Start Date: 9 November 2023 12:15 pm
End Date: 9 November 2023 1:15 pm
Location: Community Hub, next to Binks, Exton Park
Interested in religion and beliefs?
Join our Chaplains for an informal chat to share different perspectives in a safe environment at our Interfaith Community Table event.
Drinks and biscuits will be provided but you will need to bring your own lunch.
Start Date: 8 November 2023 1:30 pm
End Date: 8 November 2023 2:30 pm
Location: Online
Feeling stressed? Finding it difficult to sleep?
Join us for the first of our series of relaxation sessions. In this session we will look at how breathing exercises can be helpful in managing stress, releasing tension in the body and improving sleep. Click bit.ly/wbsession to find the link to join the session.
Start Date: 8 November 2023 2:00 pm
End Date: 8 November 2023 4:00 pm
Location: Binks CBK013/1&2, Exton Park
Did you know that you can study, work or volunteer abroad at over 300 Destinations all over the world during your studies at the University of Chester?
If you want to find out more come along to the Study Abroad Fair.
You will be able to find out more information about the opportunities available from the Study Abroad staff, placement providers and students who are currently on or have previously completed exchanges/placements.
Come along anytime between 2pm and 4pm or contact the Study Abroad Team with any questions – studyabroad@chester.ac.uk
With over 40 clubs at the University and a vast array of facilities to use, our Athletics’ Union is the perfect platform for you to achieve your potential in whatever sport or activity you wish to continue with, renew your love for or even try out for the first time.
From lacrosse to rowing, cricket to archery, we have a sport or activity that you can excel in. If we don’t have a club that you want to try, don’t panic – we also have links to local clubs, so please get in touch – athleticsunion@chester.ac.uk.
We end the year with our annual Athletics’ Union (AU) Awards. At these Awards we celebrate everything our AU clubs and teams have achieved, both on and off the pitch, in the last academic year. Click here to view the highlights of our 23/24 Awards.
Many of our teams play in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) leagues, and we compete against other universities within the North-West such as Liverpool, Manchester, Lancaster and Edge Hill to name a few.
With alumni such as cycling supremo Dave Brailsford, Olympic gold and silver medallist in cycling and rowing Rebecca Romero, Netball legend Tracey Neville and ex-women’s rugby union captain Gill Burns, Chester is the perfect environment to launch you into your next phase of development.
The playing season usually runs from October to March/April, however some teams play over the summer months, including our cricket team.
The BUCs season usually finishes in March with the Varsity competition. At Varsity, a number of our AU teams complete with equivalent teams from the University of Salford in several events to win the coveted Varsity trophy.
Click here to view our Varsity highlights from the 23/24 academic year or view the full results here.
All AU clubs are based at Chester sites but welcome all UoC students. Most clubs run from September to April/May time with a break in Summer. Everyone who is a member of a club is required to purchase an AU membership online via Portal.
Find the latest AU membership prices under membership on our Portal pages here. We strongly recommend you contact any club you are interested in and try it out first before you purchase any membership.
Yes! You are welcome to join as many AU clubs as you like.
You can contact any AU club directly via their club email or by searching for them on social media. Find a list of clubs and their contact details via our clubs page on Portal.
Click here to find out more about our Athletics’ Union, email athleticsunion@chester.ac.uk or follow us on Instagram.
Start Date: 15 November 2023 2:00 pm
End Date: 15 November 2023 4:00 pm
Location: Online
We have the start-up experts on hand to answer all your questions and to provide you with FREE information, advice and guidance on setting up your own business.
Book your place here: https://careers.chester.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1290592
Start Date: 29 November 2023 6:30 pm
End Date: 29 November 2023 8:00 pm
Location: Binks 011, Exton Park
The Haygarth Public Lecture has been established to celebrate the long tradition of public
health action in Cheshire and is named in honour of the 18th-century Physician, John
Haygarth FRS (1740-1827), who practiced Medicine at Chester Infirmary and has been
described as “Clinical Investigator – Apostle of Sanitation”.
This lecture will be delivered by Dr Rangan Chatterjee. Dr. Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential medical doctors in the UK and wants to change how medicine will be practiced for years to come.
With 90% of health complaints related to our collective modern lifestyles, is it time for a new approach to medicine? In this talk, Dr. Chatterjee will outline why it is imperative that doctors understand both the science of ‘lifestyle medicine’ and the practical implications. How do you make personalised recommendations to your patients? How do you help them to create new habits? What happens when they fail? Dr. Chatterjee will address all of these common scenarios in his talk.
He will outline the changes in lifestyle medicine’ over the past decade, some of the common misconceptions and the missing link that needs addressing if we are to see lifestyle medicine become mainstream in clinical practice. He will also walk the audience through case studies that demonstrate just how powerful lifestyle medicine can be when practised in the right way, with the right knowledge. He will also be sharing principles and lessons from the RCGP accredited ‘Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine’ course that he co-created and that has been delivered to thousands of healthcare professionals since 2018. The future of medicine has to have lifestyle medicine at its heart and, by the end of this talk, we will all understand why.
Dr.Chatterjee’s mission is to help 100 million people around the globe live better lives. He is Professor of Health Communication and Education at The University of Chester and hosts the most listened-to health podcast in the UK and Europe, ‘Feel Better, Live More’ – which has received over 200 million listens to date and is listened to and watched by over 8 million people every month. Chris Evans calls ‘Feel Better, Live More’ ‘One of the best podcasts on the planet.’
