University of Northampton Podcasts

Mental Health Nursing students - top tips when studying

Mental Health Nursing students sat down with academic Iain Schrantz to talk about dealing with stress and maintaining their wellbeing during their studies. The students are part of the Health Academy, a UON placement initiative where students provide health advice and interventions for fellow students and the wider University community.

ManSpace and Men's Mental Health

As part of the ‘Holistic Health’ podcast series, AssociateProfessor Dr Tracey Redwood from the University's Centre for Health Sciences and Services sat down to talk with UON Counsellor Danny Davidson about ManSpace, a 'drop-in and chill' initiative that also supports the mental health of male students and staff. They are joined by Niall Redmond, former student and who now works at UON as a Customer Service Assistant, about why ManSpace is important.

University of Northampton Open Day - LIVE!

We sat down with key people at our last Open Day and chatted about the day, what students can get out of an Open Day and what questions you should always try to get answered before you leave. This podcast was recorded live during the event and the audio may be affected by this. Find out more: https://www.northampton.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us/open-days/

“It means you get off your butt and do something!” Prof. Al Aynsley-Green’s mission to put compassion back into healthcare and medicine

Our Centre for Health Sciences and Services podcast episodes is called 'Holistic Health'. They are about about bringing the ethos, research and work out of the University and into the public domain. For this episode, the UK’s only Professor of CompassionateCare – Al Aynsley-Green, also a Visiting Professor at UON and a medical doctor – sat down to chat about his career and area of expertise and reflections on the recent death of his wife. Al also talks about the issues he sees with compassionate care in the UK in 2025 and where the health service should concentrate it efforts. Al’s looking for a "momentum" in compassion in UKhealthcare and sets a challenge for listeners to respond about what they feel – or will action – after listening to this conversation. Compassionate care is a key part of many UONdegrees and courses, so Al is joined by CHSS co-lead and Associate Professor Dr Tracey Redwood (a children and young people’s nurse) and Senior Lecturer in AdvancedNursing, Win Hughes. They cover Professional Nurse Advocates at UON, how care and compassion is woven throughout undergraduate curricula at UON and Mental Health First Aid training that is given to all UON undergraduate Nursing students. The University will hold its second Care and Compassion conference on 30 March 2026; keep an eye on on our events page for more [https://www.northampton.ac.uk/events/]. The next Holistic Health podcast episodes will cover single mothers and the stigma around online dating, support dogs and BAME/GEM people who work in the NHS.

Creative Tech, Real Impact: Toru Digital's Approach to Innovation with AI

Toru Digital is an innovative agency that solves problems for their clients using AI, deploying solutions that work. Listen to them talk about their journey, how to crack AI in the future and how working with UON helped speed them along. Find out more: https://www.northampton.ac.uk/business/fuelling-innovation/