Abuse research work gets national coverage
Work by University of Cumbria applied psychologist Dr Liz Bates to investigate cases of male abuse amid claims that not enough support is available to men has been featured by BBC News. BBC Inside Out North West heard from case studies with Dr Bates interviewed as part of the documentary which revealed details of a significant increase in cases reported to police.
Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Tagged Social Science
Story-telling lecturer Tracy wins creativity research award
A university lecturer has won an award for her unusual research approach at the BERA Conference 2018 at Northumbria University. Tracy uses story-telling techniques to share research findings in an engaging and easy way to understand.
Posted on Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Tagged Children and Families, Community Work, Conservation, Education, Health and Wellbeing, Outdoor Studies, Research, Science
Super cool science shows aim to spark STEM imagination in Cumbria
Feeling a cloud, making instant ice cream and blowing up a balloon may not be part of your typical school day but thousands of pupils in Cumbria are being given the chance to do just that at a series of super science shows. The events are a collaboration between the React Foundation, Robin Rigg windfarm and University of Cumbria which is poised to bring more science experience to secondary schools later this year.
Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Tagged Science
Festival of mental health receives backing from Lord Bragg
Broadcaster, author, parliamentarian and honorary fellow of the University of Cumbria Lord Melvyn Bragg has offered his support and endorsement for a Festival of Mental Health which is to take place at the university’s Lancaster campus next month. In what is thought to be a first, organisers say the event is aimed as a celebration of mental health and will bring together performing arts as well as mental health messages.
Posted on Monday, September 24, 2018
Tagged Health and Wellbeing
Paramedics and midwives invited to university event aimed at improving obstetric emergency treatment
Domestic abuse during pregnancy, out-of-hospital obstetric emergencies and neonatal airway management are among subjects to be considered at a conference at the University of Cumbria aimed at paramedics and midwives. With a variety of professionals involved in this area of health the aim of the event is to remove the rigidity of professional boundaries and encourage professions to work together more closely.
Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2018
Tagged Paramedic
Renowned Cumbrian artist exhibits retrospective at university gallery
A celebrated Cumbrian-based artist is bringing a retrospective of his work to the University of Cumbria’s Vallum Gallery this week. Alan Stones, a Penrith-based multi-disciplinary artist will exhibit selected drawings from his back catalogue spanning 48 years.
Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Tagged Art and Design, Media Arts
'Blue light' event attracts hundreds and creates buzz about emergency service, health and care careers
Students interested in a career with the emergency services and health and care sector enjoyed the chance to meet professionals at a special event held at the University of Cumbria in Carlisle. Groups from schools as well as further and higher education enjoyed talks, demonstrations and workshops staged as part of the health care and blue light careers event.
Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2018
University and partners offer collaborative research opportuinity
The University of Cumbria is collaborating with three different organisations concerned with the environmental welfare of Cumbria to offer innovative MSc research programmes. The university’s Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA) is offering the opportunity of embarking on relevant, real life study by working with the Friends of the Lake District, the South Cumbria Rivers Trust and Portable Ecosystems Ltd.
Posted on Monday, September 17, 2018
Tagged CNPPA
Academic explores why it's good to laugh
A University of Cumbria senior lecturer in mental health will tell delegates at a specialist Royal College of Nursing Conference in Manchester that humour could help when it comes to treating mental illness. Steve McCarthy-Grunwald, senior lecturer mental health nursing studies, says used in the right way and in the right situation, humour can help patients improve their mental wellb being.
Posted on Monday, September 10, 2018
Tagged Research
Pioneering library smart card trialled at Ambleside campus
Students joining the University of Cumbria at Ambleside will be able to make more use of the campus library this term thanks to the development of an innovative programme, which can capture information and display details on their smartphone or tablet. Staff have developed what is thought to be pioneering library ‘smart card’ which uses a quick response (QR) code to be read by digital devices.
