An emeritus professor from the University of Cumbria, who last year was elected to the post of President of the European Committee for Sport History, this month publishes his latest book Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Posted on Monday, June 4, 2018

Tagged Humanities

The University of Cumbria and Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) are teaming up to show the invaluable and positive impact learning disability nurses in Cumbria have on the local community at an upcoming open day in Barrow in June.

Posted on Friday, May 25, 2018

Tagged Nursing

Researchers from the University of Cumbria are encouraging businesses in Cumbria and North Lancashire to take part in a survey which could help influence how much government financial support comes to the region after Brexit. The online questionnaire on innovation will help determine how the UK government supports SMEs when EU funding stops.

Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2018

Tagged IFLAS

A national shortage of sonographers and an investigation of how experienced radiographers report domestic abuse of the elderly are among six papers, emerging from the University of Cumbria’s Medical and Sport Sciences department, accepted for presentation at this summer’s UK Radiological and Radiation Oncology Congress (UKRCO) in Liverpool.

Posted on Friday, May 25, 2018

Tagged Radiography

After a successful inaugural event last year, social work academics and students have worked to create a second conference aimed at generating discussion, encouraging research and building a community of practice amongst students, practitioners and academics based in Cumbria. The topic of the conference to be held this Friday (May 25) in Carlisle ‘How can social workers understand the interaction between private troubles and public issues in order to practice effectively?’

Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2018

Tagged Social Science

A University of Cumbria student has taken the initiative to organise a conference to train her fellow students to become more aware of dementia after feeling she needed more knowledge about the condition in a previous job.

Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Tagged Health and Wellbeing, Nursing

Could you help develop the paramedics of the future? Have you had an experience of treatment and would like to share it with academics who will be training the next generation of specialist ambulance crew ? As part of a project to update the course, course leaders are looking for advice from patients from north Lancashire about the kind of areas that should be included for future students.

Posted on Monday, May 21, 2018

Tagged Paramedic

The Brathay 10 by 10 – ten marathons undertaken in ten consecutive days – is billed as the UK’s ultimate endurance race drawing competitors from all over, some making return visits to take part. The route around Windermere might be picturesque but the undulating course can take its’ toll which is where the second year sports rehabilitation students from the University of Cumbria come into their own.

Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2018

Tagged Sport

The keenly anticipated findings of the Brampton Road BioBlitz have finally been revealed! Despite some of the late-evening activities being rained off, an impressive number and range of species were identified throughout the day.

Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2018

Tagged Media Arts, Science, Wildlife Media

A new course at the University of Cumbria to train the inspiring youth and community workers of the future has received accreditation by the National Youth Agency (NYA) and endorsement from the Endorsement Standards Board (ESB) for Community Development. The university’s new BA and MA in Youth Work and Community Development which will launch in September is aimed at students hoping to work in a wide range of local authority, private and charitable organisations.

Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Tagged Children and Families, Health and Wellbeing

It was a case of fourth time lucky for a University of Cumbria lecturer who has just completed a gruelling traverse along some of the highest peaks in the Alps. The Chamonix to Zermatt Haute Route straddles French and Swiss Alps and is rated as one of the most famous yet challenging high-level ski tours in the world.

Posted on Monday, May 14, 2018

Tagged Outdoor Studies

“There is little doubt that Cumbria plays a key role in the UK’s defence industry, through the work of BAE in Barrow and their significant supply chain stretching across the North West," Professor Andrew Gale, the University of Cumbria's director of industrial strategy, commented on news £2.5 billion is to be invested in the UK's nuclear submarine programme.

Posted on Monday, May 14, 2018

Tagged Employability

A wide range of images taken by photography and fine art students from the University of Cumbria who spent three days studying the contemporary landscape in the Langdale Valley have been produced. Based around Elterwater and artist Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn in Langdale, their project 'Land Matters’ was a site-specific residential research project providing the students with the opportunity to investigate the landscape.

Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Tagged Art and Design

Design students at University of Cumbria have been working with a growing Penrith brewery and one of the county’s most successful family businesses to create the artwork for a new range of beers.

Posted on Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Tagged Media Arts

The head of the University of Cumbria’s Institute of the Arts has swopped working alongside colleagues in Carlisle for a public performance in the centre of Dundee. For the next month Roddy Hunter will be wearing a placard inviting passers by in City Square to consider the question ‘what is peace’ as part of a contemporary artwork now underway.

Posted on Friday, May 11, 2018

Tagged Art and Design

A report produced by a group of Japanese students who visited the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus has praised the benefits of studying within a World Heritage Site and the skills of the academics who shared their knowledge of the area’s landscape and history. Twelve students from Waseda University in central Tokyo spent ten days in Ambleside studying the work of Wordsworth, Ruskin and others as well as topics ranging from sustainability to how the area should develop.

Posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Tagged Outdoor Studies

The University of Cumbria is to play a part in a new project aimed at boosting health and social care research in the north of England. The university, along with colleagues from Newcastle, Durham, Teesside, Northumbria universities, will work with South Tees Hospitals and Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trusts and Newcastle City Council as part of the Research Design Service (RDS).

Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2018

Tagged Nursing, Social Science

Diagnostic radiography students at the University of Cumbria are to benefit from outstanding clinical placements at a world leading cancer treatment centre. The university has signed an agreement with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester to host placements from September 2018 giving students access to one of the world’s pioneering centres.

Posted on Monday, April 30, 2018

Tagged Radiography, Science

Professionals working with children across Cumbrian have been given a first insight into extensive research which canvassed the views of 6,300 youngsters about life growing up in the county. More than 100 delegates from children’s services, health, police, education and voluntary organisations attended an event run jointly by children’s charity Barnardo’s and the University of Cumbria at the Fusehill St campus.

Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Tagged Children and Families, Education, LED

Wildlife media students at the University of Cumbria are preparing to stage the first ‘bio blitz’ a concerted attempt to monitor and record the wildlife that makes use of the Brampton Road campus. Over a 20 hour period, starting at 5am on Wednesday 9 May, students and staff will use a network of equipment to survey all living things that pass through the leafy campus which boasts parts of Hadrian’s Wall within its’ boundaries.

Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2018

Tagged Wildlife Media

A group of social work academics from countries across Europe are seeking to improve students’ preparedness for practice.

Posted on Monday, April 30, 2018

Tagged Research, Social Science

A capacity audience of people with an interest in the outdoors from across the north of England attended a day of discussion organised by the University of Cumbria to showcase research underway focusing on outdoor learning (Thursday 26 April.) The Outdoor Learning Research and Development Symposium was organised by the university’s Learning Education and Development Research Centre.

Posted on Friday, April 27, 2018

Tagged Outdoor Studies

A new leaflet designed to raise awareness of mental health for patients and families treated at the University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has been created by a University of Cumbria mental health nursing student. Catherine Hind, who also volunteers Samaritans of Lancaster and District, has been working on an emotional support project and is the charity’s hospital outreach team leader.

Posted on Friday, January 19, 2018

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As a busy operational paramedic for the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and also a lecturer at the University of Cumbria for both the pre and post-registration paramedic programmes, you’d expect Susan Rhind to have little free time on her hands.

Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2018

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Three lucky football spectators got more than they bargained for when they turned up to watch a football match recently. They were selected at random to win three amazing prizes all in celebration of the University of Cumbria’s tenth birthday.

Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2018

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The chief executive of the Arts Council will meet representatives from Cumbria’s artistic and cultural industries during a tour of the region organised by the University of Cumbria early next year. Darren Henley will see for himself work underway in Carlisle aimed at developing the city as a cultural hub, hear how plans to develop the historic Ambleside campus are taking shape and consider the value and potential of the respected Institute of the Arts.

Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2017

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Andy Wilkinson, 37, originally from Ulverston, had no previous academic background. Having joined the police at 20, he worked his way up to chief inspector during his 17 years on the job. He chose to study a MSc in Strategic Policing at the University of Cumbria, citing an ‘opportunity to develop academically and bridge a knowledge gap in strategic policing’, and surprised even himself when he passed the course with merit and won the title of ‘postgraduate student of the year’.

Posted on Friday, December 1, 2017

Tagged Policing

To have one reason to celebrate is normally enough to savour but Fine Art graduate Emily Hartness and her family have enjoyed marking three! As well as graduating from the University of Cumbria and collecting the first Institute of the Arts award for creativity and innovation, the 22 year-old from Carlisle has also been named Young Cumbria Artist of the Year.

Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Tagged Art and Design

Concern for his students, a fascination with the links between physical activity and mental health, and an interest in active ageing all led Martin Barry to decide it was time to practise what he preaches by setting himself some serious challenges.

Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2017

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Two artists inspired by the effect of Storm Desmond are preparing to reveal more details of their work which will be displayed in a venue badly damaged by the events of December 2015. The University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts and Carlisle City Council with support from the Arts Council England launched the scheme in January 2017 and received 28 applications for the two posts.

Posted on Tuesday, October 3, 2017

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The first graduations of HE programmes delivered as part of Sellafield’s innovative ‘Project Academy’ take place at Carlisle Cathedral next week. The ‘Project Academy’ is the brainchild of Sellafield Ltd and is being delivered by the University of Cumbria. The university won the £13.2-million-pound contract to develop and provide a range of higher education programmes, from short courses, professional qualifications to HE certificates, diplomas and degrees to masters and doctorates.

Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2017

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Dr. Sharon Shoesmith, former Director of Education and Children’s Social Care Services at Haringey Council, is set to visit the University of Cumbria in Carlisle on Friday 14 July to give a keynote speech at the university’s Social Work Conversation conference.

Posted on Monday, July 10, 2017

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