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Graduation for inspirational blind footballer

º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Business School

A blind England international footballer who also set up a ground-breaking business educating school children about disabilities has graduated from the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×.

Azeem Amir at graduation day
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Microsoft joins forces with the University

University Campus

The º£½ÇÂÒÂ× has signed a Shared Goals Agreement with Microsoft which aims to equip students with the digital skills that employers are looking for. This follows Microsoft’s announcement last year which kicked off the initiative.

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Creative Writing graduate awarded the 2021 Leanne Bridgewater Award

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

An MA Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment graduate, Lucy Hulton, has been awarded the Leanne Bridgewater Award for her innovative, highly engaging and rigorous creative work on investigations of translation and bilingualism.

A landscape image of Lucy taking a selfie with a seafront in the background.
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National award for ‘technician of the year’

School of Health and Society

Psychology technician Paige Metcalfe (pictured) has won this year’s joint BPS (British Psychological Society) and ATSiP (Association of Technical Staff in Psychology) award for technical support in psychological teaching.

Paige Metcalfe helping a colleague with their virtual reality headset
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