WELCOME
Welcome to the 2016 edition of ‘Beyond,’ the University of Northampton’s new alumni magazine.
‘Beyond’ will be published annually and will contain features, news items and opportunities for you to keep in touch - both with us, and with your fellow alumni. It will also contain details of opportunities and benefits for you to take advantage of.
It is a very exciting time to be a student, a member of staff, or an alumnus of Northampton. In the last 12 months we have committed ourselves to being the leading university in the UK for social innovation and social impact. This means that our degree programmes, our research projects, and the way we run the University, are designed to help us bring new and creative thinking to long-standing problems affecting people and the environment (social innovation), and then do something positive about them (social impact). This commitment strengthens the exceptional work we have already carried out over previous years, both as the University of Northampton, as University College Northampton, and as Nene College. Northampton is the university that aims to do ‘good stuff’, and you can read about some of the great work we are doing in this edition of ‘Beyond’.
We are also building a new University! Work has started on our new Waterside Campus, situated by the River Nene, just off the Bedford Road in the centre of Northampton Town. In autumn 2018 we will leave, not without many fond memories, both Park and Avenue campuses,
and move to our new University. The development of Waterside is the biggest single Higher Education construction project in the UK at this time, and we are the only university ever to move the whole institution to a new site.
The Waterside Campus will be a fantastic place to study and to carry out leading-edge research, and a great place for our alumni and their families to visit. We are building a campus that will be open to the local community and that will make a huge contribution to the redevelopment of our home town, Northampton.
In future editions of ‘Beyond’ we will be keeping you up to date with our building work and will be announcing details of how you can see our new University as it grows.
We are proud of our students and our alumni. We have tried to reflect this pride in ‘Beyond’. I hope you think we have succeeded and that you enjoy reading it.
I look forward to hearing from you and meeting you at future alumni events.
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Professor Simon Denny Director of Advancement Director of Research, Impact and Enterprise
Working on ‘Beyond’ has been a real pleasure. Collecting all the wonderful pieces from academics, alumni and students has been an eye opening and inspirational experience. I am so pleased to be able to put them all in one place and share it with you, the alumni community. I just wish I could have included more!
I hope you enjoy the first edition of this dedicated alumni magazine and
learn things about your institution and your alumni community that you didn’t know before.
It is your magazine and we want to know what you did and didn’t like about this first edition, what you want more or less of, so please let us know what you think about ‘Beyond’ by filling out a short survey, visit
www.northampton.ac.uk/Beyond.
Virginia Glithero Alumni Officer and ‘Beyond’ Editor
BEYOND – ISSUE ONE
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