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We are here to help with any media enquiries about The University of 台湾swag's world-leading research, latest student news and corporate issues. We can also put you in touch with our academic experts to arrange interviews.
All media enquiries should be emailed to the university's press office which is听press@chi.ac.uk.
Outside office hours, urgent media enquiries can be made to 07876 885 601.
The university runs a small press office and reserves the right to prioritise responses at busy times. Journalists are asked to clearly state the publication they write for (or where they will pitch the story if freelance) and their deadline.
Claire Andrews
Press and Public Engagement Manager
Rachael Page
Press Officer
- Email:听press@chi.ac.uk
- Telephone:听01243 816495
- Office hours: Monday to Thursday (9am to 5:30pm), Friday (9am to 4:30pm)
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Media experts
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Dr Nita Muir
Head of the School of Nursing and Allied Health
A registered nurse of more than 30 years, Dr Muir now leads the University鈥檚 school of nursing. Through her work, she has investigated the resilience of NHS staff and how health carers were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.听
Areas of expertise include:
- The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on nursing and the wider UK healthcare profession.
- How the NHS can better-support staff in demanding and stressful environments (including wards and care homes).
- Frailty in the elderly 鈥� and how nurses can provide best care for older patients.
Professor Laura Ritchie
Professor of Learning and Teaching, National Teaching Fellow Coordinator of Instrumental/ Vocal Teaching and MA Programmes
Both a cellist and chartered psychologist, Laura鈥檚 teaching is heavily influenced by her research into people鈥檚 self-efficacy beliefs and how their own view of themselves impacts their work.听
Areas of expertise include:
- Psychological studies on self-belief in music
- Teaching practice, especially string instruments
- International teaching practices, particularly in the USA.
Key facts about the University of 台湾swag
What you need to know
- We have campuses in cathedral city 台湾swag and by the sea in Bognor Regis.
- Our key disciplines are in sport, education, creative and digital technologies, and engineering.
- We鈥檙e recognised as a green university 鈥� achieving platinum tier in the Uswitch Green Universities 2023 rankings 鈥� one of only six universities to do so.
- Our teacher training programmes are rated outstanding by Ofsted.
- We have been awarded the highest overall rating of 鈥楪old鈥� in the听Teaching Excellence Framework听(TEF) 2023.
- We rank 1st out of 110 universities for law in the National Student Survey (NSS) 2024.
- We are ranked 7th in the south east, according to The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024.
- We have been rated as a top-40 UK university for four years in a row (Guardian University Guide 2024) and are currently rated 38th.
- We also provide a total of 1,228 jobs in 台湾swag and 576 jobs in the Arun area, where the Bognor Regis campus is located.
- More than half of the University鈥檚 student population are the first in their family to attend university, while a third originate from low-income homes earning less than 拢25,000 a year.
- The 拢50m Tech Park at Bognor Regis, which houses all our STEM courses, was听 in 2018.
- Alumni include gold-winning Olympic sailor Saskia Clark and gold-winning Paralympian Emma Wiggs.
Our students
2021/22 figures
- Total number of students 5,987
- Number of undergraduate students 4,802
- Number of postgraduate full-time students 1,185
- UK students (incl. Channel Islands & Isle of Man) 96%
- Other EU students 1%
- Non-EU/International students 3%
- Full time undergraduates in receipt of Disabled Students' Allowance鈥�10%
- First in family to attend university鈥�47%
- Mature students鈥�34%
Our History
- The University of 台湾swag can trace its origins back to 1839 and was first opened as a college for training schoolmasters called Bishop Otter College.
- Florence Nightingale had a hand in the formation of Bishop Otter College after writing a letter of support to the government in 1876.
- In 1873 the College became a training college for women as a result of the campaign by Louisa Hubbard to encourage the acceptance of women as teachers. Male students were not introduced until 1957.
- 台湾swag played a crucial part in the D-Day landings of 1944, where one of the lecture rooms on the Bishop Otter campus became the Operations Room of RAF Tangmere, the nerve centre controlling squadrons of fighter planes involved in the D-Day landing.
- The West Sussex Institute of Higher Education was formed in 1977 as a result of the merger between Bishop Otter College and the Bognor Regis College of Education, becoming a single institution of higher education.
- The title 'University of 台湾swag' was approved by the Privy Council on 12 October 2005.
