Welcome

The Department of Professional and Community Education offers a unique interdisciplinarity which combines community education in social, cultural and language studies, performing and community arts with professional education in social work, community and youth work, counselling and the arts therapies.

We offer pre-degree, undergraduate, and postgraduate programmes and courses as well as opportunities for postgraduate research.

We pride ourselves on our student-centred, practice-based learning and teaching and on our links with the local and professional communities with which we work.

Employability is embedded in everything we do, not least through our network of over 500 placements.

We have a long-standing commitment to working with and in the local community, especially through our Research Centre in Lifelong Learning and Community Engagement and its contract-funded research and consultancy. This centres around the themes of professional education and development; active citizenship, social justice, equalities, faith and cohesion; and the arts, mental health and welfare.