Handbook

Health and well-being are recognised as global rights, vital to human flourishing. Yet the dominant paradigms in health research rarely attend to the complex influences of social contexts and meanings. How are the Humanities and Social Sciences seeking to expand our understanding of the contributions of social relationships, poverty, racism and stigma to health and well-being today? What theoretical and methodological innovations are helping to explain the social dynamics of our experiences of and responses to health challenges? This specialisation will prepare you to draw on social and critical frameworks and interdisciplinary research techniques to design ethical, contextual and creative approaches to understanding health and well-being. This degree provides advanced research training opportunities to professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds who are interested in either pursuing higher degree research or enhancing their knowledge and skills in using, informing and conducting research which draws on the humanities and social sciences.