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The second episode in The Golden Threads series from our Childhood, Youth and Families team, where we get to know Peter Goy, Senior Lecturer in Education.



Peter speaks with his colleagues Dr Helen Simmons and Robin Sturman-Coombs about how his family has influenced his career, his academic journey and his preferred research styles that have culminated in his Doctorate in Professional Practice.

Dr Katy-Louise Payne and Emma Gooding, Senior Lecturers in Learning Disability Nursing talk about their careers, developing the LD nurses of the future, their research into areas such as autism, and what the world would be like if there were no more LD Nurses.

Please note, this episode was recorded before the announcement of the General Election.

From our campus food pantry, free breakfasts and sanitary products and a travel bursary, Project Manager Emma Stone, Katy Bradshaw from our Financial Guidance team, and Senior Student Communications Officer Emily Shears, explain what they do to ensure 'every little helps' at UON.

Win Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Advanced Nursing, talks about how a random conversation at a party inspired her to go into the nursing profession, why she feels it is rightly one of the most trusted of professions, issues and challenges at play in the profession, and how our Adult Nursing team goes out of the way to make applicants and students feel as welcomed and supported as possible.

Dr Anthony Stepniak discusses his PhD research, titled: "It's Time to Give this Wretched World the Queen it Deserves: Critically Tracking the Evolution of the Wicked Queen in Contemporary Narratives (1997-2017)".

Dr Emel Thomas – in conversation with her Childhood, Youth and Families colleagues Dr Helen Simmons and Robin Sturman-Coombs - reflects on her career journey to being an education academic at University of Northampton in the first of their ‘The Golden Threads’ podcasts.

Dr Thomas, who is co-lead of the University’s Centre for the Advancement of Race Equality, discusses how she brings her teaching to life with examples of her own research and respecting
diversity within and outside class. She also talks about the challenges of working in education and how to develop resilience.