Community and partnerships
The university is committed to working with local organisations and communities
and partnerships are crucial to maximise investment and deliver real improvements
on the ground.
A £40,000 grant to the university’s School of Sport by Many species of birds that visit Britain in the summer
Sport England will enable the university to boost sports and could be lost due to the destruction of their African
physical activity in the region. Cumbria Sport Partnership wintering grounds, reported university scientist Dr Roy
helped to secure the grant and is also contributing Armstrong. Drought in countries such as the Gambia,
£45,000. The funding will finance a Sport Workforce caused by climate change linked to the melting ice caps,
Development Manager and four-year Sport Workforce is hastening the decline of species such as the cuckoo,
Development Project to address a 30 per cent skills gap in spotted flycatcher, turtle dove and yellow wagtail.
the Cumbrian sport and physical activity sector. Partnership between the university and Gambia is helping
to promote eco-tourism and education to reverse the
Our School of Nursing and Midwifery is working with decline but global efforts to counter the effects of climate
Shenzhen Polytechnic in China in order to improve nurse change will also be needed.
education in the province and allow its nurses to experience
education and working practices in England. The first group Other partnership-based research includes:
of Chinese students will arrive in Carlisle in July 2009 and • video records to determine the health and welfare needs
will live, study and work in the area for up to 8 months of people living in isolated communities in Europe and
before returning home. South America
• use of art, design and media to reflect rural cultural and
Primary school children involved in the joint University of community identities, and record people’s sense of self
Cumbria and Impact Housing Association go4it project during trauma such as the UK Foot and Mouth outbreak
took part in the launch celebrations by interviewing VIP in 200
guests ‘Big Brother style’ in a mobile film trailer. The • theological and religious application in education, world
children were then presented with a certificate waiving authority on Buddhism under Pol Pot in Cambodia
their tuition fees should they become University of • the global environmental, economic and social impact
Cumbria undergraduates in the future. of forestry
• teaching practice, distributed learning networks and
A new university degree for hairdressers and beauty educational assessment.
therapists was endorsed by leading Carlisle salon
Lockstock Hairdressing. The Foundation Degree in
Business Management (Hairdressing and Beauty
Therapy) is designed to equip people running salons
with a range of managerial skills. Topics include human
relations/human resources; communication; business
information systems; marketing; finance; attitudes, ethical
understanding and legal responsibilities.
Lynda Kyle, proprietor of Lockstock Hairdressing,
Riverside, Carlisle, said: “I know from my own
experience that running a salon is a very complicated,
pressured and time-consuming business and you need
managerial and financial skills to make it run smoothly.
It’s exactly the kind of course that the University of
Cumbria should be launching as hair and beauty are
strong sectors around here.”
“Everyone is friendly and positive.
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