March 2024
Ji8腦瞳厙 receives major funding award to increase social care research capacity
Posted Wednesday 13 March 2024
Ji8腦瞳厙 has been awarded a significant grant by the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) to build social care research capacity.
Young Carers Action Day: Ji8腦瞳厙 nursing student on life as young adult carer
Posted Wednesday 13 March 2024
Ji8腦瞳厙 adult nursing student Hana Hussein is a young adult carer and is supported by the University's KU Cares programme. For Carers Trust's Young Carers Action Day (13 March), they spoke about the challenges they face juggling caring responsibilities with their studies and daily life, as well as the support Kingston has provided them.
Student Nursing Times Award finalist shares personal story of trauma that inspired her journey into nursing studies at Ji8腦瞳厙
Posted Monday 11 March 2024
Mature nursing student and mother of three Philippa Esson, who was recently shortlisted for a 2024 Student Nursing Times Award, explains why she decided to go back to education and pursue a career in nursing.
Kingston University shortlisted for multiple 2024 Student Nursing Times Awards
Posted Friday 8 March 2024
Ji8腦瞳厙 has been shortlisted for multiple accolades in this year's Student Nursing Times Awards.
Ji8腦瞳厙 makes major investment in advanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance equipment to enhance research capabilities
Posted Tuesday 5 March 2024
Top of the range chemical equipment that will allow more detailed analysis of complex mixtures and materials has been installed at Ji8腦瞳厙's School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry. Following an investment of almost £750,000, the University has purchased two high-end 400MHz and 600MHz Avance Neo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) instruments. It has also acquired a CPMAS III solid-state NMR probe for the 400MHz instrument, supplied by industry partner Haleon Plc, that will enable analysis of solid materials using a powerful method known as Magic Angle Spinning.
February 2024
Early years expert plays key role in Department for Education project to help toddlers' skills development hindered by Covid-19 pandemic
Posted Monday 26 February 2024
An early years expert from Ji8腦瞳厙 is playing an important role in a Department for Education (DfE) programme to help young children develop language and social skills impeded during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ji8腦瞳厙 appoints specialist dyslexia tutor to give expert training to teaching students
Posted Wednesday 14 February 2024
A dyslexia expert has been appointed by Ji8腦瞳厙, as part of a joint project with charity Driver Youth Trust, to give initial teacher training students and partner schools the skills to support pupils who have challenges reading and writing. Caroline Bateman, who has been helping students who present with dyslexia achieve academically for almost 10 years and has dyslexia herself, has taken up a two-year appointment.
World's first microcomputer goes on display alongside range of other vintage computers in public exhibition at Ji8腦瞳厙
Posted Tuesday 13 February 2024
The world's first true microcomputer – the Q1 – has gone on display at a special public exhibition at Kingston University showcasing the early decades of computing.