He is the author of five books, all of which have been Sunday Times Bestsellers in the UK and international bestsellers across the globe and has been featured in numerous international publications including The New York Times , Forbes, The Guardian and Vogue. His TED talk, How To Make Disease Disappear, has been viewed almost six million times. He is the co-creator of the widely acclaimed RCGP accredited ‘Prescribing Lifestyle Course’ which has taught thousands of clinicians how to actually implement ‘lifestyle medicine’ with their patients in busy clinical practice. Dr Chatterjee is known for his ability to simplify complex health advice and find the root cause of people’s health problems – he highlighted his methods in the ground-breaking BBC One television show, Doctor in the House, which has been shown in over 70 countries around the world.
The lectures are a joint collaboration between the University of Chester and the Department of Public Health at Cheshire West and Chester Council.
Tea and coffee will be served from 6pm in the Binks Foyer.
This event will also be available online.
Click here to book your in-person place or click here to book your online place.
Start Date: 6 December 2023 4:00 pm
End Date: 6 December 2023 5:00 pm
Location: CRV016 (Wheeler Building)
Dr Anthony Annakin-Smith: The little-known and moving story of the eighteenth century hospital at Chester which took in London’s unwanted children (more detailed information to follow).
Anthony is a local historian with a diverse range of interests often focused on maritime and industrial history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Particular specialisms include the history of the former port of Parkgate (Cheshire) and contemporary shipping in the Dee Estuary, early industry in the Neston and Parkgate areas, local links to the slave trade, and the evolution of the British landscape with particular focus on the Wirral peninsula and Cheshire.
He based his PhD and book on the early Neston collieries, a subject he first investigated as part of Master’s degree in ‘Landscape Heritage and Society’ awarded with distinction by the University of Chester in 2005. He had previously studied for a ‘Diploma in Landscape Interpretation’ at the University of Liverpool.
He is a popular speaker and walk-leader and has recorded for both TV and radio on aspects of local history.
This talk will take place in CRV016 (the Music Room) at the Wheeler Building – all welcome. Host: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society (FHMS) Historical Society. Admission free, but booking encouraged for refreshment and seating purposes. Please contact fhsc.histsoc@chester.ac.uk or call 01244 512126 to confirm your place.
The University of Chester Riverside Museum will also be open from 1-4pm on this date and all welcome to visit (no booking needed).
Start Date: 1 November 2023 4:00 pm
End Date: 1 November 2023 5:00 pm
Location: CRV016 (the Music Room), Wheeler Building
Dr Sue Hawkins, Voluntary Researcher Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) was Britain’s first hospital dedicated to the treatment of children. Known simply as The Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) when it opened in 1852 with only a handful of beds, it grew rapidly in both size and reputation to become the famous institution it is today.
In this talk Sue will explore the first 50 years of this famous hospital’s life, as seen through the experiences of its nurses, and its young patients. To provide some context, she will start with a quick review of historical attitudes to children’s hospitals in the 150 years prior to the opening of the HSC, ask why there was a reluctance in Britain to embrace the idea of a hospital specially for children, and how this mindset was changed.
She will then move on to the main focus of the talk: the hospital, its nurses and its patients. Using its extensive archives, and drawing on the experiences of the nurses and patients themselves, she will show how the new specialism of pediatric nursing gradually began to emerge.
Sue Hawkins is an independent historical researcher. She gained her doctorate at Kingston University on nursing in Victorian London in 2007, and taught 19th century social history, among other topics, at the University.
She published her thesis under the title Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century in 2010. Other publications include work on the history of women’s involvement in science, the development of early children’s hospitals in the UK and edited collections on colonial nursing and women in magazines.
Sue is keen on using technology to improve access to archives and has led a number of digitization projects including the admissions records for several 19th century children’s hospitals (www.hharp.org), the registers of the Royal British Nurses Association (Pioneering Nurses; https://kingscollections.org/nurses/home).
Her current research interests are varied, but focus mainly on topics related to the history of medicine and women’s role in society, although recently, she has been working at The National Archives on the Poor Law project, ‘In Their Own Write’ (https://intheirownwriteblog.wordpress.com/about/).
This talk will take place in CRV016 (the Music Room) at the Wheeler Building – all welcome. Host: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society (FHMS) Historical Society. Admission free, but booking encouraged for refreshment and seating purposes. Please contact fhsc.histsoc@chester.ac.uk or call 01244 512126 to confirm your place.
Start Date: 30 October 2023 4:00 pm
End Date: 30 October 2023 6:00 pm
Location: CSU, Exton Park
Chester Students’ Union (CSU) and Cheshire West and Chester Council want to hear your views on living and studying in Chester at the Students in Chester Forum:
At the Forum, you’ll get to share your student voice on key topics including:
Your CSU Elected Officer team will be there to facilitate discussion, and there will also be representatives present from the University and Cheshire West and Chester Council. Refreshments will be provided, please book your place now via this link: https://chestersu.native.fm/event/students-in-chester-forum/94899
Start Date: 18 October 2023 12:00 pm
End Date: 18 October 2023 2:00 pm
Location: Binks Foyer, Exton Park
Are you volunteering or looking to start your volunteer journey? Come and chat to the Volunteering and Mentoring Team at our drop-in event.
If you are thinking about volunteering, would like to learn more about opportunities, including Students in Schools, Student-led projects, Give it a Go opportunities, and our UCV awards, the team will be there to tell you all you need to know about how to get started.
Can’t make it? You can find further information on the Volunteer Hub or book an Explore Volunteering appointment. For more information contact the team on volunteering@chester.ac.uk