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2018
Tagged Research, Student Life
'Fighting Philip' brings special skills to university during Fresher's week
An ‘assault’ on new theatre students will be launched by one of the country’s biggest names in fight directing. Master teacher with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, Philip d'Orléans, will share the skills of beating people up safely with University of Cumbria newcomers during Freshers’ week.
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2018
Tagged Performing Arts
Spotlight shines on blue-light and health at careers event
An event aimed at showcasing the vital work carried out by the emergency services in Cumbria and ways of becoming a part of them is to be held at the University of Cumbria. The Health Care and Blue Light offers careers advice which is intended to encourage paramedics, nurses and police officers of the future to learn more about the professions.
Posted on Monday, September 10, 2018
Tagged Applications, Community Work, Education, Employability, Midwifery, Nursing, Paramedic, Policing, Radiography
The Bond girl, a horror film and the film lecturer from Cumbria
Sleep paralysis, a Bond girl, a university lecturer from Carlisle and a $2.5million film deal may seem to have little in common but the latest new U.S. horror release has a clear link to Cumbria. Film and TV lecturer Clive Tonge has just directed his first film which is now on show across the U.S.
Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Tagged Art and Design
Ambleside campus hosts 'Poetics of Leadership' event
The Ambleside campus of the University of Cumbria was the location for a conference aimed at stimulating creativity within leaders during challenging times. Around 100 delegates from business, academia and research attended The Poetics of Leadership, a collaboration between the university’s Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS), the Crossfields Institute and the Institute of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Alanus University in Germany.
Posted on Friday, September 7, 2018
BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time records double crop of questions at Carlisle arts campus
A capacity audience at the Stanwix Theatre enjoyed a double treat when BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time was recorded at the popular Carlisle venue. More often used by students from the Institute of the Arts to hone their production and performance skills while studying at the University of Cumbria, Eric Robson chaired a panel of gardening experts who now offer advice on UK radio’s longest running programme.
Posted on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Tagged Art and Design
Cumbrian zoologist identifies a first for slow worm conservation
A zoology student from the University of Cumbria is using an ingenious technique to identify individual slow worms as part of her dissertation research into conserving this seldom seen lizard.
Posted on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Tagged Zoology
Inclusive dance show for younger audience gains high acclaim at Edinburgh Festival
A dance show aimed at pre-school children has won a prestigious ‘Three Weeks Editors’ award’ at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Four go Wild in Wellies is a playful look at how friendships are built, broken and mended and features tents that have a life of their own, bobble hats, and lots of fun in wellies. The show was choreographed by Stevie Prickett, Senior Lecturer in Dance and Physical Theatre at the University of Cumbria.
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2018
Tagged Art and Design, Employability, Media Arts, Performing Arts
Nigerian trip by university academic could aid literacy levels
A University of Cumbria educationalist is preparing to travel to Nigeria to speak at a conference which could help shape the country’s literacy policy. Jan Ashbridge, a principal lecturer at the Institute of Education, will fly to Abuja to explain more about phonics, a system used to teach children to read and wr
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Tagged Education
Pioneering Pro Vice Chancellor of Health appointed
Professor Brian Webster-Henderson has been named as the Pro Vice Chancellor of Health to lead the establishment, strategy and operation of a new Institute of Health at the University of Cumbria. A Professor of Nursing and a recognised and established national leader in relation to nursing and health care, Professor Webster-Henderson comes to Cumbria from Edinburgh Napier University.
Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2018
Tagged Health and Wellbeing
Research reveals mainly male science role models
A study co-authored by a psychologist at the University of Cumbria has showed imagery used in children’s science books significantly features men rather than women. Researchers say this gives the impression that science is a subject for men, and that careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) are unrewarding for women.
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Marsh mission could help combat coastal erosion
Researchers from the University of Cumbria are among a team working to discover why some salt marshes are more resilient than others when it comes to weathering storms and coping with rising sea levels. Next week samples taken from the Lancashire coast will be analysed at one of the worlds’ largest indoor flumes, an apparatus which enables the effects of storms to be replicated under laboratory conditions, at the Leibniz University in Hannover.
