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  1. Collaboration including University of Hertfordshire and Leeds Beckett University works to improve hospital care for people with dementia

    …erson-centred care is vital. “The pandemic has stretched hospital staff to breaking point, making it difficult for them to provide one-to-one care for people with dementia. Our previous research found just 2% of people affected by dementia felt all hospital staff understood the specific needs of people with dementia1 – highlighting a need for effective training and resources that staff can implement in a busy hospital environment. It’s exciting to…

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  2. #WECAN (Women Empowered through Coaching and Networking) at Leeds Beckett

    …ss, said: “I’m delighted to be part of the #WECAN programme – it’s a groundbreaking way to help hard-pressed businesses accelerate the advancement of women at work. We are looking for bold leaders who know that supporting women to succeed also helps their male counterparts. Let’s do this!” Professor Anastasia Konstantopoulou, Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Edge Hill University, added: “We aim to ext…

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  3. Supporting female victims of violence in India

    …olence, which will now be included in the curriculum for all new police recruits in the four states. Potentially tens of thousands of police officers are now being trained in gender rights and victimisation every year – and the resulting impact on support for women and girls who come to the police having been the victim of violent crimes represents not just a significant change, but a cultural shift. The project has also included senior members of…

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  4. Doctoral Training Alliance: The next chapter

    …rearranged visit she was hoping to meet her supervisor to talk about the structure of her thesis and, on arrival, she found out that her supervisor had recently left the institution and no one, including the supervisor, had told her anything. This is when I decided to become my school’s Research Degree Co-ordinator. Fast forwarding a few years, this role took me to take the lead for PGRs in my Faculty, then across the university. This involved ins…

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  5. University group calls for rethink on social mobility

    …vour of the more privileged. Through opening doors to higher education and breaking barriers into meaningful employment universities are having a positive impact on social mobility and, in turn, child poverty. “However, the strong correlation between background and educational attainment means that the student number controls proposed by government have the potential to affect social mobility negatively. We will see the redistribution of public in…

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  6. Response to Milburn review into Social Mobility and Child Poverty

    …r twice as many students from lower-income and under-represented groups compared with the rest of the sector. Universities are contributing to social mobility through opening doors to higher education and breaking barriers into meaningful employment. University Alliance has submitted the following response to the Milburn review into Social Mobility and Child Poverty – download it here….

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  7. We need more graduates if we’re really serious about growth

    …n fact need more graduates. Our latest report, ‘The way we’ll work: labour market trends and preparing for the hourglass’, draws on the large body of evidence on labour market trends, looks at economic indicators measuring graduate saturation and discusses the implications for the UK. The evidence is that graduate vacancies continue to grow. Jobs in ‘graduate dense’ occupations are an increasing proportion of the total workforce. Graduate employme…

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  8. Alliance universities ‘taking great strides forwards’ with world-leading research output

    …ture.” Vanessa Wilson, University Alliance CEO, said: “We are delighted by today’s results, which highlight the world-leading research that exists across the UK university sector, regardless of subject area, region or type of institution. If the UK sector is to continue delivering world-class research, uncertainty around future research funding must be resolved, including urgent association to the Horizon Europe programme. Thought must also be giv…

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  9. Stepping up and responding to employability

    …the link between graduates and SMEs – an important part of the graduate recruitment market which is often ignored and neglected at a national level. We will also build on existing work with our member students’ unions and other partner organisations, to launch an Employment Commission, on how students’ unions can increase access to employment opportunities throughout study in paid internships, work placements and work-experience. As our recent Pou…

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  10. Alliance Award

    …c, working to safeguard the health of borough residents and minimise the spread of the virus. Our community vaccination hub has been hailed as an exemplar of collaboration with key civic stakeholders and widely praised by the Universities Minister, MPs and public health officials alike. Set up in partnership with two local Primary Care Networks, the South West London CCG and Kingston Council, it has supported patients from six of the region’s GP p…

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