In the news: 1-7 December 2025

A round up of recent media coverage about the University, our graduates, staff and students.

Following the University’s November Graduations, Deputy programme Leader Claire Drakeley blogs for Event Planner News about what the ceremonies meant for her and what it signifies for her (now former) students.

Acting and Contemporary Devised Performance students are busy rehearsing for an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at Rockingham Castel, as reported by BBC Online.

The Northern Echo reports that Lucy Booton – A UON graduate – has the lead role in Cinderella at The Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond.

BBC Online and the Northampton Chronicle & Echo report that for ten consecutive years the University has maintained the highest Green Accreditation with the Investors in the Environment and is one of only eight organisations in the country to achieve the milestone. This demonstrates a long-term commitment to reducing UON’s environmental impact.

Creative Film, Television and Digital Media Production students put their skills to the test by providing professional photos and videography for the recent Northamptonshire Community Foundation Awards, as reported by the Northants Telegraph.

Associate Professor Dr Adrian Pryce was back in the hot seat this week for his NLive Radio Open4Business show. Adrian’s interviews included Rachel McGrath, CEO from Northamptonshire Community Foundation, Tristan Jackson-Pate from The People’s Theatre Collective who celebrated their Culture and Heritage Award and Jonathan Tudor from brain injury charity Headway East Northants. Listen again.

Michael Maher, an Early Careers Researcher (ECR) at the Institute for Social Innovation and Impact, has won the Best ECR Presentation Award at the 2025 British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference. His journey to academic success features in the Northamptonshire Telegraph.

All Things Business reports on the recently signed tripartite initiative and strategy to boost education and skills for business in the town and county, Futureskills Northamptonshire.

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the University and India’s Footwear Design and Development Institute marks another dimension of the deepening of the cooperation under the Free Trade Agreement, as reported by The Week India.

The University is breaking down barriers to higher education for underrepresented teenage boys and hosted the business game, a series of challenges to inspire them to see what they could achieve, as reported by Heart FM Bedford and Northampton (listen again links not available).