Department of Allied Health

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About

The Department of Allied Health brings together a range of subject areas at our Tooting and Clerkenwell campuses, delivering courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Our breadth of courses within the Department includes Healthcare Science, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiography, Occupational Therapy, Paramedic Science, Physiotherapy, and Speech and Language Therapy.

The School of Health & Medical Sciences combines the previous St George’s School of Health & Medical Sciences and City’s School of Health & Psychological Sciences. The Departments within this School are currently undergoing development, which will be complete by the new academic year in September 2025.

Please note that rankings referred to on this page were awarded to City, University of London and St George’s, University of London separately prior to our merger in August 2024.

Study

Funding

Our courses

The department offers a range of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate taught and research degree level, as well as a range of Continuing Personal and Professional Development courses.

See which course is right for you:

CPPD and Short Courses

Related subjects

Research

Research is multidisciplinary and takes place across a number of different research centres in the School of Health & Medical Sciences.

Research centres

International activities

The School of Health & Medical Sciences brings together students and staff from over 60 countries and a global community of alumni and partners. Our goal is to create a truly international community for our staff and students, where a global outlook is embedded in our education, research and partnerships.

What we do

We provide future healthcare professionals with the education, training and skills they need in order to be employable and culturally-agile in an interconnected world.

We produce world-leading research that addresses issues of global concern and shapes policy and practice in the wider world.

We draw on our long-standing and new partnerships with world-leading universities, in order to provide global opportunities for staff, students and those who visit us.

Facilities

City St George's Clerkenwell campus has one of the UK’s most well-equipped training facilities. This includes the VERT room, a fully immersive, life-sized 3D rear projection of a radiotherapy treatment room.
Our Clerkenwell campus radiography suite contains 2 Vertix x-ray units and dental equipment, allowing students to practise a range of simulated radiographic techniques using equipment similar to that used in most hospitals.
City St George’s has a range of facilities for Speech and Language Therapy students, including The Roberta Williams Speech and Language Therapy Centre.
The centre is renowned for its pioneering clinical research, particularly in aphasia therapy, and offers our Speech and Language Therapy students unique practice placement opportunities.
Speech and Language Therapy students have access to specialist labs and equipment, such as ultrasound and laryngographs. These can be used in speech pathology and research involving the tongue root.
Our Phonetics Lab includes state of the art audio-visual equipment for speech analysis, which our Speech and Language Therapy students can use.