My highlights of 2022
was definitely the Degree Show.
After two years of not being able
to do that on site
and also the Welcome Week party
that we had for all the first year students.
It's great to see the campus so very busy
and I’m looking forward to 2023.
It's been a long time coming and we're
glad we actually got to do it in person.
It's been a long time coming and we're glad we actually got to do it in person.
and not just...
To see everyone.
Yes, to see everyone.
It's more like a reunion, which is nice.
So we met on the first day.
First day we met on the same course
and then we've just sort of been best friends since.
It's been really nice.
So some of our closest friends
we haven't even seen for two years.
But yeah, it's like we have not been apart
seeing each other again.
So it's very nice catching up, seeing what everyone's doing.
In May of 2022
Town House won the Mies van der Rohe Award
for Contemporary European Architecture.
It is the biggest award in Europe
for contemporary architecture,
so it's a really significant thing to have won it.
Having been involved
with the competition back in 2013,
which produced a design for Town House.
I'm incredibly proud to see
it used and loved by our students,
staff and the local community.
So our massive highlight this year
at Kingston University was marching
for the first time ever at London Pride.
It was also the 50th anniversary of Pride,
so it was a huge celebration
and really marked a great day for us.
We marched together as staff and students.
It was absolutely amazing.
The call out and shout outs from former alumni
and students was absolutely awesome.
It was a fantastic atmosphere.
It was amazing.
My highlight for this year
is getting the role
as a graduate success officer
and having the opportunity
to work with current Kingston students,
while also formerly
being a Kingston student myself
and now working
as a member of staff at the University.
The Town House Strategy responds to a profound challenge.
The profound challenge is the future world of work,
and how much that is changing
and the complexity of problems that are facing us.
The name of the strategy is after the Town House
because this building, as has been said,
is the physical manifestation
of what we're actually talking about.
It certainly posits the idea that
there are various forms of knowledge
and that is the crux of the Town House Strategy.
The focus of this new
report is our proposal
for a framework to deliver
what government, industry
and the economy needs.
It sets out an approach
bringing together government,
business and universities
to ensure the future skills are embedded
in higher education and in the workplace.
Some of the skills you could say to talk about is
creative problem solving or collaboration or resilience.
All of these are extremely important to my course
and my career and myself as a person.
Having it be part of the curriculum that we're studying
makes it a lot more valuable for us
because it gives everyone the same
set of skills to leave university with at the end.
Being part of the Formula Student Team
this year has meant a lot to me,
as it led me to go to the House of Commons
to be part of Future Skills campaign
and to represent at Silverstone
for the competition.
And this year I'm now operations manager of the team,
so it's really been a big rewarding experience for me.
We did the renovations of the rooms over an 18 month period,
so we can project across three areas to be immersive
for simulations we're doing
and also make a more clinical area for teaching.
We do use this ward to be able to do an A&E or a ward,
but we also can convert areas to community.
We're quite lucky because our skills lecturers are nurses as well.
They've experienced certain scenarios
and how they can help us when we're out
on placement too.