In the news: 27 Nov-3 Dec 2020

On Friday, we opened our doors to the media to showcase the University’s role in a UK-wide push to mass test students for Covid-19.

The University initiative, which has seen us open a testing centre on campus, was mentioned 48 times by various media outlets, online, on television, in print and on radio. We’ve selected some of the reports, below.

Taking part in interviews on the day were Becky Bradshaw, Director of Estates & Campus Services, and third year Advertising & Digital Marketing student, Lorraine Gorimani, who took a Covid test.
ITV Anglia
NLive Radio
Chronicle & Echo

Our resident health expert Dr Steve O’Brien was on BBC Radio Northampton, on Tuesday, for his weekly chat about coronavirus with presenter Annabel Amos (clips at 1h 13m; 1h 44m and 2h 45m).

Steve was also on BBC Radio Northampton, on Friday, to talk about the Government’s post-lockdown tier system (clips at 2h 9m; 2h 23m and 2h 50m).

The Chronicle & Echo has covered the story about a virtual pre-school being created by our Games students to help out their Early Years peers.

The Chronicle & Echo and Rail Staff covered the news that our Engine Shed building has won an important railway heritage award.

Lecturer Greg Spellman chatted to BBC Radio Northampton’s John Griff about the University’s new Climate Change degree (starts 3h 13m).

Our television expert, Brendan Sheppard, appeared in the weekly Life’s A Pitch segment of Tim Wheeler’s Monday night show on BBC Radio Northampton. This week’s star subject was Dawn French (starts 1h 38m).

Singing solicitors, the Arc Universities Group, regional business support and the importance of marketing services for local SMEs were all discussed in Open 4 Business, NLive Radio’s business programme, fronted by Adrian Pryce.