Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc

UCL's Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc is designed to meet the growing demand for specialists to drive the health and wellbeing agenda in the design, assessment, retrofit and operation of sustainable buildings. This Master's equips you with the skills, knowledge and networks needed to advance sustainable innovation for health and wellbeing in the built environment. Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc was launched in response to the demand for a new generation of experts to drive the health, wellbeing and sustainability agenda in the built environment. The convergence of these three components has led to the emergence of a more holistic, human-centred approach to design, and made health and wellbeing an increasingly influential research area. During this degree you are taught by multi-disciplinary research-active leaders in the field and have opportunities to network with and learn from industry and practice-based experts, to develop your understanding of commercially applicable, research-oriented tools and approaches. During your degree you: Acquire the skills to address health, wellbeing, and human performance in the design, assessment, and operation of buildings, including new builds, retrofits, and existing structures. Understand the interactions between human-centred outcomes and sustainability issues and explore the challenges of balancing multiple outcomes. Learn how social and built environment factors impact health, wellbeing, and performance across different spatial scales, from individual buildings to urban environments. Innovate and design solutions and operational strategies for the remediation or alleviation of health and comfort challenges within buildings. Enhance critical thinking and expertise in modelling, monitoring, and design approaches, and learn to sustainably implement health and wellbeing across various disciplines and building types. Use a variety of methods and tools to evaluate and predict the impact of building and built environment features on health, wellbeing, and performance. Gain a deeper understanding of individual and social factors influencing building and spatial use, and the built environment positively affects users’ physical and mental health, and boosts productivity. The Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc is interdisciplinary and attracts students from a range of disciplines including architecture, engineering, interior architecture and design, physics, and other related disciplines, including the built environment, geography, public health and environmental psychology who wish to gain further training in the field. We also welcome your application if you are an early or mid-career professional in the built environment, public health, environmental psychology, or other relevant fields wishing to deepen your skills and knowledge. This programme is also available on a modular (flexible) basis, with a duration of 5 calendar years.

Normally a second-class UK Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. architecture, engineering, physics and other relevant disciplines in built environment and public health) is required, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. If your first degree was not in a relevant discipline, please clearly state in your personal statement how your educational or employment background (including any internships or projects) relates to the programme and what you aim to achieve through your studies.