arts exactly which route you can take to performance? How can you reach your which will inform the decisions you Year Two Funding in its Policy Context make this happen. This course will audience? We challenge conventional make in your creative work. literally take you behind the scenes and The modules listed here are correct at time of assumptions of what the performing Theatre of Ideas and the Stage (From open your eyes to a broad range of In Years Three and Four you will study print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to Other information arts can be and who they are for, from Romanticism to Theatre of Absurd)/ those offered in 2022. Please check the theatre-based careers, including core modules plus optional modules both a practitioner and audience Making Theatre/Contemporary Scottish website for any updates. UCAS Code: W490 playwriting, directing, scenography, perspective. allowing you to focus your interests in Theatre in Context/Practitioner specific areas. You will also have the producing, screen industries, acting, Researchers/British Theatre Since Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time community theatre, contemporary You will engage with a vibrant diversity opportunity to study abroad* or go on 1945/ Creative Writing for New Media performance practice, and drama of practical and theoretical approaches placements. In Year Four you will Entry Requirements Start date: September 2022 teaching, as well as communications that balance practice, history, research, complete a personal final project, Year Three critical thinking and employability skills. which can be a practical or a written Scottish Higher: Standard: AABB professions and postgraduate study. At Whether you intend to be a theatre dissertation. Devising Practices/Current Debates in Minimum: BBB Delivery: On campus QMU we have a lively and dynamic maker, scholar or teacher, the course Performance Theory OR Arts Funding A Level: BBB careers service who will help guide you will guide you in the development of in its Policy Context/Performance Awarding body: QMU. Please see through your choices. your creative and critical prowess while Project/Designing a Research Project Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H3 H3 H3 ‘External Review’ section on pages Structure providing very distinct routes into the Plus two optional modules H3 8—9. professional world. You can study for an honours degree Year Four *Exchange opportunities: In Year Three, over four years or an ordinary degree International Baccalaureate: 30 points Creative entrepreneurship and you have the opportunity (subject to employability is something we are over three years. You will complete a Creative Practice and Enterprise/ range of modules each year as International: IELTS of 6.0 with no availability) to study for one semester passionate about and it is embedded Honours Project/Plus two optional element lower than 5.5 at a university overseas. See pages throughout our course. Many of our outlined. modules students have formed their own theatre

60 61 Interview with Katie Reid — BA (Hons) Drama and Performance*

Katie is a fourth year Drama and Tell us a little about yourself. Your work this group alongside Julie Cameron Performance student at QMU, from The Mental Health Foundation. Edinburgh, and is set to graduate I’m 21 and currently in my last year of Your work is focused on the early For me, the group is essential as, in the next summer. Earlier this year, she Drama and Performance at QMU. I intervention for the diagnosis and space of six months, we needed to gave a speech at the Scottish don’t have many hobbies, but I do have treatment of anorexia. Could you tell us develop a plan for encouraging people Parliament about tackling eating a burning passion for body positivity how you became involved in this? to achieve a healthier body image. This disorders and promoting body and dismantling ‘diet culture’ as a plan will hopefully help a lot of people positivity. Since then, Katie has been result of previously having an eating I was diagnosed with anorexia when I as body image is something we all deal

Drama and Performing Arts invited to co-chair the Scottish disorder. I also love reading plays and was 14 and the road to getting where I with. It’s all about encouraging people Government’s ‘Working Bodies’ recently worked as Assistant Director am today was something I never to appreciate their body for all its lumps group, which aims to promote a on Kate Nelson’s (QMU Lecturer in envisaged. As much as I can look back and bumps and remembering that it’s healthier body image to children and Acting and Directing) production of at it with sadness, I wanted to turn yours. It’s the only one we’ve got so we young people in Scotland. Love’s Labour’s Lost. what was a life-altering situation into shouldn’t feel so pressured to shrink it something positive, which could because some influencer on social Why did you choose to study at QMU potentially help others. I think if media said it looked better that way. and what attracted you to the course? someone had been able to talk to me We are all uniquely individual, and it’s about the things I know now when I time we appreciated that we are I chose to study at QMU because, after was dealing with my eating disorder, I amazing just as we are. coming along to the open day, I felt it would have had a little more hope. was an inclusive and friendly campus Do you feel that your drama and that put me at ease with moving away You gave a speech at the Scottish performance training has helped you from home. The drama course, in Parliament in May. How did this come with public speaking? particular, was interesting to me as it about? involves a combination of written and Before coming to university, I wasn’t practical work. When I started In July 2017, I began working as a very confident in sharing my ideas and university, I was someone who didn’t Young Ambassador for BEAT, the UK’s speaking out, I’m sure my lecturers will like to ‘put myself out there’ much, but leading eating disorder charity. I joined back me up on that. But with their the course gave me a lot of this with the hope of actively changing positive encouragement and learning to reassurance in testing my abilities things for the better regarding the share my thoughts, I feel I’ve grown a without so much pressure relying treatment, stigma and assumptions of much better sense of self and now feel purely on the practical ability to act. those struggling and supporting confident enough to speak in places individuals with eating disorders. In such as Parliament, hospitals and Why did you choose to study in May, I was invited to campaign for the conferences. I would have laughed if Edinburgh? change of standard waiting times in you’d told me this in first year! Scotland. Currently, if you are referred I moved to a West Lothian school after with an eating disorder, you have to After graduation being ill for a few years and fell in love wait up to three months before you can with Edinburgh during that time. The get treatment. Anorexia has the highest What are your plans for after change of environment was something mortality rate of any mental illness; in graduation? Tell us about your I longed for in particular, and coming only three months, there is so much ambitions and where you see yourself from a city myself I took comfort in it scope for your eating disorder to grab in the future. having a similar vibe. hold of you. One of the proven facts about eating disorders is that early I hope to finish my degree for one! But intervention is vital for a sustained and after that, I’m thinking of pursuing a quicker recovery. career in Dramatherapy. It’s something close to my heart, and I know working Since then, you have been invited to to help others overcome the same co-chair the Scottish Government’s difficulties I faced would give me a lot ‘Working Bodies’ group, could you tell of pleasure. But let’s get this year out us a bit more about that? of the way first! “I chose to study at QMU because, after coming The Working Bodies group is a *Katie enrolled on the former BA (Hons) fantastic set of clinicians, researchers Drama and Performance course that along to the Open Day, I felt it was an inclusive and charity workers who have been changed its name to BA (Hons) Drama. selected to work on creating a healthier and friendly campus which put me at body image for children and young people in Scotland. I was absolutely Aboutease you with moving away from home.” over the moon to be asked to co-chair COURSE QUALITY SATISFACTION 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 62 63 Focusing on practice, this two-year

course offers students the knowledge  qmu.ac.uk/Performance BA/ BA (Hons) and skills to make innovative, relevant and engaging new work for contemporary audiences and practice (education, community communities. Entry Requirements International: IELTS of 6.0 with no outreach, independent performance Performance element lower than 5.5 and work). For those interested in Standard entry requirements pursuing a career as a professional • HND in Acting and Performance OR actor, we would instead recommend Musical Theatre OR Performing Arts Other information our Acting and Performance course. with CB in the graded unit • Successful completion of year sone UCAS Code: W470 Employability is built into the course and two of a undergraduate Drama and Performing Arts Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time through modules like Creative Practice performing arts degree in a relevant and Enterprise, as well as through the subject area Start date: September 2022 practical skills taught to students and the transferable skills of research, The programme aims to divergent ways of thinking. In addition Delivery: On campus Structure Non-standard entry communication and independent develop students knowledge of to their own independent learning, Our admissions team will manage Awarding body: QMU. Please see learning that are delivered across the the field of performance when students also initiate and lead applications for standard entry, to You can opt to study for an ordinary individual tutorials/workshops with ‘External review’ section on pages curriculum. Students are encouraged to equipping them with the ensure consistency of decisionmaking degree, completing one year of this members of staff related to coursework 8—9. liaise with QMU’s careers service to the programme leader or admissions practical skills that are essential course or an honours degree, or dissertation supervision. Most identify further opportunities for for developing a career in this completing two. You will complete a modules on the BA (Hons) Performance officer will assess applications for Exchange opportunities: In Year Three, professional and personal sector. It is a two-year range of modules each year as outlined are core, with one optional module in non-standard entry. An interview with you have the opportunity (subject to development. programme is intended for below. Year Three and one in Year Four. the applicant may be arranged in order availability) to study for one semester Direct Entry to Year Three. to gather evidence. Entry would at a university overseas. See pages During the course, students are normally be based on the following 22—23 for more information. introduced to the on-campus Business The BA (Hons) Performance award criteria: Teaching, learning and assessment Gateway and BIZ. The BIZ provides offers a new articulation route for Modules Placements: Students are offered the business incubation space for any students who have already achieved an • Evidence of aptitude in written opportunity for industry-based learning student or graduate led start-up The course adopts a blended learning Year Three HND in Acting and Performance. approach with teaching and learning English, which is essential for through placement opportunities in companies. For more information on Building on the performance modules ensuring applicants will be able to modules marked * and also if they elect activities mostly falling into two broad Contemporary Scottish Theatre in this, see pages 16—19. that we successfully deliver on our cope with the written assessments to take Experiential Learning categories, each best suited for Context/Devising Practices/Drama in Drama programme, it provides a required. particular types of activities: seminars Education*/Performance Project/ Placement. Industry-based learning In the last three years, 11 companies tailored route to a degree level and workshops, which comprise the • A personal statement demonstrating can occur in a diversity of areas set up by 31 of our performing arts qualification for those students who Designing a Research Project/Optional majority of the hours of staff-student a realistic anticipation of the (community and youth theatre graduates have been successfully find they learn best through the module contact on the course. In seminars challenges presented by the degree organisations, schools, arts supported by the BIZ, our graduate physical exploration of the subject. students will participate in active and a sense of their potential to meet organisations, charities and community Focusing on the breadth of forms that Year Four start-up hub on campus. debate on theories, concepts and ideas these. performance can take, the programme groups). Our links with external in this academic field, collaborate on • Experience of/enthusiasm for drama will be of interest to those who wish to Creative Practice & Enterprise/Honours stakeholders continue to grow and problem solving and engage in critical Study/Creative Learning and the whether as an audience member or develop. Examples of placement explore the potential of performance analysis of performance. Workshops beyond the conventional modes and Community*/Optional module as a theatre-maker that is gauged opportunities range from the Edinburgh are the primary form of student-staff within what was accessible to the International Festival to working with spaces with which it is most contact for this course, with students Why QMU? Optional modules change annually, but candidate. In some parts of Scotland independent theatre companies or the traditionally associated. engaging in practical activities may include: Playwriting, Site-Specific there is little youth theatre, little offer Brunton or Lyceum theatres as well as facilitated by the lecturer (or supervised Our teaching draws upon a vast Teaching on the programme is Performance, Site & Sound, of drama within secondary education by members of the staff team) either a range of local primary and secondary experience and legacy of comprised of a combination of Experiential Learning Placement, and limited access to professional individually or in groups, as best befits schools. The mix of student successfully preparing students for workshops, lectures, seminars, Devised Physical Theatre, Performance theatre performances. explorative learning within this placements is very diverse and we aim entry into the field of professional tutorials, case studies, demonstrations, Art Practices, Theatre Laboratory • Qualifications demonstrating the collaborative art form. The teaching to accommodate all student performance, there are QMU simulation exercises, embedded skills Practices, Directing, Designing and team recognises that student-to- ability to engage in sustained, aspirations. training, field trips and projects. The Performing Shakespeare, Directing, graduates in most of the major student interaction can be a highly systematic study even if this is not methods used vary from module to Designing and Performing theatre and performance effective learning activity and use within the standard entry Teaching staff, class sizes and module. Students’ performance is Contemporary Plays, Student Initiated institutions in Scotland, and, of various forms of group work, problem- requirements (see below for the timetables: For more information, assessed through a variety of methods Module course, many have gone on to solving groups, case based learning recognition of prior learning). please see ‘How we teach and how including performances, presentations, and project production teams, to The modules listed here are correct at time of you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. successful careers further afield. essays, reports, reflective portfolios, enable this. print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to Applications for entry with general group work exercises, and a practical those offered in 2022. Please check the Just a six-minute train ride from the advanced standing (ie credit for Professional registration/ accreditation: dissertation or project. website for any updates. centre of Edinburgh, we are well Peer teaching is enabled through the previous study) are referred to the N/A placed for easy access to the use of seminar presentations, postings University’s Recognition of Prior year-round performance of individual and group research Learning Panel. Credit may be given for Course fees: See pages 164—165 processes on the Hub and/or prior experiential learning. Normally, opportunities that the Festival City PebblePad, and collaborative devising credit given will be specific rather than Careers: This course is particularly provides, and our students often or workshop generation processes. general (ie on a subject for subject suited to those who wish to pursue a use the festivals as springboards Students are encouraged to be basis). career through applied performance for their own careers. enquiring, critical and innovative. Emphasis is placed on analytical,

64 65 If you love theatre and film “One of my favourite parts of the course took place in third year. By this time we all qmu.ac.uk/Theatre-and-Film you can study them both in  BA/BA (Hons) depth on the only course of knew each other very well, so jumped at the opportunity to create a small theatre its kind in Scotland. You company and show. Working together with all of our different opinions and will enjoy practical work- experience created a piece of theatre that we were all proud of.” Theatre and Film based learning opportunities. Jamie Cutt BA (Hons) Theatre and Film Drama and Performing Arts

And… ACTION! Film and Year Four Year Three Careers: Our graduates have used the theatre are thriving industries, Structure Entry requirements HND in a related subject with CB in the specialist skills they learned on the Modernity on Screen/Creative graded unit may be considered. course as a springboard to careers in creatively and commercially. You can opt to study for an honours Enterprise in the Performing Arts/ Scottish Higher: Standard: AABB theatre, film, teaching, postgraduate This course gives you a unique degree over four years or an ordinary Dissertation/plus two options Minimum: BBBB For details of related HNC and HND study and professions demanding chance to study these two degree over three years. You will A Level: BBB courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ communication and creativity. This exciting disciplines in depth complete a range of modules each year Years Three and Four options and in tandem, developing your as outlined. college-qualifications course will give you the confidence and Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H3 H3 H3 skills you need to direct the story of Photography and Visual Culture/ passion for live and recorded H3 your own life. dramatic performance and Screenwriting/The Video Essay/Student Initiated Module/Experiential Learning preparing yourself for a Teaching, learning and assessment International Baccalaureate: 30 points Other information rewarding career. Placement/Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror/Scotland on Screen/Popular You learn through lectures, seminars, International: IELTS of 6.0 with no UCAS Code: WW46 Why QMU? You will learn about the histories of Music/Film and the Family/Radio and element lower than 5.5. individual work and group work, where Audio Media/Photography Practice/ theatre and cinema, and examine the Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time Learn academic theory and you will be producing a range of Storytelling in Convergent Media/ key critical cultural and political performance events and production Required subjects: We prefer you to practical production skills for two debates. You will explore the spaces of Television Drama/The American West in material. Assessment methods include Popular Culture/Film Festivals/Food in have a good pass in English, Drama or Start date: September 2022 disciplines on this innovative the stage and studio, stage and screen portfolios, presentations, essays, short Media Studies at Scottish Higher/A course, the only one of its type in performances and the genres, Film and Media/Problematic; Criticism, films, screenwriting and playwriting, Culture and Social Justice/The Only Level. English required and Maths Delivery: On campus Scotland. narratives and authorship of plays and amongst others. For full details see the preferred at Nat 5/GCSE. screenplays. We study the economics Way is Ethics: Art, Participation and course entry on our website. Awarding body: QMU. Please see the See your film work screened on and management of theatre and Ethics/Performance Art Practice (by Mature/Access: Related Access ‘External review’ section on pages cinema within the creative industries. application only)/Site and Sound/ the big screen at the end of year Writing for Radio/Creative Learning and course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ 8—9. show at the Edinburgh Filmhouse college-qualifications Year One modules will give you a broad Modules the Community/Producing for the (subject to selection). understanding of how theatre and film Stage/ Directing for the Stage/ Exchange opportunities: In Year Three work as creative industries. You start Year One Directing, Designing and Performing We welcome applications from mature you have the opportunity (subject to We have superb on-campus your study of theatre and film narrative Shakespeare/ Directing, Designing and students with other relevant availability) to study for one semester resources: performance spaces, Performing Contemporary Plays/ and performance, and gain experience Media Production: Skills and qualifications and/or experience. at a university overseas. For more rehearsal studios, a film editing Decoding Dress: The Cultural of creative production. Techniques/Introduction to the Study of information, see pages 22—23. suite and TV studio. Theatre and Performance/Introduction Significance of Costume/Staging the Direct Entry: 20th Century: How Scenography Built Year Two examines questions of genre to Theatre Production/Studying Placements: Frequent work-based The creative and cultural and creativity alongside the theory and Cinema/The Origins of Theatre/Media the Modern Imagination/Advanced Year Two learning opportunities will help you to powerhouse of Edinburgh is right practice of stage performance. In Years Production: Video Project Theatre Production • HNC/HND in a related subject build your theoretical studies into on your doorstep, inspire yourself Three and Four you will look at key with B/CB in the graded unit The modules listed here are correct at time of invaluable real-world skills. at its film festivals, theatrical periods, movements and practitioners Year Two print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced productions, and the International in theatre and film drama, alongside those offered in 2022. Please check the Higher in relevant subjects plus Teaching staff, class sizes and Media Production: Storytelling/ website for any updates modules in areas such as adaptation, BB at Higher timetables: For more information, Festival and Fringe. There are Contemporary Scottish Theatre in comedy, playwriting and Hollywood • A Level: BBB in relevant subjects please see ‘How we teach and how plenty of internships available for cinema. You can create your own Context/Film Genre/British Theatre you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. you to learn real-world skills. production projects and choose since 1945/Client Project/Creative additional, optional subjects such as Writing for New Media photography or community theatre. Course fees: See pages 164—165 Year Three You may also be Alongside the course’s academic core Professional registration/accreditation: you will have plenty of opportunity to Current Debates in Performance interested in our N/A gain production experience from Year Theory/Arts Funding in its Policy BA/BA (Hons) Film One, and can specialise in practice Context/Designing a Research Project/ COURSE QUALITY areas in later years. Global Film Cultures/plus two options and Media, see SATISFACTION pages 70 — 71. 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 66 67 Film, Media The global media industries have never been so and influential in our politics, our society and our individual Communications lives. Our film, media and communications courses

You will study the way in which the standard. During your degree, you will offer you the opportunity wireless microphones, Adobe Premiere Our staff are well connected with the media industries work, and gain the learn from and meet professionals in Pro, DaVinci Resolve Studio complete industry and employers are supportive practical expertise you will need to the fields of media and with colour-calibrated editing suites. and complimentary about what our make a difference as you build your communications. In addition, you will to engage with debates in We have one of only two infinity green students learn. All of our courses career. be working with carefully selected screen facilities in Edinburgh. For include specialist guest lectures from a Career prospects external clients on media and these fields and to photographic work, students have range of practitioners and visiting There are three specialised BA (Hons) communication projects. Elective access to a range of cameras including professors. Furthermore, we actively As a graduate of QMU you will have the routes within this subject: Public modules ensure that students on this Canon DSLRs with specialist lens and encourage and support all students to skills, knowledge and experience that Relations and Marketing course can shape the programme develop lighting equipment, and post- gain some work experience when on forward-thinking employers need. Our Communications, Media and towards their future career aspirations. production software including Adobe their course. Public Relations students graduates go on to work in a variety of Communications, and Film and Media. Lightroom. benefit from a compulsory placement careers, not only in the UK, but also Our Film and Media course gives you highly valued and industry-based learning across the world. However, should you the opportunity to study film as an Across all three courses the first two opportunities are an integral part of all choose to remain in Scotland, you are artistic, cultural and commercial industry-relevant skills. years are a combination of specialist three degrees. Our students tell us that well placed to benefit from job Why QMU? enterprise. You will engage in deep and shared modules, giving students a work experience is an invaluable part of opportunities, with Edinburgh playing critical thinking about culture, media thorough grounding in the subject area. their course work, enabling them to put home to the second highest number of Our Public Relations and Marketing and society as a whole. You will You will learn about the historical forces what they have learnt into practice and public and private sector headquarters Communications course gives you an develop real-world technical skills in Our approach to learning and teaching that have shaped the media industries a number of students have secured in the UK after London and a growing unrivalled opportunity to study two video and media production, as well as and you will engage with debates on permanent positions through the number of film, media and closely aligned disciplines. You will gain teamwork, academic research, project Our degrees are modular and you will contemporary topics in the field. For contacts that they have made. communications companies are practical experience of developing management and a variety of forms of benefit from a variety of teaching example, this is a very apposite time to choosing to base their businesses in strategic PR and marketing communication. Modules in the first methods including lectures, seminars be studying the role of publicity, Many of our students snap up the Scotland’s capital city. communication solutions for live two years will introduce you to key and workshops. Problem-based propaganda and social campaigning in opportunity to study for a semester clients, creating authentic digital developments in film and media, learning and group work are vital in our contemporary democracy. abroad during their course and we content for a range of social media including the emergence of cinema and developing the key skills you will need have university partners in Australia, platforms. You will build strong links the establishment of national in the workplace. Assessment methods The media industries are rapidly Canada and the USA (subject to with real-world clients throughout your broadcasting systems, alongside key vary and include written reports, client changing and we are continually availability). four years here, and we work closely concepts such as narrative, popular projects, content creation, essays, updating our modules to keep up with with industry employers to ensure that culture and citizenship. In later years presentations, examinations and peer the latest changes in the the course teaches the skills they are you will be able to choose from a range assessment. communications landscape. No matter looking for in graduates. of electives that allow you to tailor the the course you choose, you will learn Research course to your own particular interests. The division has digital editing suites about the artistic and creative digital On our Media and Communications and post-production equipment work that shapes the societies we live The majority of our staff are actively course you will study theories of media All of our film, media and includes Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro in. You will gain a wide range of engaged in cutting-edge and and communications and debate the communications courses give you the 4.6k G2, Sony a7S, Canon 5D Mark 3, transferable skills, such as creating inspirational research that they role of media in economics, politics chance to learn practical skills and Zenmuse x5R and GoPro cameras with digital content, making presentations, continually reflect in the course and society. You will put this theoretical approaches that will enhance your accessories such as shoulder rigs, undertaking research, managing social material. Recent and ongoing understanding into action through a business sense and employability. cages with follow focus systems, media and developing client briefs, scholarship include: critical dialogue, media production strand that focuses Many of our students have gone on to sliders, tracks and external monitors, a further preparing you for a variety of engagement and action research; on video, audio and online content create their own successful companies variety of lighting kits (including LED workplaces and careers. informational justice; critical PR; creation. Assignments will develop the and we have an in-house BIZ to help and tungsten) and digital sound melodrama in film; TV comedy; the writing, management and team- you get your enterprise up and running. recording devices (Tascam and Zoom) music industry; global journalism; film working skills needed to produce along with shotgun, lavalier and festivals; and Scotland on Screen. imaginative and creative work of a high

68 69 You will learn practical

production skills and have your  qmu.ac.uk/Film-and-Media BA/BA (Hons) critical thinking faculties sharpened to a fine point. This eclectic and inspiring course Film and will give you the expertise to succeed in a variety of careers. Media Film, Media and Communications Year Three The film and media that we Other information create and consume reflects Structure Entry requirements our individual identities, our Creative Entrepreneurship/Global Film You may also be You can opt to study for an honours Cultures/Media, Politics and Culture/ Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBB UCAS code: P303 interested in our local and national cultures and degree over four years or an ordinary Developing a Research Project/plus Minimum: BBCC the political players on the degree over three years. You will two options Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time BA/BA (Hons) global stage. Our film and complete a range of modules each year A Level: BCC media degree will help you as outlined. Year Four Start date: September 2022 Theatre and Film, examine these topics using Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H3 H3 see pages 66 — 67. rigorous academic discipline Dissertation/Modernity on Screen/ Film Delivery: On campus and Family/plus three options International Baccalaureate: 28 points and practical production Teaching, learning and assessment Awarding body: Please see ‘External techniques. Graduates are well Years Three and Four options may International: IELTS of 6.0 with no review’ section on pages 8—9. equipped for careers in the You will be taught in lectures, seminars include: Communicating in element lower than 5.5 creative industries and beyond. and in practical workshops. We have Organisational Settings/ Exchange opportunities: In Year Three Why QMU? superb on-campus resources, and Communication, Arts and Activism/ Required subjects: English, Media you have the opportunity (subject to On this course you will study film as an media production equipment, including Studies, or Film Studies preferred at availability) to study for one semester Learn from staff with international Experiential Learning Placement/Film film-making experience. artistic and commercial enterprise, as a recently-upgraded film editing suite Festivals/Global Journalism/ Higher/A level or equivalent. English at a university overseas. For more well as various media institutions and and dedicated production and Staff member Walid Salhab’s Photography and Visual Culture/ required and Maths preferred at Nat 5/ information, see pages 22—23. Kelpies film, for example, the debates surrounding them. You will photography area equipped with a Photography Practice/Playwriting/ GCSE. premièred in New York as part of engage in deep critical thinking about green screen and on-site lighting Playwriting 2/Political Communication/ Placements: N/A Scotland Week. culture, media and society as a whole. equipment. You will be assessed in a Popular Music/Radio and Audio Media/ Mature/Access: Related Access wide array of ways across the course, Reputation Issues and Crisis course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ Teaching staff, class sizes and Our BA/BA (Hons) Film and Media You will also develop real-world including presentations, reflective Management/Science Fiction, Fantasy college-qualifications. We welcome timetables: For more information, offers a unique opportunity to technical skills in video and media diaries, blogs, videos, essays and and Horror/ Scotland on Screen/ applications from mature students with please see ‘How we teach and how study the forces that shape the production, teamwork, academic some written exams. For full details see relevant qualifications and/or you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. media, and gives you the practical Screenwriting/International PR/Student skills to make a difference. research, project management and a the course entry on our website. Initiated Module/Television Drama/The experience. variety of forms of communication. American West in Popular Culture/The Course fees: See pages 164—165 Modules in the first two years will See your work on the big screen, Video Essay/ Video Production/The Direct Entry: a selection of students’ films are introduce you to key developments in Only Way is Ethics Professional registration/accreditation: screened annually at an end-of- film and media, and key concepts in Modules Year Two N/A year show at the Edinburgh film and media studies, including the The modules listed here are correct at time of • HNC in a related subject with B in Filmhouse. emergence of cinema and the Year One print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to the graded unit Careers: You will graduate as a critical those offered in 2022. Please check the establishment of national broadcasting • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced maker and consumer of media. You will You will learn in our specialist Studying Cinema/Media Analysis/ website for any updates. systems, and concepts such as Higher in relevant subjects plus be technically competent in the field, on-campus facilities including Studying Media and Communications/ digital editing suites, see page narrative, popular culture and BB at Higher with rounded practical skills and ready Media and Communications Industries/ 68—69 for more information. citizenship. • A Level: BBB in relevant subjects to succeed in the career of your choice. Media Production: Skills and Our graduates are making names for Techniques/Media Production: Video Students have access to the BIZ In Years Three and Four you choose Year Three themselves in film and television Project and many of our students have specialist film and media options in, for • HND in a related subject with CB production, media research, PhD and gone on to create their own example, television drama, in the graded units academic research, public relations, companies, see pages 16—19. screenwriting and photography. You Year Two marketing, advertising, arts and cultural can spend a semester in Year Three For details of related HNC and HND management. Employers including the studying abroad with one of our Film Genre Popular Media Cultures/ Edinburgh International Film Festival, Disruption in the Media and Cultural courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ exchange partners (subject to college-qualifications. Edinburgh Filmhouse, Channel 4 and availability). In Year Four you complete Industries/Media Production: the Leith Agency have snapped up a written or production dissertation. Storytelling/Media Production: Online their skills and attitude. Journalism/Media Client Project Production dissertations can be in film, COURSE QUALITY photography or screenwriting. You can choose a group production dissertation SATISFACTION that adds another dimension if you want to specialise in a particular production role such as director, writer 100% or editor. NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 70 71 Interview with Calum Duff: BA (Hons) Film and Media graduate

Calum Duff, 22, from Edinburgh, What is your top tip for future students graduated with a BA (Hons) Film and considering this course? Media from QMU in 2017. Calum’s company, Front Edge Media, is now If you’re interested in this course, I’d based within the BIZ at QMU, where say go for it! It has really helped me the company benefits from access to shape a better understanding of film small business start-up support and making and build my knowledge of real professional filming equipment, as world applications. well as guidance from the campus- based Business Gateway. What have you been doing since graduating from QMU? Film, Media and Communications Why did you choose to study film and media at QMU? I set up my own business, Front Edge Media, before I graduated, so once I I’d always been interested in video had graduated I was able to dedicate production and did a lot of film and more time to networking and gaining photography in school. more clients.

I’d heard that the QMU course was I also secured work experience through great and very practical-based, which Santander Universities SME Internship was what I preferred rather than a Programme at QMU, which allowed me heavily theory-based degree. to create promotional videos for the Mercat Bar and Grill in East Lothian. I also attended a QMU Open Day and it The owner of the business put me in was very useful in terms of getting to contact with a lot of people and many know the University a bit more. I think of my clients have been through him. the thing that made up my mind was the general look and feel of the My Santander Internship with the Bar campus, it was clearly very new, and and Grill has been an invaluable the facilities seemed very up to date. experience and it was a very beneficial starting point for Front Edge Media. What was the highlight of the course for you? My client base is slowly building up and I’m very excited for what the future Towards the end of my degree, I chose holds for my business. to focus on the practical side of filming, where my strengths certainly lie.

I still use the skills and experience gained from those classes to this day.

I made all of my friends through my course as well, which was great as we were able to bond over our shared enjoyment for film and media.

The most interesting part of the course “If you’re interested in for me was a module in which a group of us worked with an external client this course, I’d say go for it! It has really and produced some media content for their business. This is what sparked my interest in creating a business of my helped me shape a better understanding own that provides promotional material for other brands and definitely gave me an insight in how to kick things off. of film making and build my knowledge of real world applictions.” COURSE QUALITY SATISFACTION 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 72 73 Our Media and Communications “Why does studying the media matter? Because we are wired into it: in

 qmu.ac.uk/media-communications course will engage you in creative, modern societies we depend on the media for information, education BA/BA (Hons) collaborative and professional ways of thinking, researching and working. The and entertainment, we communicate through it and it connects us to degree emphasises studying the media distant countries and cultures. It is impossible to understand politics, or how and understanding the importance of organisations and businesses attempt to persuade us, or how to be Media and creative communication skills in this exciting and dynamic sector. influential ourselves, without understanding how the media works, in its Communications historical and very newest forms.” Jill Marshall, Lecturer in Media and Communications Film, Media and Communications Creative Entrepreneurship is a vital part Year Two We live in a world where Other information everyone joins in media of Years Three and Four. You will learn Entry requirements Why QMU? skills and approaches that will enhance Disruption in Media and Cultural debates and many people are Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBB UCAS code: PP24 Learn real-world skills from content creators, but how do your business-sense and employability. Industries/Popular Media Cultures/ Many of our students have gone on to Media Client Project/Media Minimum: BBCC experienced media and you differentiate yourself, and create their own successful companies Campaigning/Media Production: Digital Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time communications professionals your professional skills, in this and we have an in-house BIZ to help Storytelling/Media Production: Online A Level: BCC and combine that with rigorous Start date: September 2022 field? On this new course you you get your enterprise up and running. Journalism academic skills which will be of Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H3 H3 will study media theory when value to you throughout your gaining the creative, practical Year Three Delivery: On campus International Baccalaureate: 28 points career. and collaborative skills you will Awarding body: QMU. Please see the Structure Media, Politics & Society/Independent We keep our student numbers need to establish a career in International: IELTS of 6.0 with no ‘External review’ section on pages 8—9. Research Project/Persuasive lower than many other tomorrow’s global, digitally You can opt to study for an honours Communication/Creative element lower than 5.5 universities; therefor our staff can networked world. degree over four years or an ordinary Entrepreneurship: Media and Film/plus Exchange opportunities: In Year Three degree over three years. You will two options Required subjects: English or Media you have the opportunity (subject to better get to know your interests, What media and communications complete a range of modules each year Studies preferred at Higher/A level or availability) to study for one semester at strengths and areas for knowledge and skills will you need for as outlined. Year Four equivalent. English required and Maths a university overseas. For more development. You will find you the many roles that require them in the preferred at Nat 5/GCSE. information, see pages 22—23. build good collaborative fast-moving world of work? You will Modernity on Screen/Industry-based relationships with students study theories of media and Learning/Dissertation and two options Mature/Access: Related Access Placements: Work-based learning working in a range of other communications and debate the role of Teaching, learning and assessment course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ opportunities will help you build your subjects. media in economics, politics and Year Three and Four options may college-qualifications. We welcome theoretical studies into invaluable society. You will look at the role of You will learn through lectures, include: applications from mature students with real-world skills. Build the confidence to stand on publicity, propaganda and social seminars, individual work and group other relevant qualifications and/or your own business feet with our campaigning, and you will learn about work. The assessment strategy uses a Teaching staff, class sizes and Communicating in Organisational experience. Creative Entrepreneurship the artistic and creative digital work range of methods to support your Settings/Communication, Arts and timetables: For more information, modules. that shapes the societies we live in. academic and professional Activism/Experiential Learning Direct Entry: please see ‘How we teach and how development. These include: essays, Placement/Film Festivals/Global you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. You will also put this theoretical reports, presentations, online Journalism/Photography and Visual Year Two understanding into action, although this discussions/postings, exams, reflective Culture/Photography Practice/ • HNC/HND in a related subject Course fees: See pages 164—165 is not a dedicated production course, it diaries, e-portfolios and content Playwriting/Playwriting 2/Political does have a production strand that with B/CB in the graded unit production for different media such as Communication/Popular Music/Radio • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced Professional registration/accreditation: focuses on video, audio and online video, photography, website, blogs, and Audio Media/Reputation Issues N/A content creation. You will develop your Higher in relevant subjects plus posts and tweets. For full details see and Crisis Management/Science BB at Higher writing, management and team skills Careers: This course will equip you with the course entry on our website. Fiction, Fantasy and Horror/Scotland • A Level: BBB in relevant subjects needed to produce imaginative and on Screen/Screenwriting/International skills in media content creation, creative work of a high standard. research, writing and communication, as PR/Student Initiated Module/Television Year Three During your degree you will be meeting Drama/The American West in Popular well as team work and management and learning from media professionals Modules Culture/The Video Essay/ Video • HND in a related subject with CB in skills. These are important for a wide in the fields of media and Production/The Only Way is Ethics the graded units range of roles such as content creation, communication. In addition, you will be Year One client liaison and creative working with carefully selected external The modules listed here are correct at time of For details of related HNC and HND entrepreneurship. You could work in the clients on media and communication Media and Communications Industries/ print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ media industries, arts management, the Studying Media and Communications/ those offered in 2022. Please check the college-qualifications projects. website for any updates. cultural and creative sectors or Media Analysis/Digital Content communications industries. In addition, The course is designed to build your Creation/Media Production: Skills and companies in a wider range of fields are creative, critical and research skills year Techniques/Media Production: Video constantly looking for fresh content; on year, as well as your ability to put Project they want to tell their own stories and ideas into writing and practice. communicate compellingly through the media with their potential customers.

