Collaborative Programmes

This unique North-South collaboration between Atlantic Technological University (ATU) and University of Ulster (UU) celebrated its 20th anniversary at a special event in the Mansion House, Dublin on 12 February 2025. The Masters in Leadership and Innovation in the Public Sector, established in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, is supported by government partners at the Office of An Taoiseach and at the Department of Finance, in Northern Ireland, and has over 250 graduates from its programme since its launch in 2005. 

This course aims to deliver a range of learning experiences that empower participants to develop their knowledge, understanding and applied skills in the field of innovation and transformational change within the delivery of public services.

It aims to challenge participants to move beyond the passive absorption of information through critical analysis and reflection and towards innovative, strategic and transformational management initiatives within their sponsoring organisation.

This course has been developed by ATU Donegal and Ulster University, in collaboration with the Office of An Taoiseach and the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, and begins in January each year.

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Programme Details

The overall purpose of this collaboration between Ulster University and ATU through this part-time distance learning programme is to provide an academically challenging and vocationally relevant science education for those secondary education qualified scientists and technologists working in a clinical healthcare setting or the medical biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries or other areas of biomedical sciences, producing competent graduates to meet national needs in Ireland and UK.

The programme is unique, not only as a collaboration between two leading Higher Education (HE) distance learning providers in the Ireland and UK but also in widening access to HE for healthcare science associate practitioners, and less qualified practitioners within biopharmaceutical manufacturing and research.

• The programme meets clinical and/or industrial needs within three carefully designed BSc Honours courses, of which you would enter one for either a clinically focused award from Ulster or an industrially focused award from ATU Sligo or a clinical and industrial related joint award from Ulster and ATU Sligo.
• In addition, the industrially focused courses combine cutting-edge skills in Biopharmaceutical Science and the Biomedical Sciences with an understanding of the legislative and quality control system framework in which this takes place within these industries.

BSc Hons Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences (Ulster University award)

In line with requirements of the Institute of Biomedical Science, you will study the subject specialisms, namely cellular pathology, clinical biochemistry, clinical immunology, haematology and transfusion science, and medical microbiology, and an additional biology of disease module with a molecular-pathology emphasis.

BSc Hons Biomedical and Bio-industrial Sciences (ATU Sligo award)

In line with the needs of the medical biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries, you will study critical aspects of biopharmaceutical processing including cell culture processing, protein purification, and formulation fill finish and delivery biopharmaceuticals, and of support services, including quality systems and regulatory affairs, validation of biopharmaceutical systems and bio-contamination monitoring and control.

BSc Hons Biomedical Sciences (Joint ATU Sligo and Ulster University award)

In recognition of a convergence of needs at the clinical and biopharmaceutical interface, you will study the molecular aspects of disease, the mechanisms and processes of infectious disease and clinical biochemical measurements in health and disease, along with cell culture processing, protein purification and quality systems and regulatory affairs.

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