Welcome

Welcome to our new students, our existing students and our alumni, and to our astonishing doctoral students who combine their clinical and laboratory work with ensuring the evidence base for service improvement through clinical academic careers. 

Welcome to our users and carers, who contribute to our strategy development, our curriculum development and our research.   You are our moral compass, ensuring that we are focusing where we need to be.

Welcome to our partners in Social Services and the NHS – acute services, NHS 24, community, on Health Boards who work with us to ensure that the professionals of the future are learning best practice in delivering services to the rich and challenging diversity of human need, and who stretch our minds to the future of advancing practice and changing skill mix.

Welcome to our colleagues in voluntary and 3rd sectors, who draw our attention to both the detail of human needs and sensitivies and who challenge us to think differently.

Welcome to our colleagues in commercial and social enterprise organisations our colleagues in food and microbiology industries, who lead the way in innovation, responsiveness and problem solving.

Welcome to our international partners and friends in education, research and services, with special recognition to our longstanding colleagues in Bangladesh, China, India, and Oman. 

Welcome to our colleagues in the Scottish Ambulance Services Academy and the members of the public who attend our Vision Clinic, all based here at GCU Glasgow. 

Welcome too, to our GCU London colleagues and students engaged in the Public Health: community action and diabetes programmes.

And last, but by far from being the least, welcome to the peoples of our public and professional communities across the breadth of Scotland and in Glasgow and the Clyde.  To our politicians who have to shape and influence the hard decisions, we want to work with you to answer the ‘Glasgow Question’, because if together we can answer that, we can improve health and wellbeing across the world.

As many of you will know, our new School builds on the strengths of our interdisciplinary working across social work, nursing, midwifery, podiatry, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology and counselling, operating department practice, vision science, diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy, dietetics and nutrition and microbiology. 

Our principles are of respectful partnership, forward thinking, sustainability and responsibility. 

Our focus is on current and future health and wellbeing, ensuring critical foundations through to advanced clinical and laboratory practice.

Our aim is to work in partnership with all of you to ensure that at GCU we excel in ensuring our contribution to the continuous, evidence based, modernisation and improvement of clinical and community service and sciences, locally, nationally and internationally through our:

• Institute of Applied Health Research
• Department of Health and Community Sciences
• Department of Psychology and Allied Health Sciences
• Department of Life Sciences

Professor Veronica James
Pro Vice Chancellor, Executive Dean of the School of Health and Life Sciences