74 75 This course will give

Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Public-Relations-and-Marketing-Communications BA/BA (Hons) you the theoretical understanding, Senior practitioners in PR and marketing support the course through guest professional experience lectures, membership of our Industrial Advisory Panel and attendance at our and industry contacts networking events. Public Relations and you need to step into an exciting and We have a new initiative that allows students to get a mentor early in the rewarding career in course. Your mentor will be an experienced industry practitioner who advises public relations (PR) you with your studies and career direction. Marketing Communications and marketing. An unrivalled opportunity to study two closely aligned disciplines: PR and marketing. Film, Media and Communications In Year One key concepts in PR and Awarding body: QMU. Please see the Public relations (PR) and Entry requirements marketing communications are marketing are covered and essential Structure Modules ‘External review’ section on pages 8—9. practical skills are developed. Students Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBB fascinating, fast-moving fields You can opt to study for an honours Year One look at the history of the industries and Minimum: BBCC Exchange opportunities: In Year Three that offer many rewarding degree over four years or an ordinary current practice, and debate the role the A Level: BCC you have the opportunity (subject to career opportunities. Thanks to industries play in economics, politics degree over three years. You will Media Industries 1/Studying Media and availability) to study for one semester at modern media and the complete a range of modules each year Communications/Digital Content and society. You will consider Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H3 H3 a university overseas. For more voracious consumer appetite contemporary communications practice as outlined. Creation/Media Production: Skills and information, see pages 22—23. for digital content, they are and the importance of producing Techniques/Media Production: Video Project/ Introduction to Marketing International Baccalaureate: 28 points Placements: You will complete a constantly evolving and on this dynamic and creative content including four-week or 150 hours placement either video, photography, blogs, infographics course you will enjoy frontline Teaching, learning and assessment Year Two International: IELTS of 6.0 with no in the summer vacation between Years professional experience and and social media posts that are relevant element lower than 5.5 Three and Four or in Year Four to target publics. tuition informed by cutting- We use a mix of methods including Popular Media Cultures/Media Required subjects: English or Media alongside other modules. Students are lectures, seminars and practical responsible for sourcing a placement edge scholarship. Year Two expands your knowledge and Campaigning/Media Production:Online Studies preferred at Higher/ A Level. workshops. As well as these face-to-face host organisation and this can be in the understanding of professional practices Journalism/Event Management/ English required and Maths preferred at This course gives you an unrivalled interactions, some modules are delivered UK or abroad. To help with the process, in PR and marketing. Students consider Analytics, Insights and Impact/Digital Nat 5/ GCSE. opportunity to study two closely aligned online. Each module is supported by a we hold a speed interview event on how organisations campaign on issues Business and e-Commerce disciplines: PR and marketing. virtual learning resource site. As well as Mature/Access: Related Access course, campus to match hosts offering and communicate with external Organisations often take an integrated lecture notes, seminar activities, key Year Three see: www.qmu.ac.uk/college- placements with students. The stakeholders through the media and approach to communication, bringing readings, assignment specifications and qualifications placement is unpaid although many internally with employees. together these two disciplines to help discussion forums, additional materials Advertising and Marketing hosts cover travel and subsistence. drive success. PR manages such as videos, radio edits and links to Communications/Campaigning and We welcome applications from mature In Year Three, the principles of planning relationships with a range of stakeholder other resources can be uploaded to the Practice/Experiential Marketing and students with other relevant Teaching staff, class sizes and are expanded on from the perspective groups including employees, the site. The assessment strategy uses a Consumer Behaviour/Designing a qualifications and/or experience. timetables: For more information, of those who manage marketing and PR government and the media and range of methods to support your Research Project/Persuasive please see ‘How we teach and how activities. Concepts of strategy and Direct Entry: marketing focuses on relationships with academic and professional Communication/plus two options you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. persuasion are introduced and research the customer. development. These include: essays, Year Two skills are strengthened. Students gain Course fees: See pages 164—165 reports, presentations, online Year Four • HNC/HND in a related subject with an insight into advertising and You will gain practical experience of discussions/postings, exams, reflective B/CB in the graded unit Professional registration/accreditation: experiential marketing where the developing strategic PR and marketing diaries, e-portfolios and content Placement/Strategic Marketing • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced You can register as a student member of audience is immersed in an event such communication solutions for live clients, production for different media such as Management/Dissertation/plus two Higher in relevant subjects plus BB the Chartered Institute of Public as a music festival and how this creating authentic digital content for a video, photography, website, blogs, options at Higher Relations (CIPR) and a student member emotional response is used by range of social media platforms. You will posts and tweets. • A Level: BBB in relevant subjects of the Public Relations and organisations to build brand awareness, find out how organisations use video, Year Three and Four options may Communications Association (PRCA). trust and loyalty. In Year Three students photography, blogs and podcasts to include: Year Three can start to tailor their learning around Careers: There is high demand in the drive their marketing, and how you can • HND in a related subject with CB in their interests through the selection of industry for graduates with the skills that help them do it better. You will International PR/Global Journalism/ the graded units an option module. we teach on this course. You will build undertake original research to inform Photography and Visual Culture/Film For details of related HNC and HND strong links with real-world clients decision making, and measure the Festivals/Communication Arts and In Year Four, students are encouraged courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ across the four years. You will be ready effectiveness of campaigns using a Activism/Political Communication/ to work more independently, develop college-qualifications to make your mark in a wide range of range of analytics. Students gain a Radio and Audio Media/Photography their critical skills and follow their own career roles, including PR officer, digital wealth of experience through a work Practice/Pop Music/Screenwriting/Film area of interest. This happens through strategist, marketing executive, publicity placement as well as having the and the Family working on your dissertation research and promotions executive and events opportunity to study abroad at one of Other information project, working in industry on a The modules listed here are correct at time of manager. There are PR and marketing our partner institutions (subject to one-month placement and choosing print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to specialists in almost every field you can availability). You will be taught by UCAS Code: P211 options from the two disciplines. those offered in 2022. Please check the imagine: from national government to internationally renowned academics website for any updates. Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time charities, finance firms to whisky who are still actively engaged with the companies, and tourist organisations to industry. Industry practitioners will see Start date: September 2022 universities. you in action and many of our graduates have gone on to work with contacts that Delivery: On campus they made on the course. 76 77 Interview with Alistair Lowe: BA (Hons) Public Relations, Marketing and Events*

About you How easy have you found it to make What was the most interesting part of friends/connections at QMU and settle the course, in terms of something you Why did you choose the course and into university life? learned or a particular activity? what was it that attracted you to QMU? So easy! QMU’s small size means it is The most interesting part of the course I chose this course because it was the so easy to make new friends and so far has been the ‘Media only one of its kind in Scotland. I knew relationships. Alongside course friends Campaigning’ module in semester one that I definitely wanted to study and flatmates, I have made of second year. The module required us Marketing but had the desire to further connections with various lecturers and to produce a PR campaign for a live explore the PR and events side of staff within the university whilst helping client. I worked for ‘STEKA Skills’, a business, this was the only course on out/contributing to activities such as charity based in Malawi that the offer in the country that provided me open days and the production of new University has a working relationship Film, Media and Communications with this opportunity. Choosing this promotional material. with. It was so useful to put academic course was simply a no-brainer. I was theory and learning into practice and attracted to QMU as I admired the Life in Edinburgh produce real life results. Compared modern setting and size of its campus, with just sitting in a classroom and and after my first visit, I immediately What do you like most about taking lecture notes, this module gave knew QMU was the place for me. Edinburgh? us a glimpse of what a real PR/ communications role actually involves. Why did you choose to study in I love Edinburgh because of everything Edinburgh/Scotland? it has to offer. You’re never far away What has been the most challenging Would you recommend QMU to *Alistair studied for the BSc (Hons) from anything you need and there’s area? anyone thinking of coming to Public Relations, Marketing and I chose to study in Scotland primarily always something new to discover. As university? If so, why? Events. The course has recently because of how low cost it is well as enjoying Edinburgh as a city, Coming straight from school, the most undergone some modification and is compared with studying elsewhere in living here opens up connections to challenging part of the work so far has Yes! Definitely. I’ve had a very positive now BSc (Hons) Public Relations and the UK. Furthermore, I chose Edinburgh many other areas of Scotland, and been stepping up to the academic level experience here at QMU. Everything, as it has always been a familiar and beyond, that are exciting to visit. I’ve Marketing Communications. necessary for university success. It was from its modern campus, helpful welcoming environment to myself had various days out in areas such as quite a transition, but thanks to the size lecturers, contemporary having lived over the bridge in Fife for Berwick, Glasgow and Livingston as a of QMU, I was able to receive one-to- accommodation and even the swans the past 13 years. I’ve always result of Edinburgh’s great transport one support from my lecturers who that walk past you on the way to class considered Edinburgh to be an exciting links. were able to guide me in the right make studying at QMU a joy. and innovative city bursting with direction. Alongside this, the Effective What was the best experience you had opportunities for everyone. I really Learning Service in the library offers After graduation enjoy everything the city has to offer in Edinburgh? Are there any hidden drop-in support sessions for academic from nightlife to sightseeing. Alongside ‘gems’ you’d like to share? skills and essay writing, such a help in What do you hope to do following this, I feel safe and at home in first year! graduation? Edinburgh. I’ve not really got one best experience from living in Edinburgh, the whole Any advice for students who might be I hope to pursue a career in PR/ Living away from home package is amazing! I love the nightlife interested in this course? marketing either in Scotland or the rest here, and there are so many interesting of the UK. I’m very keen to travel the Where did you live whilst studying? If and unique places to visit. I’ve had Go for it! It was the best decision I have world and see what it has to offer! you were living in halls what was the such a great time so far in Edinburgh ever made and I’m sure it will be yours Hopefully, by building up work best part? from various press events at my part too! The course covers a wide span of experience and graduating with my time job at the Playhouse to days out business activities and gives you a real degree from QMU, I can develop an I spent my first two years of studying at at activity venues such as Fountain insight into the career you will be exciting career in an industry I’m really QMU living within the student Park. entering after graduation. The lecturers passionate about. residences located on campus. After are so supportive and keep learning fun spending my first year on campus, it QMU and the course and interesting. felt sensible to come back for a second year. The residences are located right Did you attend an Open Day? If so, was What is the best part of being a student next to the academic building so there any aspect of the University that at QMU? there’s no commuting costs and early made up your mind for you? wake-ups! Alongside this, travelling to Overall, I would say the best part of the city centre only takes six minutes I did. For me, this day was so important being a student at QMU is being a part by train. It takes me less time to get as to deciding where I wanted to study of the inclusive community here on into Princes Street than all of my for the next four years. As soon as I campus. Our small setting makes it so “As soon as I arrived on campus, friends who live in the city centre. arrived on campus, I knew this was the easy to meet new people and always place for me. I admired the small and bump into a familiar face. QMU feels modern campus setting and really like a home away home. I knew this was the place for me.” couldn’t imagine myself studying elsewhere. I am so happy I decided to study at QMU.

78 79 practice. Interprofessional learning is a key theme in all of our pre-registration degrees. Our approach to interprofessional learning experience will develop your team-working and communication skills, understanding yourself as a key member of a multidisciplinary team, and introduce working in small groups with volunteer patients in the safe environment of the University. In practice you will develop interprofessional links, learning to understand the role and boundaries of each profession and become aware of different or shared healthcare leadership working practices. You will discuss the changing practices of Our School of Health Sciences at QMU healthcare in the UK and the wider workings of the NHS, private practice, Health offers the largest range of third sector and industry. We support student learning through a blended learning approach that professional healthcare courses of any includes classroom sessions, tutorials, Professions work groups and practical classes. Use university in Scotland. of a clinical or personal development portfolio is undertaken on some courses, and this complements the wide range of assessments used across the disciplines. On some courses you can choose optional Career prospects Our courses are designed to develop across Scotland and through our modules, depending on the demands work-ready healthcare graduates, Why QMU? collaborations with private, of professional learning. Our courses will give you the professionals who think critically and occupational, social service and other professional skills and expertise you are ready to challenge current practice. As a graduate in a health profession care providers. Therefore, you can need for a rewarding career. We will In other words, we prepare you for a you will be in demand with employers, expect relevant placements and help you to develop skills that will be career, not just your first job. work-ready, and eager to progress in fascinating lectures on current topics Research useful not just in healthcare your chosen profession. from respected visiting specialists. professions, but in many other roles in For entry in 2022, we will offer the Understanding research helps you to life. Many of these skills are embedded following courses: Studying at QMU, you will learn from You will hone your practical skills in our develop and enhance critical thinking in our teaching and practice, and we engaging, encouraging staff who well-equipped school that has and clinical questioning, essential skills will actively encourage your learning in • Master of Dietetics (MDiet) practise at the leading edge of today’s specialised teaching facilities and in the challenging healthcare practice verbal and non-verbal communication, issues. Your learning experiences will state-of-the-art laboratories. These of today. understanding team work, presentation • Master of Nursing (MNurse) include real-world clinical placements, include a clinical simulation suite, skills and delegation. Our graduates involvement with pioneering research, working clinics, research laboratories Our School research has four main gain posts in hospital, community and • Master of Occupational Therapy and first-class facilities on campus. and a suite for the measurement of fields: rehabilitation sciences; speech, education settings throughout the (MOccTh) human movement using three- language and communication; health world, and not all graduates enter the We have built links between our dimensional motion analysis, human care policy and practice; and person- NHS for their first role. Some choose to undergraduate teaching and our • BSc Paramedic Science performance and neuromuscular centred practice. All students have the enter different career paths, for master’s pre-registration* courses. analysis. opportunity to engage with the wide example, in research, healthcare Learning alongside experienced • Master of Podiatry (MPod) range of research being undertaken in management, private practice and students will enrich your academic several ways, for example, as novice industry, sports-related roles or in experience. Furthermore, • Master of Physiotherapy (MPhys) researchers during project work, being health promotion and fitness. You could interprofessional cross-school teaching Our approach to learning and teaching trial participants or attending keynote choose to progress straight to higher and learning are important components • Master of Radiography: lectures and seminars. Clinical research degree learning on an MSc or PhD of our courses, allowing you to engage Diagnostic (MDRad) Clinical practice and experience can only be undertaken in collaboration course. with other professional learners who (placements) are vital in the health with frontline healthcare providers and • Master of Radiography: will be your peers in the working professions, and we will help you we have numerous collaborators in *Pre-registration courses allow Therapeutic (MTRad) environment. Working together as NHS Boards in Scotland, private and prepare for this exciting challenge from graduates with a relevant first degree students helps to break down barriers Year One. Practice experiences take social services, and internationally in to move into a healthcare profession • Master of Speech and Language between professions before entering place across Scotland and some Europe and further afield. Therapy (MSLT) the workplace. courses allow elective placements that through a two year postgraduate may be overseas. All module work, You will be taught by lecturers and PhD course. All our courses are approved by the theoretical or practical, relates to students who have published research relevant regulatory and professional professional practice or directly to the in internationally renowned academic bodies and the Nursing and Midwifery work engaged in clinical placement. and professional journals. We want our Council (NMC). This professional You will learn in state-of-the-art research findings to mesh with your recognition is augmented by the simulation laboratories and clinic learning to keep this as up to date as excellent links we have with the NHS treatment rooms to emulate best possible.

80 81 This four-year integrated master’s course will give Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Dietetics Master of you the theoretical You will be taught by experienced Registered Dietitians and other staff who are professionally understanding and and research active. Their applied research and professional links inform the teaching on the practical skills that you will course keeping it up to date with current thinking in the field. Dietetics (MDiet) need to build a rewarding Learn real-world skills on placements within a health and social care setting and on other career as a dietitian. practice-based opportunities with voluntary and third sector organisations. Practice placements are an Throughout the course there is a strong emphasis on developing communication, team Health Professions integral part of the course working and leadership skills supported by academic and student services to help individuals and allow students to put fulfill their potential. their theoretical knowledge into practice.

consist of two weeks on campus and self-study. You will be assessed by a • successful completion of Year One of two weeks in practice), one 12-week Dietetics is a fascinating field Entry requirements that focuses on the two weeks within a Scottish health and variety of assessment methods (eg an appropriate BSc (Hons) Nutrition placement in Year Three and one social care setting. written and practical exams, case degree. 12-week placement in Year Four. QMU management and prevention of Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBC studies, written assignments and manages the sourcing and allocation of nutrition-related disorders at an Minimum: BCCC Year Three develops your knowledge presentations) at the end of each Other requirements: placements for each student on this individual, group and and communication skills further, module or semester. course in partnership with Health A Level: AB population level. Dietitians are begins to have a more applied focus • A satisfactory criminal records check Boards in Scotland and other the only regulated health and is more clinically orientated. This from the Protection of Vulnerable universities in Scotland that deliver Irish Leaving Certificate: H3 H3 H3 H3 professionals that assess, helps to prepare you for your second Groups (PVG) Scheme, an dietetic education. Placements are Modules occupational health check and randomly allocated to students as part diagnose and treat dietary and practice placement block (12 weeks International Baccalaureate: 28 points nutrition-related problems at an duration) within various health and personal indemnity insurance of a Scottish wide allocation process. Year One (normally through membership of the To enhance future employablity individual and wider public social care sectors across Scotland. International: IELTS of 7.0 with no professional body) are required. You placements take place across a variety health level. element lower than 6.5 Year Four provides you with an Physiology/Contextualising You and may be requested to be immunised of health and social care settings in any Your Profession/Food, Lifestyle and against Hepatitis B. of the Health Board areas across Dietitians have the opportunity to work opportunity to reflect on and Required subjects: Society/Cell Biology and Genetics/ Scotland. It is therefore likely that in a diverse range of settings including consolidate what you have learnt on Biochemistry/Introduction to Food • The cost of the PVG check and the students will have to relocate for at health and social care settings, private your placement at the end of Year • Normally Chemistry and Biology and Science/Evidence-Based Practice professional indemnity insurance are least some of their practice based practice, the food industry, research Three. It allows you to undertake an preferably one other science (may the responsibility of the student. learning unless they have individual related roles and government advisory individual research-based project to include Maths or Home Economics) Year Two Currently the cost of the health check requirements (eg specific health needs roles. There are many strands of develop your knowledge and skills in at Higher or equivalent AND Maths is funded by the Scottish Government or school age children) that mean they knowledge that you will master on your this area. You will undertake your third and English at Nat 5 Introduction to Dietetic Practice for Scottish students only, other must remain in a specific location. The way to a career as a dietitian. This and final placement block (12 weeks (Placement A)/Nutrient Metabolism/ students are responsible for this cost. additional costs associated with course has been carefully structured to duration) within various health and • Normally Chemistry or Biology at A Behaviour Change/Pharmacology/ This is, however subject to change placement travel and accommodation integrate theoretical study in different social care sectors across Scotland. Level AND at GCSE we ask for Maths Nutrition/Health Issues in the should the Scottish Government are the responsibility of the student. fields with the practical experience to and English plus one other science Community/Epidemiology in Public change their funding policy. Students who receive SAAS funding develop the skills required to work as a (either Chemistry or Biology) Health may be able to claim for some of these graduate dietitian. Structure Mature/Access: Related Access expenses to be reimbursed. Year Three course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ In Year One you will study a range of This is a four year integrated Other information modules that provide you with the college-qualifications. We welcome Teaching staff, class sizes and undergraduate master’s course. Essentials of Dietetic Management/ timetables: For more information, fundamental knowledge, principles and Nutrition Through the Life Course/ applications from mature students with UCAS code: B410 Students commence the course with a relevant qualifications in Biology and please see ‘How we teach and how concepts that underpin the practice of view to graduating with a Master of Dietetic Management of Long Term dietetics. You will be introduced to the Chemistry and/or relevant experience. you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. Dietetics (MDiet) in four years. Years Conditions/Dissertation/Disease Duration: 4 years full-time role of the dietitian, the role of food in Aetiology and Management/Developing Three and Four are taught alongside Direct Entry: A small number of places Course fees: See pages 164—165 health, human physiology, genetics and postgraduate students studying on the Dietetic Practice (Placement B) Start date: September 2022 biochemistry. You will develop skills in are available for direct entry to Year postgraduate Pre-Registration course. Professional registration/ accreditation: communication, information technology Two of the course. These applications There is an option for students to Year Four Delivery: On campus Successful completion of the course and academic study skills. Students will be considered on an individual transfer to a BSc (Hons) route at the end (academic and practice placement are invited to begin to engage in our basis. To ensure the applicants have of year two and they will still be eligible Consolidating Dietetic Practice Awarding body: QMU. Please see the components) confers eligibility to apply peer-mentoring scheme, which (Placement C)/Dietetic Research developed the knowledge and skills ‘External review’ section on pages to apply for registration with the HCPC acquired in Year One of the MDiet will for registration with the HCPC. provides additional support during the as a dietitan. Project/Innovative and Emerging 8—9. transition to university life. typically include either: Practice Careers: Most graduates elect to work Exchange opportunities: N/A In Year Two you will continue to The modules listed here are correct at time of • A levels: ABBB that must include within various healthcare settings, print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to Biology and Chemistry (one must be including the NHS. Others work in develop your academic study skills and Teaching, learning and assessment Placements: Placements provide the those offered in 2022. Please check the at A grade), Health and Food health education, health promotion, further develop your knowledge and website for any updates. opportunity to integrate practice with Technology and one discursive general practice, private healthcare and understanding of the concepts relating You will be taught in face-to-face or theory. You will complete approximately subject eg History, Modern Studies, government advisory posts. Some to health and nutrition, when beginning online lectures, seminars, practical 1000 hours of practice-based learning Sociology or English or graduates apply for the opportunity to to integrate biological and social workshops and laboratories. Outside delivered as one four-week placement sciences. You will undertake your first study for a higher degree (MSc, MPhil timetabled sessions you will be in Year Two (two weeks on campus and or PhD). practice placement block. This will expected to continue learning through

82 83 Interview with Johnathan Barry:

Dietetics

About you About the course Life as a student at QMU

I am from Kinsale, County Cork and I What have you most enjoyed about Have you joined any schemes/initiatives am currently in my final year of the your course? to enhance your learning and Dietetics course. I have always had a development Health Professions keen interest in health and nutrition and Dietetics has been a challenging but the preventative role that diet can play extremely rewarding course to study. I I am an active member of the British in the management of certain health have gained so much knowledge and Dietetic Association (BDA) and I have conditions. experience across different health been involved in numerous projects conditions such as cancer, tailored towards public health nutrition. Why QMU? rehabilitation, chronic kidney disease I represented the BDA at the Food and gastrointestinal conditions. I have Matters Live 2019 conference in Why did you choose to study at QMU just completed my dissertation that London, promoting their ‘One Blue Dot’ and what attracted you to the course? primarily focused on availability, cost campaign that focused on and nutritional implications of a low environmentally sustainable diets. I am On choosing a university to study FODMAP diet in irritable bowel currently working on writing an article dietetics, I attended the QMU open day syndrome. I have really enjoyed my for ‘Dietetics Today’ surrounding this and I was very impressed with how placement experiences within acute project and my aim is to try increase modern the university was. I liked the and community settings that allowed awareness surrounding volunteering small size of the University and how me to apply the theoretical knowledge opportunities for dietetic students. helpful the staff were in providing that I learned in class to clinical Moreover, I am a member of some BDA information surrounding the course. I practice. QMU primarily focuses on specialist groups, which primarily focus really liked how everything I needed interprofessional education and on specific areas of dietetic practice was within close proximity to campus teamworking in healthcare through including mental health and sports and I felt this was very important for my Interprofessional Education modules so nutrition, two areas of dietetics that I first time living away from home. QMU I had a good idea of what it would be am particularly passionate about. has an exceptional reputation for like working with other members of the healthcare courses and the dietetics multidisciplinary team such as Are you a member of a QMU club or course is very well respected. Also, an physiotherapists, nurses and speech society added bonus to living on campus was and language therapists. the six-minute train to Edinburgh, I am a member of the QMU Dietetics which is such a vibrant and beautiful Dietetics can be quite a demanding Society and have thoroughly enjoyed city that felt like a second home for me. and intense course, so time- attending talks across all areas of management and prioritisation of dietetics. workload is important. I found that QMU were very supportive with any What has been the most valuable concerns that I had throughout the lesson that you’ve learned at university? duration of the course and my personal academic tutor provided me I think the most valuable lesson that I continuous advice and guidance on all have learned at university is the aspects of university life if I felt like I importance of surrounding yourself was struggling. with like-minded and positive people who support you. It is important to have a network of people who are understanding when you are living away from home and it is always nice to know that you are not alone in your experiences.

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integrated master’s degree Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Nursing Master of in nursing, with the option Your theoretical learning will be complemented with practice to exit with a BSc (Hons) in our Clinical Simulation Suite and in a variety of health and Nursing. The course will social care settings. prepare you with the Small classes mean you will benefit from individual support from Nursing knowledge, skills and our highly experienced course team. leadership qualities for a We are ranked top in Scotland and joint top in the UK for

Health Professions successful and rewarding student satisfaction in Nursing in the National Student Survey (MNurse) career in nursing. 2020.

You will begin to learn to meet the support development of a dissertation/ Applicants with Access qualifications must Placements: Practice Learning Experiences Nursing demands compassion and Modules skill and this course will fully equip needs of people across the lifespan and final project. Final year skills work will demonstrate a strong academic profile. We provide the opportunity to integrate theory welcome applications from mature students and practice by working directly with people you to give exceptional person- what the key health challenges may be involve more advanced assessment and The course content is aligned to the centred care. With this degree nationally and internationally. We focus practice learning experiences. This will with other relevant experience and in whichever setting they are. Allocation of course you will be able to register NMC Standards for Future Nurse qualifications. placements can be in a variety of settings on supporting and facilitating your own prepare you for registration and include Education and to the Person-centred with the NMC and practise as a self-care, incorporating contemplative preparation for prescribing in the future such as the community area, a hospital or nurse. Framework for Nursing (McCormack Direct Entry: care home. These may be in the Lothians, learning approaches. Clinical skills and supervising students when and McCance, 2019). We therefore learning will prepare you for practice registered. Year Two: HNC in Care Practice with A in the Borders and Fife. There are placement As a nurse, you will be at the forefront of focus our learning units on parts of the graded unit (see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ opportunities in each year of the course. learning experiences in a variety of framework that are: Metaparadigms, healthcare, meeting a broad range of settings. college-qualifications for details)/ Level 1 Edinburgh Napier University manages the people who truly need your expertise Pre-requisites, Care Environment and Diploma in Higher Education, Nursing sourcing and allocation of placements for Person-centred Processes. These and empathy. Nurses are involved in Year Two: Knowing self, others and Structure Route+ each student on this course. themes are developed over the four promoting health and preventing illness society. You will build on learning from years and include group learning in addition to caring for sick and dying Year One and learn how to plan and Students will commence their studies Year Three: Level 3 Diploma in Higher The teams are always looking at widening within a learning set and this is where people. This can take place in a variety evaluate care in a person-centred way. with a view to graduating with a Master Education, Nursing Route+ opportunities for students and we are you will build a personal portfolio of of environments, which include health The year focuses on facilitating and of Nursing (MNurse) in four years. There increasing the variety of available placements your learning in practice and in centres, homes, residential/care homes supporting health and self-care in is an option for students to choose a For details of related HNC and HND courses, all the time. Introduction of third-sector university. A full list of modules is and hospitals. A career in nursing can persons/family/carers. You will learn BSc (Hons) route at the end of Year Two see: www.qmu.ac.uk/college-qualifications placements and opportunities to work with available on the course entry on our take you into leadership and how to assess and care for people as and complete the final two years at that specialist research nurses are being website. management, education and research, they cope and adapt to ill health, level. For both routes, students will be +This would be dependent on previous developed. at home and overseas. Wherever you combining science subjects with eligible to apply for registration with the placement hours. choose to specialise in the future, as a nursing care. Clinical skills learning will NMC as a registered adult nurse. Teaching staff, class sizes and timetables: Other requirements: You will be offered nurse you will be an advocate for the prepare you for practice learning For more information, please see ‘How we Entry requirements immunisation against Hepatitis B. A people in your care. You will make a experiences in a variety of settings. Over the four years you will complete a teach and how you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. difference. total of 4,600 hours of theory and satisfactory criminal records check is Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBB practice experience that is split equally. required. The NMC requires you to complete Course fees: See pages 164—165 Year Three: Knowing how to develop Minimum: BBBC This course will prepare you to self and others. Year Three concentrates The hours will be the same for the BSc a declaration of good health and good confidently deliver safe, effective and (Hons) and master’s route. The main character each year. Applicants are required Professional registration/accreditation: on the care of people with complex A Level: BCC person-centred nursing care. It will offer needs and increasing dependency in a difference is the credit level of the to take part in an interview. Successful completion leads to eligibility to you the chance to be part of a academic work that will be higher in the register (Registered Nurse (Adult)) with the range of settings. Making person- Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H3 H3 community of learners, working centred judgements and decisions will master’s to allow for a higher level final NMC. collaboratively with lecturers, clinical qualification. be a focus. Leadership skills will be International Baccalaureate: 30 points Other information staff, service users and other students further developed and the promotion of Careers: This course will give you the on a transformational journey towards confidence and expertise you need to person-centred cultures in care International: IELTS of 7.0 with no element registration. You will actively engage in UCAS code: B740 succeed in the field of nursing that you environments. You will explore lower than 7.0 creative and critical ways of working Teaching, learning and assessment choose. Your professional prospects will be healthcare governance and research Duration: 4 years full-time and learning including approaches such excellent. Our graduates are now working in evidence relating to effective, Required subjects: All combinations of as critical inquiry, reflection, Our aim in developing our new nursing acute medical and surgical areas, oncology, compassionate nursing practice. Further qualifications must include a science and Start date: September 2022 contemplation, simulation and practice clinical skills learning will prepare you for course was to use a range of creative haematology, critical care, research, care of ways of teaching and learning to discursive subject at Higher or A Level. older people and rehabilitation, in the UK and learning experiences. practice learning experiences in a Delivery: On campus promote self-development and the skills Science may include Chemistry and Physics overseas. Many have moved outside the variety of settings and you will develop as well as Biology or Human Biology. Year One: Knowing self and others. This for interacting with others. You will be traditional idea of a uniformed nurse in a knowledge of the integration of health Discursive subjects include English, Awarding body: Please see ‘External review’ year focuses on the foundations of facilitated to learn in lectures, seminars, hospital to forge careers in the community, and social care through engagement Philosophy, History, Modern Studies or section on pages 8—9. professional nursing care. You will with the voluntary sector. practical laboratories and have practice the forces and postgraduate studies. learning experiences. Outside of Religious and Moral Education. You should explore a range of influences on health, Exchange opportunities: There are no timetabled sessions, you will be have Maths and English at Nat 5 (B) if not professional issues, skills for nursing Year Four: Focuses on integrating specific exchange placements available expected to continue learning through studied at Higher level. practice, and the bio-sciences to inform previous learning to enable you to within the course however, we promote person-centred care. You will focus on self-study. We aim to include creative graduate as a registered nurse with Mature/Access:COURSE RelatedQUALITY Access course, see available opportunities to students and these the healthy person and healthy ways of assessment that may involve advanced skills. There will be www.qmu.ac.uk/college-qualificationsSATISFACTION may include exchanges for a limited number student choice. Assessments include communities. Students will start to completion of a portfolio and of students and volunteering opportunities practical and written exams, develop research and academic enquiry development of research themes related that can be done in the summer break. skills in Year One and these are to current healthcare priorities to assignments and group work. embedded throughout the programme. 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 86 87 This four-year integrated Why QMU? undergraduate master’s course will  qmu.ac.uk/Occupational-Therapy Master of Our graduates are recognised by employers as being independent learners who can give you the expertise, people skills address problems creatively. and conceptual understanding that You will be taught by highly experienced lecturers who are well respected in their fields. Occupational Therapy you will need to work as an They engage in innovative research, contribute to knowledge development and occupational therapist. Students translation and have strong personal links with practice settings. commence the course with a view to We have small class sizes, therefore our staff will really get to know you. We genuinely graduating with a master’s degree in care about your journey and will recognise your strengths and where you most need (MOccTh) support. Health Professions four years.

