Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 minutes - 1 hour

Outlining practical steps to prepare students for a university or job interview, we teach students how to give evidence of their skills and experience. The group put each other to the test at the end of the session by taking part in mock interviews.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 minutes - 1 hour

Whether your students are contemplating employment, training or higher education, the marketplace is very competitive and they to set themselves apart from the rest of the pack. Delivered as a short presentation or a longer workshop, this session encourages students to consider the successes of famous brands and their strengths and qualities. The exercise helps students think about their online presence and how this can be used to help achieve their ambitions, and how pitch themselves to potential universities or employers.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 1 hour

In this session your students will consider what type of a learner they are and how this affects the way they study. They will also be introduced to some simple techniques for managing their time and developing a balanced approach to study and their social life. It also explores the pressures students can face when revising and provides hints and tips for relaxation and handling stress.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 - 45 minutes

In this session your students will consider what type of a learner they are and how this affects the way they study. They will also be introduced to some simple techniques for managing their time and developing a balanced approach to study and their social life. It also explores the pressures students can face when revising and provides hints and tips for relaxation and handling stress.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 minutes

In this session we detail the funding available for university tuition fees and living costs and explain how students pay this back when they complete their studies.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 minutes

This interactive presentation identifies what students should consider when thinking about going to university. It covers how to research universities and courses, the application process and the benefits and value of higher education. It also encourages students to start early with their higher education research.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 minutes

An overview of studying at Teesside - we look at courses, facilities, accommodation and student support. It's ideal for raising awareness of the opportunities at university, encouraging them to begin higher education research early.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 minutes

This interactive presentation is for students who are about to apply to university. We cover all aspects of the application process, including writing a personal statement and preparing for a university interview. This session can be delivered in combination with choosing a course and university, or personal statements.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 minutes

Taking a detailed look at the range of higher education institutions and courses available, this session challenges students to think about the most important factors to consider when choosing a subject and institution. By providing tips on researching suitable courses and comparing universities, this session gives students the ability and confidence to carefully research their options before applying to UCAS.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 minutes - 1 hour

Encouraging students to consider their career aims, subject strengths, and personal skills, we equip each individual with the potential to write an outstanding personal statement.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: 30 minutes

Open days and UCAS fairs are excellent opportunities for students to gather lots of research about their future options. This session prepares students to attend these important events by offering advice on how to plan their visits, what to look for and what questions to ask.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: Times to suit your programme

Invite us to your year 12 progression day and leave it to our team of staff, recent graduates and student ambassadors to deliver a tailor-made package of presentations, interactive workshops and activities to meet your needs.
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Audience: Year 12
Duration: Full Day

