Program Overview
The MSc in Design for Health and Wellbeing focuses on collaborating with healthcare stakeholders to design innovative medical technologies, products, and experiences to address healthcare challenges. Through a hands-on, multidisciplinary approach, students develop problem-solving skills, creativity, and the ability to work across disciplines. The program offers flexible scheduling options to accommodate career advancement or changes. Graduates work in various healthcare settings, including product innovation, UX/UI design, and design research.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The MSc in Design for Health and Wellbeing focuses on designing and innovating medical technologies, products, service systems, and human experiences to address healthcare challenges. It emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders across healthcare, including hospitals, mental health services, public health, and consumer well-being. Through a practical, multidisciplinary approach, students learn by doing and work directly with clinicians and industry partners. The design studio environment fosters creativity, problem-solving skills, and the application of design methods to develop healthcare solutions. The program offers flexible scheduling options, with full-time and part-time tracks available to accommodate career advancement, career changes, or building on undergraduate disciplines.
Outline:
The program is delivered primarily in a design studio environment, promoting creativity, peer learning, and transdisciplinary exploration. It is project-focused with continuous assessment.
Core Design Modules:
- Design Research
- Human Factors in Health Systems
- Ideation and Representation
- Concept Development and Evaluation
Additional Modules:
- Entrepreneurship – Establishing International Ventures
- Anatomy and Physiology in Emergent Care 1
- Introduction to Health and Health Promotion
Course Schedule:
Full-Time
- Autumn Semester: Entrepreneurship, Design Research, Anatomy and Physiology in Emergent Care 1
- Spring Semester: Human Factors in Health Systems, Introduction to Health and Health Promotion, Ideation and Representation, Concept Development and Evaluation
- Summer Semester: Design Project
Part-Time (Year 1)
- Autumn Semester: Entrepreneurship, Design Research
- Spring Semester: Human Factors in Health Systems, Ideation and Representation
- Summer Semester: Anatomy and Physiology in Emergent Care 1
Part-Time (Year 2)
- Autumn Semester: Introduction to Health and Health Promotion, Concept Development and Evaluation
Teaching:
The program is taught by a team of experts from the School of Design, the School of Medicine, the Kemmy Business School, and the University Hospital Limerick group.
Careers:
Graduates of the program have a high employment rate and work in various settings, including:
- Product and medical device innovation
- UX/UI design for healthcare
- Service & systems design
- Design project management
- Design research
- Human factors specialists
- Regulatory affairs specialist
- Business model design or design entrepreneurship
Other:
- The program draws on the complementary expertise of multiple disciplines, including design, medicine, business, and healthcare.
- Students work across healthcare disciplines with external partners, gaining context-specific insights and defining clinically relevant needs.
- The program emphasizes experimentation, exploration, critical thinking, independent learning, and the ability to bring new processes and thinking to the field of health and well-being.
Part Time: EU - €4,798 per annum Non- EU - €11,200 per annum Full Time: EU - €7,166 per annum Non- EU - €18,002 per annum
