Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) (060188G)

Students will build on their knowledge of health care, policy and systems with a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours). Through a combination of coursework and original research, students will learn the analytical skills and research techniques that will take them into further study, or employment in the booming health sector.

Contribute to existing studies in the contemporary health sector by completing an honours degree. Students will have the opportunity to work with a world-class supervisor who will guide them through all the stages of research from data collection to implementation and execution, helping students produce a piece of independent, original research.

Focus on an area within the health sciences that students are passionate about. Research themes can include: • community health • gambling • gender, family, reproductive and sexual health • health, diversity and social inclusion • health economics • nature and health • obesity prevention, healthy food environments and food policy • physical activity, motor skill competence and self-perception • refugee health • sustainability • violence and abuse, prevention and intervention.

Students will learn more than just their topic of research. They will develop the necessary skills to successfully conduct research, with units designed to build their knowledge of the process.

Students can be confident that their research is guided by the most recent and ground-breaking findings within the health sector. Deakin University’s School of Health and Social Development is home to a large range of multidisciplinary research groups, encompassing public health, health promotion, and social, commercial, behavioral, and environmental determinants of health.

The school addresses the complex connections between determinants of health in their broadest sense, and social development in a variety of settings, and at a range of intervention levels. This means students will be immersed in the work of some of the world’s best researchers.