This course is responsive to the relationship with health and wellbeing. You students to choose a BSc (Hons) route at MOccTher route. They may choose to equivalent. English and Maths at Nat 5/ partnership agreements. For more demands of the health and social will develop skills in communication, the end of Year Two and they will still be remain on the BSc (Hons) route. GCSE. information, see pages 22—23. care sector and there are practice- information technology and academic eligible to apply for registration with the based learning opportunities across study skills. HCPC as an occupational therapist. Year Three Mature/Access: Related Access course Placements: Placements provide the the course to integrate theory, or HNC may be considered for Year opportunity to integrate practice with knowledge and practice. In Year Two you will focus on occupational BSc (Hons) route: Elective Module One, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/college- theory. You will work with individuals, therapy processes (assessment, goal Occupational Therapy: Contexts, qualifications groups and communities in a variety of Living, not existing, that is a primary setting, intervention, evaluation) with Teaching, learning and assessment Collaborations and Communities/ settings across Scotland. QMU manages objective for the profession. As an individuals and communities. You will Practice-based Learning 3/Evaluating We welcome applications from mature the sourcing and allocation of full-time occupational therapist, you will work with explore disruption and deprivation of Our course is designed to allow you to get Occupational Therapy Practice students with other relevant placements for each student. In Years individuals, groups and communities to occupation (personal and contextual to know your peers and our staff, and build qualifications and experience. One and Two, you will complete a foster participation in the aspects of life factors), across the life span. Aspects of positive academic and professional MOccTh route: Elective Module/ six-week placement; in Year Three, nine Direct Entry: that people need, want and have to do. public health and health promotion will be relationships. Teaching and learning Occupational Therapy: Contexts, weeks and in Year Four, ten weeks. This course is your first step towards a introduced and revisited in the later years. methods include interactive lectures, Collaborations and Communities/ Year Two: HNC Occupational Therapy rewarding and diverse healthcare career seminars, practical workshops, group work Practice-based Learning 3/Evaluating Support with B in the graded unit, plus Teaching staff, class sizes and with excellent employment prospects. During Year Three you will critically explore and self-directed learning. Outside Occupational Therapy Practice/Research successful fieldwork placement, when timetables: For more information, issues related to practice, theories and timetabled sessions, you will be expected Methods places are available. Other relevant please see ‘How we teach and how On this course you will explore how to systems. You will study the social to continue learning through independent qualifications may be considered for you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. provide practical support to empower construction and complexity of knowledge study. For assessment, we focus less on Year Four entry to Year One. people, facilitate health and wellbeing, and and practice. You will develop further written examinations and more on Course fees: See pages 164—165 help identify and respond to barriers that understanding of leadership, practice demonstrations of knowledge and BSc (Hons) route: Health Society and Other requirements: A satisfactory prevent people from doing what really development and innovation in thinking understanding: reports, essays, Occupation/Practice-based Learning 4/ criminal records check is required. You Professional Registration/accreditation: matters to them. You will learn a wide and action. presentations, oral and practical Dissertation Project will be required to attend an interview This course is approved by the HCPC range of transferable personal and examinations, and creative assessments. as part of the application screening and the Royal College of Occupational MOccTh route: Health Society and professional skills, understanding why and Year Four consolidates your master’s-level process. Some experience working or Therapists. It is recognised by the Occupation/Practice-based Learning 4/ how people engage in occupations and learning opportunities and builds upon volunteering with different groups of World Federation of Occupational Transforming Occupational Therapy what might disrupt patterns of occupation; your previous knowledge and practice people is required (ie older or younger Therapists (WFOT). Graduates are Modules Practice/Dissertation Project critically engaging with knowledge and experiences in diverse and changing people with different health or life eligible to apply for registration with the evidence that informs the profession; and contexts. This year will include community situations). HCPC. Year One The modules listed here are correct at time of collaborating with services to address partnership working, project development, print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to leading to the completion of a dissertation, those offered in 2022. Please check the Careers: The degree opens doors to a needs of their communities. You will Foundations of Occupational Therapy and deepening leadership skills. website for any updates. rewarding and stimulating career in develop an appreciation of how individual’s Practice/Personal Academic and Other information NHS trusts, local authority social care lives can be shaped by society including Professional Development/Preparation for Interprofessional learning and working is departments, voluntary organisations, environments, history, or systems and how Practice-Based Learning/Practice-based an integral part of professional practice UCAS code: B920 private practice, industry, and your these factors can impact health. You will Learning 1/Health Wellbeing and and will be incorporated throughout the Entry requirements skills will support entrepreneurial learn through a variety of approaches, and Participation in Occupation/Finding, course. Duration: 4 years full-time initiatives. Your work as an practical placements are a key element of Evaluating and Consuming Knowledge Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBB the course, giving you the opportunity to Minimum: BBCC occupational therapist may not Start date: September 2022 necessarily be in a medical setting, translate your learning into practice and to Year Two work with a wide range of services and A Level: BCC hospital or clinic. Many of our Structure Delivery: On campus populations. A practice placement is Assessing, Analysing and Evaluating graduates pursue the exciting diversity offered in each of the four years, and in of employment opportunities in the This is a four year, full-time integrated Occupational Needs, Performance and Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H3 H3 total you will complete 31 weeks of Awarding body: QMU. Please see the community, including within the undergraduate master’s course. You will Participation/Developing Goals to Meet ‘External review’ section on pages full-time practice-based education. Occupational Needs/Facilitating Learning International Baccalaureate: 28 points voluntary sector or primary care. The complete a range of modules each year, 8—9. course will enable you to work as part and a final project in Year Four. Students within Occupational Therapy/Developing, In Year One you will study a range of of a health and social care team. You on this course will complete 600 Scottish Delivering and Evaluating Occupation- International: IELTS score of 6.0 with modules that provide you with the Exchange opportunities: In Years Three will develop leadership and partnership Credit and Qualifications Framework Focused Interventions/Practice-based no element below 6.0 knowledge and concepts that are or Four you have the opportunity working skills and you may wish to (SCQF) credits across the four years, with Learning 2 foundational to occupational therapy (subject to availability) to undertake engage with further professional sufficient credits in the final year to enable Required subjects: English is preferred, practice. You will be introduced to different practice-based learning at an overseas development or higher level academic graduation with a Master of Occupational A learner who achieves 60% average in or a discursive subject such as History perspectives on occupation and its university with which we have learning opportunities. Therapy (MOccTh). There is an option for SCQF level 8 modules can proceed on or Sociology at Higher, A Level or centrality in everyday life, as well as its

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Evelyn Fong was working as an About you If you used an agent can you explain How have your lecturers supported Do you have any advice for students occupational therapist in her home how helpful they were to you and if you your learning? who might be interested in this course? country of Singapore when she Tell us a little about yourself would recommend their services to made the decision to return to higher other prospective students? Our lecturers have been very open to Go for it! Have a passion for what you I am a 24-year-old Singaporean who meeting with students to answer are learning, knowing that it will shape

Health Professions education to gain a better understanding of patient-centred just about loves anything to do with I sought advice from an education queries and often put up key resources patient care in the future. While there practice. coffee and books! Blogging is agency, AUG Singapore. They were to support our learning on the hub. may be stressful moments, we can something I enjoy too, and I love helpful in my application to QMU, as Furthermore, our lecturers are very learn to apply occupational balance in Having learned of QMU direct entry penning down thoughts and well as to guide me through the steps student-centred and often seek class our lives too! route into the BSc (Hons) experiences on my blog or social of obtaining a visa. In addition, they input in identifying additional lessons or Occupational Therapy course, she media account. In my free time, I like to provided a pre-entry to UK talk that talks that we may find helpful in our What University services have you used leapt at the opportunity to study at bake and do a bit of running too! was helpful for me to identify key assignments or in our professional to support you through your university the University and to experience life documents to bring when travelling to education. journey and how have they helped you? in Scotland. Why did you choose to study at QMU QMU. There were also tips provided to and what attracted you to the course? navigate around the UK for the first few In addition, my dissertation supervisor I often visit the Library Resource Centre days. has been very supportive throughout (LRC) to borrow books, which I find, Before coming to QMU, I was working the dissertation process. From have been kept very up-to-date and as an occupational therapist in a Why did you choose to study in providing academic advice, to cheering relevant. In addition, I have received community geriatrics setting in Edinburgh? us on, she has been a great supervisor support from the LRC staff in my Singapore. After a year of practice, I to learn from. My PAT has also been dissertation research process. decided to continue my education in I chose to study in Edinburgh because very caring and organises sessions to occupational therapy to refine my it was said to be a safe city where check in on us, reminding us that we Life as a Student at QMU understanding of client-centred care many international students continue can seek advice from her should we and improve my critical thinking and their education. I was also drawn to face any difficulty at school. What’s your ‘top tip’ for making the research skills. this charming city that is steeped in most of being a student? rich history! What have been some of your Several universities in the UK offered a challenges with the course and Be passionate about learning! direct entry route into the fourth year of The Course university life? How have you overcome their programme, as I had a diploma them? What are you plans after graduation? certificate in ccupational therapy from What have you most enjoyed about Tell us about your ambitions and where Singapore. your course? What has been your Time management has been a you see yourself in the future? highlight? challenge as I learnt to manage my The BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy time between assignments, household I will be returning back to Singapore to programme at QMU was one of several A highlight has been a Level Four chores, participating in flat gatherings work as an Occupational Therapist. In university programmes that offered a Occupational Therapy bonding day and reconnecting with loved ones from the long-term, I hope I will be able to direct entry into fourth year. Among the where I had the chance to learn a new afar. I learnt to overcome time engage in the process of developing other programmes that offered this sport, rounders! It was a really fun management difficulties by spreading Occupational Therapy programmes to direct entry programme, QMU’s course opportunity to get to know our lecturers them out according to my energy level. support people with disabilities to stood out to me as a well-designed and course-mates better. In general, I set out to complete a set better integrate into the community. programme that could facilitate my of routine tasks in the day and settle learning of research skills under a team Has there been a particular course down to complete my assignments at of well-respected academic staff. activity you found especially night, which suits me fine as I find Specifically, I was drawn by the module interesting? myself more productive at night. that provided opportunities to develop Having moments of time to myself and projects that would enable me to learn In general, I really enjoy the way each activities I enjoy were also key to more about occupational therapy module is delivered, as most of our helping me reduce my stress level practice in Scotland as well as have the modules provide us with the chance to when assignment deadlines were opportunity to refine my research skills. select a topic or contemporary issue of looming. interest and apply critical thinking skills In addition, previous QMU students to appraise evidence and theoretical who are in Singapore shared many underpinnings of key issues. I find that positive experiences of the learning this mode of teaching and delivery experience at QMU and in Scotland, makes the entire process of learning a “QMU’s course stood out to me as the academic aspect and the fun lot more engaging and rewarding as I aspect! So I was keen to experience a find myself genuinely interesting in my life in Scotland and learn from topic of interest. a well-designed programme” well-respected academic staff in this field. COURSE QUALITY SATISFACTION 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 90 91 QMU offers a three year ordinary degree in

Paramedic Science. The role of the Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Paramedic-Science BSc paramedic is to assess, treat and manage An innovative and exciting programme that will prepare the next generation of paramedic clinicians. people in emergency and non-emergency An interprofessional learning experience alongside a wide range of other health and social care professions Paramedic Science situations. Paramedics work in a wide range unrivalled in any other university in Scotland. of environments and may work alone or Modern surroundings with access to specialist clinical teaching facilities. within a team of other health and social care Experienced academic staff with clinical currency and research expertise. professionals. A supportive learning culture that creates a ‘community feeling’ and promotes learner resilience and wellbeing. Health Professions

The BSc Paramedic Science academic writing and critical thinking You will carry out further practice-based A Level. English and Maths required and Awarding body: QMU. Please see the course will provide students skills. You will develop strategies that learning within the clinical setting and Modules second science preferred at Nat 5/ ‘External review’ section on pages support your personal and professional will enable you to consolidate your GCSE if not studied at Higher level. 8—9. with the necessary skills and Year One competencies to deliver out of development. Year One includes knowledge and clinical skills in practice-based learning with the preparation for autonomous paramedic International: IELTS of 7.0 with no Exchange opportunities: N/A hospital care, in a range of Scottish Ambulance Service and other practice following registration. Introduction to Clinical Assessment component lower than 6.5 health settings as a member of clinical environments eg hospitals, care and Decision Making/Skills for Placements: Practice-based learning an integrated health and social homes and third sector. Following registration paramedics will Paramedic Practice 1/Finding your Mature/Access: We welcome forms a major portion of the paramedic care team. To do this QMU be required to support junior and Academic Voice/Physiology/Developing applications from mature students with course and there are placement works closely with local health In Year Two you will gain knowledge unqualified colleagues and to lead and Resilience of Self and Others for relevant qualifications or experience. opportunities each year within Edinburgh, about medications and their actions to develop practice. The Being a Person- Professional Paramedic Practice/ the Lothians and Borders regions. This and social care practice Practice-based Learning partners including Scottish help you develop understanding of how centred Practitioner module will help Other Requirements: includes care homes and settings and why paramedics use medications in you to critically and creatively facilitate providing care for ill adults, children and Ambulance Service, NHS Year Two • Applicants will normally be required Lothian and NHS Borders. the pre-hospital environment. You will practice and lead within the context of to take part in an interview. infants, emergency care, mental health, build on knowledge gained in Year One health and social care. community and primary care. Clinical Pharmacology/Using Clinical to further develop your approach to • A satisfactory criminal records placements will provide the opportunity Over the three years you will learn how Assessment and Decision Making in clinical assessment and decision You will develop an in-depth check is required. to integrate practice with theory by to respond safely and effectively in Paramedic Practice/Behaviour Change/ making. understanding of approaches to • The requirements of employment working directly with patients and emergency and non-emergency Skills for Paramedic Practice 2/ research, to apply knowledge to and standards of proficiency qualified staff. situations. You will develop skills for Paramedic Practice-based Learning 2/ Part of the evolving paramedic role critically appraise evidence and to form require applicants to demonstrate assessment, diagnosis, management Developing a Spirit of Enquiry involves empowering others to live well reasoned conclusions required for good health and that they meet the Teaching staff, class sizes and and treatment of people. Your learning and make positive changes to their graduate level thinking. physical requirements of the role of timetables: For more information, will be underpinned by evidence. Topics Year Three health and the Behaviour Change a paramedic. please see ‘How we teach and how in the course include: biological module will help you to develop skills in you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. sciences, management of health and Managing Complexity in Paramedic • Within the personal statement, we communication and health coaching for illness, communication skills, person- Practice/Paramedic Practice-based look for applicants to demonstrate supporting behaviour change, health Structure Course fees: See pages 164—65 centred practice, leadership and Learning 3/Being a Person-centred problem solving skills, leadership and well-being of individuals and management. We will help you to Practitioner/Skills for Paramedic ability, and inclusive attitudes groups. The length of the course is three years. Professional Registration/accreditation: develop as a critically thinking, reflective Practice 3/Understanding and showing an understanding of the You will complete a range of modules The course will prepare students to professional who is able to work each year. Appraising the Evidence for Practice role of a paramedic working with You will enhance and extend your vulnerable people in challenging undertake the full scope of practice for independently or as part of a team. repertoire of skills for paramedic Full module descriptions are available and hazardous environments. a paramedic leading to eligibility for practice introduced in Year One and them to apply for registration with the Year One will introduce you to some key on the course entry on our website. develop further confidence and HCPC. theories and principles of clinical competence in the application of Teaching, learning and assessment Other information: It is strongly assessment and decision making in The modules listed here are correct at time of professional skills for safe, effective and print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to recommend that you hold a full driving Careers: This course will enable you to paramedic practice. You will develop You will learn through face to face person-centred paramedic practice those offered in 2022. Please check the licence and you would be encouraged work as a paramedic or in a range of key paramedic skills that are important sessions and online. Learning and website for any updates. under minimal supervision. to obtain the category C1 entitlement other settings to contribute to the for practice-based learning and the teaching approaches include lectures, before completing your studies. future of health and social care paramedic profession and will be able to seminars, practical laboratories and You will carry out further Paramedic provision in Scotland. From September apply theory to practice. A sound placements. We use case based Practice-based Learning. 2021 all paramedics in Scotland understanding of anatomy and approaches, interactive learning, group Entry requirements entering the profession will be required physiology is an important part of work, simulation, virtual reality and The Managing Complexity in Paramedic Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBB to have an ordinary (BSc level) degree. paramedic knowledge and the games. Outside timetabled sessions Other information Practice module is a core paramedic Minimum: BBCC This is because the role of the Physiology module will introduce you to you will be expected to continue module in Year Three and will prepare paramedic is expanding beyond acute the human body and its functions to learning through self-study. UCAS code: B950 you to manage clinical challenges A Level: BCC trauma and will have increasing focus enable you to assess and diagnose in Assessments will include practical work, autonomously, safely and effectively in on the management of long-term the future. written exams and assignments. Duration: 3 years full-time complex, unfamiliar or unpredictable Irish Leaving Certificate: H2, H2, H3, H3 conditions, mental health support, circumstances within the scope of You will learn about the key principles of Start date: September 2022 support of older persons and paramedic practice. Required subjects: To include Human searching, sourcing and using preventing hospital admissions. Biology or Biology and a discursive information at university as well as Delivery: On campus Following registration individual subject, such as English, History, RMPS, paramedics will be able to take on new Modern Studies, Philosophy at Higher/ roles including prescribing and advanced practice. 92 93 This exciting four year integrated master’s

course will equip you with the expertise and Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Physiotherapy Master of practical skills that you need to work as a We are smaller by design than many universities, so you will enjoy smaller registered physiotherapist in the private or class sizes and a close, supportive relationship with our academic team. public health and social care sector. You will Be part of a vibrant, supportive and social learning community that is thrive in our supportive environment and benefit integrated across all Physiotherapy year groups. Physiotherapy from placements in each year. You will benefit from a carefully considered balance of theory and practical learning. Try some extracurricular opportunities to further develop your Health Professions (MPhys) physiotherapy skills.

Physiotherapists are healthcare and practice based learning (PBL) Year Four Other requirements: Placements: Placements are invaluable professionals who use person- placements. You will explore how the Teaching, learning and assessment in consolidating theoretical study into development of leadership, innovation Public Health Practice for • A satisfactory criminal records practical expertise by working directly centred approaches to make a You will be taught in lectures, seminars, and entrepreneurial skills can Physiotherapy/ Professional Skills check is required. with patients and qualified staff. You difference to people’s lives. practical workshops and laboratories. contribute to meeting the challenges of Development/ Leadership and will complete one two-week foundation Physiotherapists work in a wide Outside these timetabled sessions you • An occupational health check is contemporary health and social care. In Enterprise for Practice/ Applying Skills placement in Year One, one six-week range of settings and focus on addition you will work with a project will be expected to continue learning required and you may be placement in Year Two, two six-week of Critical Enquiry (project)/ Practice the management and supervisor to plan, carry out and through both directed and self-directed requested to be immunised placements in Year Three and in Year prevention of problems relating evaluate a small scale research project. study. You will be assessed using a based Learning 3 inc. 11 weeks of PBL against Hepatitis B. Four two six-week placements to movement and function range of methods including practical including an elective placement. exams and written course work at the The modules listed here are correct at time of across the life-span. Across all four years part of your print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to • All students are required to obtain Placements take place within the NHS learning will take place in a variety of end of each module or semester. For those offered in 2022. Please check the personal indemnity insurance, and social care sector at various full details see the course entry on our In Year One you will study a range of real health and social care settings. You website for any updates. usually through membership of locations across Scotland. QMU website. modules that will equip you with the will work (supported by a registered the professional body. manages the sourcing and allocation of basic knowledge and skills for physiotherapist) with patients, their placements for each student with the carers and families, and with other • The cost of the PVG Scheme exception of the elective placement. physiotherapy practice. Topics covered Entry requirements health and social care professionals. membership and personal The elective placement is organised by include: anatomy, physiology, Modules These practice-based placements are indemnity insurance is the each individual student and provides biomechanics, aspects of psychology, Scottish Higher: Standard: AABBB invaluable and will enrich your learning responsibility of the student. the potential for a practice-based professional practice, basic Year One Minimum: ABBBB assessment skills, common in all levels of the course. You may be Currently the cost of the placement in a speciality area of physiotherapy interventions and placed at sites across Scotland, and occupational health check is interest or outside of the UK. It may be Becoming an Allied Health A Level: AAB funded by the Scottish evidence based practice. A short will be required to cover any associated Professional/Finding Your Academic possible for you to undertake a single, foundation placement will introduce travel and accommodation costs. Government for Scottish students elective, practice-based placement Voice/ Principles of Rehabilitation/ Irish Leaving Certificate: H1 H2 H2 H2 only. Students from other you to the application of theory into Developing Resilience in Self and H3 outside the UK. Physiotherapy is a demanding course countries are responsible for this practice. Others/Foundations of Physiotherapy and we recommend that you research cost. Should the Scottish 1/Introduction to Practice-based International Baccalaureate: 32 points Teaching staff, class sizes and In Year Two further modules will expand the career thoroughly and consider Government change their funding timetables: For more information, Learning inc. two weeks PBL policy the responsibility for the your skills relating to cardiorespiratory, work shadowing before you come to International: IELTS of 6.0 with no please see ‘How we teach and how cost of the occupational health neurological and musculoskeletal QMU. Year Two element lower than 6.0 you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. physiotherapy. You will broaden your check may change. understanding of health and wellbeing Foundations of Physiotherapy 2/ Required subjects: Two of Biology, Course fees: See pages 164—165 and the role of the allied health Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy/ Physics, Chemistry or Maths at Higher/ professional in influencing health Structure Professional registration/accreditation: Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy 1/ A Level or equivalent. Scottish and Irish Other information behaviour change. You will be applicants are required to pass Higher You will be eligible to apply for This is a four year integrated Behaviour Change/Neurological encouraged to develop your skills for English. English and Maths at Nat 5/ registration with the HCPC and to undergraduate master’s course that Physiotherapy/Developing a Spirit of UCAS code: B160 critical thinking and using information Inquiry/ Practice-based Learning 1 inc. GCSE. apply for membership of the Chartered to support your studies. A further leads to eligibility to apply for Society of Physiotherapy. registration with the HCPC as a six weeks of PBL Duration: 4 years full-time placement will give you the opportunity Mature/Access: Related Access physiotherapist. Students commence to continue your learning in practice. Year Three course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ Careers: You can work as a the course with a view to graduating Start date: September 2022 college-qualifications physiotherapist in the NHS, in hospitals with a Master of Physiotherapy (MPhys) Year Three develops your skills further Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy 2/ and in the community, in private in four years. Years Three and Four will Delivery: On campus to look at the management of people Theoretical and Clinical Approaches to We welcome applications from mature practice or in industry. Some of our be taught alongside postgraduate with more complex conditions. You will Multidisciplinary Team Working/ students with other relevant graduates have gone on to work as students studying on the Pre- Awarding body: QMU. Please see the broaden your awareness of healthcare Understanding and Appraising the qualifications and/or experience. Other sports physiotherapists or to pursue Registration course. There is an option ‘External review’ section on pages and challenge your understanding of Evidence for Practice/Advancement of degree and graduate qualifications will research careers. for students to choose a BSc (Hons) 8—9. health education and promotion. Two Clinical Management/Active be considered. route at the end of Year Two and they further placements will expand your Citizenship/Investigation of Practice/ will still be eligible to apply for Exchange opportunities: N/A practice knowledge. Practice-based Learning 2 inc. 12 DirectCOURSE Entry: Not QUALITY available. Relevant registration with the HCPC as a weeks PBL HNSATISFACTION qualifications may be considered In the final year, you will consolidate physiotherapist. for entry to Year One. your practical, theoretical and professional skills through university 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 94 95 This four-year integrated master’s

course will provide you with the Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Podiatry Master of Podiatry theoretical understanding and You will be taught by experienced HCPC registered podiatrists alongside practical skills that you will need to other staff who are professionally and research active in the NHS and private build your flexible and rewarding sector. Their applied research and professional links inform the teaching on career as a podiatrist in the NHS or the course, keeping it up to date with current developments in podiatry and Podiatry (MPod) private sector. You will learn podiatric practice. advanced practical skills on Learn real-world podiatry skills on placements within an NHS setting and on

Health Professions placement to allow you to develop other practice-based opportunities with the private and third sector. your podiatric skills as you progress through the course.

support your learning. An early We aim for all our graduates to be This course, delivered by staff Other information with an outstanding reputation introduction to podiatry in the form of confident in their own professional Modules Entry requirements learning about clinical practice on identity and have the additional skills for the quality of teaching, will Year One Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBC UCAS code: B985 equip you with all the placement provides the opportunity to that will allow you to work as an allow you to integrate into the clinical effective multidisciplinary team Minimum: BCCC Duration: 4 years full-time knowledge and skills that you environment. member. This is the reason why we Podiatric Clinical Practice 1/Becoming require to work as a podiatrist. have implemented an interprofessional an Allied Health Professional/Anatomy, A Level: CCC Start date: September 2022 You will develop your expertise In Year Two you will undertake modules working focus within all of our health Pathophysiology and Microbiology/ through in-depth theoretical that explore human walking and care courses, including this one. Developing Resilience of Self and Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H3 H3 H3 learning, clinical placements in musculoskeletal problems. You will Others for Professional Practice/ Delivery: On campus each year and the close continue to broaden your Physiology/Finding Your Academic International Baccalaureate: 28 points understanding of health and wellbeing Voice Awarding body: QMU. Please see the support of our very International: IELTS of 6.0 with no ‘External review’ section on pages experienced staff. and how to influence and facilitate Structure behaviour change. Academic skills will Year Two element lower than 6.0 8—9. This is a four year integrated As a podiatrist you will be a healthcare be further developed by exploring how undergraduate master’s course. Podiatric Clinical Practice 2/Mechanics Required subjects: One science at Exchange opportunities: N/A professional who has been trained to knowledge can be acquired, applied Students commence the course with a of Normal and Pathological Gait/MSK/ Higher/A Level or equivalent. English diagnose and treat abnormal conditions and integrated into practice. You will view to graduating with a Master of Orthopaedics/Behaviour Change/ and Maths at Nat 5/GCSE. Placements: Placements are where of the feet and lower limbs. Podiatrists learn more about medicine and Podiatry (MPod) in four years and the Developing a Spirit of Inquiry/ your theoretical learning is work with their patients to prevent and pharmacology. You will continue to eligibility to apply for registration with Pharmacology for Podiatrists Mature/Access: Related Access consolidated and deepened by working correct deformity, keeping people develop your practical skills through the Health and Care Professions course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ directly with patients and qualified staff. mobile and active, and helping to further supported clinical placement. Council (HCPC). Years Three and Four Year Three college-qualifications You will attend a variety of placements relieve pain. Podiatrists work with Year Three modules are designed to will be taught alongside postgraduate within the NHS at various locations people of all ages, and your patients Podiatric Clinical Practice 3/Theoretical enhance your critical thinking, research students studying on the Pre- We welcome applications from mature across Scotland. The programme team will count on you to support and help and Clinical Approaches to skills and further develop your Registration course. There is also an students with other relevant will assist with the sourcing and them with a broad range of mobility Multidisciplinary Team Working/ knowledge of foot and ankle imaging option for students to choose a BSc qualifications and/or experience. allocation of placements for each and medical conditions of the foot and Diagnostic Investigations for Podiatric modalities. You will be broadening your (Hons) route at the end of year two and student on the course. lower limbs. These may include Practice/Active Citizenship/ healthcare awareness and challenging they will still be eligible to apply for Direct Entry: Not available. Relevant muscular and joint problems as well as Understanding and Appraising the your understanding of health education registration with the HCPC as a HN qualifications may be considered Teaching staff, class sizes and broader health issues such as diabetes, Evidence for Practice/Medicine and and promotion, as well as developing podiatrist. for entry to Year One. timetables: For more information, blood disorders and disorders of the Pathology your key skills in working as part of a please see ‘How we teach and how nervous system, which may involve Other requirements: you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. complex wound management. multidisciplinary team. You will be Year Four extending and strengthening your Teaching, learning and assessment • A satisfactory criminal records Course fees: See pages 164—165 The Year One modules include knowledge and skill in research. You Podiatric Clinical Practice 4/Advancing will continue to link theory and practice check from the PVG Scheme, an introductions to anatomy and You will learn in face-to-face and online Clinical Practice/Tissue Viability/ occupational health check and Professional registration/accreditation: physiology. You will study during a range of clinical placement Applying Skills of Critical Enquiry/ opportunities. lectures, seminars, tutorials and personal indemnity insurance This course is approved by the College pathophysiology and microbiology, as practical workshops. There is a mix of Leadership and Enterprise in Health (normally through membership of of Podiatry and the HCPC. Successful well as beginning to learn about lower Practice Year Four provides the opportunity to classroom and online learning. Outside the professional body) are completion enables application for limb and foot conditions. You will be timetabled sessions you will be required. You may be requested to registration with the HCPC as a prepared for clinical practice by enhance, consolidate and reflect on The modules listed here are correct at time of expected to continue your own learning print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to be immunised against Hepatitis B. podiatrist. developing your communication skills your theoretical learning to date. You will continue to develop your skills in through self-study. You will be those offered in 2022. Please check the and exploring the professional website for any updates. • The cost of the PVG check and research, professional development, assessed by a variety of assessment the professional indemnity Careers: It is up to you which path to requirements to allow you to become a methods (eg written and practical take. There are excellent clinical podiatrist and to work as part of a and current and advanced clinical skills insurance is the responsibility of enabling a smooth transition to working exams, written assignments, the student. Currently the cost of opportunities in the NHS and in private team. This will involve you developing presentations) at the end of each practice. You may wish to start up your key skills to allow you to begin your life. You will explore leadership skills the health check is funded by the and innovative practice to meet module. Please see the course entry on Scottish Government for Scottish own business, or move on to do some professional development journey as a our website for more information. postgraduate research. Our alumni are podiatrist. In addition, to assist your contemporary healthcare challenges in students only, other students are podiatry. You will complete your responsible for this cost. This is currently enjoying careers in the NHS transition into university level study and private practice, and in the areas of there is a focus on academic and academic learning by undertaking however subject to change should appropriate and focused research the Scottish Government change sports medicine, community clinics, research skills including essay writing foot surgery and paediatrics. and how to access information to activities. their funding policy. 96 97 Interview with Yang Kang — Podiatry

Yang Sern Kang is a student from Why did you choose to study BSc Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. (Hons) Podiatry at QMU?

Why did you choose to study in I chose podiatry because of its Edinburgh/Scotland? specialisation in the lower limb. This Health Professions includes a range of clinical practices I think Scotland is home to some of the such as diabetes, sports injuries, most stunning landscapes in the UK, biomechanics, nail surgery, wound along with its unique culture and care, paediatrics, biomechanics and traditions. Everyone knows about kilts, orthotic manufacture. This will open up bagpipe players or ceilidh dances, and a spectrum of roles and a lifetime full of even the Loch Ness Monster legend, opportunity. but there is more to Scotland than these iconic elements. I see podiatry as a profession on the rise, especially in Malaysia where Scotland is known for its friendly one-fifth of the population have or had welcome, and that’s no myth. Scottish diabetes due to our diet rich in people are glad to help people from all carbohydrates. over the world, giving a warm welcome, along with their distinct accent. I also chose to study the course at QMU because it is approved and I would say the best experience I’ve recognised by the HCPC and this is had in Scotland so far was visiting the strengthened by the excellent links Highlands and Isle of Skye, where I QMU has with the NHS across was offered breathtaking views of Scotland. I stand by QMU’s approach snow-capped mountains and to learning and teaching by believing experienced thick snow for the first that clinical practice and experience time. I still have plenty of time to visit (placement) are of major importance. the wonders that Scotland has to offer QMU appreciates that clinical practice and I look forward to travelling on the is core to healthcare and therefore iconic Hogwart’s Express. helps students prepare from year one, unlike the other universities.

What has been the highlight of the course for you so far?

The most interesting part of the course is clinical placement. We get practical hands-on experience in preparation for practice by treating real patients and trying to diagnose their problems and complaints accurately. It’s enjoyable to have conversations with your patients and just share our experiences.

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course will give you the Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Diagnostic-Radiography Master of theoretical understanding and You will enjoy a very high level of support and mentoring from our staff. We do not take as practical skills you will need to many students as some institutions, so you will enjoy a more individual and interactive build a rewarding career as a learning experience. We have excellent relationships with our clinical placement sites that diagnostic radiographer. Practice allows us to support you constantly when you are on placement. You will be the only student Radiography: Diagnostic placements are an integrated part on the team during your placements to give you the maximum possible benefit from the of the course and allow students clinical experience. You will learn on specialist hi-tech facilities on campus. Our diagnostic to put their theoretical knowledge imaging suite is equipped with a Siemens Multix Pro X Ray System, a Fuji Computerised Health Professions (MDRad) into practice. Radiography system with high resolution digital workstations and a Fuji Direct Digital mobile.

