These are immensely challenging days with enormous pressures on everyone. Our thoughts are with you in the weeks and months ahead. We have been giving some initial thought to what are useful tactical and strategic pointers for businesses and organisations who are undertaking priority setting.

Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Tagged Business

Our final-year sport, coaching and physical education students and their lecturers worked together to create a series of videos featuring games, activities and tips to inspire themselves and the community to stay healthy.

Posted on Friday, April 17, 2020

Tagged Community Work, Health and Wellbeing, Sport

Spring-time greetings from the University of Cumbria! It’s April and Spring is all around us: we have moved our clocks forward into British Summertime (BST), the days are getting longer, lambs, rabbits and chicks are being born, flowers are starting to bloom and we are approaching Easter.

Posted on Thursday, April 9, 2020

Tagged Student Life

We spoke to current student Nicole, who moved to the UK from South Africa to study BA (Hons) Fine Art at our Brampton Road campus, on how she is finding life at Cumbria and why she chose to come to the UK. Nicole even shares her advice if you are an international student needing information on visas.

Posted on Thursday, April 9, 2020

Tagged Art and Design

We have gathered tips and advice from lecturers and students across all our Institutes to help you stay positive and productive during the lockdown.

Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Tagged Student Life

Supporting Mossburn Community Farm Through Film & TV.

Posted on Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Tagged Media Arts

ONCE UPON A TIME an organisation had supercharged leadership, new buildings, expanded vision, ‘wrong people’ fired, ‘right people’ hired, but, the toilets did not get cleaned.

Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2020

Tagged Business

Hi – I’m Simona, studying an MSc in International Management at the University of Cumbria in Lancaster.

Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2020

Tagged Business

Dr Steve Gibbs, Senior Lecturer in Leadership at the University of Cumbria discusses how a focus on leadership will help drive regional success through the University's new Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership.

Posted on Thursday, February 6, 2020

Tagged Business

University or employment? Deciding which option is the best for you can be a huge challenge. Traditionally you had to make a choice between gaining a degree versus entering the world of work. Fast forward to 2020 and you now have a third option, the Degree Apprenticeship.

Posted on Thursday, February 6, 2020

Tagged Business

We sat down for a quick interview with Lecturer Katie Katie-Walker Small about her role here at The University of Cumbria. She discusses her journey in the sporting world and the highlights of her academic year.

Posted on Friday, January 31, 2020

Tagged Sport

We sat down with project management student Katie Powell, to find out more about her time at the University of Cumbria.

Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2020

Tagged Business

Paramedics have a highly responsible role, regularly being the senior ambulance service healthcare professional in a range of emergency and non-emergency situations. Paramedics are often the first healthcare professional on the scene to aid and assist patients when they are in their most vulnerable need of care provision.

Posted on Monday, January 6, 2020

Tagged Health and Wellbeing, Paramedic

Deciding to train in a new profession can be daunting. Whether it is your first job, a career change or a logical next step, it can be difficult to know if you're making the best decision. To help you decide if Social Work is right for you, our Principal Lecturer Jim Greer gives his top tips on getting into Social Work.

Posted on Friday, December 13, 2019

Tagged Health and Wellbeing

Our Senior Lecturer, Stephen Rowell, talks about his experience working as a Sports Physiotherapist in Rugby League and Union after a career in the NHS and how his passion for sports drives him in his career.

Posted on Monday, December 9, 2019

Tagged Physiotherapy, Sport

The University of Cumbria has been working with Multicultural Cumbria for a number of years to raise awareness of the range of nationalities within the county. The partnership has strengthened as Multicultural Cumbria has found a home at the university’s campus in Fusehill Street, on the edge of Carlisle city centre.

Posted on Friday, December 6, 2019

Tagged Business

Graduation is a truly remarkable experience for everyone at the University of Cumbria, including our graduating students, their loved ones, academic staff and our business partners. Offering a chance to recognise the achievements of our students and wish them every success as they begin the next chapter of their careers.

Posted on Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Tagged Graduation

One very successful CEO said to me that every now and then he enters his office, shuts the door, drops the blind and does nothing all day and then goes home.

Posted on Friday, November 29, 2019

Tagged Business, Lancaster

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Posted on Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Tagged Alumni

Diverse nursing roles can steer you far from the vision of a nurse in uniform caring for patients at their bedside within a Hospital setting. Graduate Shaheen Ratansi tells her story of the journey she has taken to find her perfect degree, starting a career in a supportive and empowering role as a Learning Disability Nurse.

Posted on Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Tagged Health and Wellbeing, Nursing

Everyone suffers an injury or reoccurring physical issue at some point in life, however this can be the start of the confusion as you decide on whether you need a Physiotherapist or Sports Rehabilitator.

Posted on Friday, August 23, 2019

Tagged Health and Wellbeing, Physiotherapy, Sport

From wildlife media, game design and film & TV to acting, dance, musical theatre and performing arts - here is why you should study arts at the University of Cumbria.

Posted on Friday, August 16, 2019

Tagged Media Arts, Performing Arts

If you’re looking to make a difference, then choosing a profession that helps others could be the one for you. We have a range of courses that prepare you for highly fulfilling careers in a number a health professions. 

Posted on Friday, August 16, 2019

Tagged Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Radiography, Social Science

You’re considering moving to one of our campuses and you’re faced with the burning question, what will I do when I’m not in lectures? To help you figure that out we have compiled our top 3 places to eat, drink and visit when living in Lancaster, Carlisle or Ambleside.

Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Tagged Ambleside, Carlisle, Lancaster, Student Life

In our digital age, many things have changed. More and more people are able to work remotely, from anywhere around the world, our interactions with those we love and work with can be over multiple platforms from Facebook to Skype.

Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Tagged Policing

After almost seven years of controversy, Nick Gibb, The Minister of State for School Standards, announced that QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) Professional Skills Tests will be scrapped for the academic year starting in 2020. Here is why the Institute of Education here at the University of Cumbria believes this is great news for prospective students considering teaching.

Posted on Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Tagged Education

Mental Health is building national awareness to educate and support people; arts and creativity being a favourable avenue to self-expression and inclusion.

Posted on Friday, July 12, 2019

Tagged Health and Wellbeing, Nursing, Performing Arts

Growing up, I didn’t really see myself as an academic. My secondary grades weren’t great, nobody in my family had attended university in the past and it was difficult to get to where I am today.

Posted on Thursday, July 4, 2019

Tagged Carlisle, Law

Growing up, I didn’t really see myself as an academic. My secondary grades weren’t great, nobody in my family had attended university in the past and it was difficult to get to where I am today.

Posted on Thursday, July 4, 2019

Tagged Carlisle, Law

Some people are afraid to visit the dentist. For them, visits to the dentist are associated with feelings of anxiety about having to open their mouths for a relative stranger to examine them and worse, use what looks like a sharp instrument to drill holes into their teeth.

Posted on Monday, June 3, 2019

Tagged Science

Microbes are single-celled organisms such as bacteria, protozoa, and unicellular algae. They can be found in all sorts of environments. To date, the vast majority of microbes are still unknown.

Posted on Monday, June 3, 2019

Tagged Science

At the university of Cumbria, we offer a course in Pre-registration Mental health Nursing, lasting 3 years. Having gained an Honours degree in the subject and having met the competence to join the Nursing and Midwifery Council and a registered Mental health Nurse (RMN), you’ll be equipped to begin your career as an RMN.

Posted on Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Tagged Health and Wellbeing, Midwifery, Nursing, Psychology