by Viewpoint | Oct 10, 2019 | PSLT
You don’t need me to tell you that mental health is a significant issue – approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year [1]. But I did want to use today – World Mental Health Day (10 October) – to highlight the...
by Viewpoint | Oct 2, 2019 | Faculty of Humanities
‘Schoolchildren who focus exclusively on arts and humanities-style subjects risk restricting their future career path, the Education Secretary has warned.’ Nicky Morgan “[A] lot of young people no longer see the trades and skilled manufacturing as a viable...
by Viewpoint | Sep 13, 2019 | Faculty of Humanities
Many of us will have been returning to work this week after some kind of summer break. I’ve managed a trip to Wales in between two to Belgium. In the first of these I was at a meeting in Brussels and amongst other things I learned the Wallonian phrase ‘to lie like a...
by Viewpoint | Jul 29, 2019 | Faculty of Humanities, PSLT
Professor Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health from Alliance Manchester Business School was recently invited by Dr Julian Skyrme, Director of Social Responsibility, to speak at a Professional Services Leaders’ Conference on the topic ‘Why...
by Viewpoint | Jul 9, 2019 | Faculty of Science and Engineering
On 8 July this year we were in Baku in Azerbaijan to hear UNESCO’s 2019 World Heritage Committee decide to award World Heritage Site status to the University’s Jodrell Bank Observatory. It was a momentous occasion – a great honour for our University and a clear,...