Our History

The Faculty of Education and Health Sciences (EHS) is one of four UL Faculties. EHS was established in 2008, based on a solid platform of physical education & sports science and education broadly, with a view towards UL’s vision of expanding education and research activities across a broad spectrum of health-related disciplines. Since its establishment, EHS has grown to become the university’s second-largest faculty. It comprises of three Departments - Nursing & Midwifery, Physical Education & Sport Sciences and Psychology - and three Schools - Allied Health, Medicine, and Education. Within those academic units, there has been consistent development of new academic programmes, undergraduate and taught postgraduate, with associated research endeavours, leading to significant increases in student and staff numbers.

Implementation of the University’s strategies within EHS has been impressive. As evidenced by the expansion of undergraduate education programmes within diverse Departments and Schools, the faculty’s staff have invested considerable energy in designing new curricula while maintaining teaching standards across existing offerings and achieving ambitious research targets.

EHS has a core mission of advancing the well-being of people by graduating effective and critically reflective scientists, education and healthcare professionals and creating and disseminating knowledge through teaching, research and scholarship that impacts the social, educational, and healthcare needs of people locally, nationally, and globally.

Therefore, despite the scope of our disciplines, EHS is collectively cohesive due to shared values and interest in the education of the next generations of scholars, teachers, and healthcare professionals, while performing impactful research relevant to those same sectors.