In the news: 17-23 November 2025

A round up of recent media coverage about the University, our graduates, staff and students.

Last week saw the launch of the new Futureskills Northamptonshire Strategy, bringing together three leading educational partners in the town – the University, Moulton College and Northampton College – to develop people of all ages and give businesses employees with the skills they need. The news was reported by various media outlets including BBC Online and Northampton College Principal Jason Lancaster spoke with BBC Radio Northamptonshire (starts at 1hr and 21mins).

The University has secured £800,000 of funding from the Office for Students to create a cutting-edge biomedical laboratory teaching and data analysis suite, as reported by BBC News Online and East Midlands Business Link.

The new Wicked film has been released and Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Culture at UON Dr Anthony Stepniak spoke to BBC Radio Northamptonshire about adapting a blockbuster theatre production into a big budget movie. Listen again (starts at 2hrs and 9mins).

Dr Debbie Kilsby graduated the same week as her daughter Anna Todd and their story is reported by the Northampton Chronicle & Echo.

Three Finance graduates have an extra reason to celebrate – they have been awarded scholarships from the globally respected Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute, as reported by All Things Business.

Tatiana Gherman, Associate Professor of AI for Business & Strategy, co-authored an article for The Conversation about how the people who recently stole valuable art from the Louvre museum exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion and what this reveals about Artificial Intelligence.

Multimedia Sports Journalism student, Sophie Smith is in the running for the Best TV Sports Journalism award from the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) for her documentary, The Slope to Recovery. The news is reported by the Northamptonshire Telegraph.