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University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · Jan 8

Hey everyone, we're the University of Northampton, one of the UK's youngest universities, looking forward to connecting with our staff, students and the university community here.

Follow us for news, information and stories from across #UON

Northampton marina, with the waterside campus in the background.

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University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 1d

Some great news to close the week - we have joined @studentmindsorg.bsky.social's University #MentalHealth Charter programme.

northampton.ac.uk/news/confirm...

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 5d

"Our graduates need to be confident about the benefits and problems with the use of #AI. (This) shows we are on the right road.”

Rob Howe comments on just some of what #UON is doing to meet the opportunities explored in a recent @hepi-news.bsky.social

bit.ly/3L0RD7y

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 5d

The transformative power of The Canon EMEA Young People Programme on youth development has been highlighted by a new report by UON's Institute for Social Innovation and Impact - bit.ly/3KWu3Zx

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 8d

“It means you get off your butt and do something!”

A spiky #podcast as Associate Professor Tracey Redwood and Senior Lecturer in Advanced Nursing Win Hughes chat with Professor Al Aynsley-Green about #compassion and #empathy in #healthcare, what's missing and what's needed.

pod.fo/e/33f35b

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 8d

Calling academics, clinical educators or #sim fans - if want to be equipped to design, facilitate, & debrief #simulation scenarios, see below for more about our two-day toolkit programme.

Next dates: 30/31 Oct & 5/6 Feb.

www.northampton.ac.uk/courses/the-simulation-tool-kit-two-day-programme/

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 8d

"It’s inspiring to reflect on how far the discipline, the courses, and our graduates have come."

#Psychology at #UON celebrates its 50th birthday this academic year. See our news story for a summary of what's happened during that time and what's on the horizon.

bit.ly/4hq2ggj

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 9d

The last few days marked #BabyLossAwarenessWeek2025.

#Midwifery students have held netball tournaments & a glitzy evening ball to raise cash for local health charity campaigns making about £9k! 👏

www.northampton.ac.uk/news/uon-students-turn-sadness-to-positive-action-raising-nearly-9k-for-charity/

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 9d

This week's In the news is out. #UON media coverage includes:

✅Our series of #FuellingInnovation podcasts.
✅A Memorandum of Cooperation with Raffles University.
✅Midwifery students are Baby Friendly Initiative Champions...

...and more!

www.northampton.ac.uk/news/in-the-news-9-15-october-2025/

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Geography at the University of Northampton @geognorthampton.bsky.social · 11d

First fieldtrip of the year for our new Geography students @uninorthampton.bsky.social. Creating their own tourist trails in central London. #GeographyTeacher

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University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 10d

#Midwifery students are working with their lecturers as BFI Champions, advancing the Baby Friendly Initiative here.

This includes promoting our feeding room open to staff, students, the public and other visitors.

www.northampton.ac.uk/news/students-are-champions-for-uon-being-baby-friendly/

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 16d

Our Energy Centre screen has been 'lit up' for PANS Awareness Day 2025 to raise awareness of these conditions.

Find out more about the campaign: ow.ly/lkSP50X92PU

#LightUp4PANS

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 16d

Over the summer, we spoke with fantastic Northamptonshire businesses about their business story, innovation and what they are looking for in the employees of the future.

Their insights form a new series of podcast episodes.🎙️👇

bit.ly/4q7qj7U

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 16d

This week's In the news is out. Media coverage includes:

✅Cafe Scientifique talk on 13 Nov
✅Claire Drakeley blogs about the new academic year heralding continuous learning
✅Visiting Prof Dave Cooper's take on a transport accident...and more!

www.northampton.ac.uk/news/in-the-news-2-8-october-2025/

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 16d

“I believe in simulation. I want to make a difference with it.”

#Simulation lead Kate Ewing spoke with @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social SimCast hosts Lawrence and Tony about developing #sim at #UON, projects she’s delivered & what’s on the horizon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slq2ZlqNE4g

SimCast - Ep59 - Lessons from developing a simulation faculty

YouTube video by UEA Health

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University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 17d

Want to know more about getting into #teaching?

On 11 Nov, we'll hold an online info. evening about our Higher Level #TeachingAssistant programme.

To book - bit.ly/HLTAInfo

Hear from two #HLTA success stories with this podcast - 🎙️ pod.fo/e/312a5c

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Geography at the University of Northampton @geognorthampton.bsky.social · 19d

Our next Open Day is on 18 October. Join us to find out more about studying Geography at @uninorthampton.bsky.social.
www.northampton.ac.uk/about-us/con...
#GeographyTeacher #ChooseGeography

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University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 22d

Last week we supported the #Dementia in the Workplace Conference.

Speakers incl. UON's Prof. Jackie Parkes, Prof. Louise Ritchie & UON PhD student, Claire Davies, who talks about her research. 👇

hwww.northampton.ac.uk/news/good-business-sense-employers-role-in-keeping-staff-in-work-with-dementia/

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 23d

This week's In the news is out with media coverage including
BBC Northamptonshire coming to campus to talk with new students ahead of their first lectures, joined by our Pro-Vice Chancellor @aewilby.bsky.social.

northampton.ac.uk/news/in-the-...

