In the news: 11-17 September 2025

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

Research from an international team – including University academic Visiting Professor Andrew N. Williams – into the history of child health have used local archives to uncover new detail into the origins of English paediatric hospital care. The news was reported by BBC Northamptonshire online and radio (1hr and 10mins) and Yahoo! News Canada.

U.S. President Donald Trump for his second UK state visit and Associate Director of American History, Billy Mann, spoke with BBC Radio Northamptonshire about the significance of the event. Listen again (starts at 1hr 11mins).

For her latest Nursing Times guest blog, student Deborah Amu writes about the small, incremental steps she and her peers take on their way to becoming qualifies nurses.

The Amazing Northampton Run was held last Sunday and one of the runners – Maria Campanini – was raising money for charity in memory of her sister and UON graduate Gina. Their story is reported by BBC Online.

Physiotherapy students got the thumbs up from retirement village residents and staff for their excellent care; they even penned a poem to express their gratitude for a job well done, as reported by the Northamptonshire Telegraph.

Policing Constable Degree Apprenticeship Holly Cunnington has won an Emerging Talent prize at the Society of Evidence-Based Policing (SEBP) Awards for her primary research project which explored the barriers officers face when seeking mental health support. The story is reported by the Chronicle & Echo.

The next events for the University’s Fuelling Innovation campaign – all about boosting local business success – feature in the Midlands Gazette (link not available).