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018
Tagged Geography
Cumbrian ecologist takes leading role at U.S. animal behaviour conference
A University of Cumbria ecologist has just returned from a prestigious conference held in the U.S. Dr Davina Hill attended the International Society for Behavioral Ecology gathering held in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she was invited to chair a session on animals’ social behaviour.
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2018
Tagged Zoology
Performing arts graduates set to make thought-provoking Carlisle Fringe debut
To devise a theatre production in a matter of weeks is impressive. To create the set, source the props, design and make costumes, plan lighting, arrange the sound as well publicise and market it sounds impossible. Especially as the show will be staged under canvas in the middle of Carlisle city centre next week. However that is what performing arts students from the University of Cumbria have achieved as part of the forthcoming Carlisle Fringe.
Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2018
Tagged Performing Arts
Brewers team up with university to literally put themselves on their product
The team behind a rapidly growing independent brewery have injected their personalities into the business by literally putting themselves on their products. Jemma Ainsworth, a graphic design student at University of Cumbria, came up with the innovative designs as part of the annual Eden Student Design Project, in which it challenges students to develop the artwork for its beers.
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018
Tagged Art and Design, Media Arts
Lisa to talk bushcraft skills in Oz
An expert in bush craft and survival techniques from the University of Cumbria is among speakers at a conference on the other side of the world. Dr Lisa Fenton is preparing to attend the 8th International Adventure Therapy Conference in Sydney, Australia which begins next week.
Posted on Monday, August 20, 2018
Tagged Outdoor Studies
More than 1700 people hear about Cumbria as university's clearing roadshow continues
‘Don’t panic’ is the message to students still looking to confirm a place to study at the University of Cumbria after receiving A-level results. A brightly coloured double decker bus, which has already clocked up over 500 miles and attracted more than 1700 people, will continue to travel the north of England until the end of the month generating enquiries and applications for clearing and entry in 2019 and beyond.
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018
Alchemist’s Shack to celebrate 20th anniversary
20 years after it was launched, a celebration of an artwork in the U.S. created by a fine art professor from the University of Cumbria has taken place. Mildred’s Lane is a 96-acre site set deep in the woods of rural north eastern Pennsylvania bordering Narrowsburg in New York State. Described as a ‘working-living-researching experiment centered on domesticity’ the entire site is an art complex devoted to all aspects of life in the 21st-century.
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Tagged Art and Design
Student wellbeing service expands
The University of Cumbria is to expand the wellbeing support it offers students in Ambleside, Lancaster and Carlisle. The university, which has received praise for taking a lead in offering widespread training for staff working with students, is now recruiting three part-time mental health case workers.
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Tagged Student Life
University zoologists fighting to save critically endangered Gambian monkey
Zoologists from the University Cumbria have co-authored an emergency global action plan to save the world’s remaining population of Temminck’s Red Colobus monkey (TRC) in The Gambia.
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Tagged Conservation, Zoology
University lecturer awarded honorary role with renowned medical regiment
A principal lecturer from the University of Cumbria has been appointed as Honorary Colonel with a renowned British Army regiment in recognition of his leadership and coaching skills. Ian Corrie, Principal Lecturer in Nursing, Health and Professional Practice at the University of Cumbria has been appointed as the Honorary Colonel of 335 Medical Evacuation Regiment. For the next five years, the honorary role will see Ian tasked with promoting the regiment and the role of reservists.
Posted on Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Tagged Nursing
Students star in double decker roadshow
Students from the University of Cumbria are sacrificing their summer breaks to take to the road in a double decker bus, ‘Summer Holiday’ style. The university, the only one to have a campus in a UNESCO world heritage site, has acquired a distinctive yellow and blue vehicle that will criss-cross the north of England and Northern Ireland offering visitors an insight into life at Cumbria.
Posted on Monday, July 30, 2018