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Deaf Awareness Week: Kingston University graduate reflects on working in critical care as a deaf nurse
Posted Tuesday 7 May 2024
Laura Johncock is a critical care nurse who recently graduated from Kingston University, having completed a course in intensive care, and is deaf. To mark Deaf Awareness Week (6-12 May 2024), she describes her experiences on the course and working in the NHS as someone with hearing loss and explains how she overcame barriers to realise her dreams of becoming a nurse.
Early years expert plays key role in Department for Education project to help toddlers' skills development hindered by Covid-19 pandemic
Posted Monday 26 February 2024
An early years expert from Kingston University is playing an important role in a Department for Education (DfE) programme to help young children develop language and social skills impeded during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kingston University leads research into local digital public health campaigns
Posted Monday 22 January 2024
Kingston University academics and staff from the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames' Department of Health Behaviours and Public Health Services have published an evaluation of the effectiveness of a series of locally-led digital public health campaigns.
Significant book on improving quality of nursing care for older people published by Kingston University Emerita Professor
Posted Tuesday 16 May 2023
The latest instalment in a series of books designed to help health professionals wanting to improve the quality of care for older people has been published by a health and social care expert at Kingston University.
Covid-19 conspiracy theories led to lower uptake of vaccine and testing among Black community, research by Kingston University finds
Posted Wednesday 11 January 2023
A belief that Covid-19 was a myth created to control ethnic populations, or a virus created to eliminate the Black community were among the conspiracy theories that caused a lower engagement of health prevention methods among UK Black communities, research by Kingston University experts has shown.
Community pharmacy-led vaccination champion scheme helped thousands of patients overcome hesitancy around Covid-19 jabs, Kingston University research finds
Posted Monday 28 November 2022
An award-winning scheme that saw community pharmacists support patients to understand the benefits of being jabbed against Covid-19 and overcome initial hesitancy proved hugely successful, new research by an expert from Kingston University has shown.
Younger generation experienced most workplace stress during Covid-19 pandemic, Kingston University researcher finds
Posted Monday 14 November 2022
A study undertaken by management experts at Kingston University's Business School and Maynooth University in Ireland has shown people in the early stages of their careers were more likely to be impacted by workplace stress during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Challenges posed by Covid-19 and climate catastrophe to be examined at Kingston School of Art's Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts conference
Posted Tuesday 23 August 2022
Three days of keynote addresses, panel discussions, musical concerts, workshops and performance pieces will see attendees explore the theme of Digital Sustainability: From Resilience to Transformation in light of the immediate challenges posed by the pandemic and the longer-term shadow of climate change.
