Real experiences, real impact

I work full-time as a health visitor. With my job, the modules in the programme helped me with topics like how to influence public health in the future and understanding what the commissioners are asking of us on the top level right down to how we can affect change at the grass-roots level.

I'm a nurse by profession and earned the Master's in Health Promotion. It has given me a wider knowledge of public health, especially since COVID. I liked this course because I can learn about other countries and the things that happen there with public health.

The course is brilliant, and the modules were so good. I realise that Brunel is one of the best places to go as it falls within the top 40 universities for research in the UK. My degree in public health and health promotion was the right place to be and the impact will be huge.

It was very self-paced, and the team that I was with were so supportive. We always talked, we always had Zoom calls. Everyone would help with different things like proofreading papers. The emails were always responded to and if they didn’t have an answer, they would show me where to follow up. Ten out of ten, I definitely had the support that I needed.

Post-COVID, I think there’s less contact face-to-face and more online work. And this course helped me with my skills with computers and help build in some research. The course was accessible for me and the tutors were brilliant.

I'm a clinical researcher manager and I've been doing this for quite a while. I work remotely as well, so during the pandemic, I thought this would be a great chance to further myself. Brunel was one of the top universities, so I went for it.

I have thirteen years of experience in social work. After so many challenges, I decided to change my career and try to do something in behaviour change. Especially with my course, it'll allow me to try and work with a lot of children with behaviour issues and adults with behaviour issues. I look forward to trying to help them make positive changes in their lives.

This programme helped me with my work. All the time, I see things that I’ve studied on the course, proving that it is improving my performance at my current job. It's also helping me decide about where I want to go next in my career. I would advise people that when you're working full-time, it's better to take the part-time study because it gives you the flexibility to achieve both.

I chose to study at Brunel University as I've heard a lot about it through friends. The student support offered by all the educators is very highly commendable. I would really recommend anybody to study online as I feel as though it's ideal for being able to do multiple things. You can work as well as manage your family life and also achieve a higher education master's programme.

Brunel has helped me gain the necessary skills in public health and writing to be able to perform well in my current duties. I also had the privilege of participating in the READY program, where I gained hands-on experience in intervention development. I adored the coursework that Brunel offered. The content was 100% online, which allowed me to continue my education despite the difficulties that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, I was able to publish my thesis at a renowned journal in Turkey! All of these achievements would not have been possible without Brunel.

I liked that there was a lot of global public health. Studying online, there are people from all around the world on the course. Not only were the materials on the course interesting, but also hearing the other students' perspectives. We all worked in different niches of health care, and so hearing how they brought their experiences to course materials was almost as interesting as the course itself. So having that global student base was very valuable. 

I've always heard about Brunel and all the achievements that students have made and continue to make not only here but all over the world. It is something that I felt that I wanted to be a part of and I wanted to associate myself with Brunel. They were very supportive. They were always at the end of the phone if I called and asked questions or if I emailed, there was always feedback coming from them.