Newman Alumni

24/08/2022

Our Career MOT Workshop has been a great success!

It was great to see our Newman Alumni and help them achieve their dream job. If you would like our help with boosting your prospects, get in touch with our careers team: [email protected]

24/08/2022

Don't miss our Career MOT workshop today at 10am!!

Join us in St Chad's Atrium on the 24th August for a Career MOT workshop!

Next Wednesday, between 10am - 12pm, our professional careers team are here to offer advice and support on how you can boost your prospects so you can achieve your dream job.

17/08/2022

Join us in St Chad's Atrium on the 24th August for a Career MOT workshop!

Next Wednesday, between 10am - 12pm, our professional careers team are here to offer advice and support on how you can boost your prospects so you can achieve your dream job.

23/06/2022

New Postgraduate Courses For September 2022

This September Newman University is excited to introduce two new Masters degrees.

Our MA Chaplaincy builds on our well established PG Cert in Chaplaincy, and will be of interest to students who wish to further develop their skills to support them in their role as Chaplains. http://ow.ly/L76850JEuul

Our MA Criminology and Social Justice is uniquely designed to offer students a foundation of critical criminological knowledge through which concerns relating to matters of social justice, equality and diversity are examined, promoting access to social justice for all within the criminal justice system and wider society. www.newman.ac.uk/criminology

To find out more about both programmes please visit us at our upcoming Open Day on Saturday 9th July, 10am-3pm. Book online via www.newman.ac.uk/opendays

Students who studied a full undergraduate degree at Newman are entitled to to a 10% alumni discount off postgraduate study.

22/06/2022

Would you like the opportunity, time, and space to engage in critical discussion and learn about current issues and debates that might shape and impact your practice with young people and communities? Then please come and join our Practitioner’s Time to Connect workshop series.

Newman’s Youth & Community Work programme, in collaboration with the Centre for Community and Social Justice, is hosting a series of free workshops aimed at those who work with young people and communities. These workshops will be facilitated by academics and experienced practitioners. Each workshop is aimed at providing the opportunity for a critical, nuanced, and educational session based on practice and research to encourage reflection, share best practice, and aid the development of those who work with young people and communities.

This workshop series is focused on the broad topic of youth violence. The four workshop sessions in this series are:

25th June – ‘Thinking critically about youth work responses to youth violence’ with Dr Pete Harris, Newman University. http://ow.ly/44Bc50JEtky

10th September – ‘Young people, mental health and CCE/CSE – a small town case study’ with Katie Storer and Mike Collyer, Walsall Exploitation Reduction Team. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/341748688527

3rd December – ‘Contextual safeguarding and trauma-related youth work practice – beyond terminology, what does this look like in practice for young people and practitioners?’ with Zara McDonald and Mike Collyer, The Children’s Society & Walsall Exploitation Reduction Team. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/341757785737

22nd April 2023 – ‘Young people, peace and change: Critical Peace Education as an alternative to youth violence in youth work practice’ with Dr Michael Ogunnusi, DeMontfort University. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/341761837857

28/04/2022

Calling all 2020 and 2021 Graduates

Newman Students' Union are inviting you to their End Of Year Celebration!

As alumni students, we recognise that you haven't had the chance to celebrate with us like you normally would have done. That's why we're hosting our event in the only place it could possibly be to make it special... Senses!

From 7pm onwards you can find us requesting the DJ to play the greatest hits from your time at Newman, and doing a few memorable dances (you all know which one I'm talking about). There will be a BBQ 5pm - 7pm in the courtyard (depending on the good old British Weather).

We really hope that you can all make it. As an SU we firmly believe in celebrating your achievements with your mates and having a catch up.... That and we really want to see your faces again after so many years.

Love NSU

27/04/2022

We are very excited!

Newman Choir has been invited with a number of other choirs to sing at the lighting of the Jubilee Beacon on Thursday 2 June in Birmingham City Centre.

Always on the lookout for new singers to join us, so if you'd like to come along our rehearsals are Thursday 1 - 2pm in the Chapel on campus. [email protected].

For more information about the Celebrations in Birmingham visit: https://birminghamplatinumjubilee.co.uk/

26/04/2022

2021 Graduates still looking for your dream job? Come to the Get Hired event at Think Tank in Birmingham on 27th, 28th & 29th June 2022, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm each day. To be eligible, you need to have completed a Level 6 degree in 2021 (but not studied at Level 7) and be living in the West Midlands – a bursary of £200 is available if you attend all 3 days. Places are limited so express your interest by emailing the Careers team at [email protected]

25/03/2022

Meet our alumni, Aneeka. 👋 She graduated from History in 2018 and has since worked on a number of exciting heritage projects with organisations such as the Birmingham Museum Trust, Beat Freeks, Headland Archaeology and The Commonwealth Games.

Find out how her History degree helped her on this journey 👉 https://bit.ly/37Fh2Qq

Birmingham 2022
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (UK)
Beatfreeks
Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd

23/03/2022

2022 Poetry Competition winners announced 🔊

Our annual poetry competition has drawn to a close and the winners have now been chosen.

The Dr Graham McFarlane and T E Murphy Prize for Poetry, invites staff, students and alumni of to enter their poems and share their creativity.

Numerous entries were received this year with many staff, students and alumni showing their talents for creative writing as various topics were covered within the entries.

The judges included Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Peter Childs, previous winner and Senior Lecturer at , Richard Goode and Stephen Pihlaja, Reader in English Language and Linguistics.

The judges chose the poem entitled ‘Fear is a bubble of one’, written by student Deborah Jan Ritchie as winner.

We had three runners up, the first being Benjamin Moore, Library Service Advisor. The second runner up was Scott Porter, Senior Lecturer in Secondary ITE. And the third runner up was student Deborah Butler.

Well done to the winners, runners up and to everyone who took part. 👏 🎉 To read the winning entry and entries by our runners up please visit 👉

Newman University’s annual poetry competition has drawn to a close and the winners have now been chosen. The Dr Graham McFarlane and T E Murphy Prize for Poetry, invites staff, students and alumni of Newman University to enter their poems and share their creativity. Graham and Terry were the first...

21/03/2022

Scott Porter and Benjamin Moore read out their poems for the Poetry Competition this afternoon. 😊

Thank you for taking the time to write these beautiful poems. ❤️

09/03/2022

In celebration of International Women's Day yesterday, we asked staff, students, families and friends to join us in celebrating the achievements of women everywhere. 🎉

Our Applied Humanities students hosted an interactive session exploring the different ways women have experienced prejudice and how we can move forward in 2022. This was followed by a workshop with special guest Marcia Lewinson, CEO of Women Acting in Today’s Society (WAITS), who led a discussion around female empowerment. The event concluded with a panel discussion hosted by Newman University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jackie Dunne.

Each session was an opportunity for women of different backgrounds, ages, cultures and faiths to actively participate in discussion about the female voice in society. If you were unable to join us last night, you can read more about the event and guest speakers by visiting: http://ow.ly/WXsl50IeYyM