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Key details

Start date(s)
September 2026
Study Mode
Full-time (1 year)
Part-time (2 years)
Location
Online
School
Sport and Wellbeing

Health and wellbeing is a rapidly changing and challenging area – both nationally and internationally.

This programme is a distance-learning course delivered online. The course aims to equip future senior leaders and strategic thinkers in health and wellbeing with the knowledge, skills and expertise to enable them to take a leading role in responding to these complex issues.

The Student Contract

About this course

This course offers a full or part-time route to develop understanding, knowledge and expertise across a broad range of health and wellbeing subjects including mental health, weight management, the healthy environment, workplace wellbeing, healthy ageing and contemporary issues.

The course considers national and international trends and challenges in enabling sustainable population health and wellbeing, alongside developing students’ academic and professional skills to support both future career advancement and further research.

Health and wellbeing practitioners work alongside active researchers and experienced lecturers to help you follow your passion for improving the health and wellbeing of others. You will develop the skills and knowledge to understand the bigger picture in health and wellbeing strategy, policy and intervention planning, as well as focusing on the challenges to maintaining health and wellbeing for marginalised groups. 

Inequalities in health and wellbeing persist despite action being taken at multiple levels. You will develop the ability to analyse the complexity of responding to diverse needs, and develop solutions that are grounded in theory, based in evidence and are pragmatic and workable. This will enhance your employment prospects as you will be building your own problem-solving expertise within this field.

By the time you graduate, you will be able to apply your expertise and demonstrate that you are able to become a leader in this area going forwards, and/or progress on to doctoral-level study.

Why study with us

  • Develop a broad range of health and wellbeing knowledge and experience, which will keep your options open at the end of the degree.
  • Learn from the experts. Their research specialisms range from ageing populations and applied workplace health and wellbeing, to the effects of the work environment on health and wellbeing outcomes. They also work closely with public health bodies, delivering consultancy on health and wellbeing initiatives.
  • Join a flexible curriculum which responds to emerging issues. In the past, we’ve adapted our course to explore the rapid spread of Ebola in West Africa, the effects of the 2011 UK riots on health and wellbeing and mental health issues such as loneliness and social isolation.
  • Choose your final project from two options. You can choose between a traditional dissertation, which is a sustained piece of research on a specialist topic, or a negotiated work-based research project. Whichever option you choose, you’ll be well-prepared for career progression or further study at PhD-level, should you wish to pursue that. We’ll also actively seek opportunities to publish your research findings, further enhancing your employability.
Health and Social Care student Jemma Ryley sits in the Atrium at Main Campus.

Course structures

September - Full-time
Year Semester Module Credits Contact hours
1 Semester 1 Leading and Managing Change in Health and Wellbeing 30

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.”
Mental Health and Wellbeing in Contemporary Society or Weight Management: Social and Behavioural Aspects or The Healthy Environment 30

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.
Semester 2 Research Practice 30

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.
Workplace Wellbeing or Healthy Ageing or Contemporary Issues for Specific Populations 30

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.
Semester 2 and Summer Dissertation or Work-based Project 60

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.
September - Part-time
Year Semester Module Credits Contact hours
1 Semester 1 Leading and Managing Change in Health and Wellbeing 30

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.
Semester 2 Workplace Wellbeing or Healthy Ageing or Contemporary Issues for Specific Populations 30

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.
2 Semester 1 Mental Health and Wellbeing in Contemporary Society or Weight Management: Social and Behavioural Aspects or The Healthy Environment 30

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.
Semester 2 Research Practice 30

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.
Semester 2 and Summer Dissertation or Work-based Project 60

There is no fixed timetable for this course. Learning is self-paced, with live online sessions scheduled at mutually agreed times.

Learning and teaching

We use a range of assessment methods across the course, in recognition that communication in the arena of health and wellbeing needs to be diverse in order to reach diverse audiences.

These include developing academic and practitioner posters and development plans. You'll also be assessed by writing journal articles, delivering video presentations, writing extended essays and critical literature reviews.

We don’t use exams as a form of assessment but our assessment methods do challenge you to extend your range of communication skills, preparing you well for career advancement.

Learning and teaching

At Leeds Trinity we aim to provide an excellent student experience and provide you with the tools and support to help you achieve your academic, personal and professional potential.

Our Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy delivers excellence by providing the framework for:

  • high quality teaching
  • an engaging and inclusive approach to learning, assessment and achievement
  • a clear structure through which you progress in your academic studies, your personal development and towards professional-level employment or further study.

We have a strong reputation for developing student employability, supporting your development towards graduate employment, with relevant skills embedded throughout your programme of study.

