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Policing

Police Investigation module for Professional Policing

Professional Policing students are currently working on their police investigations module and some of the activity is managing crime scenes. Student were required to attend the scene of a robbery, search for, and seize evidence, before placing it in exhibit

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Working with Children

Letterpress Project Book stall

Reading is an essential skill for children’s development – and of course one of the fundamental components of schooling – but it is also crucial for parents and carers to encourage it from a young age – and not just

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Advice

Student Voices – Why I chose Newman

Why I chose Newman University We asked our current third year students on Integrative Counselling why they chose to study at Newman University, and these are the responses we had: I chose Newman because it offered my course requirements for

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Front cover of "The Sage Handbook of Counselling & Psychotherapy"
Counselling

The Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy

Faisal Mahmood, Head of Counselling and Psychotherapy, has co-authored with Emma Flax a chapter for the 5th Edition of ‘The Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy’, edited by Terry Hanley and Laura Anne Winter. The chapter, entitled ‘Gestalt Therapy’, gives

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Birmingham Law Society Legal awards for 2023

As a member of the Birmingham Law Society, Karen Cooper Head of Law at Newman University, is delighted to have been a judge on the panel for the Birmingham Law Society Legal awards for 2023. The judges experienced independent individuals

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Michael Lane, Law Lecturer at Newman University presenting at the Civil Society Conference
Law

United Kingdom’s Universal Periodic Review

Michael Lane, the new Lecturer in Law at Newman University, recently presented his research at a Conference on the United Kingdom’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a UN forum for improving countries’ human rights records. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is

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Advice

Student Voice – Why I chose Newman University

Why I chose Newman University I am currently studying at Newman University my first year for the integrative counselling top-up BA(Hons) course. I am a returning student as I completed my foundation degree here too. I attended an open day

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