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New Year’s Resolutions

As we welcome the new year, Win Hughes explores how new year’s resolutions have shaped her perception.

7 January 2025

Football Intelligence: How to Maximize Your Potential?

Is football intelligence innate, or can it be developed through a growth mindset and constructive feedback? This post explores how…

18 November 2024

The babies’ manifesto – a response from the Childhood, Youth and Families team

In a follow-up to her latest opinion piece for the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network, Dr Helen Simmons blogs about…

14 June 2024

Representation Matters: Celebrating our Sisters

Professor Eunice Lumsden discusses how the events she was involved in as part of Black History Month 2023 led her…

13 December 2023

Empowering Futures: UON Graduate School’s Comprehensive Biannual Induction for Postgraduate Researchers

In October and March the Graduate School runs a mandatory 4-day postgraduate researcher (PGR) induction on campus at Waterside. This…

17 November 2023

Advanced Practice Week 2023: What Is It?

At Northampton we recently celebrated Advanced Practice Week which is a collaborative week to share best practice and learnings within…

16 November 2023

“But I can’t sing!!” The importance of nursery rhymes when working with children

For World Nursery Rhyme week, lecturers and students on the Early Childhood Studies course share their thoughts on why we…

9 November 2023

An alternative education: The Free University London experience

In 2019-2020, Onur was involved in Free University London (FUL), a higher education (HE) initiative that provides free university-level modules…

23 October 2023

Starting a business in Esports: Content Creator/Streamers Perspective

Over the last 5/10 years esports as an industry has expanded massively. Within this, content creation and streaming saw record…

22 September 2023