环境卫生硕士（第二年的高级实践）

我们的MSc环境健康硕士课程为期两年，通过分析压力源如何影响人体功能，探讨了周围环境如何影响我们的日常生活和健康。我们提供特许环境卫生研究所（世界公认的专业机构）的课程，内容涉及以下方面的危害和风险：住房与健康，环境保护与健康，职业健康与安全，食品安全与公共卫生。完成本课程后，您将详细了解风险以及如何使用技术，科学或法律干预措施来减轻影响，以创造更安全，更健康的环境。在第二年的一个学期中，您将进行实习，在另一个国家学习或加入研究小组。这种宝贵的经验将提高您的就业能力，并进一步发展您的理论和实践技能。
Our MSc Environmental Health two year’s master’s course explores how the environment around us impacts our daily lives and our health through analysing how stressors can affect how our bodies function. We deliver the curriculum of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (a world recognised professional body) teaching about hazard and risk in the topics of: housing and health, environmental protection and health, occupational health and safety, food safety and public health. On completing this course you will have a detailed understanding of risks and how to mitigate impacts using technical, scientific or legal interventions to create a safer and healthier environment.<br>In the second year, for one semester, you’ll undertake an Advanced Practice placement, study in another country or join a research group. This valuable experience will enhance your employability and further develop your theoretical and practical skills.<br><br>Advanced Practice Placement<br>This option offers the opportunity to spend three months working full-time to gain all-important work experience and employability skills. You may be able to extend this over more than one semester in cases where it is adjacent to a vacation period. We will endeavour to help those who prefer this option to source opportunities and to perfect their CV but ultimately the onus is on the student to secure the Advanced Practice placement through a competitive application process.<br><br>Research<br>If you take this option, you will be assigned to our Geography and Environmental Studies Research Group. There is every possibility that you may contribute to published research and therefore you may be named as part of the research team, which would be a great start to a research career.<br><br>Study Abroad<br>We have exchange agreements with universities all over the world, including partners in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Oceania. If you take the Study Abroad option you will spend a semester at one of these partners, continuing your studies in English but in a new cultural and learning environment. Please note that this option may require you to obtain a visa for study in the other country.<br><br>Accredited by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) the first 180 credits of this course course fulfills the academic requirement to gain recognition as an Environmental Health Practitioner. Full professional accreditation, opens up a broad range of career prospects in the public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK and abroad.<br><br>Members of the core teaching team sit on CIEH committees at both local and national level and in their accreditation visit, the CIEH commended ‘the excellent channels of communication established between Northumbria University and the CIEH’.