In the news: 12-25 May 2023

A round up of mentions of our students, staff and the University over the past week.

Comments from Marcella Daye, from the University’s GEM Network, feature in the Chronicle and Echo about a poetry, reading and music event being held on Thursday 25 May to mark the third anniversary of George Floyd’s death.

Lecturer in Games Design Vikaas Mistry spoke to BBC Northampton’s ‘Sunday School’ programme about gaming and his careers in animation and teaching the next generation of games design and programming professionals.

Last week, we held our first Sustainability Summit which attracted more than 150 delegates from over 40 different businesses, charities, HEI’s and local government authorities to identify their shared sustainability challenges and devise an action plan to address these. Event organiser Associate Professor Ebenezer Laryea spoke about the event and its legacy with BBC Radio Northampton’s John Griff. Listen again here (clip expired).

International Leather Maker also reported that the Sustainable Leather Foundation were given an award at the Sustainability Summit.

As recycling collections in two Essex authorities are set to change with one introducing charges, Visiting Professor of Sustainable Wastes Management spoke to BBC Essex’s Ben Fryer about whether we should pay extra to have household waste collected.

Hair, Makeup and Prosthetics for the Stage and Screen students Kelsey and Tia spoke with BBC three Counties about a fundraising activity of theirs to raise cash for a charity that provides wigs for children who have lost their hair through illness.

Lecturer in Sport and Health Nutrition Dr Charlie Roberts spoke about food and what can affect if we eat healthily with BBC Northampton’s Akylah Rodriguez (clip expired).

Our Chancellor Richard Coles was part of a Question Time panel. They covered where to home asylum seekers and sewage in our rivers and seas. Watch again here.

Journalism student Zosia Czubak did the newspaper review with Radio 5 Live’s Dotun Adebayo. One of her chosen headlines was DNA evidence revealing a panther-like creature following a sheep attack.

Later in the week, Dotun Adebayo welcomed another student to talk about the main Thursday 18 May headlines, including reports of the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk being chased by paparazzi in New York.