This course, delivered by staff diagnostic radiographer. To assist your have implemented an interprofessional Year Two We welcome applications from mature Exchange opportunities: N/A with an outstanding reputation transition into university there is a focus focus within all of our healthcare students with other relevant on academic skills including essay courses, including this one. Behaviour Change/Developing a Spirit qualifications and/or experience. Placements: Placements are where for the quality of teaching, will your theoretical learning is equip you with all the writing and how to access information. of Inquiry/Cross Sectional Imaging A two-week placement provides the Science/Diagnostic Practice 2/ Direct Entry: Not available. Relevant consolidated and deepened by working knowledge and skills that you opportunity to experience and integrate Diagnostic Imaging Placement A HN qualifications may be considered directly with patients and qualified staff. require to work as a diagnostic into the clinical environment. Structure for entry to Year One. You will complete two weeks of radiographer. You will develop Year Three placement in Year One. In Years Two, your expertise through in-depth In Year Two you will undertake modules This is a four year integrated Other requirements: Three and Four you will complete 12 undergraduate master’s course. Active Citizenship/Health Literacy/ weeks of placement in three, four or theoretical learning, clinical that explore more complex • A satisfactory criminal records Students commence the course with a Specialist Imaging and Advancing five week bocks. Placements can take placements each year and the radiographic techniques including check from the PVG Scheme, an view to graduating with a Master of Diagnostic Practice/Theoretical and place within the NHS at various close support of our very cross-sectional imaging and trauma. occupational health check and Radiography: Diagnostic (MDRad) in Clinical Approaches to Multidisciplinary locations across Scotland. QMU You will continue to broaden your personal indemnity insurance experienced staff. four years and the eligibility to apply for Team Working/Understanding and manages the sourcing and allocation of understanding of health and well-being (normally through membership of registration with the HCPC. Years Three Appraising the Evidence for Practice/ placements for each student on this As a diagnostic radiographer you will and how to influence behaviour the professional body) are also and Four will be taught alongside Diagnostic Imaging Placement B course. You can organise an elective be a healthcare professional who change. Academic skills will be further required. postgraduate students studying on the placement overseas. acquires and evaluates images of the developed by exploring the application Pre-Registration course. There is an Year Four • You may be requested to be human body to diagnose disease and of knowledge. You will develop your option for students to choose a BSc immunised against Hepatitis B. Teaching staff, class sizes and trauma. You will use a range of practical skills through 12 weeks of (Hons) route at the end of Year Two and Applying Skills of Critical Enquiry/ timetables: For more information, high-technology imaging equipment clinical placement. • The cost of the PVG check and they will still be eligible to apply for Evidence Informed Practice/ please see ‘How we teach and how and techniques and work closely with the professional indemnity registration with the HCPC as a Leadership and Enterprise in you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. the multidisciplinary team to provide a Year Three modules are designed to insurance is the responsibility of diagnostic radiographer. Healthcare/Preliminary Clinical person-centred service. enhance your critical thinking and the student. Currently the cost of further develop your knowledge of Evaluation/Diagnostic Imaging the health check is funded by the Course fees: See pages 164—165 Placement C Radiography is invaluable in the specialist diagnostic imaging Scottish Government for Scottish Professional registration/accreditation: diagnosis and treatment of disease and modalities. You will broaden your students only, other students are Teaching, learning and assessment The modules listed here are correct at time of This course is accredited by the trauma. As a diagnostic radiographer healthcare awareness and challenge print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to responsible for this cost. This is Society and College of Radiographers your skill, judgement and your understanding of health education those offered in 2022. Please check the however subject to change should You will be taught in lectures, seminars, website for any updates. and approved by the HCPC. professionalism will be a vital part of a and promotion. You will continue to link the Scottish Government change tutorials, practical workshops. There Successful completion enables team’s clinical work, and affect theory and practice during 12 weeks of their funding policy. will be a mix of classroom and online application for registration with the patients’ lives, day after day. Awaiting a placement, which includes a four-week • We expect applicants to have learning. Outside timetabled sessions HCPC as a diagnostic radiographer diagnosis can be a stressful time for elective placement. visited an appropriate you will be expected to continue Entry requirements which is essential for employment in patients and in this career you must be Radiography/Radiology Year Four provides the opportunity to learning through self-study. You will be the UK. technically adept, an excellent assessed by a variety of assessment Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBB department. communicator and provide person- enhance, consolidate and reflect on your theoretical, research, professional methods (eg written and practical Minimum: BBCC Careers: Most graduates begin working centred care. exams, written assignments, A Level: BCC and clinical skills enabling a smooth Other information as general radiographers, with very transition to working life. You will presentations and viva voce) at the end high graduate employment rates. This is why our diagnostic radiography of each module. See the course entry Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H3 H3 programme places high importance on explore leadership skills and innovative UCAS code: B821 However, with experience, you may practice to meet current healthcare on our website for more information. have the opportunity to specialise in clinical placements. Placements are International Baccalaureate: 28 points essential to build self-confidence, challenges. You will take ownership of Duration: 4 years full-time different aspects of diagnostic your academic learning by undertaking radiography, for example, clinical practice radiographic techniques and International: IELTS of 6.0 with no develop clinical knowledge in a real-life a quality improvement project. This Start date: September 2022 reporting, sonography or year includes 12 weeks of clinical Modules element lower than 6.0 mammography. hospital setting. placement. Delivery: On campus Year One Required subjects: One science at The Year One modules include Awarding body: QMU. Please see the We aim for all of our graduates to be Higher/ A Level or equivalent. English anatomy and physiology, scientific and Anatomy and Physiology/Becoming ‘External review’ section on pages 8-9. confident in their own professional plus two sciences at Nat 5/GCSE. diagnostic technological radiographic and Allied Health Professional/ identity and have the additional skills Mature/Access: Related Access principles. You will prepare for clinical Developing Resilience of Self and that will allow you to work as an course, see: www. qmu.ac.uk/ practice by developing your Others Introduction to Diagnostic effective multidisciplinary team college-qualifications communication skills and exploring the Practice, Diagnostic Practice 1/Finding member. This is the reason why we professional requirements of a your Academic Voice 100 101 This four-year integrated

master’s course will give you Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Therapeutic-Radiography Master of the theoretical understanding You will enjoy a very high level of support and mentoring from our staff. We do not take as and practical skills you will many students as some institutions, so you will enjoy a more individual and interactive need to build a rewarding learning experience. We have excellent relationships clinical departments allowing us to career as a therapeutic support you constantly when you are on placement. You will be the only student on the team Radiography: Therapeutic radiographer. Practice during your placements. You will learn on specialist hi-tech facilities on campus. Our purpose- built planning suite is equipped with Varian Eclipse Planning System which facilitates teaching placements are an integrated in all areas from cross-sectional anatomy, radiotherapy physics, radiotherapy planning/ part of the course and allow treatment and oncology management. This facility is used for direct teaching and is a resource Health Professions students to put their for students to use independently for consolidation of their own learning. (MTRad) theoretical knowledge into practice.

transition into university there is a focus We aim for all our graduates to be International Baccalaureate: 28 points This course will equip you with all Modules Duration: 4 years full-time the knowledge and skills that you on academic skills including essay confident in their own professional writing and how to access information. identity and have the additional skills International: IELTS of 6.0 with no require to work as a therapeutic Year One Start date: September 2022 radiographer providing cancer A two-week placement provides the that will allow you to work as an element lower than 6.0 treatment and care in the NHS and opportunity to experience and integrate effective multidisciplinary team Anatomy and Physiology/Becoming Delivery: On campus the private sector. You will develop into the clinical environment. member. This is the reason why we Required subjects: One science at and Allied Health Professional/ Higher/A Level or equivalent. English your expertise through in-depth have implemented an interprofessional Developing Resilience of Self and Awarding body: QMU. Please see the In Year Two you will undertake modules plus two sciences at Nat 5/GCSE. theoretical learning, clinical focus within all of our healthcare Others/Introduction to Radiotherapy ‘External review’ section on pages 8—9. that explore the delivery of radiation placements each year and the courses, including this one. Practice/Radiotherapy Practice 1/ treatment, therapeutic radiographic Mature/Access: Related Access close support of our very Finding your Academic Voice Exchange opportunities: N/A experienced staff. techniques including cross-sectional course, see: www. qmu.ac.uk/ college-qualifications imaging, the management of patients Year Two Placements: Placements are where your Are you technically minded with an undergoing radiotherapy treatment and Structure theoretical learning is consolidated and We welcome applications from mature equally strong interest in person- cover more oncological sites. You will Behaviour Change/Developing a Spirit deepened by working directly with This is a four-year integrated students with other relevant centred care? Therapeutic radiography continue to broaden your of Inquiry/Cross Sectional Imaging patients and qualified staff. You will undergraduate master’s course. qualifications and/or experience. is a rewarding profession that brings understanding of health and wellbeing Science/Radiotherapy Practice 2/ complete one two-week placement in Students commence the course with a together care and technological and how to influence behaviour Radiotherapy Placement A Year One. In Years Two, Three and Four expertise. It is the skilled application of change. Academic skills will be further view to graduating with a Master of Direct Entry: Not available. Relevant you will complete two four-week and Radiography: Therapeutic (MTRad) in controlled amounts of radiation to treat developed by exploring the application Year Three HN qualifications may be considered one five-week placement in each year. medical conditions, mainly cancer and of knowledge. You will develop your four years and the eligibility to apply for for entry to Year One. Placements can take place within the tumours. The therapeutic radiographer practical skills through 12 weeks of registration with the HCPC. Years Three Active Citizenship/Health Literacy/Less NHS at various locations across has shared responsibility for the clinical placement. and Four are taught alongside Common Cancers in Radiotherapy/ Other requirements: Scotland. QMU manages the sourcing planning and accurate delivery of postgraduate students studying on the Theoretical and Clinical Approaches to and allocation of placements for each radiation treatment. Year Three modules are designed to Pre-Registration course. There is an Multidisciplinary Team Working/ • A satisfactory criminal records student on this course. You can organise enhance your critical thinking and option for students to choose a BSc Understanding and Appraising the check from the PVG Scheme, an an elective placement overseas. Are you ready to make a difference? As further develop your knowledge of less (Hons) route at the end of Year Two and Evidence for Practice/Radiotherapy occupational health check and a therapeutic radiographer you will commonly occurring cancers and they will still be eligible to apply for Placement B personal indemnity insurance Teaching staff, class sizes and work with patients every day to help specialist therapeutic modalities. You registration with the HCPC as a (normally through membership of timetables: For more information, please improve their care and their lives. You will broaden your healthcare awareness therapeutic radiographer. Year Four the professional body) are also see ‘How we teach and how you’ll learn’ are a part of their journey, from initial and challenge your understanding of required. You may be requested to on pages 8—9. referral through planning and treatment health education and promotion. You Advancing Practice in Radiotherapy/ be immunised against Hepatitis B. to the post treatment review. You will will continue to link theory and practice Applying Skills of Critical Enquiry/ • The cost of the PVG check and Course fees: See pages 164—165 Teaching, learning and assessment be a valued member of a multi- during 12 weeks of placement, which Evidence Informed Practice/ the professional indemnity disciplinary team providing a person- includes a two-week elective Leadership and Enterprise in Professional registration/accreditation: You will be taught in lectures, seminars, insurance is the responsibility of centred service. This course will equip placement. Healthcare/Radiotherapy Placement C This course is accredited by the Society tutorials, practical workshops. There the student. Currently the cost of you with the knowledge, understanding and College of Radiographers and will be a mix of classroom and online the health check is funded by the and critical thinking skills you need in Year Four provides the opportunity to The modules listed here are correct at time of Scottish Government for Scottish approved by the HCPC. Successful learning. Outside timetabled sessions print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to this rewarding career. enhance, consolidate and reflect on completion enables application for you will be expected to continue those offered in 2022. Please check the students only, other students are your theoretical, research, professional registration with the HCPC as a learning through self-study. You will be website for any updates. responsible for this cost. This is, Year One modules include anatomy and clinical skills enabling a smooth therapeutic radiographer that is essential assessed by a variety of assessment however subject to change should and physiology, scientific and transition to working life. You will for employment in the UK. methods (eg written and practical the Scottish Government change technological therapeutic radiographic explore leadership skills and innovative exams, written assignments, their funding policy. principles. You will prepare for clinical practice to meet current healthcare Careers: Most graduates begin working presentations and viva voce) at the end Entry requirements • We expect applicants to have practice by developing your challenges. You will take ownership of as general radiographers, with very high of each module. visited an appropriate communication skills and exploring the your academic learning by undertaking Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBC Radiotherapy department. graduate employment rates. Later in professional requirements of a a quality improvement project. This Minimum: BCCC your career you may be able to therapeutic radiographer. You will study year involves 12 weeks of clinical specialise in different aspects of radiotherapy treatment and commonly placement, including a two-week A Level: CCC therapeutic radiography, for example, occurring cancers. To assist your elective placement. Other information treatment planning, treatment review Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H3 H3 H3 and counselling. UCAS code: B822

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course will equip you with all the Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Speech-and-Language-Therapy Master of Speech and knowledge and skills that you need to Our classes are small compared with some other universities, so you will start a rewarding career as a speech enjoy more personal support and guidance from lecturers. and language therapist. You will learn Your learning will be boosted by input from experienced speech and the theory of speech and language language therapists working in the NHS and independent sectors. Language Therapy therapy, and placements will immerse Learning from our research-active team, you will be fully involved in relevant you in a variety of clinical research. environments. We are passionate QMU is internationally renowned for its research in speech and language. Health Professions about original research and you will (MSLT) have the chance to specialise in an area that inspires you.

Our ability to communicate with decision making skills (assessment/goal either four year route, students will be Year Three required for professional practice as an others is a vital part of who we are setting/management planning/outcome eligible to apply for registration with the SLT. Awarding body: QMU. Please see the as individuals, and how we fit in evaluation) through case studies and HCPC as a speech and language Speech and Language Pathology: ‘External review’ section on pages 8—9. with society. Speech and language in-class discussions. You will focus on therapist. Physical, Sensory and Intellectual Required subjects: The following subjects therapists play a vital role in disorders of communication acquired in Impairment/Speech and Language are preferred at Higher/A Level or Exchange opportunities: N/A assessing and treating people who adulthood and related to sensory, Pathology: Organic Speech Impairments equivalent: English, Languages, have communication and cognitive and physical impairments. You and Voice Disorders/Professional Psychology and Sciences. Subjects Placements: Placements help you integrate swallowing difficulties, will explore different areas of practice Teaching, learning and assessment Practice: Practice-Based Learning 3/ involving analytical skills (eg Modern practice with theory by letting you work developmental and acquired. through clinical masterclasses. You will Research for SLT: Investigative Methods/ Studies) may be accepted as an directly with patients and qualified staff. Clients can be of all ages, from continue to link theory to practice as you You will be taught in lectures, seminars, Professional Practice: Delivering Services alternative to science, where a good level You will be placed in a variety of settings newborn to the elderly. If you are attend clinical placements during the practical workshops and laboratories. to Reflect Diversity/Speech and Language of science is demonstrated at Nat 5/ including hospitals, schools and clinics to passionate about applying semesters and a block placement during Outside these timetabled sessions you Pathology: Acquired Language and GCSE level. ensure you gain a range of experience. scientific principles to support the summer. will be expected to continue learning Neurogenic Communication Impairments Clinical placements occur in Semester One communication and want to make through self-study. You will be assessed In addition English and Maths at Nat 5/ of Year Two and through both semesters in a difference to others lives, we can Year Four will provide the opportunity to by a range of assessments throughout the Year Four GCSE (B) (equivalent to O3 or H4 in the Years Three and Four. You will attend a help you forge a fascinating career. enhance, consolidate and reflect on your course. Irish Leaving Certificate) is required. block placement in the summer period learning to date. You will continue to Speech and Language Pathology: Hearing Biology at this level is desirable. between Years Three and Four. This On this course, you will develop a strong develop your skills in research, Impairment & Deaf Culture/Professional placement is typically completed within a professional development, and current Practice: Training and Leadership/ Mature/Access: Many mature students four-week period somewhere in Scotland. theoretical understanding of speech and Modules language therapy (SLT) through modules and advanced clinical skills enabling a Professional Practice: Practice-Based enter the course with non-standard The summer clinical placement can smooth transition to working life. You will Learning 4/Research for SLT: Research qualifications, including previous degrees sometimes be organised overseas. QMU in linguistics, psychology, biological and Year One explore leadership skills and gain an Project/Professional Practice: Applied and from Access Courses (Access to manages the sourcing and allocation of medical sciences, and research methods. understanding of key skills for Clinical Decision Making Health Care). Applicants with Access placements for each student on the Regular clinical placements will build your Foundations for SLT: Foundations of collaboration and training. You will qualifications must demonstrate a strong course. practical skills. Linguistics/ Foundations for SLT: complete your academic learning by academic profile. Biological and Medical Sciences 1/ The modules listed here are correct at time of Year One will provide a grounding in undertaking a focused research Teaching staff, class sizes and Professional Practice: Clinical and print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to development across the lifespan in the dissertation. This year includes 20 days of those offered in 2022. Please check the We welcome applications from mature timetables: For more information, please Professional Capabilities / Foundations for areas of physical sciences, linguistics and clinical placement. You’ll continue to website for any updates. students with other relevant qualifications see ‘How we teach and how you’ll learn’ SLT: Language Structure, Processing and psychology. To facilitate your transition attend clinical placement during the and/or experience. All mature students on pages 8—9. Variation/ Foundation for SLT: Lifespan/ into university there will be a focus on semester. are asked to show evidence of recent Professional Practice: Lifespan Course fees: See pages 164—165 academic writing and how to access study. Placement/ Research for SLT: Cognitive Entry requirements appropriate information. You will develop We aim for all of our graduates to be Sciences and Research Methods 1 Professional registration/accreditation: knowledge and apply it at observational confident in their own professional identity Direct Entry: Not available. Relevant HN Scottish Higher: Standard: AABBB, This course meets the professional placements in local early years settings, and have the additional skills that will qualifications may be considered for entry Year Two Minimum: ABBBB standards of the Royal College of Speech primary schools and with older people, allow them to work as an effective to Year One. and Language Therapists and is accredited usually in a social care setting. multidisciplinary team member. This is the Foundation for SLT: Biological and A Level: AAB by the HCPC. Successful completion reason why we have implemented an Other entry requirements: For further entry Medical Sciences 2/ Speech and enables application for registration with the Year Two focuses predominantly on interprofessional focus within all of our requirements, please check the course Language Pathology: Developmental Irish Leaving Certificate: H1 H2 H2 H2 H3 HCPC as a speech and language therapist, childhood and developmental speech, healthcare courses, including this one. entry on our website. Disorders of Language and which is a requirement for employment in language and communication disorders. Communication/ Foundations for SLT: International Baccalaureate: 32 points the UK. You will continue to build your knowledge Analysis of Speech and Language/ in physical sciences, linguistics, Professional Practice: Practice-Based International: IELTS of 8.0 with no element Careers psychology and research methods with Structure Other information Learning 2/ Speech and Language lower than 7.5. Applications from As a graduate in SLT your career prospects increased application to clinical areas. Pathology: Specific Speech Disorders / international students are welcomed. The are generally excellent. Many of our You will develop your clinical skills This is a four year integrated UCAS code: B630 Speech and Language Pathology: required standard of spoken and written graduates work within the NHS in through weekly placements in local clinics undergraduate master’s course. Students Developmental and Acquired Dysphagia / English (specified by RCSLT) for those community clinics, hospitals and schools in Semester One. commence the course with a view to Duration: 4 years full-time graduating with a master’s degree in four Research for SLT: Cognitive Sciences and whoseCOURSE first language QUALITY is not English is an across the UK. Some graduates have Research Methods 2 IELTS (British Council English Language travelled to work abroad, chosen to study Year Three will provide an opportunity to years. Students have the opportunity to SATISFACTION Start date: September 2022 transfer at the end of Year Two to a BSc Testing Service) score of 8 with no further or taken up research posts. develop research and critical thinking individual element score of less than (Hons) route. On successful completion of Delivery: On campus skills. You will enhance your clinical 7.5. This100% reflects the level of English NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 104 105 “I really enjoyed the classes. At QMU there seemed to be a real emphasis on teaching.”

Chris Mantle Health BSc (Hons) Nutrition Sciences We use the campus sports centre, and Why QMU? indoor and outdoor practical classes to Career prospects emulate settings in which you may find We have two health science courses: employment during and after your As a Physical Activity, Health and our four year BSc (Hons) Nutrition and studies. Wellbeing graduate you can build a Years Three and Four of our BSc/BSc rewarding career in voluntary (Hons) Physical Activity, Health and In the later years of the health science organisations, NHS, charities, local Wellbeing*. These multidisciplinary courses, less time will be spent in authorities, and sports and leisure courses focus on healthy living and lectures and more on student-centred industries. prevention of lifestyle diseases such as and student-driven approaches. You obesity and diabetes. will move from using textbooks as Our Nutrition degree can be a stepping course materials to a more significant stone to a future in public health A rewarding career bringing people The first year of the Nutrition course use of primary research, journal nutrition, health promotion, health will ground students in the health articles, and government legislation media, the food industry, nutrition sciences needed for a career in and guideline documents. therapy and in fitness and leisure. a better quality of life, drawing on a nutrition. Community-based public health and health promotion You may want to develop your competencies are developed expertise via a higher degree (MSc, firm grounding in science, that is the throughout both courses. You will get Research MPhil or PhD) and may wish to first hand experience of evaluating the consider our Advancing Practice in impact of your knowledge and skills in You will be taught by lecturers and PhD Health Framework of postgraduate simple goal of our health sciences courses. placements off campus and in your students who are actively engaged with courses. final year research project. research and who publish in high impact academic and professional * please see course details on pages journals. Our aim is to ensure that our 112—113 for more information research findings link with your learning Our approach to learning and teaching to keep this as up to date as possible. Understanding research helps to We support student learning through a develop and enhance your critical blended learning approach that thinking and clinical questioning, includes, classroom sessions, tutorials, essential skills in the challenging health seminars, work groups, some of which and social care practice of today. will be online, and practical classes. All students studying on our health You will be assessed through written sciences courses have the opportunity assignments, individual and group to engage with research being presentations, laboratory and project undertaken in several way; for example, reports, short tests and oral as novice researchers during project examinations. As a graduate, you will work, being trial participants, or need a professional development attending keynote lectures and portfolio. We support you in building seminars. Clinical research can only be your portfolio by integrating this into undertaken in collaboration with course assessments. Practical learning frontline health and social care is central to our health science courses. providers, and we have numerous For example, visiting practitioners and collaborations with NHS boards in service users help to bring the Scotland, private and social services, real-world learning experience into the and internationally in Europe and classroom. further afield.

106 107 On this course you will learn the scientific Why QMU? and social importance of nutrition in a BSc/BSc (Hons) You will learn from registered nutritionists who are actively researching some modern university with advanced of the most interesting and influential topics in the field. equipment. Real-world voluntary You will build professional proficiency in our labs, using advanced equipment Nutrition experience will foster your practical skills. and proven research techniques. It is accredited by the Association for The course is accredited by the Association for Nutrition (AfN).

Health Sciences Nutrition (AfN)*.

Nutrition affects everyone in the In Year Three you will look at how world every day. What and how nutrition influences health at the Modules Entry requirements Other information  qmu.ac.uk/Nutrition individual, community and population we eat is vital to individual and Year One community health and it is an level across all stages of the lifespan. Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBC UCAS code: B403 You will learn to identify reliable Minimum: BCCC Physiology/Biochemistry/Introduction engaging and rewarding sources of information and critically Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time to Food Science/Contextualising You subject to study. You will learn evaluate them, building on skills from A Level: BB and Your Profession/Cell Biology and the academic principles behind Year Two, and develop other key Start date: September 2022 Genetics/ Food, Lifestyle and Society food and gain practical skills in professional skills such as Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H3 H3 communication. Delivery: On campus our advanced laboratories. You Year Two will also learn how to think on a International Baccalaureate: 26 points In Year Four you will focus most of your larger scale. What are the Dissertation/Nutrition Through the Life Awarding body: QMU. Please see the time on developing your individual social, political, cultural and Course/Disease Aetiology and International: IELTS score of 6.0 with ‘External review’ section on pages 8-9. research project. You will choose an Management/Clinical Nutrition/ no element below 5.5 environmental factors affecting elective module that interests you; Epidemiology in Public Health/ Exchange opportunities: In Years Two Ryan Lee what we eat? How can either Health Entrepreneurship or Volunteering Experience Required subjects: Chemistry or or Three you have the opportunity to BSc (Hons) Nutrition nutritionists use evidence to Nutrition in Practice, which allows you Biology and preferably one other study for one semester at a university support behaviour change at the opportunity to develop a nutritional Year Three science (may include Maths or Home overseas (subject to availabilty). For After thoroughly enjoying his time on an individual, community and intervention in a population group of Economics) at Higher/A Level or more information, see pages 22—23. the BSc (Hons) Nutrition, Ryan realised population level? What are the your choice. Disease Aetiology and Management/ equivalent AND Chemistry, Biology, that he wanted to get into teaching and most current issues in the field Dissertation/Nutrition Through the Maths and English at Nat 5 GCSE. Placements: Practical learning in decided to continue his studies and of nutrition? Life-course (plus tutorials in Research real-world environments is the perfect put his passion for health and wellbeing Mature/Access: We welcome way to consolidate your skills. In Year into practice by enrolling on our new Structure Techniques for Nutrition)/Epidemiology If we are what we eat, then nutrition in Public Health/ Volunteering Module applications from mature students with Three, students will organise their own PGDE Home Economics course. can tell us a lot about who we are, how relevant qualifications in Biology and compulsory volunteering experience. You can take an honours degree over we live and how we can improve the Chemistry or experience. See related This can be in a variety of settings such “I knew the University well, and it was four years or an ordinary degree over Year Four health of society. As a science it looks Access courses: www.qmu.ac.uk/ as schools, community groups, a great place to study, so the decision three years. The modules and options at how food affects the functioning of Current Issues in Nutrition Science/ college-qualifications laboratories, care homes or food and to continue at QMU was for each year are outlined. the living organism. It includes the Food and Nutrition Policy/Honours drink companies. Students may even straightforward for me.” study of food composition, how it is Direct Entry: wish to volunteer overseas. *NB the ordinary degree does not lead Project/plus one of the following two digested and absorbed, the production “My passion for health and wellbeing, to registration with the AfN options: Health Entrepreneurship or of energy, elimination of wastes and all Nutrition in Practice Year Two Teaching staff, class sizes and sport, and nutrition originally attracted the syntheses that are essential for • HNC in a related subject with B in timetables: For more information, me to study the BSc Nutrition course. I growth, maintenance and reproduction The modules listed here are correct at time of the graded unit please see ‘How we teach and how had always thought about teaching, in print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. across the life cycle. Teaching, learning and assessment those offered in 2022. Please check the some sort of capacity, as a career so website for any updates. Year Three when the opportunity arose to continue Course fees: See pages 164—165 In Years One and Two you will forge a You will learn in lectures, seminars, • HND in a related subject with CB my studies at QMU and to become a solid understanding of the biological practical workshops and laboratories. in the graded units Home Economics teacher I jumped at Professional registration/accreditation: sciences. You will learn the Outside these timetabled sessions you the chance and have not looked back The course is accredited by the AfN. As fundamental principles of nutrition and will be expected to continue learning For details of related HNC and HND since.” a graduate you will be eligible to integrate this with knowledge of other through self-study. You will be courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ register on the Voluntary Register of related disciplines. Modules will help assessed by a variety of methods. For college-qualifications “In the Nutrition course I enjoyed Nutritionists with the AfN. you to develop core study and full details see the course entry on our learning about the contemporary food Other requirements: You may be professional skills as well as laboratory website. issues, sustainability and the many and investigative (information requested to be immunised against Careers: Our graduates work across a health-related issues and inequalities technology and research) expertise. Hepatitis B. Students may require a number of sectors including that Scotland faces today. Taking part PVG check for the Volunteering government, third-sector and private in an Honours project at a primary module.COURSE QUALITY companies. school where I was able to teach SATISFACTION children about the journey of food and food sustainability was another 100% highlight.” NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 108 109 Interview with Valeria Cherici— BSc (Hons) Nutrition

About you The course Life as a student What’s your ‘top tip’ for making the most of being a student? Why did you choose to study at QMU? What did you most enjoy about your Were you a part of any extracurricular course? programmes during your time as a Marks are important, but what you do Health Sciences For me it was important to be at a student at QMU? in your extracurricular time not only university where students are One of the highlights of the course was enriches your CV, it helps you to supported and not just numbers filling the opportunity in the third and fourth During my time as a student I have explore the many available a classroom. When I came to visit QMU years to meet a vast number of enjoyed trying different extracurricular opportunities and create a network, for the first time I liked the small size of professionals from all different fields of activities to gain hands-on experience. which can help you understand what the University, which immediately made nutrition. I found it inspiring to listen to I started by volunteering as a helper at you like the most. You would be it feel like a community. When I spoke one of my lecturers talking about her QMU for laboratory activities with surprised to see where an email, a with students coming from different experience in the field of community children from primary schools, which seminar or an informal chat can lead countries and lecturers at the open day, projects and a visiting lecturer about gave me the opportunity to learn how you to. If you want to make the most of I had the impression that QMU was her experience in food policy. These to tailor my knowledge for a very young being a student, do not be afraid to ask inclusive and that there was not a two seminars gave more structure to public. Then, thanks to one of my questions, do reach out, and always hierarchy, meaning that approaching my plans post-graduation and helped lecturers, I came across Cyrenians, a show up. lecturers was not intimidating or hard. me to better understand what I could charity working with people at risk of These are the reasons that four years achieve during my time as a student. becoming homeless. Volunteering with After graduation ago convinced me to study at QMU, them as a cooking assistant for their and these are still the reasons that, in How did your lecturers support your cooking classes had been an eye- What are you plans after graduation? my opinion, make QMU a great place learning? opening experience. Meeting people Tell us about your ambitions and where to study. from different paths of life truly made you see yourself in the future? My lecturers have been very supportive me appreciate the importance of the What interested you about the BSc throughout the course. During the first right to healthy food. Eating healthily is My plans are to gain more experience (Hons) Nutrition? year of the course I did not know not an option when you do not have in the field of health promotion and “One of the highlights of whether it was appropriate to ask for a the cooking knowledge, skills, eventually to work in food policy. I was keen on the BSc (Hons) Nutrition meeting to have a chat about my equipment and/or the means to buy However, as for many of us, my at QMU because of its wide breadth of career plans, because these were not food. There are just so many variables post-graduation plans have been the course was the modules exploring the different aspects questions about a lecture. But I was influencing people’s diet, and many of temporarily affected by the COVID-19 of nutrition (eg clinical science and wrong. Lecturers want you to do well, these depend on the environment pandemic. Nevertheless, there are still opportunity in third and public health) and not focusing on only and not just in terms of marks, but also where we live. So, I decided I wanted opportunities out there, so I have one aspect. Moreover, the course is in terms on your wellbeing and your to be part of the change by working in simply re-routed my path to make the accredited by the AfN, meaning that student experience, therefore, they like the community. I then also started to most of them. I have recently started an fourth years to meet a after graduation, I will be eligible to join to see your interest and are willing to volunteer with People Know How, a internship with a nutrition website, from the UK Voluntary Register of help you. For example, two of my charity developing and delivering plans which I am learning how to write Nutritionists (UKVRN) via the direct lecturers knew I was seeking to support communities. evidence-based articles addressed to vast number of entry application pathway. experience in health promotion, so the general public and how to create thanks to their help I got to participate One more eye-opening experience has new personal relationships with food Why attracted you to study in in two presentations, one to a primary been joining in the QMU Mentoring companies. I have also started a job as professionals from all Edinburgh? school in Edinburgh and one for the Programme. I would recommend this a care assistant. This has been a totally NHS. experience to every student, because new experience for me, which has I come from a small town in Italy, so I having a mentor has been game proven to be tougher than I thought it different fields of had always thought that living in a city changer. Shadowing my mentor during would be. However, learning how to was not for me. However, Edinburgh some of her work meetings at the assist vulnerable people, getting to nutrition.” changed my mind. Edinburgh is a Scottish Parliament and with the AfN know them and being able to make a vibrant city, there is always something were unique opportunities. Her positive change in their lives, make all to do and there are plenty of great expertise and passion for nutrition have the efforts worth it. Although this does cafes and pubs where you can meet been a great inspiration to me and have not reflect my original post-graduation with your friends. Being very active in deepened my interest in working in the plan, I feel very lucky to be a part of the outdoors, I was pleasantly field of food policy. these projects, and I look forward to surprised by the many parks around improving my skills and knowledge to the city, and by the easily accessible put them at service of people in my and beautiful places outside the city career. (eg.the Highlands, Cramond Island and Queensferry). Furthermore, Scottish people are very friendly, and in Edinburgh it does not rain as much as people say. COURSE QUALITY SATISFACTION 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 110 111 If you are seeking a career drawing

on your interests in physical activity,  qmu.ac.uk/Physical-Activity-Health-and-W BSc/BSc (Hons) health and wellbeing, this course will equip you with the skills you need to succeed in a wide range of relevant Physical Activity, roles within different settings. Equally as important, it will kindle your

Health Sciences passion to go out into the world and make a real difference in a field you Health and Wellbeing truly care about.

