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Overview
Our Women’s Health Intercalated BSc will provide you with insight into current research topics and appropriate research techniques in obstetrics and reproductive physiology, as well as the related fields of assisted conception, stem cell research, women’s mental health and pediatrics. It will give you an understanding of common disease processes in pregnancy and the early-life origins of health and disease, and underline the importance of hypothesis testing by efficient experimental design.
Key benefits
- Research training in the field of women & children's health
- Opportunity to experience both clinical and laboratory research
- One-year course leading to an intercalated BSc
- Teaching by experts in the fields of assisted conception, stem cell research, women’s mental health, and global women’s health
- A proven career pathway for future clinical research fellows in obstetrics and paediatrics
Course essentials
The objective of this one-year intercalated degree course is to give you an insight into current research topics and develop appropriate research techniques in obstetrics and reproductive physiology and the related fields of assisted conception and stem cell research. It will provide you with a strong scientific foundation for a future career in reproductive and women’s health or in clinical research, and an understanding of the research background of evidence-based medicine. You will share some of your teaching modules with the third year of the Medical Physiology BSc course, and will undertake a 45-credit research project in Women & Children’s Health research.
Examples of Research Project Topics:
• Cardiovascular dysfunction in offspring of mothers with obesity in the UPBEAT RCT; associations with cord blood insulin and leptin concentrations.
• Assessment of fetal brain volume and mean T2* relaxometry in fetuses that deliver in the moderate to late preterm period.
• Blood Pressure Variability in Pregnancy and its Effect on Adverse Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes: Secondary Analysis of Born in Bradford Cohort Study.
• Decidual stromal cells as an immunotherapy for Prevention of preterm birth and fetal demise.
• Placental growth factor (PlGF) testing for pre-eclampsia
• Co-IVF in Lesbians
Course aims
- To foster the capacity for knowledge, understanding and communication at a level commensurate with taught undergraduate study.
- Produce graduates with a multidisciplinary degree with a specialisation in Women’s Health.
- To provide a theoretical and academic knowledge of obstetrics research to students who will work with women in a clinical context.
- To develop a broad understanding of matters of current social and ethical concern surrounding maternity and childbirth.
- To deepen the student’s appreciation of common problems in obstetrics in contemporary societies and to explore the ways these are managed.
- To equip students with the core technical skills necessary to engage with the key debates in the field of obstetrics research, policy and ethics.
- To develop the skills needed for successful multi-disciplinary, multi-professional and multi-agency work and research in Women’s Health.
- Develop the written and oral presentation skills of students in the communication of scientific literature and instil a critical approach to the reading of biomedical research papers.
- Provide practical experience in the techniques used in physiology and equip graduates with the skills to progress to postgraduate study.
- To enable students to attain a level of competence in the design and execution of a research project appropriate to H level standard and reinforce a basic understanding of the importance of experimental design and statistical analysis.
Please note that applications for this programme will open on 1 October 2026.
Key Information
UCAS code:
Not applicable. Intercalated programme.
Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full-time
Duration:
One year
Application status:
Start date:
September 2027
Application deadline:
Administrative bodies
Regulating body
Base campuses
Waterloo Campus
Centrally located and well connected, Waterloo brings together students from health, science and law, just steps from the South Bank. It's also home to the world's #2 nursing school – the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery (QS 2026).