Updated 18.06.2024
UON academics and their students have been thinking about this and the following quote about what LD Nurses do: “'LD nurses don't just think outside the box...they think about what's…
17 June 2024
In a follow-up to her latest opinion piece for the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network, Dr Helen Simmons blogs about the UON perspective on the Manifesto for Babies that was…
14 June 2024
Win Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Advanced Nursing, talks about how a random conversation at a party inspired her to go into the nursing profession, why she feels it’s rightly one…
25 April 2024
Dr Emel Thomas, in conversation with her Childhood, Youth and Families (CYF) colleagues Dr Helen Simmons and Robin Sturman-Coombs, reflects on her career journey to being an education academic at…
24 April 2024
The Accessible Learning Foundation was launched in September last year by the then Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, to support individuals with dyslexia. It was seen as a ‘beacon of hope’…
23 April 2024
We caught up with Bally to hear first-hand about her varied career in one of the more challenging areas of nursing - working with and for children and young people,…
22 April 2024
Joanne’s research interests include influences of reading comprehension and reading for pleasure for primary age children, which is the focus of her Educational Doctorate Thesis. Here, she blogs about this…
19 April 2024
Dr Richardson’s expert area concerns how forest schools/outdoor learning situations can positively impact the development of young children’s language development.
17 April 2024
In this blog, Courtney shares her experiences from her Fashion Marketing and Promotion BA (Hons) degree course and where it’s enabled her to get to, as well as seeking to…
14 March 2024
Lauretta Ofulue tells us about what becoming a learning disability nurse means to her, and her post-UON life and career as a health visitor
22 November 2023