Everyone knows that being The two years of this programme are Careers: Where do you want to make a physically active is good for designed to build on your previous Modules Entry Requirements Other information difference to the lives of the people in studies. You will develop an your community? Look there, and that health. So why do some people Year Three (first year on campus) This degree focuses on supporting UCAS code: 4F56 find it hard to make positive understanding of working with is where you will make the first steps community groups and organisations students in further education wishing to on the road to a successful career.

choices? How can we use ellbeing such as charities and care homes. Transition to Learning in Higher progress to university. For entry in Duration: 1 or 2 years full-time Recent graduates are putting their science and creativity to Education/ Dissertation/Epidemiology 2022, there will be no Years One or Two support more people to be Studying entrepreneurship, leadership passion into action in voluntary and service development you will learn in Public Health/Health running for this course and students Start date: September 2022 organisations, the NHS, charities, local active and healthy? This is a how to identify community and Entrepreneurship/Integrating Module will join in Year Three. authorities and the sports and leisure fascinating and empowering organisational needs related to health Year Three, Contemporary Practice in Delivery: On campus industries, for example, as a co- subject that needs a broad and wellbeing, and design a Physical Activity, Health and Wellbeing/ Direct Entry: ordinator for Active Schools, or range of knowledge and skills, sustainable solution to a particular Psychosocial Aspects of Health Awarding body: QMU. Please see the developing health and fitness including professional issue. The process and solution you Behaviour Change/Work-based HND in a related subject with CB in the ‘External review’ section on pages programmes for leisure services. communication, leadership, develop will draw on experience from Learning Placement graded units 8—9. You could develop your studies further health promotion and service the community engagement at QMU on our MSc International Year Four development. opportunities and can contribute to For details of related HND courses, Exchange opportunities: N/A Global Health and Development. You work required for your final year see: www.qmu.ac.uk/college- may study other areas such as Honours Project/Work-based learning This degree focuses on supporting Honours project. qualifications Placement: You will be able to get community development or placement/ Understanding Leadership/ students in further education wishing to involved in community-based activities management. progress to university. For entry in Integrating Module Year Four, Physical Other: requirements: A satisfactory in a variety of settings. These could 2022, students will join Year Three. Activity, Health and Wellbeing criminal records check is required. include running exercise classes in public and private organisations, Structure This course is due for revalidation in 2021 You will study the theory and practice and it is likely that modules will change from working with people with learning of promoting healthy behaviours such Students joining this course with an those listed here. Please check the website disabilities, and with organisations as physical activity, and participate in HND can opt to study for an ordinary for any updates. providing services to children or older community engagement activities in degree over one year or an honours adults. You will be expected to different environments with a wide degree over two years. You will demonstrate that you can range of service users. This is a course complete a range of modules each year communicate effectively with people of that will make you think differently as outlined. all ages, with a wide range of physical about the world and the community and mental health capacity. around you. For example, did you know that if you teach a primary school child Teaching staff, class sizes and the very simple skill of catching a ball, Teaching, learning and assessment timetables: For more information, they are more likely to be coordinated, please see ‘How we teach and how to enjoy team sports in high school and You will be taught in lectures, and you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. seminars, and have work based to be active throughout their whole life Why QMU? and less likely to be overweight and learning experience with organisations Course fees: See pages 164—165 unhealthy? off campus. Outside timetabled Learn how to use scientific sessions you will be expected to Professional registration/accreditation: knowledge, creative thinking and continue learning through self-study. N/A your personal passion to make a positive difference in the world. You will be assessed by a combination You will learn first-hand from of written exams, practical professionals and service users demonstrations, oral presentations and from the voluntary, statutory and assignments at the end of each module private health and social care or semester. For full details see the sectors. course entry on our website. COURSE QUALITY You will enjoy becoming an expert in this field, we think the course SATISFACTION should be called ‘Fun, Health and 100% Wellbeing…’ NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 112 113 Responsiveness, dynamicism and

innovation – live event, and to evaluate its outcome. industry is extremely supportive of our these characteristics It offers a four-week work placement in courses, you will benefit from hearing Careers Year Four where you will gain valuable guest lectures from a range of are key to success in applied experience. Events and Festival practitioners and visiting professors. Our IHTM graduates have gone on to Management Management students have an You will gain insights into high-profile successful careers in a variety of public opportunity to undertake a semester companies such as Bacardi, Social sector organisations such as Disney business and abroad as part of Study Abroad in Year Bite, Skyscanner, Google and World, VisitScotland and Three. Edinburgh Airport, whose EventScotland. Many others are management and our representatives have joined us as carving a career pathway with International Hospitality and Tourism visiting speakers recently. Developing Sheraton, Gleneagles, Malmaison and Management contacts and networks is key to gaining Hotel du Vin, Hilton, RF Hotels, as well courses will enable an understanding of the industry, to as many smaller privately owned securing work experience, and to companies in tourism and hospitality. International hospitality and tourism is gaining employment on graduation. Some students have started up their you to develop your a fast-moving and thriving industry own hospitality or tourism business. Many of our students go on to create where you can make a name for Assessment methods vary and include Why QMU? natural talents yourself. There are fabulous a balanced combination of Our Business Management graduates their own businesses. Uniquely, we are proving their worth to companies in have our own BIZ (which hosts opportunities, many of them on our examinations, written reports, essays, QMU’s small scale allows the Queen the UK and internationally and have left start-ups) and Business Gateway doorstep! In Scotland alone the sector presentations and peer assessment. Margaret Business School’s own into sought-after QMU to embark on a wide range of on-campus at QMU. These resources, is worth more than £11 billion and Some of our modules specifically utilise responsive, dynamic and innovative successful careers in various sectors with first-class professional advice they employs more than 218,000 people. Its group work to develop team working delivery of high-quality management such as the financial sector in offer, will help you turn your management expertise. success has created a growing skills and others focus on you as the courses to be coupled with a close organisations such as Royal Bank of entrepreneurial idea into a reality, and demand for highly qualified individual. You will get formative student-tutor working relationship Scotland, Capita, Standard Life that applies equally to all of our professionals, at all levels, to continue feedback as you study, to provide you where students’ interests, aspirations Investment and Lloyds Bank. Many of undergraduate degrees. to develop the sector. Hospitality and with an early indication about the and concerns are central to our activity. tourism is a global industry and a QMU progress you have made and can use our graduates enter management Our fundamental belief is that profitable training programmes in companies Students in Years Three and Four of inspire you and tailor your degree for IHTM degree opens doors for our this feedback to inform your summative business and effective management such as Diageo, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, our courses benefit from QMU’s the final two years by undertaking a students across the world including a assessments. must have a positive impact on people John Lewis and Marks and Spencer. Employer Mentoring programme, which specialism in, Enterprise, Finance or high-quality 20-week hospitality and and on our planet, and this ethos is to Others have set up their own offers the opportunity to meet with Marketing and make your skills stand tourism management internship. be found in all that we teach and in the businesses, entered teaching or taken experienced professionals who have a out. way that we teach it. Our caring their learning further as postgraduate wealth of industrial insight relating to all Invaluable work experience will be We have links with many different Research approach begins with the engagement students. our degrees. The mentee-mentor gained on placement in Year Four, hospitality and tourism organisations we have with our students. worldwide including the Institute of You will be taught by active academics relationship allows students to develop where you will be operating in the best Graduates from our Events and Festival networks and increase their confidence possible environment to learn those Hospitality, the Tourism Society, the who are doing research in their own Our full range of undergraduate Management programme have gone on and employability in their chosen field higher-level management skills required Scottish Tourism Alliance and the right. Some colleagues have recently management degrees are: Hospitality Industry Trust. These completed their doctoral studies, and to participate in a wide range of of study. by tomorrow’s companies, and to professional environments: running consolidate the knowledge acquired connections offer opportunities to others are publishing in mainstream • BA/BA (Hons) Business their own event agencies; working for We are a member of the Chartered throughout your programme of studies. attend conferences and workshops, academic journals. Such engagement Management and to apply for scholarships to spend is key to the relevance of our courses, prestigious international event Association of Business Schools companies; becoming wedding and (CABS), and all of our our (Hons) time abroad. and helps equip staff and students with • BA/BA (Hons) Business event planners at luxury venues; Business Management options are Events and Festival Management the background to make intelligent Management with Enterprise decisions about their future. managing international events such as accredited by the Chartered Institute of the Commonwealth Games; leading in Management Accountants (CIMA). • BA/BA (Hons) Business The UK events industry is an area of Our approach to learning and teaching You will have contact with our growing events technology organisations; Management with Finance growth: it is worth £39.1bn, 35% of the shaping event policy at EventScotland Business Management number of PhD students as you UK visitor economy, and employs Our degrees are modular. In Years One and Edinburgh City Council or pursuing progress through your chosen route of • BA/BA (Hons) Business 530,000 people in 25,000 events and Two core modules in each degree postgraduate degrees in this emerging Business is one of the cornerstones of study. This will allow you the Management with Marketing businesses. Conferences and will give you a grounding in your research field. society. Equipping graduates to interact opportunity to interact in an informal meetings, exhibitions and trade fairs, chosen area. As you progress, you will with a variety of business sectors and collegiate way with those engaged • BA (Hons) Business Management corporate events, outdoor events, begin to learn more about your Some students decide to undertake remains key to the development of in the highest levels of academic (Graduate Apprenticeship) sporting events, music events, cultural particular area and all of our courses further academic study, perhaps at both individual careers and economic activity and perhaps to discover that events and festivals as well as a offer the opportunity to select modules QMU on our MSc International prosperity at a national level. their enthusiasms accord closely with • BA/BA (Hons) Events and Festival plethora of emerging smaller and in which you have a particular interest your own. At QMU the door to Management and Leadership, MSc Management The UK will need 1.9 million new community-based events are all in later years. With all our degrees you academic advancement is an open International Marketing, MSc managers by 2024, according to the booming. can tailor some of your programme of one! Accounting and Finance with CIMA or • BA/BA (Hons) International 2016 Working Futures report. Our study in the later years, choosing MSc Gastronomy, to enhance their Hospitality and Tourism Business Management degrees are Our Events and Festival Management electives from across the As you reach the later stages of business career or as a prelude to Management designed to equip students to become programme has given students undergraduate suite in the Business undergraduate study, there are doctoral research. these managers of tomorrow: leaders in-demand events expertise for over 10 School. opportunities to develop individual who will make a positive contribution in years, and continues to update it is pieces of research through the Honours the public, private and third sectors. In practical and academic elements to You will participate in stimulating project, depending on your programme Year Two or Three of your programme, stay on the pulse of contemporary learning environments from lectures, of study, and those students who you have the opportunity to spend a developments. With a strong emphasis seminars and workshops, to field trips choose further study at master’s or semester studying abroad. In Year on management, the course will and study abroad options. Our courses doctoral level are encouraged to Three you can choose modules that prepare you to lead, plan and deliver a include workplace experience, and, as pursue these interests.

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business management graduates  qmu.ac.uk/Business-Management BA/BA (Hons) who can join their companies and hit the ground running. This degree will give you the theoretical Business Management business knowledge and, crucially,

Management the practical experience you need to make your professional mark from day one. You will also have the opportunity to study abroad*.

Let’s talk business. When you Whichever business management path Specialist Business career options and gained a solid and Institutions/Organisational study for a degree in business you take, you will be equipped with the Modules Management degrees foundation in the core principles of Behaviour/ Project Management/ business management. Entrepreneurial Finance management at QMU you will skills employers are looking for, Year One negotiation, project management, BA/BA (Hons) Business Management gain a deep understanding of the Year Three modules Year Four modules nature and core functions of problem solving, critical thinking and Year One is designed as an introductory Our Business Management course will businesses. How do successful team working. year, which will not only introduce you to give you a solid foundation in the core New Enterprise Creation/Research Strategy as Practice/Placement/ key subject matter in business, but will Methods and Skills/ Organisational Corporate Finance/Current Issues in companies manage their Your practical business expertise will be principles of business management, allow you to develop the skills and Behaviour/ Project Management/ Accounting and Finance/Dissertation or resources? What is the best way honed by placements, guest speakers including marketing, human resource learning techniques required in university Entrepreneurial Finance/One elective Finance Project to make an organisation from the business world, business management, finance, economics and level education. operations management. Years Three module environmentally sustainable? projects and the creation of your own BA/BA (Hons) Business Management and Four examine business themes at a What marks out a successful business plan. You will also have the Modules are: Introduction to Marketing/ Year Four modules with Marketing entrepreneur? opportunity (subject to availability) in Introduction to Economics/Introduction more strategic level and you can choose three electives from a range of modules Strategy as Practice/Placement/Critical What makes customers buy from a You can study a general Years Two or Three to study for one to Business in Society/Introduction to semester at a university overseas in Finance and Accounting/Introduction to on offer. In Year Four, you will undertake Issues in International Management/ business? How can self-promotion make business management degree or a placement and a practical, business- Critical Issues in SME and Family a company more profitable? Our BA (after two years of general study) North America, Canada, Hong Kong, Management/ Entrepreneurship Europe, New Zealand or Australia. focused piece of independent work in an Business/Dissertation or Business (Hons) Business Management with decide to focus your learning on Year Two area of your choice. Studying a general Project Marketing will help you develop a the enterprise, finance or business management degree will allow specialised understanding of marketing Operations Management/Business Law/ marketing elements of business you more flexibility to take advantage of BA/BA (Hons) Business Management theory and practice, when honing your Live Business Event/Human Resource management. Structure the wide range of career options open to with Finance core business management skills. In Management/ Digital Business and graduates in this field. Years Three and Four you will take People do business with people. If you You can study for an honours degree E-Commerce Management/Negotiation At the heart of every successful business modules that further develop your have first-class management skills and over four years or an ordinary degree Year Three modules is an accomplished finance team. Our BA marketing knowledge. In addition, in Year practical expertise, people are going to over three years. You will complete a Years Three and Four (Hons) Business Management with Four you’ll undertake a marketing want to be in business with you. The best range of modules each year as outlined New Enterprise Creation/Research Finance is a specialist finance pathway From Year Three you can choose which placement and a practical piece of companies will want you. That is why our opposite. Methods and Skills/Organisational that will give you the contemporary route in business management you wish independent work to expand your business management options are Behaviour/ Project Management/Two theory and practice you need to carve a to specialise in. Modules are tailored to marketing expertise to a relevant designed to give you the knowledge and elective modules career in business finance and each route, see page 117 for more business context. The route is designed skills that you need to thrive as a management. In Years Three and Four Teaching, learning and assessment information. Year Four modules to increase your career options by business leader and manager in the modules will be tailored to your chosen providing you with a solid foundation in fast-moving marketplaces of tomorrow. *Subject to availability Strategy as Practice/ Placement/ Critical route in finance. In addition, in Year Four You will be taught in lectures, seminars core principles of business and practical workshops. Outside these Issues in International Management/One you will undertake a finance placement All students enrol on the general management. formally timetabled sessions you will be Elective Module/Dissertation or Business and a practical, finance-based piece of business management degree for Years expected to continue learning through Project independent work to develop your Year Three modules One and Two. This is when you will build self-study. You will be assessed by a finance expertise in a relevant business a strong foundation in core business BA/BA (Hons) Business Management range of methods such as written exams, context. The route is designed to New Enterprise Creation/Research management areas, marketing, with Enterprise reports, poster presentations, business increase your career options by providing Methods and Skills/Experiential economics, finance, human resource plans, live pitch, group presentations and you with a solid foundation in core Marketing and Consumer Behaviour/ management, entrepreneurship, digital Are you bubbling with new business negotiation role play. principles of business management. This Organisational Behaviour/Project business and law. ideas? Are you prepared to do the hard work that will make them a success? Our route is fully accredited by the Chartered Management/Advertising and Institute of Management Accountants Marketing Communications In Year Three you’ll choose which of the BA (Hons) Business Management with (CIMA). This allows graduates from this four named routes you wish to specialise Enterprise will help you finesse your route to gain an accelerated route to the Year Four modules towards. You can study for a general entrepreneurial talents. In Years Three CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting business management degree or focus and Four, you can pick the modules best Strategy as Practice/Placement/Critical and CIMA Professional Qualification, on one particular area such as enterprise, suited to your passion for enterprise. Issues in International Marketing/ through exemption from six professional finance or marketing. This will allow you Year Four will probably be a particular Strategic Marketing Management/ highlight for you, as you will go on a live exams. Dissertation or Business Project to graduate with a specialist award, for COURSE QUALITY example in BA (Hons) Business business placement and take the reins of Year Three modules The modules listed here are correct at time of Management with Enterprise. an SATISFACTIONoriginal, enterprise-focused piece of print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to independent work. By the end of the New Enterprise Creation/Research those offered in 2022. Please check the course100% you will have broadened your Methods and Skills/Financial Markets website for any updates. NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 116 117

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Careers: This is a degree that works. In Entry requirements Other information general management, marketing, sales management, logistics, financial services, Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBC UCAS code: N100 operations management and human Minimum: BCCC resources management, our graduates Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time are proving their worth to companies in A Level: BCC the UK and internationally. Graduates Start date: September 2022 have also set up their own businesses or Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H3 H3 H3 taken their learning even further as Delivery: On campus postgraduate students. International Baccalaureate: 28 points Awarding body: QMU. Please see the International: IELTS of 6.0 with no ‘External review’ section on pages 8—9. element lower than 5.5 Exchange opportunities: In Years Two or Required subjects: English Required Three you have the opportunity (subject and Maths preferred at Nat 5/GCSE to availability) to study for one semester at a university overseas, in Europe, North Mature/Access: Related Access America or Australia. For more course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ information, see pages 22—23. college-qualifications Placement: You will complete a We welcome applications from mature four-week placement in Year Four. students with other relevant Students are responsible for sourcing a qualifications and/or experience. placement host organisation, which can be in the UK or abroad. To help with the Direct Entry: process, we hold a speed interview event on campus to match students with hosts Year Two offering placements. • HNC in a related subject with B in the graded unit Teaching staff, class sizes and timetables: For more information, Why QMU? • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced please see ‘How we teach and how Placements give you the optimum Higher in relevant subjects plus you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. BB at Higher balance of practical and • A Level: BBB in relevant subjects Course fees: See pages 164—165 theoretical learning. Professional registration/accreditation: Smaller class sizes mean you will We are a member of CABS, and all of get close support and guidance Year Three our our Business Management options from staff who get to know you. • HND in a related subject with CB are accredited by the CIMA and Graduate with a range of in the graded unit graduates can get four papers, certificate level exemptions from CIMA. transferable business skills which For details of related HNC and HND are highly sought after by courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ employers. college-qualifications Tailor your degree in Years Three and Four and study business COURSE QUALITY management with another subject SATISFACTION – enterprise, finance or marketing 100% – and make your skills stand out. NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 118 119 Interview with Austin Noble: BA (Hons) Business Management graduate

About you The course Do you have any advice for students Life as a Student at QMU After graduation who might be interested in this course? What did you enjoy most about your What’s your ‘top tip’ for making the Can you tell us about your life post- Management Why did you choose to study at QMU and what attracted you to the course? course? 100% go for it. I saw school friends go most of being a student? graduation (your career path, notable straight into employment and start to achievements)? The main attraction to QMU for me was I enjoyed the mixture of the modules earn money, which was hard! But as My top tip is to embrace the social side the smaller class sizes compared with that we were taught. I also enjoyed the the years went on, I was so glad I went of QMU and the academic. I have After graduation, I decided to progress other universities and also the location various guest lecturers we were treated to QMU. When applying for jobs in made friends for life and we are still in in my studies. I completed a master’s of the campus. The smaller class sizes to throughout the course, they were 2019 it was apparent to me almost all daily contact two years on. Combine degree in international business. I then made it so much easier to build great! business related jobs I applied for this with achieving an honours degree secured a full-time position at Diageo, relationships with my peers and the required a degree. You will have days and it is a winning combo! The beating 40 other candidates to the teaching staff alike. The location of the Were there any particular course when you question your academic memories that are made at university post. Diageo are the world’s largest campus is fantastic, there is plenty of activities you found especially journey, but stick with it. And the jewel do not leave you. alcoholic drinks producer who own and space to go for a stroll and let your hair interesting? in the crown is standing on the stage at produce brands such as Guinness, down if its been a long day! the Usher Hall and accepting your What was the most valuable lesson that Smirnoff vodka and Gordons gin. A lot of the teaching staff have strong degree, a memory that will last a you learned at university? industry backgrounds. The teaching is lifetime! When participating in the interview the very engaging and often in lectures, In one word confidence. panel was extremely intrigued about lecturers homed in on their past Did you win any awards/scholarship/ my time at QMU. They were impressed experiences that made the learning so internships that helped you develop QMU allows you to really enhance your by how relatable some of the modules much more engaging and relatable to skills and experience? interpersonal skills and over the length were to Diageo’s operations. the real world. Pair this with a strong of the course the personal growth that “Through the academic timetable and you a have a Through the support of a lecturer, I can be achieved is fantastic. You meet I secured a job within the organisation’s winning combo. secured an internship at Diageo. The people from various backgrounds and international supply chain function. I lecturer spent endless hours with me nations. I have made friends with peers am a supply planner primarily working support How did your lecturers support your perfecting my application and really all over Europe and enjoyed many a trip with third party companies who learning? made a difference. I honestly do not visiting them in their hometowns. By produce limited edition products based think I would be in the position I am in enhancing these skills when you go on some of the most famous brands in of a lecturer, By having smaller class sizes today without the support they offered into the work place it makes it 10 times the world. Including Johnnie Walker, compared with some of the larger me. easier to engage and present yourself Tanqueray 10 and Ciroc Vodka. universities in Edinburgh, getting in accordingly. I secured an contact with the teaching staff was The various challenges I face are made so much easier. It was as simple working with markets throughout the as emailing whoever you thought was world, planning and working closely best to help with your query and there with various stakeholders. Without the internship at wasn’t one time that I did not get a skills I developed at QMU, I honestly reply or pointed in the right direction. do not think I would be able to do the When I compared this experience with role I am in today. Diageo ” those of some of my friends who went to different universities, they couldn’t This role allows me to be the face of believe this was the case at QMU. one of the largest companies in the world and going forward my options for What challenges did you face with the progression include Amsterdam and course and/or university life? London.

The main challenge I encountered Anything else you’d like to share about came to light in my final year. life at QMU or as a graduate? Undertaking your first independent research project (dissertation) can be My closing words would be for anyone daunting to anyone! By having such a who is two minds and may feel strong peer group that I built university is not for them. I had these throughout my time at QMU we thoughts before applying. Looking supported each other through this time. back on my time and reflecting it is I honestly don’t think I would be where clear to me that QMU is for everyone I am today without the support from my from any background. You will come peers! out of your time at university stronger, more confident, outgoing, and a real problem solver. If I could go back and COURSE QUALITY do it all again, I would in a heartbeat and I am pretty sure all of the friends I SATISFACTION made would too! 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 120 121 Our Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) “This programme is a fantastic

 qmu.ac.uk/Business-Management-Graduate-Appr BA/BA (Hons) allows you to ‘work, earn and opportunity for employees to get a learn’ by studying for a degree business management when continuing in your degree and apply their new knowledge, employment. It is a practical and Business Management first hand, in the workplace.” integrated way to launch a new Management

career or develop expertise with Alice Thompson (Graduate Apprenticeship) your current employer, who will Co-founder and Director of Social Bite benefit from having highly skilled, more motivated and ambitious employees. How can the businesses of Your fellow GAs will likely come from tomorrow function better? very different organisations and have a Teaching, learning and assessment Entry requirements Other information range of experience. This provides a What is the best way for You will be taught in lectures, seminars organisations to manage their stimulating and rewarding stage in your Scottish Higher: BBBC UCAS code: N/A professional and personal and practical workshops. Outside resources and break into new development, and a unique networking these timetabled sessions you will be Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time markets? How important is the opportunity. expected to continue learning through How to apply business manager in driving self-study. Start date: September 2022 this success? Whatever Rewarding for employers The BA/BA (Hons) Business industry you work in, and no Management (Graduate Delivery: On campus enticeship Visit www.qmu.ac.uk/schools-and- Apprenticeship) is available if you are matter how experienced you Modules are, a GA degree in Business divisions/beam/graduate- currently living and working in Scotland Awarding body: QMU. Please see the apprenticeships/ for more background and working on a full-time or part-time ‘External review’ section on pages 8—9. Management at QMU will equip Year One information on the GA Scheme at QMU basis. You can apply if you are aged 16 you with the skills and including the great benefits for or over and there is no maximum age Marketing/Business in Society/Finance Exchange opportunities: N/A expertise you need to meet employers as well as students. limit. If you have already completed a and Accounting/ Management/ these challenges – and more. degree with SAAS funding, you could Work-based Learning and Management Placement: You will continue to work in still do a GA, particularly if it is a career Development your current role when you study. This Rewarding for you as a student change to something new. will help you develop your learning into Structure Year Two practical, real-world business expertise. Studying our BA/BA (Hons) Business If you are a school leaver or not in Management (Graduate You can opt to study for an honours Operations Management/Business employment but think that a GA could Teaching staff, class sizes and Apprenticeship) will boost your degree over four years or an ordinary be for you, you can apply the same timetables: For more information, professional development and degree over three years. You will Law/Human Resource Management/ Digital Business and E-Commerce way you would apply for a job. The please see ‘How we teach and how employability. You will study the same complete a range of modules each year vacancies are advertised on the you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. core modules as full-time Business as outlined. By the end of Year Four, Management/Work-based Learning and Management Development Apprenticeships Scotland website at: Management students, covering core you will graduate with a BA (Hons) www.apprenticeships.scot. Course fees: This course is fully funded management areas such as marketing, Business Management (Graduate by Skills Development Scotland. Year Three business law, research methods and Apprenticeship). However, there are Typically, we would expect a minimum Professional registration/ accreditation: strategy. There will be work-based subsidiary exit points in Years One to Why QMU? Critical Issues in SME and Family of four Scottish Highers (or equivalent). N/A learning modules throughout your Three. If you exit at any of these points Business/New Enterprise Creation/ Your application will be assessed on an Learn the higher level degree, allowing you to complete you will be awarded the relevant Project Management/Organisational individual basis, taking into account Careers: You will already be employed, so management skills that projects designed to support your certification. Behaviour/ Work-based Learning and any previous industry experience you you won’t suddenly hit the job market like tomorrow’s companies will need, employer’s business goals and Management Development may have. If you have already most graduates do. You will be able to and consolidate that knowledge objectives. You will benefit from completed a Foundation or Modern take the theoretical understanding you with real-life work experience. guidance, mentoring and one-to-one Year Four Apprenticeship in a related subject, this have learnt in your degree and apply it supervision provided by our academic We offer a friendly and supportive will also contribute towards meeting directly to challenges in your workplace. staff in support with your employer learning environment at our Strategy as Practice/Critical Issues in the entry requirements. From there, your goal will be to use your mentor. purpose-built campus that has International Management/Work-based new skills to step your career up to the Learning and Management superb facilities for learning, Each year of the GA programme is next level. Development/Business Project teaching, living and fun. structured around two 11-week We use a range of innovative semesters. You will attend lectures, The modules listed here are correct at time of teaching methods from work- seminars and workshops on campus print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to based learning to an online virtual one day a week during term time. those offered in 2022. Please check the website for any updates. learning environment, which will Outside of this formal campus time you support the GA programme. will continue to develop your expertise in your workplace and through Your learning fits around your independent study of around six hours work commitments. per week.

122 123 An event is like an iceberg, and the The hugely successful homelessness initiative ‘Sleep in The Park’

performance that the audience sees on  qmu.ac.uk/Events-and-Festival-Management BA/BA (Hons) stage is just the tip. Behind that lies 90% was organised by Social Bite, an organisation co-founded of unseen hard work done by the events by a former QMU Events Management student, Alice Thompson. manager and their team. On this course Events and Festival you will learn about the nature of events

Management and how to design, manage and deliver them. You will gain invaluable practical skills running a live event and consulting Management with events industry partners and have the opportunity to study abroad*.

Could you plan, deliver and and sports days, often raising Year Four Year Three Careers: You will have the in-demand thousands of pounds for charities in the Teaching, learning and assessment skills and confidence to kick-start your orchestrate an event such as a Business and Events Placement/ • HND in a related subject with CB music festival? Where would process. You will critically consider the You will be taught in lectures, seminars in the graded unit career with a role in events management, purpose of events and their political and Strategy as Practice/Critical Issues in festival management, sporting events you start? What would you need and practical sessions. Outside these International Management/ International social impacts. timetabled sessions you will be For details of related HNC and HND management and many other interesting to consider? You will know all Events and Festival Leadership and fields. Recent graduates are carving out this by Year Two of this course. Years Three and Four will deepen your expected to continue learning through Social Justice/Dissertation courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ self-study. college-qualifications impressive careers as General Manager, By Year Three you will understanding of how events and The modules listed here are correct at time of Events Coordinator, Performer Co- understand who your audience festivals relate to national and You will be assessed by various forms of print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to ordinator, Conference and Events international strategic issues, such as those offered in 2022. Please check the is and what makes them return assessment: essays, reports, event website for any updates. Manager, Events Executive at and promote your event for you. how cities use events for image bids, industry consultancy, investigative Other information VisitScotland, Events and Groups development and investment purposes. presentations, online portfolios, Executive at Apex Hotels and Front of The events business has grown You will look at audience development academic blogs, placements and live Entry requirements UCAS code: N291 House Supervisor at the Edinburgh exponentially in the last 20 years, from and engagement, why do some ideas event delivery. For more details see the International Conference Centre. pop-up food fairs to corporate events, catch on instantly when others fade into course entry on our website. Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBC Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time fashion shows to festivals such as obscurity? This is when you will refine the focus of your learning, choosing the Minimum: BCCC Glastonbury and school sports days to Start date: September 2022 Why QMU? the London Olympics. Events help drive elective modules that you are most Modules A Level: BCC the strategies of businesses, charities passionate about. You will undertake a Delivery: On campus You can gain invaluable and public bodies, and there is now a consultancy project for an events experience working in Edinburgh’s Year One Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H3 H3 H3 growing cadre of supremely capable industry partner. If you continue to Awarding body: QMU. Please see the many festivals and other large events professionals. They know all honours, you will develop leadership Introduction to Events and Festival international events on your International Baccalaureate: 28 points ‘External review’ section on pages 89. about planning, management, legal skills in international events and Management/Introduction to Marketing/ doorstep. issues, budgeting, staging, marketing, examine how events contribute to social Events and Festival Destination International: IELTS of 6.0 with no *Exchange opportunities: In Years Two We have superb links with active promotions, evaluation and social justice. You will complete a dissertation Development/Introduction to Finance element lower than 5.5 or Three, you have the opportunity professionals in the field, with in an area of your choice and undertake and Accounting/Digital Content responsibility. This course will teach you (subject to availability) to study for one renowned visiting professors and a placement within the events industry, Creation/Events and Wellbeing these skills and give you that experience semester at a university overseas. For guest speakers from organisations preparing you for graduation and your Required subjects: English required and more. more information, see pages 22—23. including Marketing Edinburgh future career. Year Two and Maths preferred at Nat 5/GCSE You will also learn how to think critically and The Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Events and Festival with Purpose/ Placement: In Year Four you will about issues such as sustainability, Finally, you will be learning all of this on Mature/Access: Related Access The balance of theory and crime, social justice, inclusion and what a campus just six minutes by train from Events and Festival Project course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ undertake a placement within the events Management, Design and Operations/ industry. practical experience will prepare happens when the party is over. There the heart of the city with the biggest arts college-qualifications you to work in a variety of events are political considerations too, as many festival on earth. Business Law/Human Resource Teaching staff, class sizes and and festival management roles in events and festivals are used to Management/Digital Business and We welcome applications from mature The really big event of your life, your timetables: For more information, the UK and abroad. encourage tourism, regenerate E-Commerce Management/Live Event: students with relevant qualifications career, starts here! please see ‘How we teach and how communities and stimulate local Production and Evaluation and/or experience. you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. economies such as our own world- Year Three famous Edinburgh festivals. Leading Direct Entry: Course fees: Please see pages 164—165 industry figures will bring your learning Structure Events and Urban Regeneration/ to life in guest lectures and networking Consumer Motivations, Events and Year Two Professional registration/accreditation: You can opt to study for an honours opportunities. Festival Experiences/New Enterprise • HNC in a related subject with B in N/A degree over four years or an ordinary Creation/International Events and the graded unit In Years One and Two you will focus on degree over three years. You will Festival Employability/Research the specifics of events and festivals complete a range of modules each year Methods and Skills/Plus one elective • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced management, plus general management as outlined. module (Attractions Management/ Higher in relevant subjects plus skills such as marketing, accounting Advertising and Marketing BB at Higher and human resources. In Year Two you Communications/Contemporary Food • COURSEA Level: BBB QUALITY in relevant subjects will put theory into action when you plan and Drink/Entrepreneurial Finance/ and deliver a live event. Our students Sustainable Development) SATISFACTION have organised unforgettable fashion shows, music nights, charity dinners 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 124 125 Tyler Norrie: BA (Hons) Events Management*

Tyler is 22 years old and from Why QMU? How did you feel about coming to Edinburgh. After she got the chance QMU?

