The below sessions are now available to request.
- English Literature: Finding your Voice
This session introduces students to generative writing techniques, peer workshopping, and the idea that creativity thrives on collaboration. The session is intended to offer a bridge between Post-16 and University style study, highlighting the step in learning that may occur and showcase how current learning will help to move students’ knowledge of writing forward at a higher level.
- Law/Politics: Education for All? Asylum Seekers in the UK
Want to know how asylum seekers access education in the UK? Join this session to learn about their rights, challenges, and how you can make a difference. We will undertake practical activities and discussions on existing ways to support those seeking safety and education and the applicable laws. My proposed subject has a nexus with a module called Immigration and Asylum Law (M3083) that is taught at the School of Law for undergraduate students.
- Engineering: How your phone talks
*Available for visits from January 2027. Bookings can be made before then to hold dates.*
Students explore how everyday technologies such as phones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth communicate using wireless signals. Through simple explanation and demonstrations, they learn how information is encoded, transmitted, and decoded. Includes a hands-on activity where students “send” and “receive” messages using real signal-processing ideas. This work connects to Physics, Engineering and wireless communication.
- Music: STEAL IT. FLIP IT. PERFORM IT.
In this fun, interactive 60-minute music session, you will listen, steal ideas, flip them and perform them. You will be split into teams and compete in a Musical Scavenger hunt with challenges like finding a rhythmic feature, spotting a texture, and identifying a hook. This will be followed by Style Roulette, where you will spin for a style card (e.g. Minimalism, Jazz, EDM). Then a 15-Minute Build in which you create 30 – 45 seconds of music in the style of the style card and two of the features from the original track. The session concludes with a Performance Face–Off, where each team performs or plays back their piece of music.
- Business: From Sneakers to Smartphones: How Research Shapes the Products You Love
Why is Santa red? Why do your jeans have a tiny extra pocket? Why Messi for Adidas and Ronaldo for Nike? Why do Rolls Royce cars appear beside private jets? From soft drinks to supercars, discover how research shapes the products you love — and step inside the decision making world of modern business.
- Psychology: The Science of Humans: Introduction to Psychology
This psychology taster session invites you into the world of psychological science which deals with understanding day-to-day behaviour and experiences we live, share, and observe in ourselves and others. From social media habits to the careers we take, psychology opens the gates into the world we have inside of us that shapes the world outside of us! Come join us to get an idea of what University-level psychology deals with.
- English linguistics: The multidisciplinary nature of Linguistics
This session will introduce students to a few areas of linguistics: phonology, forensics, and linguistic typology. Each topic will involve a short activity, and students will work in small groups to complete tasks and challenges. By the end of the session students should have an understanding of the breadth of Linguistics as a subject.
- Law: Thinking like a law student: rules, reasoning and debate
This session gives students an insight into how Law is studied at university through seminar-style discussion and problem-solving activities. Students will explore how legal rules are interpreted and applied, and how lawyers build and challenge arguments around fairness and decision-making. The session mirrors a first-year undergraduate Law seminar and links to post-16 Law themes such as legal reasoning, the nature of law, and law in society.
Select the event(s) you would like to enquire about By filling out this form, we cannot agree your session but we will work with you and the academic to confirm a suitable date and time
English Literature: Finding your Voice Law/Politics: Education for All? Asylum Seekers in the UK Engineering: How your phone talks - available from January 2027 Music: STEAL IT. FLIP IT. PERFORM IT. Business: From Sneakers to Smartphones: How Research Shapes the Products You Love Psychology: The Science of Humans: Introduction to Psychology English linguistics: The multidisciplinary nature of Linguistics Law: Thinking like a law student: rules, reasoning and debate
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