In the news: 20 June – 2 July 2025

A round up of recent media coverage about the University, our staff, students and graduates.

The University held its annual Sustainability Summit this week. The two-day summit covered aspects of how to be a sustainable business and was reported by Heart FM Bedford and Northampton (listen again links not available). The final agenda for this week’s Sustainability Summit was published in the Northants Telegraph.

Last week, the University and partners launched a major new report into the Northamptonshire Innovation Ecosystem and its associated campaign for local businesses – Fuelling Innovation – as reported by the Business Times, Northants Telegraph and the Northampton Chronicle & Echo.

There’s a Great Fire of Northampton history symposium being held on campus tomorrow night, as reported by BBC News Online.

The University has been ranked in global top 50 for reducing inequality in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, as reported by the Northampton Chronicle & Echo.

Degree Show Fashion students featured in International Leathermaker and Footwear & Accessories undergraduate, China Blackstock-Brown, has won first place for the Sneaker/Athleisure Prize at the Cordwainer Footwear Awards 2025 held last month in London, as reported by BBC Radio Northampton and BBC Online.

Associate Professor Dr Patrice Seuwou wrote for the Times Higher Education about how universities can better support Black students who are neurodiverse. The story was also published by Afro Conscious Media.

Professor Jacquie Parkes spoke with NLive Radio about the recent and forthcoming work of her dementia research and innovation centre NDRIC, following the successful conference held last month. Listen again (starts at 31mins).

A partnership between the University and Duston School that helps teaching students better manage classroom behaviour features in a SecED blog.

The University’s Forest School workshops feature in Ground News and the Northants Telegraph.

Marketing students were invited to reimagine the role of building societies for their peers for a project with Market Harborough Building Society, as reported by Love Business East Midlands.

It was a special episode of Open4Business on NLive Radio this week as Associate Professor Adrian Pryce focused on the University’s Sustainability Summit. Adrian interviewed with Alex Hall-Chen Principal Policy Advisor of the Institute of Directors, Vicki Thomas and Senior Lecturer in Fashion, Emmeline Child, founder and co-lead for the University’s Centre for Sustainable Futures. Adrian also spoke with University students attempting to solve real-world sustainability problems faced by businesses with the newly launched UON Sustainability Challenge. Listen again.