Management to run an event at work, she realised Why did you choose QMU and this she wanted to pursue a career in particular degree course? I was nervous and scared that I events management. She did an wouldn’t do well. After not doing well at apprenticeship to get the grades for I helped to organise an event at my school, and struggling to get to college, college and then passed her HNC work and that’s when I realised that I thought I was out of my depth and then HND in Events organising events was what I wanted to applying to QMU. My perceptions have Management. This provided her with do as a career. I chose to study at changed enormously since then. the qualifications to move directly in QMU because I didn’t really want to Year Three of the BA (Hons) Events study away from home and QMU was How did you settle into university life? Management at QMU. Tyler was closed to where I lived. I also went on a What support networks/initiatives were concerned she was not university field trip to QMU with my college class. in place to help you get to grips with material, but with determination and The Events Management professor was university level education and general the help and support of QMU’s one of the speakers at the conference student life? student services team and her PAT, and he really inspired me to further my she is performing well on her course education. After the visit, I knew I The Direct Entry Induction Week was and developing a passion for the wanted to progress in Events incredibly helpful, mostly because events industry. Management at QMU. ex-direct entry students were there to offer advice and guidance. All QMU The course Any advice for students who might be After graduation She tells us more about her work in What did you do before coming to students are allocated a PAT and my interested in this course? the industry and her experience of QMU? Were you at college? PAT really was a great help. I knew I What was the most interesting part of What would you like to do once you studying in further and higher could turn to him for advice and the course? Go for it! The course is interesting and graduate? education. I was at Edinburgh College and I support on my work. I also had a fun. studied Events Management, HNC and mentor for my dyslexia who helped me The core events modules are really I want to work in the private sector, HND. adopt strategies to overcome my interesting. I really enjoyed learning Did you undertake any paid/voluntary perhaps organising corporate events, difficulties. about events and regeneration, like work and if so, how did you juggle the but I am open minded and would be Did you face any particular challenges how events can help to enhance a demands of this with study/family life delighted to try difference experiences in your educational journey before What were the most useful/helpful city’s image and legacy. I also found etc? within the events sector. coming to QMU? services that you used at QMU? global justice and events really interesting, knowing about the dark I worked part-time with Volunteer Are you currently working? I didn’t do very well in school, in fact, I My PAT was very helpful. QMU has a side of events such as the lack of Edinburgh. At first, it was two days per didn’t get the entry qualifications to Wellbeing Adviser, who is part of the human rights, it was a real eye opener. week (14 hours) but once I went into I’m currently working full-time with undertake a HNC. However, I was Student Services Team. I often met fourth year I asked to decrease my Festivals Edinburgh. I am assisting the employed and they realised how with her and she really helped me get What were the course challenges and hours to one day a week. It was Project Manager on the delivery of the determined I was to further my through difficult times. what do you consider to be your challenging but manageable. It was Festival City Volunteer programme. My education. As a result, they put me on successes? great that my employer was very job entails promotion, recruiting and a modern apprenticeship programme in encouraging of my studies and offered managing volunteers, managing order to satisfy the entry requirements The reading. There was a lot of reading me a level of flexibility. It was also volunteer hubs and assisting the for college. I never thought I would to do compared to college and I was beneficial for me to undertake work Project Manager with any other tasks. continue with my education at struggling to keep up with it all. that was in the same capacity as my university until I realised that I was able However, I was later diagnosed with degree. Would you consider further study? to complete the work successfully. Dyslexia, which explained a lot of the doubts I had and some of the struggles Extra curriculur activities Yes, but not right now. I would like to I was experiencing. The help I received gain more experience in the field first. from QMU’s disability team was great I helped with Direct Entry week. I was and it meant that I learned to develop one of the assistants, wearing the strategies to help me keep up with the green t-shirts and directing new reading. students to their timetabled sessions. I * The course was renamed ‘Events and was also a Student Leader with the Festival Management for entry in Can you share what opportunities you new Peer Assisted Learning Scheme 2019 onwards. had to develop practical skills relating (PALS). It’s where students in the year to your course? above facilitate sessions to the year below on modules. We help the I worked part-time at Volunteer students with planning their work and Edinburgh as the Events Co-ordinator, give advice and techniques to help so that was great experience for me to them tackle seminar work and gain while studying the same subject. assignments. COURSE QUALITY SATISFACTION 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 126 127 Want to be a leader in a “I was attracted by the opportunity of a placement as part of the degree.

fascinating and fast-growing  qmu.ac.uk/Inter BA/BA (Hons) global industry? On this course I knew it would give me the chance to put my learning into practice. you will learn the business I’m so glad I chose QMU, as the staff helped me secure a course management skills that the best employers in international placement in the USA which turned International Hospitality hospitality and tourism are out to be one of the best experiences of my life!” Management

looking for, enjoy close support national-Hospitality-and-Tourism-Management and supervision from our staff Matthew Davidson and gain practical experience BA (Hons) International Hospitality and Tourism Management and Tourism Management on a 20-week internship in the UK or abroad.

The hospitality and tourism In Year Three you will deepen your sector is worth £11 billion to understanding of a range of Teaching, learning and assessment Entry requirements Other information management techniques and how they the Scottish economy alone, You will be taught in lectures, seminars Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBC UCAS code: N890 supporting 14,000 tourism will help you run a successful business; from building a start-up company to and practical workshops. Outside Minimum: BCCC enterprises. As a graduate of designing a hospitality or tourism these timetabled sessions you will be Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time our international hospitality and space. expected to continue learning through A Level: BCC tourism management degree self-study. You will be assessed by a Start date: September 2022 you will be at the forefront of What are the biggest challenges that variety of methods during each Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H3 H3 H3 semester. For full details see the course Delivery: On campus these exciting industries. You hospitality and tourism managers face Why QMU? today? How do you successfully lead entry on our website. International Baccalaureate: 28 points will gain a thorough theoretical Awarding body: QMU. Please see the people in a highly competitive sector? The course, in partnership with understanding of the political, International: IELTS of 6.0 with no ‘External review’ section on pages economic and social factors at In Year Four, you will learn to Dakota Hotels, has a unique understand wider strategic issues and element lower than 5.5 8—9. work in the industry, and what Modules Student Experience Fund that will develop your ideas into a helps pay for a range of extra- they will mean for you as a Required subjects: Maths and English Exchange opportunities: In Years Two dissertation in an area that you are curricular student activities across Year One at Nat 5/GCSE level are preferred or Three, you will have the opportunity manager of the future. passionate about. You will have the the four-year course. Enjoy lunch to study overseas (subject to flexibility and support required in your in a Michelin star restaurant, trips You will learn hands-on how to manage Introduction to Marketing/Introduction Mature/Access: Related Access availability) for one semester. Find out final year at QMU to progress to the to a range of visitor attractions money, resources and talent in a to Tourism/ Introduction to Hospitality/ course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ more on pages 22—23. next stages of your career, be that and even taste the produce on a fast-moving hospitality and tourism Introduction to Finance & Accounting/ college-qualifications hospitality, tourism or academia. In brewery and distillery tour as part environment. Food continues to be a Management for Hospitality and Placements: You will complete a paid addition, you will engage with the Tourism/Entrepreneurship of Hospitality of your studies at QMU. cornerstone of the hospitality industry. significant contemporary issues of We welcome applications from mature 20-week internship in Year Two, in the and Tourism Our classes are small compared You will be working with a range of food sustainability and social justice within students with relevant qualifications or UK or overseas. Our tutors will help with some other universities, so professionals, creating menus, learning hospitality and tourism. The IHTM experience. you prepare for this invaluable Year Two you will enjoy more personal about food and, importantly, how you degree covers it all. real-world experience and we will set put profit on a plate. As a manager of Direct Entry: up interviews on campus to make engagement with lecturers. We the future you need to appreciate the Operations Management/IHTM finding the perfect host organisation as will know you by name and help At QMU we have a strong commitment Internship/Market Diversification in wider strategic picture, and the course to social justice and the environment. Year Two straightforward as possible. Several manage your learning from your develops understanding of the political, Hospitality and Tourism/ Human bursaries are available to help with first lecture to graduation. The academic team believe Resources Management/ Digital • HNC in a related subject with B in economic and social forces driving the costs. More people visit Edinburgh than passionately that business can make Business and eCommerce Futures/ the graded unit hospitality and tourism industry forward. any other UK city after London, good profits, maintain a focus on the Revenue Management in Hospitality Teaching staff, class sizes and and you will study on a campus people they serve and play a positive and Tourism • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced In Year One you will study a broad range role in the future of our environment. Higher in relevant subjects plus timetables: For more information, that is six minutes from the centre of modules that will enable you to not please see ‘How we teach and how This ethos is woven throughout the Year Three BB at Higher of town. It is the perfect place to only learn a wide range of tourism course and the team believe that this you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. learn your tourism and hospitality theories and concepts, but also approach leaves our graduates in a • A Level: BBB in relevant subject management trade. practical and vocational skills including New Enterprise Creation/Business Course fees: See pages 164—165 very strong position to manage Research Methods/Tourism in Our graduates are usually in food service and preparation and group businesses in the future. Year Three leadership. You will connect with Developing Economies/People, Planet Careers: Whether you want to work for employment or further training • HND in a related subject with CB hospitality and tourism environments by and Profit/Design for Hospitality and a major global hotel brand in Dubai, soon after graduating and many in the graded unit visiting sites to enhance experience and Tourism/ plus one elective module manage the success of a tourism are making names for themselves understanding. business in Scotland or launch a in highly respected hospitality and Structure For details of related HNC and HND Year Four start-up that will change the way the tourism businesses, in the UK and courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ In Year Two you will focus on industry works. This course will give across the world, including You can choose to study an honours Strategy and Practice/Dissertation/ college-qualifications management skills, in theory and the you the competence and confidence to DisneyWorld, Hilton, Malmaison, degree over four years or an ordinary International Destination Management real world. We will help you prepare for a take the challenge on and shape the VisitScotland and Gleneagles. degree over three. You will complete a and Marketing/International Leadership challenging and rewarding 20-week future of hospitality and tourism. The course gained ‘96% overall range of modules each year as for Hospitality and Tourism/ COURSE QUALITY internship in the UK or overseas. outlined. satifaction’ in the National Student Contemporary Issues in Hospitality and SATISFACTION Survey (NSS) 2020. Tourism The modules listed here are correct at time of print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to those offered in 2022. Please check the website for any updates. 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 128 129 Interview with Michael Truffelli: BSc (Hons) International Hospitality and Tourism Management graduate

Michael Truffelli readily admits that Why did you choose to study in the city What have been some of your QMU and International Hospitality in which your university is based? challenges with the course and and Tourism Management (IHTM) university life? How have you overcome Management were not on the agenda when he Edinburgh is close to home for me but them? was weighing up his options for it is also our country’s capital that higher education. The decision to created a huge appeal for me as I was A main challenge for me has been study at QMU, however, turned out eager at the age of 17 to experience life pushing myself to constantly read to be a blessing in disguise and has in a bigger city. academic material when there is not a provided him with the opportunity to specific requirement to do so. In my work in Beijing, take up a role as The course school years, I was accustomed to Asian Ambassador for a prestigious reading only what was necessary to Edinburgh hotel, and be well on his What have you most enjoyed about pass the corresponding assessments. way to fluency in Mandarin Chinese! your course? What has been your However, in university, you should be Here he explains more about his highlight? reading alongside studying, not as your journey to QMU and beyond. method of studying. Personally, the industrial placement About you was the highlight of course as it really Getting to grips with this new reality has been life-changing in its impact. was tough initially, but after a few years Tell us a little about yourself such as I have recognised the benefits across your hobbies/interests that are related The opportunity to travel to the other the board of consistent reading, from Enhancing our student learning and Life as a student at QMU or not related to your course of study. side of the world, experience a participation in seminar groups to personal development “Personally, the completely different culture and create performance in assessments. When What’s your ‘top tip’ for making the An interest that is perhaps not directly a passion to pursue study of the most you are studying for a degree, often Have you won any awards/ most of being a student? industrial placement related to my course is my study of difficult language in the world is you are also preparing to enter the scholarships/internships that helped Mandarin Chinese. I have been something that I will be forever grateful corresponding industry, therefore, more you develop skills and experience? Recognise that while study is was the highlight of studying the language for one year and to the IHTM course for. knowledge will always help rather than important, it should not stop you from three months since I returned from my hinder you. Through an advertisement on the QMU having a social life. Enjoy meeting a the course as it work placement in Beijing, China. I fell What have you learnt, or which hub (the university’s virtual learning whole host of new people, open in love with China during my time over particular activity has been the most What was your placement in Beijing environment and course management yourself to unfamiliar experience and there, and have since had an avid interesting? like? system) I applied and won the Lord most importantly, enjoy the ride! really has passion for both the linguistic and Forte Foundation Scholarship that was cultural aspects of the country. I really enjoyed the finance and As I mentioned, I had the incredible pivotal to my study of Mandarin What has been the most valuable been life-changing accounting aspects of the course. It opportunity to travel to Beijing, China Chinese. This £2,500 fund allowed me lesson that you’ve learned at university? In addition, I love to play chess in my also goes without saying that the to participate in a five month work to participate in evening classes to in its impact” spare time as it allows me to take my placements, such as the one I took to placement as a management trainee, further my study of the language. Question everything and if you are not mind off work and study whilst Beijing, were course highlights. spending four months in front office sure on something, do not stop asking stimulating myself intellectually. My and one month in marketing and sales. I was given the scholarship after until you are. other hobbies and interests revolve How have your lecturers supported Initially, I was out of my comfort zone in submitting an essay that specified how around constantly seeking new your learning? terms of the language and the culture I was eager to utilise my developing After graduation experiences through travel, cuisine and but I soon began to appreciate the linguistic skills in the hospitality culture as I feel that opening yourself In general, I feel like due to the size of opportunity that I had in front of me industry, recognising the exponential What are your plans after graduation? up to these elements in life truly does the classes in QMU, we are presented and then excelled in my internship, growth of the Chinese market. broaden the mind. with a rather unique opportunity of a developing valuable skills to take Upon graduation, I plan to continue as relatively open channel of forward. Following the scholarship, The the Asian Ambassador for the Why did you choose to study at QMU communication with lecturers. I have Balmoral Hotel, a Rocco Forte Hotel, Balmoral, a Rocco Forte Hotel, on a and what attracted you to the course? rarely experienced difficulty when I Any advice for students who might be contacted me to offer me a position full-time basis alongside continuing my found myself requiring assistance, and interested in this course? with them as Asian Ambassador (which study of Mandarin Chinese. In an effort to be completely I’ve recognised the provision of support I’m doing in addition to my studies at transparent, I must say that I applied to for students from the beginning of my I would highly recommend IHTM as a QMU). This role has given me a unique Tell us about your ambitions and where my course through UCAS clearing study. course that is undergoing constant opportunity to help pioneer strategic you see yourself in the future? upon a lack of focus in my final year of development. It provides you with efforts to tap into this area of market school. However, QMU and the IHTM valuable industry knowledge alongside growth. In terms of the future, I am unsure as to course turned out to be a blessing in work placement components that really exactly where I would position myself. disguise, and what started as an initial ties together theory and practice, However, I do see myself excelling in attraction for both the industrial providing a very well-rounded degree. my study in both Chinese language and placement offered and the opportunity culture and I firmly believe that this will to learn more about the hospitality and run alongside my personal tourism industries, evolved to a degree development within the hospitality and that I believe is providing me with COURSE QUALITY tourism industries. exceptional prospects upon graduation. SATISFACTION 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 130 131 Psychology Are you intellectually curious and and Sociology socially engaged? If so, you’ll find the diversity and scope of the

Psychology and Sociology disciplines of psychology and sociology rewarding – and their dynamic methods of enquiry will offer you the poster presentations. In the later stages of your course, you will be able to academic opportunity you want. choose modules in areas that particularly interest you and that will help you develop an emerging area of Career prospects expertise to give you an edge in future employment or study. Our courses have a strong employability focus and we will fully support you in building your employability skills and becoming job Research market-ready. Around 20% of psychology graduates choose to learning experience with student- Our psychology and sociology team are become professional psychologists and Why QMU? centred modules that explore a wide Our approach to learning and teaching actively involved in a range of research undertake further academic study. range of topics. interests (see division website at www. Other graduates have gone on to forge Psychology and sociology are two You will learn through a range of qmu.ac.uk/schools-and-divisions/ rewarding careers in education, social exciting and relevant disciplines that As well as learning how and why these methods including traditional lectures, psychology-sociology-and-education services, industry, marketing, offer you the opportunity to realise your disciplines are vital for 21st-century life, research seminars, workshops, for details). Our research activities government agencies and the media. potential as a learner and to develop you will explore their historical origins, student-led sessions and self-directed employ diverse methodologies and the Many psychology and sociology critical and evaluative thinking skills. At development and limitations. When learning. The focus is on learning how team collaborates with a number of graduates find work in areas such as QMU, you will explore how psychology developing detailed and up-to-date to acquire and utilise knowledge for national and international universities social and community work, consumer and sociology contribute to how we knowledge and understanding of yourself, through identifying existing and partners. We are engaged in the and social research, marketing, understand psycho-social events and specialist areas of psychology and knowledge as well as discovering new impact and applications of our work to education and human resource phenomena occurring in our everyday sociology, you will explore practical, knowledge. real-world contexts and 21st-century lives and how each profession theoretical and ethical issues management. issues and many of our research interacts with society and associated with the use of different Our courses enhance a wide range of undertakings involve collaborations communities. methodologies, paradigms and transferable skills that will open up an with NGOs, humanitarian, social methods of analysis applied in each of array of job options. You will be enterprise and community groups. At QMU, you will find a challenging and the disciplines. You will engage with supported to improve your stimulating environment that will help debates about the relevance and value interpersonal and presentation skills, you hone the intellectual and of our disciplines for different develop effective reading and writing professional edge needed for working communities and publics. skills, engage in analytical thinking and with and for today’s diverse critical reflection, as well as focus on communities. Our courses are Our academic team is passionate the development of your research designed to help you develop the about research and professional skills. You will develop skills in skills, knowledge and experience you activity, using each to inform our information retrieval, practical need to engage with a wide range of teaching and provide a learning investigation, data collection and real-world settings and applications. environment that is challenging and analysis, as well as learn how to relevant. Our students have present your ideas for a range of We offer a BSc/BSc (Hons) opportunities to gain hands-on audiences. Psychology, which is accredited by the experience by working directly with us British Psychological Society (BPS) on our research or by engaging with You will be assessed via traditional and a BSc/BSc (Hons) Psychology and our networks and their interface with exams and essays, and through Sociology. We offer a BSc/BSc (Hons) scientific reports, critical reviews, and communities. Image on right © London Science Museum Public Sociology, the first in Scotland. live multimedia presentations and These courses offer a fully integrated Board of Trustees

132 133 On this British Psycholoical Society (BPS) Why QMU? accredited course you will learn the skills and BSc/BSc (Hons) the analytical abilities that employers in a The course will equip you with the transferable skills that top employers are range of careers are looking for. You will learn actively looking for in their graduates. across six core areas of psychology (cognitive, You will learn the valuable skills needed to think critically and scientifically biological, historical, developmental, social and will engage in empirical research throughout your degree. Psychology and individual differences) and gain extensive Enhance your broad psychological knowledge by specialising in your choice practical training in research methods. You of dissertation topic and elective modules. can focus on a particular area of interest through our module choices. Our class sizes are smaller compared with some universities, so you have closer and more personal support and guidance from our staff. Psychology and Sociology

Why do humans think, feel and In Year Three you will continue to behave the way we do? As a critically reflect on the historical Modules Entry requirements Other information underpinning of psychology and psychology student you will Year One Scottish Higher: Standard: BBBCC UCAS code: C800 find answers to some of the progress your knowledge and critical awareness within the core areas. Your Minimum: BCCCC most fundamental and research skills will be further refined with Introduction to Psychology 1/ Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time fascinating of questions. When the opportunity to gain experience of Foundations of Psychology: Core A Level: BBC you graduate, you will be able quantitative and qualitative research, as Concepts and Practices/Introduction to Start date: September 2022 to join the BPS, an essential well as the critical appraisal of research Psychology 2/plus 60 credits from Irish Leaving Certificate: H3 H3 H3 H3 step on the ladder to becoming ethics and the identification of your Year another topic H3 Delivery: On campus Four dissertation project. a professional psychologist. Available optional modules may include International Baccalaureate: 30 points Awarding body: QMU. Please see the Sociology, Physiology or Education — ‘External review’ section on pages You will learn to use scientific methods In Year Four you can choose modules that suit your interests and focus on International: IELTS of 6.0 with no 8—9. and evidence to understand, measure Year Two real-world applications of psychology. element lower than 5.5 Angela Glasgow

and modify behaviour. It is an incredibly Exchange opportunities: In Year Two,  qmu.ac.uk/Psychology diverse field, and you will enjoy a broad For example, in the Contemporary BSc (Hons) Psychology Social and Developmental Psychology/ Required subjects: Maths and English you have the opportunity (where introduction to six core areas of Issues in Psychology module you will Exploring Research in Psychology/ at Nat 5/GCSE available) to study for one semester at psychology, including cognitive, reflect on how you can use your I enjoyed the chance to conduct small Biological and Cognitive Psychology/ a university overseas. See pages developmental and social psychology. psychology knowledge to approach scale research that gave us experience Individual Differences, Wellbeing and Mature/Access: See related Access 22—23 for more information. Later in the course you will focus your current problems and issues in society. developing a research idea, designing Ethical Practice/plus 20 credits from courses: www.qmu.ac.uk/college- learning on the specialist areas that This year, when you are immersed in a study, recruiting participants and another topic. qualifications Placements: N/A interest you. Crucially, you will learn the student research culture, you can analysing data. It was our first chance

how to think, write and critique in a carry out a research-based dissertation to test psychological theories that Available optional modules may include We welcome applications from mature Teaching staff, class sizes and scientific way, giving you the core skills in a specific area. really brought the teaching we had to Sociology, Education or Physiology students with relevant qualifications timetables: Please see ‘How we teach you need to follow a career in the field. life. It also felt like we got the chance and/or experience. and how you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. to see what it might be like after we Year Three In Year One you will learn the building graduated, which was great. Structure Direct Entry: Course fees: See pages 164—165 blocks of classic and contemporary Social Psychology and Social Justice/ theory and research in psychology, and Year Two: HNC in a related subject with QMU is a fantastic university to study Psychobiology in Context/Historical Professional registration/accreditation: will look at the historical dimensions of You can opt to study for an honours A in the graded unit or HND with CB in psychology. The course can be Perspectives in Psychology/The Skilled The course is accredited by the BPS. the discipline as a whole. You can degree over four years or an ordinary the graded units may be considered challenging but it is so interesting, and Researcher/Developmental Successful completion of this degree select from optional classes in other degree over three years. You will if you capitalise on the support and Psychology/Cognitive Psychology (2:2 or above) confers Graduate Basis disciplines, including Sociology and complete a range of modules each year For details of related HNC and HND knowledge from the lecturers, you’ll do for Chartered Status (GBC) with the Physiology. In Year Two you will move as outlined. courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ great. Year Four BPS, enabling access to professional towards evaluation of the core domains college-qualifications training as a Chartered Psychologist of social, developmental, individual, I joined the mentoring scheme and was Psychology for Contemporary Issues/ (educational, organisational or forensic cognitive and biological psychology Associate student places: You can able to meet with a qualified Teaching, learning and assessment plus 60 credits from a range of psychology). through a variety of teaching and modules that could include: study this course as an associate psychologist. This was great as I was learning methods, including group student completing the first year at able to ask questions and learn more You will be taught in lectures, seminars, Dissertation Research Project/ Careers: From sports to sales, research work, skills practice, and problem- Newbattle Abbey College. For more about what it means to be a practical workshops and laboratories. Community Engagement/ plus three to nursing, media to marketing, our based learning. You will be encouraged information, see pages 36—37 psychologist. Outside these timetabled sessions you modules from the following options: graduates have used their psychology to participate in and reflect on current will be expected to continue learning Memory: Origins and Structures/ skills to forge a huge variety of careers. research taking place in the Division of through self-study. You will be Cognitive Science of Belief/ You can go on to develop your Psychology, Sociology and Education assessed by essays, case studies or Evolutionary Psychology in the Modern expertise via postgraduate study. at QMU. You will also study another group projects and written exams. For World/Eyewitness Psychology/ chosen subject for the first semester of full details see the course entry on our Happiness and Wellbeing/Psychology Year Two. website. of Pain/Peer Relations in Childhood and Adolescence/Political Psychology COURSE QUALITY SATISFACTION The modules listed here are correct at time of print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to those offered in 2022. Please check the website for any updates. 100% NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 134 135 Who are we, and how do we “The highlight of the Psychology and Sociology degree is definitely that you have

shape our world? On this course  qmu.ac.uk/Psychology-and-Sociology BSc/BSc (Hons) you will explore the nature of the the opportunity to tailor the course after your own interests. As I have a strong individual and society. You will interest in feminism, I have been able to focus on a gendered perspective in the learn the critical thinking skills that majority of my modules. Also the teachers are very supportive and engaging, and discerning employers are looking Psychology and for in a variety of fields including they are there for you when you need them.” business, health, media, Jennifer Stroud Johansson education, social care and BSc (Hons) Psychology and Sociology Sociology management. Psychology and Sociology

Studying psychology and You will look at the historical Year Four Direct Entry: Placements: N/A sociology will allow you to development and contemporary Teaching, learning and assessment applications of psychological and Dissertation (in Psychology, Sociology Year Two Teaching staff, class sizes and explore a large and fascinating You will be taught in lectures, seminars, or both)/two Sociology option modules/ world, the fundamental nature sociological knowledge as well as • HNC in a related subject with B in timetables: Please see ‘How we teach explore the very latest debates in both practical workshops and laboratories. two Psychology option modules. the graded unit and how you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. of human beings and how that Outside these timetabled sessions you disciplines. We know how important it • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced nature shapes our social will be expected to continue learning Sociology option modules: Sociology is that you develop a wide range of Higher in relevant subjects plus Course fees: See pages 164—165 through self-study. Your work will be of Liberation/European Policy and environment. You will engage transferable talents, so you will also BB at Higher with debates about the focus on improving your interpersonal assessed using a number of Politics/Queer Theory, Gender and Professional registration/accreditation: practical, theoretical and and presentation skills, effective techniques, including essay writing, Sexual Politics/Gender Justice and • A Level: BBB in relevant subjects Successful completion of this degree ethical issues associated with reading and writing, analytical thinking presentations, report writing, critical Violence/ Feminist Approaches Year Three does not confer Graduate Basis for and critical reflection, as well as your reflections and examinations. For full Chartered Membership (GBC) that the use of different details see the course entry on our Psychology option modules: methodologies, paradigms and research skills. • HND in a related subject with CB enables access to professional training website. Eyewitness Testimony/Evolutionary in the graded units as a Chartered Psychologist. methods of analysis applied in In Years Three and Four you will Psychology/Volunteering and each of the disciplines, and Community Engagement/Psychology develop an in-depth understanding of a For details of related HNC and HND their relevance and value for broad range of substantive debates of Pain Careers: You will graduate with a wide Modules courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ different communities and within the disciplines of psychology range of skills, knowledge and The modules listed here are correct at time of study-here/access-to-higher- and sociology: the psychology of risk, aptitudes. You will be ready to step out publics. Year One print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to education/college-leavers-and-mature- the origins and structure of memory those offered in 2022. Please check the students/ into a wide range of careers, to develop Are you fascinated by human nature, website for any updates. yourself in even greater ways. Our and eyewitness testimony, the Introduction to Psychology 1/ by who we are and how we interact? alumni are pursuing careers in social sociology of gender and sexuality, Foundations of Psychology: Core Associate student places: You can Do you want to understand what and community work, consumer and sociologies of liberation, and social Concepts and Practices/Introduction to study this course as an associate impacts the shape of society around us social research, public policy interaction and social order. Working Academia/The Sociological Imagination student completing your first year at and how it could be changed for the Entry Requirements development, teaching, academia, closely with a member of academic 1 – Classical and Contemporary Newbattle Abbey College or West better? Then you will enjoy our joint marketing and human resource staff, you will conduct your own Sociological Theories and Concepts/ Lothian College. For more information course in psychology and sociology as Scottish Higher: Standard: BBCC management. independent research project in Year Introduction to Psychology 2/The and entry requirements, see pages it provides a challenging and Minimum: BCCC Four, in which you will be encouraged Sociological Imagination 2 – Diversity, 36—37. stimulating environment for exploring to bring together your knowledge of Identity and Wellbeing A Level: CCD these questions around the individual academic theories and concepts, as and society. well as refining your research skills. Year Two Irish Leaving Certificate: H3 H3 H3 H3 Other information Why QMU? In this course you will learn to use Your ability to understand the Social and Psychological Inquiry – UCAS code: CL83 social scientific methods and evidence relationship between complex International Baccalaureate: 26 points The course is taught by an Philosophy and Design/ Developmental experienced and dedicated team to make sense of human behaviour. academic theory and practical research Duration: 3/4 years full-time and Social Psychology/Current International: IELTS of 6.0 with no who are driven by a student- You will learn how to think and write will certainly enhance your Debates in Sociology/ Sociology of element lower than 5.5 centred approach to learning and critically, giving you skills that can be employability on completion of this Culture/Self and Identity/Individual Start date: September 2022 valuable in many fields. You will be course. teaching. Difference, Wellbeing and Ethical Required: English required at Nat 5/ given opportunities to go into Practice Delivery: On campus communities and apply your skills and GCSE knowledge in a real-world context and Awarding body: QMU. Please see the Year Three Mature/Access: Related Access reflect upon the ways that Structure ‘External review’ section on pages course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ psychological and sociological Sociology of Knowledge & Science/ 8—9. You can opt to study for an honours college-qualifications knowledge can effect real change in Research Design: Theory and Practice/ people’s everyday lives. degree over four years or an ordinary Exchange opportunities: In Year Two or Interaction and Social Order/ We welcome applications from mature degree over three years. You will Three you have the opportunity (where Developmental Psychology/Social students with relevant qualifications The modules in Years One and Two will complete a range of modules each year available) to study for one semester at Psychology and Social Movements and/or experience. give you a thorough grounding in the as outlined. a university overseas. See pages key concepts, theories and schools of 22—23 for more information. thought in psychology and sociology.

