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Kingston University receives Royal Society of Chemistry funding to help diversity drive in chemical sciences
Posted Thursday 18 January 2024
Kingston University has received almost £100,000 funding from the Royal Society of Chemistry to help create lasting change by improving the representation, progression and retention of chemical scientists from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds.
Kingston University makes major contribution to NHS England report investigating avoidable deaths of people with learning disabilities
Posted Thursday 30 November 2023
Academics at Kingston University have played a vital role in the production of an annual report by NHS England examining avoidable deaths of people with learning disabilities. The Learning Disability Mortality Review (LeDeR) seeks to investigate and learn from the avoidable deaths of people with a learning disability in England, presenting a review of data concerning 3,648 people with a learning disability who died in 2022.
Kingston University celebrates three years of empowering potential through ELEVATE – the award-winning accelerator programme for Black home students
Posted Thursday 2 November 2023
Kingston University's ELEVATE careers programme, which supports students of Black heritage to achieve their full potential, celebrated an important milestone at an event hosted at its flagship building, the Town House.
Kingston University launches project to give teaching students specialist dyslexia training
Posted Friday 6 October 2023
Kingston University is embarking on a project to provide its initial teacher training students with the skills and knowledge to support pupils who present with dyslexia or other conditions that affect their literacy skills. The new initiative will see the University employ a full-time specialist dyslexia tutor, who will work with students and staff, as well as the Education Department's partner schools, to provide enhanced knowledge of the challenges some pupils can encounter with reading and writing.
Achievements of inspirational Black British women saluted with installation at Kingston University's Town House as part of Black History Month
Posted Tuesday 3 October 2023
30 lack British women have been highlighted in an installation at Kingston University's Town House including politicians, artists, writers, campaigners, musicians, entrepreneurs and sports stars.
Kingston University experts to launch joint research project looking at inequalities faced by Black people living with after-effects of stroke
Posted Thursday 24 August 2023
Researchers from Kingston University have received a significant funding award from the National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR) to look at how health inequalities faced by Black people in the UK living with the after-effects of a stroke can be addressed.
Kingston University student turned hotline operator who swapped courses through Clearing offers advice to eager applicants
Posted Thursday 17 August 2023
When Kainath Malik received her A-level results, she realised the course she had applied for wasn't the right one for her. A call to the Kingston University Clearing hotline settled her nerves, and two years on, she is now looking forward to helping others applicants in similar positions as a hotline operator.
Mature student realises dream of becoming learning disability nurse thanks to Kingston University
Posted Wednesday 16 August 2023
Final year student Martin Chukwu shares why he chose to pursue learning disability nursing at Kingston University and how the skills and knowledge he has acquired on the course are helping him pursue his career ambitions
