The process to discontinue the Master’s Degree in Health and Life Quality Research will begin in the 2022-23 academic year due to the introduction of the Master’s Degree in Health Research and Innovation, which was approved on 26th April 2021.

Discontinuation Calendar

• Initial academic year of discontinuation process: 2022-23
• Second academic year of discontinuation process: 2023-24
•  Final academic year when the programme is fully discontinued: 2024-25.

Student Admission

The Master’s Degree in Health and Life Quality Research will not be admitting any new students from the 2022-23 academic year onwards.

Re-enrolment for Continuing Students

Students currently on the Master’s Degree in Health and Life Quality Research will have two academic years (2022-23 and 2023-24) to pass the subjects required to be awarded the degree.

Students may enrol for the first time on a subject as long as they were enrolled in the previous year on any subject for the same or subsequent academic year.

In exceptional cases, students who have reached the limit of two enrolments for a subject may request a last enrolment (without taking classes) in the following year. This enrolment must be authorised by the relevant Pro-Vice-Chancellor for teaching, who will make a decision after consulting with the programme coordinator.

The enrolment deadlines for each academic year will be published on the Centre for Postgraduate Studies website.

Teaching

The following subjects from the Master’s Degree in Health and Life Quality Research will continue to be offered with teaching, as long as the curriculum on the new master’s programme includes an equivalent subject:

• 11120 - Quantitative Healthcare Research Methodology
• 11121 - Qualitative Healthcare Research Methodology
• 11122 - Secondary Healthcare Research
• 10557 - Training in Social and Communication Skills for Health Professionals
• 11126 - Residential and Family Environments in Elderly Healthcare
• 11133 - New Technologies and Healthy Lifestyles
• 11136 - Clinical Practice based on Research Results and Effectiveness Improvement in Public Social and Health Care
• 11132 - Assets in Healthcare and Healthy Environments
• 11128 - Physical Exercise as a Preventive and Therapeutic Strategy in Metabolic Diseases
• 11130 - Public Healthcare and the Urban Environment
• 11137 - Global Healthcare and Education as a Means of Promoting Development
• 11135 - Critical Healthcare Research: Practices, Policies and Citizenship

The remaining master’s subjects will be offered without classes since there is no equivalent subject on the new curriculum. Enrolments without classes will give students the right to attend tutorials with the allocated tutor and to be assessed.

The enrolment fee for the subject will be the same as the public fee that is published annually, regardless of whether the subject provides classes or not.

Adaptation to the Master’s Degree in Health Research and Innovation

Students on the Master’s Degree in Health and Life Quality Research who have not passed the requirements to be awarded their degree in the stated timeline, or those who simply wish to do so, may request a curriculum adaptation before the old curriculum is discontinued, in accordance with the following equivalences.

Adaptation applications must be submitted to the Centre for Postgraduate Studies within the deadlines published for each academic year.

The fee for the curriculum adaptation process due to discontinuation will be set in accordance with the public fees published every year.

Subject equivalences:

• 11120 - Quantitative Healthcare Research Methods > 11834 - Quantitative Healthcare Research Methods
• 11121 - Qualitative Healthcare Research Methods > 11832 - Qualitative Healthcare Research Methods
• 11122 - Secondary Healthcare Research > 11833 - Secondary Healthcare Research: Critical Reading, Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
• 11123 - New Technologies in Advanced Searches, Outreach and Knowledge-Transfer in Health Sciences > 11835 - Scientific Writing and Dissemination of Knowledge
• 10552 - Social Behaviour in Public Healthcare Organisations > 11848 - Clinical and Professional Leadership
• 10557 - Training in Social and Communication Skills for Health Professionals > 11949 - Social Skills and Emotional Competence: Intervention Programmes
• 11126 - Residential and Family Environments in Elderly Healthcare > 11847 - Residential and Family Settings in Elderly Healthcare
• 11133 - New Technologies and Healthy Lifestyles > 11850 - ICT and Health
• 11136 - Clinical Practice based on Research Results and Effectiveness Improvement in Public Social and Health Care > 11853 - Attenuating Variability. Knowledge Transfer and Implementation Models
• 11132 - Assets in Healthcare and Healthy Environments > 11842 - Community Health, Health Promotion and Assets for Health
• 11128 - Physical Exercise as a Preventive and Therapeutic Strategy in Metabolic Diseases > 11843 Physical Exercise and Health Promotion
• 11129 - Physical Exercise as a Method of Preventing and Treating Injuries of the Locomotor System > 11843 - Physical Activity and Health Promotion
• 11130 - Public Healthcare and the Urban Environment > 11845 - Urban Planning, the Environment and Health
• 11137 - Global Healthcare and Education as a Means of Promoting Development > 11839 - The Foundations of Global Health and Human Development
• 11131 - Public Healthcare and Diet > 11859 - Nutritional Epidemiology
• 11135 - Critical Healthcare Research: Practices, Policies and Citizenship > 11855 > Critical Research in Health
• 10555 - Health from a Gender Perspective > 11856 - Gender Perspective in Health Care and Research

Adaptation effects

Only subjects that have been passed or recognised on the curriculum being discontinued will be moved to the new curriculum.

Once the curriculum adaptation has been carried out, the record for the Master’s Degree in Health and Life Quality Research will be definitively closed (no more enrolment will be allowed) and students will only be able to continue with the Master’s Degree in Health Research and Innovation to be awarded their degree.