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thinking on complex and challenging  qmu.ac.uk/publicsociology BSc/BSc (Hons) social issues, opening the door to a wide range of careers. This was the first undergraduate public sociology degree in Public Sociology Scotland. Psychology and Sociology

What is the nature of society In Year One and half of Year Two you sociological theory, practical research Year Three Mature/Access: Related Access Exchange opportunities: In Year Two and how can we change it for will study a range of modules that will and contemporary public issues and course, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ you have the opportunity (subject to provide you with a thorough grounding concerns. Our graduates find that they Current Debates in Sociology/ college-qualifications availability) to study for one semester the better? This is the kind of Sociology of Liberation/Interaction and sceptical question that you’ll in the key concepts, theories and are well qualified for a range of jobs, at a university overseas. See pages schools of thought in sociology, as well further study and other life choices. Social Order/Poverty and Social We welcome applications from mature 22—23 for more information. learn how to ask, and answer, as some modules in psychology. You Exclusion/Social Research – Theory students with relevant qualifications on this course. You will learn will develop a sound understanding of and Practice/Changing World: Social and /or experience. Placements: N/A how to critique preconceptions the historical development and Movement and Global Change about social equality and contemporary applications of Structure Direct Entry: Teaching staff, class sizes and justice. You will embrace new sociological knowledge. Specifically, Year Four timetables: Please see ‘How we teach this will include how sociological You can opt to study for an honours Year Two and how you’ll learn’ on pages 8—9. ideas and schools of thought Dissertation/European Social Policy on this intellectually stimulating knowledge can help us to make sense degree over four years or an ordinary • HNC in a related subject with B in of the public issues and concerns degree over three years. You will and Politics/Options may include: the graded unit Course fees: See pages 164-165 and personally empowering complete a range of modules each year Gender Justice and Violence: Feminist course. You will graduate ready which affect the communities within • Scottish Higher: BC at Advanced that we live, as well as understanding as outlined. Approaches/Queer Theory, Gender and Higher in relevant subjects plus Professional registration/accreditation: to make a real difference to the philosophical debates that underpin Sexual Politics; Sociology of Scotland/ BB at Higher N/A. people’s lives. sociological interpretations of the world Public Sociology Education • A Level: BBB in relevant subjects around us. In addition, considerable Careers: You will change. You will grow. What are the root causes of social Teaching, learning and assessment The modules listed here are correct at time of emphasis is placed on enhancing a print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to Year Three You will graduate with a wide range of injustice and inequality? How could we wide range of transferable skills, paying those offered in 2022. Please check the • HND in a related subject with CB knowledge, skills and aptitudes. You change society’s perception of them, particular attention to improving your You will be taught in lectures, seminars website for any updates. in the graded units will have a richly developed sense of and make the actual changes interpersonal and presentation skills, and practical workshops. Outside social responsibility and, hopefully, a themselves? On this course you will effective reading and writing, analytical these timetabled sessions you will be For details of related HNC and HND burning desire to make a powerful, reflect upon the ways in which thinking and critical reflection, as well expected to continue learning through courses, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ positive change to the world around Entry Requirements sociological knowledge can affect real as a sustained focus on the self-study. You will be assessed by college-qualifications you. Previous graduates are now change in people’s everyday lives. development of your research skills. essays and a variety of other ways shaking things up in social and Scottish Higher: Standard: BBCC including written reports, presentations Associate student places: You can community work, consumer and social Minimum: BCCC If you have an enquiring, questioning From mid-way through Year Two until and groupwork. For full details see the study this course as an associate research, public policy development, mind and you want to understand more you graduate, you will develop in-depth course entry on our website. student completing your first year at teaching, academia, marketing and A Level: CCD about human societies, social understanding of a broad range of Newbattle Abbey College or West human resource management. problems, interactions and substantive debates within the Lothian College. For more information Irish Leaving Certificate: H3 H3 H3 H3 experiences, you will thrive here. You’ll discipline of sociology with a particular and entry requirements, see pages Modules engage with a diversity of communities focus on engaging with public issues 36—37. and develop a sense of the ways in International Baccalaureate: 26 points and groups. You will refine your Year One which a public sociological imagination knowledge of sociological theory, Why QMU? International: IELTS of 6.0 with no can meaningfully intervene in real-world research design and implementation, Other information Introduction to Academia and the element lower than 5.5 political and social events. Many of our social movements and global change, You will learn how to make sense staff are actively involved in social Sociological Imagination/Foundations sociologies of gender and sexuality, UCAS code: L390 of complex and challenging social justice, and so you will see first-hand of Psychology/Introduction to Required: English required and Maths sociologies of liberation, and social Psychology/Diversity, Identity and issues, and how to provoke how we can bring what we study to life. preferred at Nat 5/GCSE Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time policy and politics. Working closely Wellbeing/Methods of Investigation change. You will understand how with a member of academic staff, you This was Scotland’s first public Start date: September 2022 the public sociologist and will conduct your own independent Year Two sociology course and we continue to research project in Year Four, in which sociological knowledge can create be pioneering in the way we think. Our radical approaches to solving you will be encouraged to bring Social Inquiry – Philosophy and Design/ Delivery: On campus students have chosen fascinating and together your knowledge of social problems. original topics to research for their Social and Developmental Psychology/ sociological theories and concepts, as Psychological Literacy/Production and Awarding body: QMU. Please see the dissertations, from women’s body well as refining your research skills. You ‘External review’ section on pages image on social media to a community Consumption of Culture/Engaged will develop an ability to understand the Sociology 8—9. campaign on gentrification. relationship between complex

138 139 Interview with Colin Burnett: BSc (Hons) Public Sociology graduate

Colin graduated from QMU in 2017 About you The course But the one thing that made me realise Life as a student at QMU After graduation with a BSc Public Sociology. Before my potential to do well was limitless, enrolling on the course, Colin wasn’t Why did you choose to study at QMU What did you enjoy most about your and not limited, was when I began to What’s your ‘top tip’ for making the Can you tell us about your life post- sure if going to university was the and what attracted you to the course? course? What were the highlights? get to know my lecturers on a personal most of being a student? graduation (your career path and right choice as it didn’t seem to him level; all of them shared similar notable achievements)? like something that people of a I chose to study at QMU as everything My two favourite modules were backgrounds to mine and I realised Just enjoy yourself and make the most

Psychology and Sociology working-class background did. can be found on one campus. I have a Sociology of Scotland and Engaged in they had been where I was and were of what you are learning. Your time I am currently trying to become a However, thanks to the diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome and Sociology, though I did enjoy all of now where I wanted to be. spent at QMU, especially as a Public professional writer. At QMU, my encouragement of his parents, Colin can experience a high level of anxiety them. With these two modules in Sociology student, will be an amazing dissertation focused on modern decided to submit his application due to being on the autistic spectrum. particular, I was able to zone in on my Do you have any advice for students one. All the staff want you to succeed Scottish working-class writers. Through and hasn’t looked back since. QMU gave me the opportunity to two key interests, social class and who might be interested in this course? and there is a good social environment this, I found my passion for writing both undertake my studies without feeling culture, and Scottish society. I at QMU, you will make new friends as fiction and non-fiction. too overwhelmed as everything was in especially enjoyed working on my My advice is to grab the opportunity to you learn your trade as a sociologist. one area. dissertation as it was through this that I study Public Sociology at QMU if you I write sociological short stories in developed my passion for writing. can, you won’t find a better course to What was the most valuable lesson that Scots, and my work is heavily I was drawn to study Public Sociology be part of! The topic is fascinating, and you learned at university? influenced by what I learnt while because I wanted to learn more about How did your lecturers support your you will have wonderful lecturers who studying Public Sociology. The course the society we live in. My interests lie in learning? will help support you every step of the This sounds cheesy but it’s probably really opened my eyes to the culture and social class, and coming way. Don’t let your postcode decide ‘just be yourself’. As I mentioned oppression of the working class, and from a working-class background, I My lecturers were amazing; they were what your life chances will be as we all previously, I had self-doubt heading to through this I was driven to shed light wanted to learn more about these people who believed in me, which in possess the potential to succeed in QMU, but I learnt that my life chances on the social and cultural issues topics. The strange thing was, once I turn gave me the belief that I could academia, even if internalised aren’t dictated by my background, it all present today and to deliver an started studying public sociology at succeed in academia. I always felt that self-doubt tells us we cannot. really comes down to us. When you authentic voice of the working class. QMU, I came to realise that I knew I could go to them with any concerns I want to do well at something, you can more about sociology than I thought I had, and they would always listen to Enhancing our student learning and do it, and with the support network like I also write non-fiction on Scottish did. My lecturers taught me how to me and did what they could to support personal development the one within the Public Sociology politics and culture. To date, I have articulate knowledge I already me. team you will be given every been published in The Sociological possessed into sociological meaning. Did you join any schemes/initiatives to opportunity to succeed. Review and Bella Caledonia, as well as Through introducing me to the works of I lost my mum during my final year at enhance your learning and in So Fi Zine and few others. Pierre Bourdieu, Karl Marx etc., I was QMU. This was obviously devastating development such as a mentoring given the means to understand my own for me, but my lecturers were brilliant scheme, and volunteering scheme? Is there anything else you’d like to experience as those theorists’ ideas and gave me a lot of support. This is share about life at QMU or as a mirrored my own reality. So, in coming something I will always be grateful for. I I never did, but if I could change one graduate? from a working-class background, I really can’t speak highly enough of the thing about my time at QMU, it would realised that sociology was a major Public Sociology team at QMU. be this. There are a lot of fantastic If you have any concerns regarding the part of my everyday life; but it was at opportunities available to students and course or the wider University, don’t QMU I was taught how to take my own What challenges did you face with the ones that will enhance your feel daunted at the prospect of seeking experiences and translate them into course and/or university life? How did understanding of what you’re learning help. You will find members of staff to sociological awareness. you overcome them? and your experiences at QMU. If I be very supportive and understanding. could go back, I wouldn’t miss out as I As I’ve already mentioned, I come from did, I think any of these options would Visit Colin’s website to read his short a working-class background and with be a great learning curve. stories and articles on Scottish politics this, I internalised self-doubt as to and culture: www.colinburnett.co.uk whether I would be able to keep up Which University services did you use with the middle-class students on my to support you through your academic course. No-one ever made me feel this journey and how did they help you? way as my insecurities were driven by the nagging voice inside my head that Throughout my time at QMU, I was telling me I was out of my depth. accessed Learning Support services, “My lecturers were amazing; they were Once I started on the course, I would and what a great support they were to listen in class as some of the other me. Living with any sort of disability students would debate books that I can be challenging, so having a good people who believed in me, which in turn had never heard of, by authors, some support network can make the of whom I could barely pronounce, and transition a lot easier and the team are it did freak me out a bit! very supportive. gave me belief that I could succeed in academia.”

140 141 Teacher

Teacher Education Teacher Education

QMU is delighted to have been selected by the Scottish Government to offer a suite of teacher education courses. Are you thinking about teaching? Do you want to make a real You will gain essential practical skills community organisations, schools, ages and abilities and in all settings difference in the world, today and for future generations? through supported placements in a parents, local government and and contexts. Your professional Then consider our fresh approach to teaching, one grounded range of settings, traditional and children’s services. pathways could include educational in practice and a robust foundation of social sciences. specialised. Our courses offer a contexts other than the traditional rounded and grounded education, Our new teacher education portfolio classroom such as adult community preparing you to be an autonomous, sits within the Division of Psychology, education, overseas humanitarian critically thinking reflective professional. Sociology and Education at QMU and education, or teaching roles in special Why QMU? shares the acclaimed approach taken setting such as hospitals. This fresh, new approach to teacher by our psychology and sociology Our BA (Hons) Education Studies (Primary) will give you a education offers an exciting variety of courses in being intellectually rigorous You could use the degree as a building professional qualification to teach in primary schools. Our BA learning and assessment methods that and student-centred, with a focus on block for postgraduate studies, moving (Hons) Education Studies is a broad-based social sciences includes an important element of wellbeing, social engagement and on into our Master of Research (MRes) degree with an emphasis on education. At postgraduate outdoor learning. diversity at their core. or our PgCert Public Sociology, where level, we also offer a PGDE Secondary (Home Economics). you will be supported and inspired to undertake research in an area you are Our courses are designed to meet the challenges as well as passionate and curious about. recognise the rewards of teaching children and young people Our approach to learning and teaching Careers in the 21st century. They will actively engage you in Graduates from our PGDE Secondary contemporary issues in psychology and sociology, helping As stated in our mission, QMU ‘strives Our new BA (Hons) Education Studies (Home Economics) will be fully qualified you develop a sound knowledge base of children’s to create a community without borders, (Primary) course will give you the to fill vital posts in secondary schools developmental pathways and the range of factors that affect helping to improve people’s lives expertise, confidence and professional delivering the new face of home them, studying, for example, the impact of poverty and locally, nationally and internationally. qualification you need to teach in economics. There, you will teach and deprivation in early years. Students will learn about global We are ambitious and enterprising, and, primary schools. It will prepare you to inspire young people to care about health and learning inequality, the impact of adversities such in everything we do, we are committed inspire a class of young learners, and themselves, their families and as homelessness, neglect and migration, and the importance to social justice.’ We have drawn on will engage you in the wider social communities through understanding of creativity and the natural environment for our wellbeing. our existing expertise to develop issues that affect education on every the links between food, nutrition and These courses are designed to help you engage with education courses with a focus on level and how this in turn influences wellbeing and helping them face the contemporary socio-political issues to help make a wellbeing, resilience, child welfare and educational outcomes for children. 21st-century challenges of food difference as a teacher, at an individual, community and inequality. Here you will discover a insecurity, consumerism, and national level. vibrant and stimulating teacher Our BA (Hons) Education Studies sustainability. education experience, where you will degree will prepare you for a range of study and work with a range of careers working with learners of all

142 143 Scotland’s newest Education Studies (Primary) degree provides Why QMU?  qmu.ac.uk/Education-Studies-Primary BA (Hons) Education a fresh, innovative approach to This course offers a forward-looking, evidence-based approach to teacher training. Our teaching degree is distinctive in its forward-looking focus on education in community settings, as teacher education, recognising the well as in schools, and builds on our strong existing collaborations with local and national community rewards and challenges that organisations. Studies (Primary) teaching presents in the 21st You will study on an attractive, modern campus just six minutes from the centre of Edinburgh. century. The dynamic programme This is an intellectually inspiring course that is your first step on a rewarding career in education. of learning will give you the A curriculum and ethos suited to those with a social conscience who want to engage with socio-

Teacher Education Teacher expertise, confidence and political issues and make a difference. professional qualification you need to teach in primary schools.

The course offers an approach This is a fresh, modern and ambitious Duration: 4 years full-time enables students to learn about the Modules approach to teacher education. We hope Entry requirements integration of formal and informal to teaching that is founded in Start date: September 2022 you feel as passionate about this new education through a range of community evidence-based research in the Year One social sciences. If you want a direction as we do and look forward to Scottish Higher: Standard: ABBB Delivery: On campus projects. You will complete two receiving your application. At QMU we Minimum: BBBB career as a primary school Awarding body: QMU. Please see the community education experiences as are committed to widening access to Introduction in Education Studies in the teacher where you will A Level: BBC ‘External review’ section on pages 8—9. follows: genuinely make a difference in education and we welcome applications 21st Century/Developing Academic from all backgrounds and genders. Literacies for Learning/ Introduction to Irish Leaving Certificate (ILC): H2 H2 Year One: you will arrange a five-day (or the world and inspire our future Exchange opportunities: N/A citizens, this course is for you. Psychology 1/Learning through the H2 H3 equivalent hours) voluntary community Lifespan (Primary)/Sustainable Human School experience : School experience experience Behaviour Learning for Sustainability/ International Baccalaureate: 30 points This course is about more than simply is a core element of the course. Over the Diversity, Identity and Wellbeing Year Four: you will complete a minimum preparing you to inspire a class of young Structure four years you will complete a total of 30 (Education) International: IELTS of 6.0 with no of three weeks (or equivalent hours) learners; it will engage you in the wider element lower than 5.5 weeks school experience. Students will You will study for four years to become undertake four blocks of placement as community-based experience socio-political issues that affect Year Two education on every level and how this in qualified to work as a primary school Required subjects: follows: teacher. Progression into Year Two will be Students are responsible for sourcing turn influences educational outcomes for Early Childhood Development and • Higher English grade B AND Maths Year One: Community based education the placement host organisation that can children. You will study contemporary dependent on successfully completing all modules, placements and a reflective Learning in Context/Language & Literacy: at Nat 5 experience (4 weeks) be in the UK or abroad. To help with the issues in education, psychology and Theory and Pedagogy/Optional Module/ report in Year One. If, after the first year Year Two: Nursery (4 weeks in nursery) process, we hold a recruitment event on sociology to develop a sound knowledge Society and Sustainable Lifestyles/ • A levels: GCSE English Literature you decide not to pursue teaching there and Primary p1-3 (6 weeks) campus to help pair you with a suitable base of children’s developmental Mathematics & Numeracy: Theory and B/6 AND GCSE English Language organisation. pathways and the range of factors that is an option to transfer to our Education B/6 AND GCSE Maths B/6 Studies course (see page 146). This is a Pedagogy/The Inclusive Curriculum: Year Three: Primary 4—5 or 6—7 affect them. You will gain an Theories of Learning & Teaching/Creative Teaching staff, class sizes and understanding of how pedagogic theory broad based social sciences degree with ILC: English H2 AND Maths O3 (10 weeks) an emphasis on broader aspects of and Cultural Curriculum in the 21st timetables: Please see ‘How we teach and knowledge informs classroom Mature/Access: We welcome education. Century Year Four: Primary 4—5 or 6—7 and how you’ll learn’ section on pages practices at early years and primary applications from mature students with (10 weeks) 8—9. school level. By developing a detailed Year Three relevant qualifications or experience, knowledge of all areas of the curriculum, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/college- Course fees: See pages 164—165 School placements are allocated including outdoor learning, you will qualifications Teaching, learning and assessment The Creative Curriculum: Planning for through the Student Placement System Careers: You will graduate fully qualified become skilful at integrating literacy, Assessment and Continuity/Languages, to work as a primary school teacher. You numeracy and wellbeing throughout your Direct Entry: (SPS) which is automated and You will learn through lectures, seminars, Literacy and Children’s Literature/ will have the skills, confidence and teaching. Year One administered by the General Teaching workshops, enquiry-based, student-led Everyday Life Contexts: A Problem Council, Scotland (GTCS). Placements passion to make a real difference in the activity, independent study, online group Solving Approach to Mathematics/ • HNC in a related subject with B in lives of young learners. Through practical experience in are allocated by matching students to tutorials, school experience/community Teacher as Reflective Practitioner/ the graded unit, plus Higher English educational and community settings you schools based on information provided By law graduates must register with the placements. An innovative feature of the Inclusive Practice: Difference and B and Maths S/Int2/Nat 5 C or will learn how to build positive by universities, local authorities and GTCS before they can be employed as a programme is the incorporation of Diversity equivalent, see: www.qmu.ac.uk/ relationships with children and work schools. Placements are based on a teacher in a Scottish education authority outdoor learning that includes a Forest college-qualifications. alongside other professionals. Our student’s term-time address and nursery, primary, secondary or special and Outdoor Learning Award, as well as Year Four education courses draw on our expertise Year Two students are not required to travel in school. A teacher’s fitness to teach (ie in the opportunity to undertake a British Sign excess of 90 minutes each way to a in, and focus on, wellbeing, resilience, Teaching as Professional: Inter-agency terms of conduct) will be considered at Language course. Assessment methods There may be limited places for school placement. Students are not child welfare and inequality. You will learn Working/A Global Curriculum: Planning a the point of application for registration. are varied, including essays, reports, applicants with HNC Childhood Practice permitted to seek placements how to assess individual needs and plan Pedagogy for Social Justice/Community- presentations, blogs and audiovisual (120 SCQF credits), A in the graded unit, independently. Students are continually Graduates will be provisionally registered inclusive learning experiences taking based Education/Professional Enquiry submissions. For more details see the evidence of 40 placement hours, plus assessed throughout each school with GTCS, and Home/RUK/ROI account of diversity and difference. into Practice course entry on our website. Higher English B and Maths Nat 5 C. experience by maintaining a placement students will be eligible to join the file and a portfolio of progress. All Teacher Induction Scheme and Over the four years you will develop your This modules listed here are correct at time Other requirements: A satisfactory students are supported on placement by undertake a one-year induction in a academic literacies including digital and of print (March 2021) but may differ slightly criminal records check is required. school and university tutors. Scottish primary school to become fully data literacy. You will develop research to those offered in 2022. Please check the registered with the GTCS. skills to enable you to develop as an website for any updates. Community experience: Undertaking a For information on teacher’s salaries in autonomous, critically thinking, reflective Other information professional. community-based education experience Scotland, visit: www.tes.com/news/how- is a unique aspect of this course and much-are-teachers-paid-scotland. UCAS Code: 1234

144 145 Scotland’s newest education studies degree  qmu.ac.uk/iEducation-Studies BA/BA (Hons) Education is an innovative, broad- based social sciences course with an emphasis Studies on wider aspects of education. Teacher Education Teacher

This course was introduced for At QMU we are committed to widening 2019 and offers an approach to access to education and we welcome Modules Entry requirements Other information education studies that is applications from all backgrounds and founded in evidence-based genders. Year One Scottish Higher: Standard: BBCC UCAS Code: 4321 research in the social sciences. Minimum: BCCC Introduction to Education Studies in the Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time It offers the chance to develop a 21st Century/Developing Academic A Level: CCD thorough understanding of Literacies/Introduction to Psychology 1/ contemporary issues in Structure Irish Leaving Certificate: H3 H3 H3 H 3 Start date: September 2022 education, psychology and Learning through the Lifespan/ sociology, and to develop You will study for four years to develop Sustainable Human Behaviour Learning International Baccalaureate: 26 points Delivery: On campus in-demand and transferable skills in for Sustainability/Diversity, Identity and in-demand skills in research and International: IELTS of 6.0 with no interprofessional working. education. You will complete a range of Wellbeing Awarding body: QMU. Please see the modules each year as outlined. element lower than 5.5. ‘External review’ section on pages 8—9. Year Two This broad-ranging degree will engage Required subjects: English required and Exchange opportunities: N/A you in the wider socio-political issues Creativity, Culture & Learning in the 21st Maths preferred at Nat 5/GSCE that affect education on every level and Century/Early Childhood Learning in Teaching, learning and assessment Mature/Access: We welcome Placements: These are essential to your how this in turn influences educational Context/Developmental and Social outcomes for children. applications from mature students with Education Studies development and you You will learn through lectures, seminars, Psychology/Education, Race and relevant qualifications or experience, will benefit from hands-on, real-world workshops, enquiry-based learning, Ethnicity/Society and Sustainable You will study contemporary issues in student-led activity, independent study, Lifestyles/Engaged Sociology see: www.qmu.ac.uk/college- experience in each of your four years of education, psychology and sociology to online group tutorials, school experience, qualifications study. Community-based placements develop a sound knowledge base of and community placements. An Year Three will be offered but students are advised human developmental pathways and the Direct Entry: innovative feature of the programme is the to secure their own. QMU will support range of factors that affect them. You will incorporation of outdoor learning that Inclusive Practice: Difference & Diversity/ Year Two this process. gain an understanding of how pedagogic includes a Forest and Outdoor Learning Social Psychology and Social Justice OR theory and knowledge informs • We expect to have a very small Award, and the opportunity to undertake a Developmental Psychology/Research Teaching staff, class sizes and educational practice. number of places available for British Sign Language course. Methods/Global Health and International timetables: Please see ‘How we teach second year entry into this Assessment methods are varied, including Education/Poverty & Social Exclusion and how you’ll learn’ section on pages Through practical experience in programme. Requirements are essays, reports, presentations, blogs and 8—9. educational and community settings you Year Four HNC in Childhood Practice (120 will learn how to build positive audiovisual submissions. For more details see the course entry on our website. credits) with B in the graded unit, Course fees: See pages 164—165 relationships with learners and work Dissertation/Peer Relations in Childhood see: www.qmu.ac.uk/college- alongside other professionals. You will & Adolescence/Contemporary Issues in qualifications Professional registration/accreditation: learn how to assess individual needs and Psychology/Community-based Other requirements: A satisfactory N/A plan inclusive learning experiences taking Education/European Social Policy and account of diversity and difference. criminal records check is required. Politics Careers: Please note that this degree course does not lead to a teaching Over the four years you will develop your The modules listed here are correct at time of qualification and graduates are not Why QMU? academic literacies including digital and print (March 2021) but may differ slightly to eligible for GTCS registration. data literacy. You will develop research those offered in 2022. Please check the skills to enable you to develop as an website for any updates. This degree will equip you with a variety This newly launched course offers a autonomous, critically thinking reflective of skills to prepare you to enter a range forward-looking, evidence-based professional. of education related professional approach to education studies. careers, for example museum, This is a fresh, modern and ambitious community or arts education, This is an intellectually inspiring approach to education studies. We hope course that will develop your you feel as passionate about this new international educational aid project, learning support assistants, PGDE in critical-thinking abilities, hone your direction as we do and look forward to research skills and help you take receiving your application. primary education, further educational study or research. your first step on the career path of your choice.

146 147 Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before applying

148 149 Your next steps before applying

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150 151 The application process

The normal closing date for applications There are a number of to QMU is 15 January, or 30 June for steps in the process of 1. international applications. For more 5. 7. 9. Decide on the course(s) that you want information on key dates and deadlines, Offer Holder Days Applying for accommodation Clearing applying to and to apply for see the UCAS website at: www.ucas.com If you receive an unconditional or If you would like to stay in our student If you did not receive any offers, or did beginning a course The information in this prospectus and conditional offer, you may be invited to accommodation, online applications go not meet your conditions on results day, with us here at QMU. on our website is designed to help you an Offer Holder Day. live in April. You can apply for Clearing provides you with the narrow down your course options. A accommodation if you are holding a opportunity to apply later in the year. visit to one of our open days can be 4. These course-specific visit days are conditional or unconditional offer. designed to provide you with more really helpful when deciding between Clearing is available from 30 June and QMU considers all applications information about your chosen course, different courses or universities. Talking There is no deadline for submitting enables applicants who do not hold to family, your teachers, careers the student experience at QMU and give your application. However, we Once you have applied through UCAS, any offers to apply for courses at advisers or friends already at university you a chance to experience our campus. recommend you apply as early as they send the application to us for universities that have places remaining. can help you to narrow down your You will have the opportunity to meet possible to avoid any disappointment. Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before applying Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before consideration. You will receive an choice and identify the course that is academic staff and current students. acknowledgement email from us, with Applications for Clearing will remain right for you. More information and contact details open until all places have a QMU application number. Keep this can be found on pages 44—45. number safe, as you will be asked for been filled. Details of Clearing this if you contact us about your vacancies can be found on our website application. 6. or on www.ucas.com 2. Accept your offer All applications submitted before the 8. Applying through UCAS UCAS deadline will receive equal If you decide to accept our offer, you Results days To apply for a full-time undergraduate consideration. Applications received will need to do this on UCAS Track. 10. after 15 January will be considered at If you have accepted a conditional offer course at QMU, you must make your Joining QMU application through the Universities QMU’s discretion. If you are in any Once you have received all of your from us, the next stage of your doubt about making a late application, and Colleges Admissions Service decisions, you will have to reply to your application takes place when we Once you have accepted a place with please contact our Admissions team for (UCAS). Our courses are all listed in the offers by a specific deadline given in receive your exam results. This is us we will send you more information advice. UCAS Search tool at www.ucas.com. UCAS Track. You have three options: known as confirmation. about beginning your course at QMU. For more detailed To apply you will need our institution This will include details of anything else Where we receive a large volume of If you have a conditional offer based on code (Q25) and the course code. you need to do before joining the information on applications, and the number of places • Select a firm choice, this is your SQA Highers, A levels or ILC, we will Course codes are listed in this first choice of course. University. prospectus on the individual course on a course is limited, the majority of usually receive these results from our decisions will be made after the • If your firm choice is conditional, UCAS. We will then update UCAS Track application and information pages. During August, once you hold an January UCAS deadline. you can also select an insurance with our final decision on your unconditional offer, you will receive access, see pages choice, this is your back-up choice application. We encourage you to apply as early as information about how to You can follow the progress of your in case you do not meet the possible, having made a careful and formally register with QMU. This 156-159. UCAS application and review any offers conditions for your firm choice. We If you have a conditional offer based on considered choice. registration process is referred to you receive through UCAS Track. recommend that your insurance achieving another qualification, as Online Matriculation. MORE INFO: choice has lower conditions than your including an HNC or HND, you must Admissions: Depending on the course you have send a copy of your transcript and final firm choice to give you the best Once you have completed applied for, you may be asked to attend certificate to our Admissions team. E: [email protected] chance of securing a place. matriculation, we look forward to T: 0131 474 0000 3. an audition or interview before we make Once we receive these, we will make a • Decline any other offers. welcoming you a decision on your application. We will decision as soon as possible on your UCAS key dates on campus! Student Recruitment: contact you directly with all the application. E: [email protected] You can apply from September 2021 for information you need where this is the T: 0131 474 0000 entry in September 2022. case. The UCAS deadline for on-time International Office: applications will be 15 January 2022 for E: [email protected] the majority of courses. T: 0131 474 0099

152 153 Writing a personal statement

• Any extracurricular interests or As part of the The application process and personal achievements (sport, music, part-time Supporting reference application process, statement work), especially those that identify positions of leadership or In addition to a personal statement, all applicants must Applications to undergraduate degree responsibility you have held. your application will require a courses are made online through the Remember to relate how these supporting reference. This is usually write a personal UCAS website. In the application you achievements and the skills acquired written by someone who knows you will be asked to complete a number of may help you in your studies. academically, most commonly a statement. This sections including personal details, teacher or college tutor. The reference course details, education and Where the demand for a particular should include information on:

Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before applying Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before statement provides a qualification details. course is very high, your personal statement takes on extra significance. • Your suitability for higher education chance to tell us why The personal statement is a very For many vocational/professional and academic potential. significant part of your UCAS courses (eg teacher training, allied you would like to application. It is your opportunity to tell health professions), evidence of • How you interact with other students universities about your suitability for specific career exploration is something and teachers. study a particular the course(s) that you hope to study. we look for as part of the selection • Confirmation that you have good You need to demonstrate your process. For example, for applications course, and what interpersonal and communication enthusiasm and commitment and, to allied health profession courses, skills. skills and experience above all, ensure that you stand out universities will want to see evidence from the crowd. that you have experience that • Your subject/career interests. demonstrates: you possess that The personal statement can be up to • If applicable, details of any 4,000 characters in length (including • Specific experience in your chosen show your passion for circumstances (either personal, social spaces) or 47 lines of text (including subject/ course area (eg visiting or educational) that may have your chosen subject. blank lines), whichever comes first. hospital departments or work disrupted your studies or caused any shadowing). Every effort has been made to ensure In your personal statement you should disadvantage. that the accuracy of the information include: • General experience of working with The reference should not be generic or provided here is correct, you should others (eg nursing homes, day-care repeat the examination results that you note that it is advisable to check with • Why you want to study the course(s) centres, voluntary work). the Universities and Colleges you are applying for – this makes it have already achieved. It should, however, reaffirm the information you Admissions Service (UCAS) and important to ensure that your course You will be expected to highlight what have provided in your personal individual universities for confirmed choices do not vary wildly. you have learnt from this experience. details. You should be able to demonstrate that statement. • Evidence that you clearly understand you have an empathetic nature and an what the subject entails and any ability to work well with other people. MORE INFO: career exploration you have Admissions undertaken, including work or E: [email protected] voluntary experience. T: 0131 474 0000 • Confirmation that you have the skillset to succeed in your studies (eg UCAS organisational, communication, team T: 01242 222 444 working, time management skills) W: www.ucas.com using examples where possible.

