Academic Sessions for Schools and Colleges

Date and time

NUSTEM Week takes place from 24th-28th February 2025, during the half term period.

Description

Every February half term, the NUSTEM team coordinates an “Experience Week” for a limited number of Year 12 students from local schools. We deliberately run this week in February as our own University students are on campus and our participants can have a better experience of what life at university is really like. Attending this week-long event is a unique experience which is a stand-out on UCAS applications when applying for STEM subjects.

• During a typical Experience Week, participants will:
• Attend a first year university lecture of undergraduate programmes
• Interview an Academic researcher or postgraduate student
• Create and showcase a research poster
• Visit laboratories, specialist facilities and get a guided tour of our campus
• Experience student life at university

To initially register your interest for the event please click here. Once complete, you will hear from our NUSTEM team in the following weeks about the outcome of your application.

 

Date and time

Every Thursday 17:30-18:30 from Thursday 7th November.

Description

Our NUSTEM team are pleased to present a range of activities and online webinars for students and staff. 

NUSTEM evening lectures

The NUSTEM Evening Lectures are aimed at Y11 to Y13 students and their teachers. Each lecture is focused on a different topic, and aims to show how Physical Sciences and Mathematics matter and where they can lead. The lectures will be mainly presented by staff at Northumbria University with some external guest speakers from industry.

To book a place please visit nustem.uk/eveninglectures and press "book your place" next to each lecture abstract.

 

Contact

For any questions, please contact Antonio Portas via email:antonio.portas@northumbria.ac.uk 

Music / History / Wellbeing Workshops for Years 7-13

Workshops inspired by Tudor rounds and catches, tailored for different year groups, abilities, and aims:

• Singing in Harmony
• Singing History: Renaissance / Tudors / Reformation
• Singing for Wellbeing / Belonging
• Singing and Creating (new words for old tunes)
• Composing Rounds and Canons (some musical literacy required)

For more information please contact Katherine Butler: katherine.butler@northumbria.ac.uk and to see more please click here.

 

Description

Around 100 students visited the University and had the opportunity to experience an advocacy session and taster lecture during the day, as well as a campus tour and look round the facilities. This was a popular event which has received great feedback.

Description

We hosted our 3rd Psychology Taster Day within the last year due to the popularity of this event. Over 70 students took part in lectures which were based around real-life research, led by our expert Academics about psychology in arson and anxiety. Students were also introduced to a new Real-Research session and took part in actual research student carry-out at Northumbria.

Description

Students visited Northumbria to experience Applied Sciences courses including Chemistry, and Food Science and Nutrition. They wore white lab coats and took part in a real life experiment to understand what it would be like to study these courses at university.

Description

Two Business Taster Days were hosted where 100 students visited Northumbria and chose a range of different Business courses to experience. This included Marketing, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Business Analytics and many more. This is an annual event and received great feedback once again.

Description

Our Annual Health Alive event returned for its sixth year due to popular demand. Students were able to understand a range of Health courses including Adult and Child Nursing, Midwifery, Operating Department Practice and more. This hands-on Taster Day was a fantastic opportunity to experience our industry-standard facilities which equips students to working in the Healthcare industry.

Description

The Geography Taster Day allowed students to experience Human, Physical or an Environmental Science Taster Session here at Northumbria. Students received a practical session and activity in their chosen subject within their introduction to Geography at university, and took part in engaging experiments that they'd encounter during their studies.

During the 2023/24 academic year, we held over a dozen taster events. These events allowed the students to gain an insight into what it would be like to be a Northumbria student, as well as the opportunity to experience our world-class facilities.

2023/24 Taster Days

Maths

Business x2

Midwifery, Nursing & Health courses

Humanities x2

Psychology x2

Maths, Physics & Chemistry Week (NU STEM week)

School specific Taster Days x3

Date and time

The lecture takes place from 18:30-19:30 on 3rd October.

Description

Babel Lecture 2024: 'Original Pronunciation - The sound of Shakespeare' 

What did Shakespeare's accent - and that of his actors and audience - sound like? What can we learn from hearing and speaking his works in that accent? And with no recordings or transcriptions available to us, how do we know?