The Tayside Institute for Health Studies offers a range of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. These include professionally accredited programmes such as BA Nursing Studies. We also offer Mental Health and Counselling programmes.
The Tayside Institute for Health Studies is committed to promoting interdisciplinary and inter-professional ways of working, and to the development of pathways for facilitating lifelong learning in healthcare practitioners.
We have invested £350,000 to expand the Tayside Institute for Health Studies (TIHS), ensuring that it is up to the challenges of delivering health education and related research in the 21st Century. The new facilities, including offices and teaching spaces, will benefit staff and students working in a wide range of areas from nursing and mental health to psychology and counselling.
The core staff of the Institute represent a range of health professions: nursing, mental health, psychology and counselling.
As well as full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, TIHS also offers a wide range of Continuing Professional Development courses.
The research activity of the Tayside Institute for Health Studies focuses on:
We have a very diverse student group, which includes school leavers and more mature students coming to us from a variety of backgrounds. Student support is taken very seriously by the staff on all our programmes. There are also a number of systems in place to support students during the transition into university life and throughout their time at Abertay.