154 155 Application and access

You can find out more about these QMU is fully committed to widening Q: What qualifications and grades do I terms and see if we would consider access to higher education. We need? you to be a widening access student in recognise that applicants may have our Contextual Admissions Policy that received different levels of support, A: The qualifications and grades you need vary by course and may depend is published on our website at: www. guidance and educational opportunity qmu.ac.uk/about-the-university/quality/ before applying to university. This on whether you are a widening access student. committees-regulations-policies-and- means that each application received procedures/regulations-policies-and- by the University is considered carefully procedures/ on an individual basis. Admissions decisions are not made based on Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before applying Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before Q: Am I a widening access student? grades alone. A: We aim to identify each applicant’s More about entry requirements full talent and potential and look beyond grades to do this. We consider In this prospectus we list entry Q: What do I need to apply for the you to be a widening access student if requirements for each of our courses. course I want to study? you: This is an example of how the information is presented: A: You will need qualifications, a - live in a target postcode area that information. You can use the table on Where Higher English is listed as a A foundation or Access course offered personal statement and a reference. identifies you as living in an area of Entry requirements the page 159 to compare qualifications subject entry requirement, we will by a further education college or other For some specific courses you will high deprivation (most deprived 20% Scottish Higher: you may already have, or plan to take. accept Higher ESOL at the required institution could provide you with the need to: in Scotland) as defined by the Standard: BBBC grade, for all courses except for BA experience and qualifications for entry. Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. Students presenting SQA Advanced (Hons) Education Studies (Primary). The Scottish Wider Access Programme - come to an interview or audition; Visit: http://simd.scot/2016 to see if Minimum: BCCC Highers, or strong GCE A Level grades (SWAP) offers a range of local Access - submit a digital portfolio or you live in a target postcode area; Required subjects: English required in relevant subjects may be eligible for courses. Details of the SWAP Access and Maths preferred at Nat 5/GCSE entry to the second year of some of our courses that are accepted for entry to - provide evidence of relevant work or - ar e eligible and have taken part in the level courses. Please see individual course Q: Do you accept HNCs and HNDs? each course are given on our website voluntary experience. Lothian Equal Access Programme for pages for further details. at: www.qmu.ac.uk/college- Schools (LEAPS) or A: HNCs and HNDs which are If English is not your first language you Unless you are a widening access qualifications will need to provide evidence of your - are care experienced. student you need to meet the standard To meet our entry requirements, a pass qualifications taken in college, allow English language skills through Scottish Higher entry requirements to in a subject will be one of the following: you to enter the second or third year of a degree course. Where we cannot Before embarking on an Access or qualifications or a Secure English We consider you to be a widening gain a place. foundation programme, you are Language Test. access student if you inform us in your SQA Higher/SQA Nat 5: C or above offer entry to second or third year of a degree, we will usually consider your welcome to contact our Admissions application that: If you are a widening access student A Level: D or above staff for advice on the best way to We call these our entry requirements. you need to meet the minimum application for first year. AS Level: C or above proceed. You need to apply on time: • you have caring responsibilities Scottish Higher entry requirements to (unpaid, for a friend or family gain a place. GCSE: C or above/4 or above Because it is not possible to list all the • UK and EU students: 15 January member who due to illness, HNC and HND qualifications we 2022 Irish Leaving Certificate Higher Grades: accept, please see our website for disability, a mental health problem Make sure you check the subject entry H3 or above Deferred entry or an addiction cannot cope requirements that apply to everyone. further details at: www.qmu.ac.uk/ • International applicants: 30 June without your support); college-qualifications Applicants holding an unconditional 2022 We only count the highest level of For all students, qualifications should qualification in any subject. This means offer for some courses may request to • you are estranged from your normally be achieved by the end of S6 that we do not count AS levels or SQA defer entry to the University by one Applications received after these dates family or and we accept Highers taken over two Highers if you have the full A level or an Q: I’m a mature student, can I apply? year. If you wish to defer you must cannot always be considered. Where or more years. Advanced Higher in the same subject. contact the Admissions Office, stating we receive a large volume of • you are an armed forces/ We welcome applications from mature the reasons for your request. Requests applications, and the number of places ex-military veteran. We accept many different Where Nat 5 Mathematics is listed as a students. If you have had a break of a will be considered on an individual on a course is limited, the majority of qualifications, including a wide range of subject requirement for entry to a few years in your formal education basis. If a deferral is possible you still our decisions will be made after the Details of additional support for our international qualifications, but cannot course, Nat 5 Applications of since school, you may be able to enter need to meet the conditions of and January UCAS deadline. widening access students can be list them all in this prospectus. Please Mathematics or Nat 5 Lifeskills university with qualifications such as an offers in the year that you apply. found on page 24—25. contact our Admissions team Mathematics will be accepted at the Access course or Open University ([email protected]) for further required grade. This is for all courses modules. except for BSc (Hons) Nursing. 156 157 If it is not possible to grant your MORE INFO: deferral request, you will be welcome Criminal convictions Student Recruitment Team Irish Leaving Points Scottish Qualifications GCE/ VCE Qualifications Certificate BTEC Level 3 Nationals to submit a fresh application the T: 0131 474 0000 following year. Applicants who have been made an offer of a place on a course may be E: [email protected] Higher Advanced AS A level Double Higher Extended Diploma Extended asked to disclose criminal convictions Higher Award Certificate Diploma to help safeguard the welfare of our Transition and Pre-Entry Team Health students. Applicants for certain T: 0131 474 0000 168 D*D*D* courses of study, including allied health E: [email protected] 160 D*D*D Some courses require specific medical and education courses, must declare information as a condition of entry and all criminal convictions at the point of Admissions 152 D*DD Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before applying Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before this is detailed in the relevant course application and in these cases the T: 0131 474 0000 144 DDD entries in the prospectus. QMU is not Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 E: [email protected] responsible for any fees or payments does not apply. 128 DDM incurred by students in obtaining UCAS 112 D*D* DMM As a condition of entry, candidates for evidence of their state of health. T: 01242 222 444 these courses will be required to 104 D*D provide a satisfactory Enhanced E: [email protected] 96 AA DD MMM Disclosure from the Criminal Records W: www.ucas.com 88 AB Bureau, Disclosure Scotland or an appropriate alternative. 80 BB DM MMP 72 BC For further information, see the Admissions Policy: at www.qmu.ac.uk/ 64 CC MM MPP about-the-university/ quality/ 56 A A* CD D* committees-regulations-policies-and- procedures/regulations-policies-and- 48 B A D MP PPP procedures/ 40 C B 36 H1 (A1) If an applicant has any doubt about the effect a criminal conviction may have 33 A on their application, they can contact 32 C M PP the Admissions Office who will be able to advise accordingly. 30 H2 (A2/ B1) 27 B 24 D H3 (B2/ B3) 21 C 20 A 18 16 B P 12 C

158 159 Remedies for students impacted by any such favourable position is a matter to be be found on our website at: www.qmu.ac.uk/ instalment is over 4 weeks late, a student progression within, particular courses may change may include, but are not limited to, determined by the University on a case by current-students/currentstudents-general- may be asked to leave the University and the be precluded by certain types of convictions. provision of alternative course modules or case basis depending on the facts and information/fees-and charges and on pages debt shall be transferred to a debt collector. Any student who is found to have falsified Terms and courses, or the option to transfer to another circumstances of a particular student. This 162—165 in this prospectus. All students If outstanding fees are then paid prior to the this self-declaration at the point of course at the University. would not apply to a situation where the new who are continuing with their studies should end of the academic year, the University may application or at matriculation will be subject regulations seek to address a previously review their fee rates prior to starting their permit a student to be reinstated. However, to disciplinary action. It may be desirable or necessary to withdraw unregulated matter. All policies and next academic session. No student will be where the University agrees to such a certain courses from the University’s portfolio 11. While courses are designed to prepare procedures are subject to regular review and deemed to be fully matriculated until his or reinstatement, a student may be required to conditions of provision as a result of a number of students for employment, the University formal approval by the appropriate her tuition fees have been paid in full, or repeat parts of any course which have been factors, including changes in patterns of does not warrant or guarantee that students committee. The University Court has agreed satisfactory evidence is produced that such missed, resulting in additional fees being demand from prospective students, changes will obtain employment as a result of If you intend to apply for a programme of that the University, recognising the need to fees will be paid by a sponsoring authority. incurred. Students who leave the University in staffing, a strategic realignment of the successfully completing any course. study offered by QMU, you must read the protect the health of students, staff and No student will be permitted to attend a more than 28 days after the start of a following Terms and Conditions and ensure University’s portfolio or a major visitors to the University, should aspire over graduation ceremony or to proceed to the programme of study will be liable for the 12. The University does not accept that you understand them. These Terms and organisational change. The University will time to become a non-smoking campus. The next year of their course until tuition fees for appropriate proportion of the fee, based on responsibility, and expressly excludes all Conditions form the basis of the Contract use its best endeavours to consult University is currently reviewing its policies all preceding years have been paid in full. semesters attended in whole or in part. liability, to the full extent permitted by law, for you will enter into with QMU should you be meaningfully with students who would be with a view to achieving this aspiration. Failure to settle tuition fees by the due date any loss, damage or injury incurred by a offered and accept admission to one of our affected by any such change, to assess any 8. The University may withdraw or amend its Students’ attention shall be drawn to any may lead to a student being excluded from student or to their property, whether in courses. impact on students, to mitigate any offer or terminate a student’s registration at amendments to policy in this area. attendance at classes. Ensuring tuition fees connection with their studies or not, except disruption arising from the change and to are paid is the responsibility of the student the University if it finds that a false or in circumstances where the student has 1. Every effort has been made to ensure that identify appropriate alternative arrangements. 4. Applicants will have 14 days from receipt and, in the event of a student’s sponsoring materially misleading statement has been suffered personal injury or death caused by the information contained in this prospectus Arrangements to support the academic of their offer to challenge their fee status. authority refusing or failing to make payment made in, or significant information has been the negligence of the University or its is accurate at the time of publication (March interests of existing students impacted by Only exceptionally will changes to fee status in full or in part, the student will be held omitted from, a student’s application form. employees. In particular, the University shall 2021). The University will use all reasonable any course withdrawal will be put in place. In be considered after the 14-day period. personally liable for payment. Students will not be liable for any loss of, or damage to, endeavours to provide programmes of study all cases, the University will make every effort Applicants who accept an offer by distance 9. Admission to some degree courses be liable for any travel and accommodation any computer or electronic data or listed in the prospectus and to deliver them to advise students at the earliest possible communication (for example, via UCAS or offered by the University, and to some of the costs incurred when on placement. Such information owned or used by a student. in accordance with the descriptions of opportunity of any changes to the course online, without face-to-face contact) have a professions for which it provides training, costs may be paid by a sponsoring authority, courses set out therein However, as the content or curriculum that may impact upon legal right to cancel the Contract at any time may be precluded by certain medical but should a sponsoring authority refuse or 13. Personal information on students will be University is committed to ensuring that them. within 14 days of the date of acceptance of conditions. Students are obliged to include fail to do so, the student will be personally held and processed according to the General courses remain up to date and relevant, it the offer. Where an applicant wishes to information regarding any medical condition, Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before applying Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before Data Protection Regulations and the Data reserves the right to discontinue, merge or 2. The University shall not be liable for failure liable for such costs. cancel the Contract within 14 days of past or present, which may affect their Protection Act (2018). This information will be combine courses, and to make variations to to perform any of its obligations if such acceptance, he or she must do so by 6. For some courses, an additional fee may participation on a course when completing used by the University to fulfil its part of the the content or method of delivery of courses, failure is caused by any act or event beyond informing the University in writing. Where an be payable in respect of registration with a their UCAS or Queen Margaret University Contract between it and the student. As part if such action is reasonably considered to be the University’s reasonable control including applicant cancels within the 14-day period professional body. Additional charges will be application form. If an individual has any of the Contract, the University is also necessary by the University. This, combined acts of God, war, terrorism, industrial after acceptance, any advance payment made, where applicable, in respect of doubt as to the effect that a medical or required to release certain information on the with the need to publish the prospectus well disputes (including disputes involving the made by that applicant shall be refunded in reassessment. Full details of registration fees health-related condition may have on their student population to government agencies. in advance, means that changes to the University’s employees), fire, flood, storm full. Notwithstanding the aforementioned and other charges are set out at: www.qmu. application, they must contact the course Full details of the way in which the University information presented in the prospectus may and national emergencies (‘Force Majeure rights to cancel within the initial 14-day ac.uk/current-students/current-students- Admissions Tutor who will be able to advise uses students’ information are provided in have occurred. Intending applicants are Event’). If the University is the subject of a period from acceptance, applicants may general-information/fees-and-charges/ and accordingly. The University does not warrant the Student Privacy Statement which is advised to visit the University website: www. Force Majeure Event, it will take all withdraw from study at the University, and or guarantee that a student admitted to a issued as part of the matriculation process. reasonable steps to minimise the disruption students are also personally liable for such qmu.ac.uk/ study-here/courses-a-z or cancel the Contract at anytime after particular course will necessarily be allowed to students. fees. contact [email protected] before registration, by following the University’s to complete the course if the student applying. The content or curriculum of a 3. An offer of a place to study on a Queen withdrawal procedure. Where the Contract is 7. Tuition fees become due on the first day of subsequently suffers from or contracts any course may change for a number of reasons, Margaret University course is made on the cancelled in this way, applicants may remain study and should be paid within 21 days of material medical or health condition. including that: understanding that, in accepting the offer, liable for all or part of the tuition fees payable the due date, or an arrangement made with Applicants for certain courses of study must by them or on their behalf, in accordance the Finance Office for payment to be made • the change is required to ensure that the the student undertakes to observe and declare all criminal convictions at the point of with University procedures. The University by instalments. Where a student has opted course continues to deliver its key learning comply with these Terms and Conditions and application, and in these cases, the may cancel the Contract at any time in to pay by instalments, a direct debit mandate outcomes, and the content of the course is to abide by, and to submit to, the procedures Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 does accordance with the University’s Regulations, responsive to changes and developments of the University’s Regulations, Policies and must be completed prior to, or at the time of, not apply. As a condition of entry, candidates Policies and Codes of Conduct. in the areas covered by the course; Codes of Conduct, as amended from time to matriculation. For returning students, a new for these courses will be required to provide direct debit form is required for each year of time. The University’s Regulations, Policies 5. Tuition fees are payable for all courses and a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure from the • for courses leading to professional study. If students experience payment and Codes of Conduct are set out in full are subject to review annually. Tuition fees for Criminal Records Bureau, Disclosure qualifications, accreditation or registration, difficulties resulting in tuition fees remaining within the University’s website at: www.qmu. new and existing students are liable to Scotland or an appropriate equivalent. the changes are required in order to unpaid for 21 days after falling due, interest ac.uk/about-the-university/quality. Changes increase each year as a result of review. For Applicants to all other courses are asked to continue to satisfy pre-requisites of a on the full amount at 2.5% above the UK to the University’s Regulations may be made continuing students, any increase in the level disclose unspent criminal convictions at the particular professional or regulatory body clearing bank base rate may be charged. from time to time for one or more of the of fee each year will be subject to a point when they accept their offer. If an responsible for awarding such qualification, Where payment is being made by following reasons: to reflect changes to the maximum percentage equivalent to the applicant has any doubt as to the effect a accreditation or registration; instalments, interest will run on an instalment statutory requirements with which the higher of the annual increase in the UK Retail criminal conviction may have on his/her from the due date to the date when the • the change is not a material change to the University is required to comply; to reflect Prices Index and 5%. Factors that will application, they must contact the Head of instalment is paid. Where a student content or curriculum; best practice regulation across the higher determine the need for, and extent of, any Admissions and Recruitment who will be encounters difficulty in paying tuition fees, education sector and more broadly; to increase include any increase set or able to advise accordingly. they are required to contact the Credit • the change operates for the benefit of the ensure that the University’s Regulations prescribed by regulatory bodies such as the Controller at the University Finance Office for 10. To safeguard the welfare of staff, students on the course; remain fit for purpose as a result of changes Scottish Funding Council, Scottish assistance in drawing up a payment students, visitors and the general public, the or developments within the University. Where Government, Student Awards Agency for • the change is required due to schedule. Any payment schedule drawn up University scrutinises all criminal convictions the University’s regulations are changed and Scotland (SAAS) and the UK Government, circumstances outside the control of the by the Credit Controller must be adhered to declared by applicants. Continuing students the operation of a new regulation would and/or increases in the costs of delivering University, and by the student until the fees in question are must declare at the point of matriculation any place a student in a less favourable position and administering the course. Tuition fees for paid in full. Where no payment schedule has criminal conviction acquired in the previous • it is necessary to ensure that the course than they would otherwise have been under the forthcoming academic session are been arranged with the Credit Controller and 12 months. The existence of a criminal continues to align with the University’s the old regulations, that student may rely on published on the QMU website well in tuition fees remain outstanding 8 weeks after conviction itself does not preclude entry to aims, strategy and mission. the old regulation as if it continued to apply. advance of the start of that academic year the end of the 21-day period, or where an the University, but admission to, or Whether a student would be in a less Details of tuition fees and other charges can

160 161 Living cost support: England Students from the Republic of Ireland From 2021 a maximum loan of £9,488 (ROI) Student fees will be available to students living away from home. Tuition fees

This is dependent on household The Scottish Government has income. confirmed that undergraduate students and funding from the ROI who commence their Living cost support: Wales studies from 2021-22 will have the same fee status as students from the From 2020 a living cost support rest of the UK, excluding Scotland. This package of £9,810 will be available. means that full time students from the rThis is made up of a bursary and ROI commencing on an honours student loan with the amount of each programme will be required to pay fees dependent on household income. for the first three years of study which will be £9250 per annum. No fee will be Living cost support: Northern Ireland charged in year four. A tuition fee loan Students with a household income of Care experienced students of up to this amount will be available The types of financial Funding bodies less than £21,000 per annum will From 2021 a maximum loan of £4,840 from the Students Awards Agency for support available to receive the full bursary and a student If you were in the care of a Local will be available to students living away Scotland (SAAS). All UK students apply to the funding loan of £5,750 per year giving a total Authority before the age of 18 you may from home. In addition, a maximum you will vary body where they are resident. The income of £7,750. Those with a be entitled to the Care Experienced maintenance grant of £3,475 is Living costs funding bodies are listed below. household income of £34,000 per Bursary of £8100. You cannot apply for available. The levels of loan and annum or more will not receive a a student loan for living costs in bursary are dependent on household Living cost support that may be according to where Student Awards Agency for Scotland bursary but can apply for a loan of addition to the bursary. income. available will come from the funding you live, what you are (SAAS) £4,750 per year. authorities in Ireland, there is no living W: www.saas.gov.uk Non-standard fees cost support available from SAAS.

Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before applying Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before intending to study, There is no difference between the Student Finance England funding available to a student living at Some of our non-UCAS undergraduate International students W: www.gov.uk/student-finance your family home and those living away from courses may not be eligible for full or home. You must apply to SAAS each even partial SAAS funding. They may If you live outside the UK you are likely Students with a disability Student Finance Northern Ireland circumstances and year for living cost support. have non-standard tuition fees due to to be regarded as an international W: www.studentfinanceni.co.uk the nature and delivery method of the student and therefore will be asked to You may be eligible to claim the whether you have There are separate systems of financial course. See our website at: www.qmu. pay the international tuition fee rate. Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) to Student Finance Wales support for mature and independent ac.uk/study-here/fees-and-funding/ for Tuition fees vary according to your assist with the additional expenses of previously received W: www.studentfinancewales.co.uk students. Please see the SAAS further details. course. Please also see the statement equipment or individual support that funding as a student. website. below on students from the European may arise during your studies. This Union and from the Republic of Ireland. allowance is not income assessed. Applications for DSA must be In addition to the financial support Students studying Nursing Further details are available on our Students from Scotland supported by appropriate evidence and highlighted on these pages, many Students from England, Northern website at: www.qmu.ac.uk/study- countersigned by a Disability Adviser at students supplement their income via Any student from Scotland studying on Ireland and Wales here/fees-and-funding Tuition fees QMU. part-time employment during their our Nursing degree can apply to SAAS Tuition fees studies. Students ordinarily resident in Scotland for a non-repayable bursary of £10,000 per annum (a lower rate applies in the If you consider that you may be eligible have their tuition fees paid for them. Students ordinarily resident in England, for DSA support, please contact a While every effort has been made to shorter final year of the course).This Students from the European Union You must apply each year to the SAAS Northern Ireland and Wales Disability Adviser at disabilityadvisers@ ensure the accuracy of the information bursary is non-means-tested, meaning to have your fees paid. Your entitlement commencing on an honours qmu.ac.uk. It is helpful to get in touch in this section, due to printing that all students who apply for the The Scottish Government has to tuition fee and bursary support may programme will be required to pay fees as soon as you know that you have a deadlines, it is important that you bursary will receive the same amount confirmed that, as a result of the UK be affected if you have already for the first three years of study which place on your chosen course so that confirm the up-to-date financial regardless of household income. See having left the European Union, higher undertaken degree level studies and will be £9250 per annum. No fee will be your DSA application process can support arrangements with your the SAAS website for any further education students from the EU you should consult with SAAS for charged in year four. A tuition fee loan begin prior to your start date. relevant funding body (see following changes to funding for entry in 2022. starting their studies from academic further guidance. of up to this amount will be available column). The following figures relate to year 2021-22 will no longer have the from their local funding authority. 2021 entry for students from Scotland, Living costs Your entitlement to tuition fee and costs of their tuition fees met by the England, Wales and Northern Ireland bursary support may be affected if you Scottish Government. This means that QMU bursaries Part-time students unless otherwise stated.There may be For all courses (other than Nursing have already undertaken degree level ‘Home fee’ status for these students studies and you should consult with has come to end, and they are now changes to student funding degrees) you will be entitled to living If you are a Scottish resident and SAAS for further guidance. Nursing A bursary package is available for classified as international students for arrangements for 2022 and it is cost support from SAAS in the form of studying part-time, you may be eligible students are not entitled to apply for a students from England, Wales and the purposes of tuition fees. important that you check our website a loan and, depending on household Northern Ireland, dependent on for assistance with your fees. You and that of your funding body for income, also a bursary. For young Student Loan. household income. For further USEFUL LINKS: should apply through SAAS for a additional information. If you have any students (typically those under the age information please see page 167. part-time fee grant that will cover much, questions, please contact the Student of 25 and not self-supporting) the but not all, of your tuition fees. There is Funding Adviser. non-repayable Young Students’ W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ fees-and-funding/ no living cost support available to Bursary is worth up to £2,000 per year part-time students. depending on household income. W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ fees-and-funding/scholarships-for- new-students/

162 163 Undergraduate fees for 2022—23

ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS COURSES

Master of Dietetics Master of Nursing Home Full-time £1,820+ Master of Occupational Therapy* Master of Physiotherapy* Master of Podiatry Home Part-time (per 20 credit module) £620 Master of Speech and Language Therapy Rest of UK Full-time £9,250++ Master of Radiography: Diagnostic* Master of Radiography: Therapeutic* BSc Paramedic Science Rest of UK Part-time (per 20 credit module) Pro rata

*Registration and membership fees are ROI Full-time £9250+++ required to be paid to the relevant professional body. ROI Part-time (per 20 credit module) Pro rata

International Full-time £15,500 Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before applying Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before International Part-time (per 20 credit module) Pro rata

Key: For further information on fees and MORE INFO: OTHER COURSES charges, visit: www.qmu.ac.uk/ Student Funding Adviser + Set by the Scottish Government and current-students/current-students- T: 0131 474 0000 BA/BA (Hons) Acting and Performance normally paid for you by the Student general-information/fees-and-charges E: [email protected] BA/BA (Hons) Business Management Awards Agency for Scotland but Home Full-time £1,820+ W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ BA/BA (Hons) Costume Design and subject to Scottish Government policy In addition to the course fee and Construction changes. charges set out at the link above, there fees-and-funding/ BA/BA (Hons) Drama Home Part-time (per 20 credit module) £620 may be additional course-related BA (Hons) Education Studies ++ Full-time Rest of UK fees will be expenses that you are personally BA (Hons) Education Studies (Primary) Rest of UK Full-time £9,250++ charged for the first three years of required to pay. For example, all BA/BA (Hons) Events Festival study. The fourth year is free. students should expect to purchase Management books/learning materials; students on BA/BA (Hons) Film and Media Rest of UK Part-time (per 20 credit module) Pro rata +++ Full-time Republic of Ireland fees our health professions courses are BA/BA (Hons) International Hospitality will be charged for the first three years required to purchase uniforms that they and Tourism Management ROI Full-time £9250+++ of study. The fourth year is free. will wear on placement; and travel to BA/BA (Hons) Media and and from placements. You can check Communications out our ‘Budgeting and living costs’ BSc/BSc (Hons) Nutrition ROI Part-time (per 20 credit module) Pro rata section on pages 50—51 that will give BA (Hons) Theatre and Film Studies you an idea of other outgoings that you BA Performance International Full-time £7,000 need to think about as a student. BSc/BSc (Hons) Physical Activity, Health and Wellbeing Please see our Terms and Conditions BSc/BSc (Hons) Psychology International Part-time (per 20 credit module) Pro rata on pages 160—161 as they relate to BSc/BSc (Hons) Psychology and fees. Sociology BA/BA (Hons) Public Relations and Marketing Communications, BSc/BSc (Hons) Public Sociology

164 165 International QMU scholarships bursaries Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before applying Is QMU right for you? All you need to know before

QMU is committed to ensuring that It is important when applying for your The information in this QMU scholarships for international QMU bursaries are suitably qualified candidates are not student loan that you tick the ‘consent section is correct at students MORE INFO: available to eligible deterred from investing in their to share’ box so that this can be done. International Office education on the grounds of ability to The University is pleased to offer a the time of printing. T: 0131 474 0000 students from pay. For that reason, we offer the The Bursary will be a cash award, number of competitive scholarships of enabling students to use their bursary E: [email protected] non-repayable bursary package £3,000 each for new international outlined below to all eligible students as they wish, for example contributing However, there may W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ England, Wales and students undertaking their first year of from the Rest of the UK, outside to accommodation or living costs or be changes to student study on an undergraduate degree in fees-and-funding/scholarships-for- Northern Ireland. Scotland. payment towards tuition fees. the academic year beginning new-students/ fees and financial September 2022. The scholarship is QMU will use the residual household It is paid in three instalments over the granted as a reduction of the tuition fee *For additional information and the income figure calculated yearly by the academic year: 25% in Semester One, support for 2022 for a single year of study and is latest figures for 2022 entry, visit: www. Student Loans Company (SLC) when 50% early in Semester Two and 25% available to self-funding, full-time qmu.ac.uk/registry/fees_charges.htm assessing a student’s bursary near the end of Semester Two. entry.* students with an international fee entitlement during each year of their status. Applications can be made by studies. students who have applied for a place to study at the University. The application form can be downloaded Table: QMU Rest of UK bursary package MORE INFO: from our website at: www.qmu.ac.uk/ Student Funding Adviser study-here/fees-and-funding/ T: 0131 474 0000 scholarships-for-new-students/. Please Annual household income QMU bursary award (per year) E: [email protected] note that the initial QMU International W: www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/ Scholarship application deadline for Up to £20,000 £2,000 fees-and-funding/scholarships-for- entry in September 2022 will be at the new-students/ end of March 2022. £20,001—£25,000 £1,500

£25,001—£35,000 £1,000

£35,001—£42,600 £500

166 167 Other useful Edinburgh A1 Student Sports and Main academic Musselburgh accommodation Students’ Union building railway station, information building 200m from QMU entrance

Vehicular Parking Bus stops Musselburgh

Other useful information entrance

Our campus is situated to the east of Edinburgh, by the coastal town of Musselburgh, with Edinburgh city centre less than six minutes away by train. See the following pages for more information on getting to the campus including information on parking.

168 169 Walking from Fort Kinnaird/ Car use at QMU How to get Newcraighall Station We operate a needs-based parking policy for staff and From Fort Kinnaird walk along Newcraighall Road and continue on students, meaning that those who have a genuine underneath the Musselburgh bypass need, such as childcare, will receive a permit in and past the Newcraighall Park and preference to others. You will require a parking permit to our campus Ride (on your right). Just past the Park to park on campus. Permits are priced according to the and Ride, walk underneath the bridge CO2 emissions of the vehicle. Our car park has several and take the first road on your right; this disabled parking spaces located close to the main Other useful information is the National Cycle Network path. entrance. Where appropriate, a disabled parking permit Continue on this path past the can be provided as a reasonable adjustment for an Newcraighall Rugby club, which is on eligible disabled student at no cost. If you would like to your left, until you reach the QMU Sheriffhall Roundabout, take the 3rd campus. exit onto The City of Edinburgh Bypass find out if you qualify for a disabled parking permit, (A720). Through Old Craighall Junction, please email [email protected]. Car users MUST at the roundabout take the first exit, access the campus off the A1. Please note that some then merge onto the A1. Take the exit Sat Nav systems direct you to Musselburgh Station, From central Edinburgh: by car sign posted Queen Margaret University. cars cannot access QMU at this point. From Princes Street, going east, follow signs for A1 to Berwick, along Waterloo Place (continuation of Princes Street), From West Lothian- by car and along Regent Road onto Montrose Terrace. These are continuations of the Take the M9 and at the Newbridge same road. At the bottom of Montrose Junction roundabout take the 2nd exit, Terrace, it will become London Road, to continue on the M9. At the junction Our campus is From central Edinburgh by bus and is still signed for the A1. Continue with the M8, branch left on to the M8. along London Road until the junction At M8 junction 1, keep in right-hand designed to be QMU is served by the frequent number adjacent to New Restalrig Church, where lane to continue forward (signposted 30 Lothian Bus service, which operates you turn right onto Willowbrae Road. City Bypass South). At Hermiston environmentally a night bus service. Other services are Continue to follow signs for A1 through Junction roundabout take the 3rd exit sustainable. To in operation at peak times and local Duddingston crossroads and along to on to the A720 (sign posted City providers are regularly adding new the Milton Link intersection, where you Bypass South). Continue forward, then options. turn right onto the A1. Go through the merge onto the Edinburgh Bypass – minimise car use, roundabout and past the slip road for A720. Travel along the A720 until much has been done Newcraighall, and follow signs for Queen Sheriffhall roundabout, take the 3rd exit Margaret University to the next slip road. on to The City of Edinburgh Bypass – to make it easy for Cycling from central Edinburgh From the end of this road turn to the left A720. Through Old Craighall Junction, and the car park entrance is on the right at the roundabout take 1st exit, then staff and students to National Cycle Route 1 runs from hand side. merge onto the A1. Take the exit Edinburgh Waverley Station to the rear signposted Queen Margaret University. use public transport of the campus. There are many quiet roads in the Musselburgh area that MORE INFO: links. allow for safe cycling. These can be From Fife: by car W: www.qmu.ac.uk/location-and- seen on the cycle map on our website. getting-here/ Take the M90 south towards Edinburgh (signposted Queensferry Crossing From central Edinburgh by train Bridge). Continue onto the A90 and Walking from central Musselburgh cross the Queensferry Crossing Bridge. The campus is less than six minutes by Continue towards South Queensferry. train from central Edinburgh. QMU is Starting from the High Street, walk Continue on the A90 into Edinburgh. At located beside Musselburgh station south towards the River Esk, continue the Barnton Junction, turn right onto and Newcraighall Park and Ride along this road (it becomes Mall Avenue Maybury Road – A902 (signposted City Station is located to the north west of then Olivebank Road) until the junction Bypass). Bear left onto Maybury Road the site, approximately 10 minutes of Olivebank Road and Eskview entering Edinburgh. At the roundabout, away on foot. Musselburgh station is Terrace. Turn left into Eskview Terrace, take the 2nd exit onto Maybury Road served by trains from Edinburgh and keep walking until you come to (A902). At Maybury Junction turn right East Lothian and Newcraighall is Stoneybank Terrace. Turn right at onto Glasgow Road (A8) signposted served by trains from Edinburgh and Stoneybank Terrace, continue on until City Bypass. At Gogar Junction branch the new Borders Railway line. Trains the road becomes Whitehill Farm Road. left (signposted City Bypass), then at run from Waverley Station to Walk down Whitehill Farm Road, Gogar Roundabout take the 2nd exit Musselburgh and from Haymarket and passing the Musselburgh train station onto The City of Edinburgh Bypass Waverley to Newcraighall. Detailed (on your right), then onto the pedestrian (A720) signposted Berwick upon information can be found on the entrance to QMU. Tweed. Travel along the A720 until Scotrail website at: www.scotrail.co.uk.

170 171 Useful contacts and more information Acknowledgements Other useful information

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172 173 Some examples of our research and knowledge exchange work:

Our research • Researchers within our School of Health Sciences conducted research with people who contacted COVID-19 near the start of the pandemic in 2020. The project aimed to establish what help and support services they needed to aid their recovery from the virus. The results will be used to increase understanding of COVID-19 and to inform future service provision for people recovering from the virus in isolation.

• Our global health and development researchers looked at the impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on loneliness and isolation among asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland.

• Multi-disciplinary research groups within the University are involved in a wide range of research projects that promote a person-centred approach to supporting people affected by dementia.

Other useful information • Our nursing staff are involved in research into osteoporosis that is helping to educate front-line healthcare workers in the moving and handling of patients in hospital.

• RaceRunning (now known as Frame Running), an innovative athletic event for people of all ages with limited mobility, is the focus of research being carried out by a QMU physiotherapy expert alongside other UK researchers. The team is investigating the potential health benefits that this activity may have on the lives of children and young people with cerebral palsy. A second, separate research study has been carried out into the evidence-based classification for RaceRunning that may lead to the sport being included as a para-athletic event at the Paralympics.

• Our global health researchers are part of a consortium ‘ReBUILD for Resilience’ that is looking at health systems in fragile states that are experiencing violence, conflict, pandemic and other shocks. The team is producing high quality research that will improve the health and lives of millions of people in different parts of the world. By choosing to study We focus our research work on areas The UK’s most recent national audit of that will make a difference to the world research in higher education, the • Longitudinal research carried out with mentally ill adults who were learning to write led to the development of ‘The at QMU, you will be around us and help to improve people’s Research Excellence Framework (REF Recovery Letters’. The collection of writing from people who were recovering from depression, was included in a mental lives. For example, some our 2014), showed that over 58% of our health kit that was issued across Scotland. It was intended to bring support and comfort to people living with mental part of an academic researchers quickly responded to the research was world-leading or ill-health during the COVID-19 pandemic. community that is Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 by internationally excellent. Among the conducting research projects that highlights was our success in Speech • One of our leading cultural experts has been involved in the FailSpace research project that explores how the cultural involved in addressing looked at what people needed to help and Language Sciences, in which the sector can better recognise, acknowledge and learn from failure. The project has developed a new website offering tools in their recovery from the virus, as well proportion of research classed as designed to help everyone in the cultural sector instigate honest and open conversations about failure between real-world issues as the impact the pandemic has had on internationally excellent or world- colleagues, artists, funders, participants and board members. Scotland’s refugee community. leading was 92%. At the time the through research and results were published, Times Higher • Our speech and language experts are developing technologies to help improve the speech communication of children Our research activity will help ensure with significant speech communication difficulties. knowledge exchange. that your learning takes account of the Education singled us out as a ‘notable riser’ in terms of REF performance. latest thinking, allowing you to hit the • Our cultural policy lecturer has been working with arts funders in Scotland, Wales and Portugal to put into action her ground running when you enter the research on how to support high quality in arts projects working with participants. A new set of films has been workforce or go on to further study. A developed to help arts practitioners get the most out of the toolkit made in Scotland, and the latest research report high proportion of our staff are research shows how organisations in the three countries are benefitting from this quality model from QMU. active, meaning that our students often learn directly from academics who are • Our film and media lecturers are continually developing and researching different techniques and styles of filming; they involved in research projects with those include award-winning filmmakers who have had significant success with showcasing their work on the international film who are leaders in their fields. festival circuit. They have been able to share the latest techniques with students and advise them on the process of getting films selected for screening at festivals all over the world. Our research impacts directly on the quality of life; it builds the evidence for • We have a strong track record in building relationships with businesses, which helps us develop research that supports change and development in policy and business development in the UK. Our work with small businesses has led to several internship opportunities for practice. We have a real influence on students. We work with international partners, including NGOs and academics at universities abroad, to develop the bodies that have the power to collaborative research with global reach. improve and transform lives, and that are major employers of graduates, • We led the first research project in Scotland to look at the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people who government, businesses, healthcare have received treatment for cancer. The aim is to better understand their experiences during their cancer care journey providers, third sector organisations, and to establish if services need to be adapted to meet LGB patient care needs. non-governmental organisations (NGO) and cultural organisations. • A new interactive initiative using virtual reality (VR) with palliative care patients, to transport them virtually to the other side of the world, has looked at the impact that it has on their health and wellbeing.

174 175 Alphabetical Notes index of courses Other useful information

A O Acting and Performance 56 Occupational Therapy 88 P B Paramedic Science 92 Business Management 116 Performance 64 Business Management with Enterprise 116 Physical Activity, Health and Wellbeing 112 Business Management with Finance 116 Physiotherapy 94 Business Management with Marketing 116 Podiatry 96 Business Management (Graduate Apprenticeship) 122 Psychology 134 Psychology and Sociology 136 Public Relations and Marketing Communications 76 C Public Sociology 138 Costume Design and Construction 58 D R Dietetics 82 Radiography (Diagnostic) 100 Drama 60 Radiography (Therapeutic) 102 E S Education Studies 146 Speech and Language Therapy 104 Education Studies (Primary) 144 Events and Festival Management 124 T F Theatre and Film 66 Film and Media 70 I International Hospitality and Tourism Management 128 M Media and Communications 74 N Nursing 86 Nutrition 108

176 177173 Shaping a better world through education, research and innovation - enabling individuals and communities to flourish.

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