In the news: 26 May – 8 June 2023

A roundup of mentions of our students, staff and the University over the past two weeks.

Nigeria’s new president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has promised to make security a top priority of his administration and Sallek-Yaks Musa, Lecturer in Criminology, writes in The Conversation about what he thinks Tinubu’s to-do list will contain. Other publications such as The South African also feature Sallek-Yak’s thoughts.

Professor of Sports Medicine Bill Ribbans gave his top tips to ensure we exercise well to The Times in an article about how way we exercise, particularly as we age, can damage our health (article behind paywall).

Digital Marketing student Tsungai Mutyavavari features in Dispatchist after being named Undergraduate Placement Student of the Year at the University’s first Faculty of Business and Law Undergraduate Student Placement Awards. The award is in recognition of her time with Orange Juice Communications.

Senior Lecturer in Journalism Kate Ironside re-joined the newspaper headlines round up on BBC 5 Live. They topics they covered included plans for price caps on staple foods, Turkey’s President Erdogan securing another five years in power and the situation at crisis-addled daytime TV show This Morning. Listen again here (starts at 2hrs 6mins).

The deadline passed for the Government to disclose unredacted material from the Covid inquiry, amid a row over WhatsApp messages, so Kate was back on the airwaves with BBC Northampton’s Akylah Rodriguez (listen again link not available).

Applied Sports Scientist Luke Callis talked to BBC Northampton about sports, his career within professional footballing and working with the next generation of sporting professionals. Listen again to his Sunday School ‘lesson’ here (clip expired).

Children and Young People’s Nursing student Stanley Blunt spoke to National Health Executive Magazine about why he wants to be a nurse and the value men can bring to the profession (weblink not available).

We’re holding our first Inclusive Physical Activity Festival on 24 June, a free sports day for all event, as reported by the Chronicle and Echo.

Final year Photography students created their own exhibition of their work at the Vulcan Works in town and BBC Radio Northampton’s John Griff spoke with one of them about this. Listen again here (starts at 1hr 39mins).

John also spoke with Senior Lecturer Dr Declan Ryan about research he is about how we use green areas in Northampton, including a data gathering exercise about what the public thinks about measures such as walking routes around Delapre Abbey. Listen again here (starts at 3hrs 27mins).