We endeavour to develop curiosity, confidence, courage, ambition and aspiration in all students through the key themes in our Learning and Teaching Strategy:

  • Student Involvement and Engagement
  • Inclusion
  • Integrated Programme and Assessment Experience
  • Digital Literacy and Skills
  • Employability and Enterprise

To help you achieve your potential we emphasise learning as a collaborative process, with a range of student-led and real-world activities. This approach ensures that you fully engage in shaping your own learning, developing your critical thinking and reflective skills so that you can identify your own strengths and weaknesses, and use the extensive learning support system we offer to shape your own development.

We believe the secret to great learning and teaching is simple: it is about creating an inclusive learning experience that allows all students to thrive through:

  • Personalised support
  • Expert lecturers
  • Strong connections with employers
  • An international outlook
  • Understanding how to use tools and technology to support learning and development

Entry requirements

Leeds Trinity University is committed to recruiting students with talent and potential and who we feel will benefit greatly from their academic and non-academic experiences here. We treat every application on its own merits; we value highly the experience you illustrate in your personal statement.

The following information is designed to give you a general overview of the qualifications we accept. If you are taking qualifications that are not included below, please contact our Admissions Office who will be happy to advise you.

Usual entry requirements are an undergraduate degree in a related area at 2:2 classification or above. Alternatively, applicants with an undergraduate degree in an unrelated area, but with subsequent work-related experience in health and wellbeing, are encouraged to apply.

We are able to consider applications from people who do not have a formal academic background, but who have significant and substantial work experience in an area relevant to health and wellbeing, through an application and assessment process. Additionally, applicants who have studied similar areas at postgraduate level can apply for accreditation of their prior certificated learning, where the learning outcomes for their former study can be mapped to the learning outcomes for this course.

This course is only open to students who already have the right to live and study in the UK.

Fees and finance

Funding

UK Home Students:

For information about our tuition fees please visit our Student Fees and Finance pages.

If you studied your undergraduate degree at Leeds Trinity University, you may be eligible for a discount of up to 50% on the cost of your tuition fees.

Leeds Trinity Alumni Discount

Some Leeds Trinity graduates are eligible for a tuition fee discount on postgraduate courses of up to 50%, excluding PGCE Delivery Partner Model and Lead Partner Model, and Masters by Research courses. You will need to achieve a 2:2 or above in a Leeds Trinity undergraduate course to qualify.

Postgraduate course Leeds Trinity Alumni Discount
MSc programmes 50% for Leeds Trinity graduates with a 1st class honours degree
MSc programmes  35% for Leeds Trinity graduates with a 2:1 honours degree
MSc programmes  20% for Leeds Trinity graduates with a 2:2 honours degree

How to apply

Get in touch

This course is only open to students who already have the right to live and study in the UK.

There is no official closing date for applications, but the course will be closed when it is full. We therefore encourage you to make your application as early as possible.

Please ensure you complete the application form in full and supply all the required supporting documentation when you make your initial application. Incomplete applications may be rejected.

If you need advice on your application, please contact our admissions team on 0113 283 7123 (Monday to Thursday, 9.00am to 5.00pm, or Friday 9.00am to 4.00pm) or admissions@leedstrinity.ac.uk

Home applicants - How to apply

What happens next?

Our admissions team will acknowledge receipt of your application by email. Your application will be processed and reviewed by the Programme Leader.

The Programme Leader will make a decision based on your application. You may be asked to provide a reference to demonstrate your academic and non-academic experiences, or you may be invited to attend an interview. If you are successful and made an offer, the conditions will be outlined in your offer letter.

If you're selected for an interview, you'll be contacted with details within ten days of your application being processed. The admissions team will notify you of your interview outcome in writing within five working days of receiving a decision from the Programme Leader.

Made an offer?

You should accept or decline your offer by emailing admissions@leedstrinity.ac.uk.

If you accept, you'll need to prove you satisfy the conditions outlined in your offer letter, for example, meeting the minimum entry requirements, or a reference to illustrate your academic and non-academic experiences.

You may be asked to present the relevant supporting documentation in person to the student information point on campus - if originals are not needed, you’ll be contacted and given details of how to provide the supporting documentation.

PGCert Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace 

We also offer a PGCert in Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace. This provides an excellent CPD opportunity if you are employed in a role with a workplace wellbeing focus and are looking to develop your expertise in this area. 

Delivered online from September to May, you’ll study two modules which focus on understanding key concepts and policy in health wellbeing and specific considerations for the workplace. The PGCert makes up one third of the MSc Health and Wellbeing programme and you may choose to progress onto the MSc following successful completion of the PGCert.

Find out more about our PGCert Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace.