York St John University is located in the walled town of York, which has a border of high walls dating back to Roman times – apparently York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in England. This coupled with winding streets (one of which Shambles was the model for Diagon Street in Harry… Read More
Over the two days of this visit I also discussed the new project that MMU has introduced for First in Family students called The FirstGen Scheme. This is a flagship project that has only commenced in the last two years and adopts a whole of student life cycle approach to supporting FiF students beginning at the… Read More
The Churchill Fellowship began with a visit to Manchester – a city of great tradition and growth having a city scape dotted with building sites and development – not surprisingly Manchester has one of the largest number of cranes (n=64) within a city centre. My two day visit was with Prof Claire Hamshire and colleagues in order to discuss… Read More