The University of Sunderland has hosted its first Global Education Forum in which senior academics joined together to support their students across the world.
The computer screen forum provides international contact for students and academic staff at campuses in Sunderland, London, Hong Kong, and Transnational Education Centres (TNE) overseas. Students...
As the lockdown causes students to use the internet instead of real classrooms and theatres, Dr Adelle Hulsmeier asked hers to reinterpret Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew as a Facebook exchange, and she says the results have been “outstanding”
The Senior Lecturer in Performing arts and Screen performance explained:...
Hundreds of graduate and student nurses from the University of Sunderland have been deployed - or are waiting to join - the frontline to help in fight against Covid-19.
Just weeks ago a 40-strong graduating cohort of nurses began working at hospitals across the North East as the NHS faces...
Many people are taking on challenges and setting themselves daily fitness goals while on lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, but for one Sunderland lecturer her need to keep fit and mobile has led to her setting herself a very unusual challenge – and rediscovering the meaning of good neighbours.
Liz...
GeekTalent, Sunderland's own recruitment software solutions pros, has launched the GoCareer app, a career management tool for those looking to reskill and secure a new job role in these 'interesting times'
And it's free for the first 3 months, which is loads of time to get established on a new...
Sam Jones, who had previously worked on the Tamworth Herald newsdesk as a reporter before joining e-commerce entertainment retailer Fanatical back in 2017, has been unveiled as one of MCV/Develop's 30 Under 30 for 2020 - an annual event 'showcasing the very best young people in the industry'.
The 29-year-old,...
University of Sunderland-designed protective face shields are being used by frontline healthcare workers in North East hospitals
Experts from the University’s Institute for Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP) designed their own visor from scratch with input from regional intensive care unit clinicians.
The protective shields were evaluated and trialled by...
Establishing and maintaining daily routines is the difference between life lived to its fullest, and wasting precious days that become years doing nothing memorable, imitating a pile of clothes with a hibernating animal inside.
This article is for those who know that more self-discipline would improve life for themselves and...
Where The Trade Buys Launches ‘Together We Are Stronger’ Poster Campaign
Where The Trade Buys, a leading printing company with headquarters in Sunderland, has come up with a mint marketing campaign that we want to appreciate: it achieves its objectives, and supports the NHS, and it engages you, the reader,...
A short video to highlight the situation that North East food banks have found themselves in during the COVID-19 crisis has been produced and a British Independent Film Award winner has given his support to help others
Northumberland film maker, Jason Thompson, runs his firm, Sound Ideas Media from his...