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 24d

"It is about...making Northampton more appealing to students and how we can work with the community to do that, to how we embed employability skills within our curriculum."

@aewilby.bsky.social talks to BBC Online Northamptonshire about our new Student Experience Strategy.

bit.ly/4pMXP2O

University of Northampton pledge to help students with placements

The University of Northampton works with its students' union to improve employability prospects.

www.bbc.co.uk

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 24d

Our next Café Scientifque 'research for the price of a cuppa' talk will be Thu 13 Nov, 5pm-6:30pm.

Sarah Ibordor, a Psychology PhD student at UON, will outline her #research around single mothers, stigma and online #dating.

bit.ly/CafeSciMums

University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 26d

Students were up early today ahead of their first lectures, talking to BBC Northamptonshire about what they’re studying & why.

They were joined by Pro-VC, @aewilby.bsky.social, who talked about our new Student Experience Strategy.

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

1h24 / 1h53 / 2h24 / one more at 3:20pm

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · Sep 25

Look what just arrived in the post! Well-being Past and Present! A great volume edited by my great colleagues @uninorthampton.bsky.social 🗃️

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Contributors
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Introduction: Well-being past and present
Siobhán Hyland, Paul Jackson and Mark Rothery
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Mindfulness and the mise-en-page: Women, well-being and the medieval book of hours
Sue Niebrzydowski
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'In this orchard, when you would be comforted': Using garden spaces for familial intimacy and well-being in late medieval England
Rachel Moss
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'In your well-being is cheife felicity': Physical, social and emotional health in seventeenth-century family letters
Emma Marshall
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4 "The only place that can heighten my enjoyment of my friends:
Well-being at Wrest Park in the mid-eighteenth century
Jemima Hubberstey
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'Showing feelings: Exploring and exhibiting women's well-being and emotion in the English country house
Ruby Rutter
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Ecotherapy at Abington Park Museum: Lessons from the history of well-being
Emily Bavellas
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Women, welfare and well-being: Philanthropy in the Northamptonshire boot and shoe industry
Katrina Perry
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Michael Reeve
8 A panacea for wounds and panic: Tobacco, alcohol and well-being on the Western front during the First World War
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Well-being from the perspective of community groups: Notes from Abington Community Library, 1939-2023
Sue Botterill and Siobhán Hyland
Well-being in mental health nurses' working lives and its impact on nursing shortages: Insights from the early years of the National Health Service
Claire Chatterton
'Caring archives: Well-being challenges in an archive of extremism - Lessons and questions from a decade of the Searchlight Archive Siobhán Hyland and Daniel Jones
Can heritage places change visitor subjective well-being?
Amy Luck and Faye Sayer
'Art power': Creative workshops and social justice in the museum
Tamsin Greaves
'Why we are not all going on a summer holiday? An examination of barriers to ethnic minority participation in leisure activities and domestic tourism in the UK
Marcella Daye
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In this orchard, when you would be comforted:
Using garden spaces for familial intimacy and well-being in late medieval England
Rachel Moss
In the early summer of 1481, the young wool merchant Richard Cely wrote to his brother George about a conversation he had recently had with their father:
Sir, our father and I came together in the new orchard last Friday, and he asked me many questions of you, and I told him all as it was, and he was right sorry for the death of the child, and I told him of the good will that the Whigstons and Daltons have to you, and how I liked the young gentlewoman, and he commanded me to write to you that he would gladly that it were brought about and that you laboured it betimes.'
Like all the Cely correspondence it gives the impression of being written in haste, personal details tightly packed alongside matters of business. Yet the letter records a potential moment of peace in the lives of these busy merchants: an opportunity for father and son to catch up in the open air in a location commonly understood by medieval people to be productive in both literal and figurative senses. Cultivated outdoor spaces were essential to medieval well-being.
Scholars have long been aware that gardens occupied an important place in the medieval spiritual imagination.? A garden not only offered an actual physical space to experience the health-giving, spiritually enriching benefits of the natural world but also formed a vital part of the medieval mental landscape. There has been relatively limited work on orchards as a subset of medieval gardens, although they were a common feature of monastic, elite, rural and urban landscapes - that is, everywhere - but what work there has been indicates that orchards were considered to be particularly healthful, generative spaces beyond the literal fact of their fruit production. Recent research also sugests that as literary landscapes, orchards were imbued with ques potential, as spaces that offered the possibility of…

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · Sep 25

Our History Research Seminar @uninorthampton.bsky.social kicks off next Wed 1 Oct with a talk by me on my new project 'Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982'. It will be at 12pm UK time and on Teams. Email rachel.moss @ northampton.ac.uk for a link.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · Sep 23

We had a fun games afternoon with our new @uninorthampton.bsky.social History students today… But do you feel one of these games is a bit close to the bone?! 😅

Four people (faces cut off for privacy) playing a card game with sweets and snacks in the foreground

Three card games: Guillotine, Gonuts for Donuts and Revise & Resubmit

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University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · Sep 25

This week's In the news includes media coverage about:

🎙️ @IronsideKate on Your Party arguments.
✅ Fuelling Innovation campaign events.
🥼 Fillipino nurses - and UON course graduates -celebrate 25 years in Northampton.

www.northampton.ac.uk/news/in-the-news-18-24-september-2025/