Hold your progression day at Teesside University. We'll provide transitional activities and add an interactive, subject focused activity, formal presentation or facility tour.
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Title: Creative thinking
Duration: 1 hour
Are your students interested in advertising, branding, editorial, illustration, interaction or motion graphics? This session shows students what it takes to become a creative in the graphic design industry. Discover the key skills that our students are taught and take a look at examples of their work. We also inform students of contemporary thinking in industry and how they could develop employability skills within graphic design, whilst finding out what some of our graduates have gone on to.
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Title: Fashion your future
Duration: 1 hour
The UK fashion industry is estimated to support 797,000 jobs. This talk looks at the many exciting and creative opportunities on offer in the fashion industry. During the session students gain knowledge about the fashion industry, including profiles of industry specialists. Students also come to appreciate the range of job opportunities available in the industry.
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Title: Fine art portfolio advice
Duration: 1 hour
Academic staff from Teesside University's fine art programme offer advice on putting together an applicant portfolio. Students are advised to bring their portfolios along to the session for a brief critique. We highlight the importance of starting and ending portfolios with strong pieces and give tips on using a portfolio at interview to leave a lasting impression.
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Title: Maquette making
Duration: 1 hour
This is a hands on session where students create a character model using a wire skeleton, a big box of plasticine and a lot of imagination. The session also includes a talk on character design for the games or animation industries.
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Title: Portfolio works
Duration: 1 hour
Explore what makes a great portfolio. Students look at examples of our undergraduate work and discuss the various presentation styles and content. We also cover interview techniques and discuss some common interview questions. Students are welcome to bring along their own portfolios for a brief critique.
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Title: Skills and careers in product design
Duration: 1 hour
This lecture covers historical perspectives on product design and focuses on traditional design skills by exploring selected work from 1950s onwards. It also looks at the modern tools of the product designer.
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Title: The life of the product designer
Duration: 1 hour
What does it take to become a product designer? Discover what skills we teach our students on the product design programme and take a look at some of their work. Learn how students develop employability skills in product design, see what product designers can achieve and find out what some of our graduates do now.
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Title: The product portfolio
Duration: 1 hour
This session explores the presentation styles and content that make for a good portfolio. Your students see examples from our current undergraduates and gain valuable help and advice on their own portfolios. The session also covers interview techniques and some common interview questions.
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Title: A career in HRM/people development
Duration: 1 hour
The world of work is rapidly changing. The professional body for HR and people development, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), state HRM/people development is a key to improve practices in people and organisational development so ensuring individuals, businesses, economies and society can all prosper. This session explores what this means and the important links to CIPD as a trusted career partner for more than 140,000 members around the world.
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Title: Business challenge
Duration: 1 hour
Focusing on generating innovative business ideas, students work in teams to propose a solution to a set business challenge. A business coach from Teesside University supports teams in this process and helps them to reflect on their business skills.
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Title: Marketing communications
Duration: 1 hour
Understanding consumers' needs is essential to any successful marketing campaign. Appealing to their heads and their hearts has become extremely challenging considering that on any given day consumers are bombarded by 3,000 marketing communications messages. This workshop will give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the marketing communication world and devise a campaign for a high profile brand.
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Title: Marketing strategy
Duration: 1 hour
The key to successful business is knowing your customers, how they behave and how to attract their attention. Students are invited to compete in the choc box challenge where they’ll be required to devise a creative marketing strategy tailored to a target market.
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Title: No such thing as bad publicity
Duration: 1 hour
Public relations is much more than just writing press releases. Image and reputation are vital. This session identifies how PR activities can help to create effective communications between a company and its audience, whilst making a significant contribution to an organisation's objectives.
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Title: Oil cartel collusion game
Duration: 1 hour
This interactive round-based game introduces microeconomics concepts such as competition, oligopoly, consumer surplus and game theory. It runs with at least six individuals or larger groups and investigates the stability of collusion and the incentives to undercut the cartel’s price in order to maximise profit.
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Title: Popping up on the high street
Duration: 1 hour
The pop-up shop phenomenon is changing the high street. Pop up boutiques, art galleries, cafes and bars enable creative entrepreneurs to reach customers in record time. But what does it take to make it big? This session considers retail theory and invites students to create their own pop-up proposal.
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Title: Social media and sport organisations
Duration: 1 hour
As professional sport becomes more global and accessible, there are increasing pressures and opportunities to engage with supporters around the world. This workshop provides an introduction to digital marketing in sport, before exploring the current digital trends in sport marketing practice. Students review recent marketing campaigns by national and international sport organisations.
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Title: Team branding
Duration: 1 hour
With a focus on team building and branding, students work in teams to agree their strengths as team members and formulate a branding communication to sell their team to a potential contractor. A business coach from Teesside University supports teams in this process and helps them to reflect on their business skills.
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Title: Team building: the marshmallow challenge
Duration: 1 hour
This session helps learners to gain an insight into collaboration, innovation and creativity through a fun, instructive and competitive team-based design activity. The activity helps students to understand which teams perform the best and why, what improves team performance and what hinders it. Students will also learn to recognise the hidden assumptions that every project has and the value of diversity in team membership.
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Title: The importance of relationships in business
Duration: 1 hour
Relationships are a key part of human life. All day, every day, most people engage and interact with others, whether at home or during working day. This workshop considers how we develop those relationships, both at home and at work, and how they can help us develop professionally, making a contribution to our career development.
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Title: The power of digital marketing
Duration: 1 hour
The world has gone digital - never before have organisations had such opportunities at their fingertips. This session introduces the key concepts of digital marketing from a social media perspective, considering the impact our social media footprint has, both individually and as an organisation, along with the opportunities it provides for marketers and campaigns of the future.
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Title: The power of organisational culture
Duration: 1 hour
Organisational culture can create huge pressures on an organisation's strategy and performance, yet managers often underestimate how important it is to recognise and understand the values, beliefs and perception of their staff and their individual input in driving the organisation forward. Working in small groups, and using the global chocolate manufacturer Cadbury's as the case study, students identify the internal influences they believe may impact on the organisation's culture. This interactive exercise will involve students debating the factors and populating the cultural web, deciding which factors should sit within each sphere. This exercise tests the students' skills in presentation, discussion, leadership, negotiation and team-working.
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Title: Hands on cinematography
Duration: 1 hour

In this hands on session, students use cameras to explore basics of cinematography, essential for the games or animation industry.
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Title: Maquette making
Duration: 1 hour
This hands-on session allows students to create a character model using a wire skeleton, a big box of plasticine and a lot of imagination. It also includes a talk on character design for the games or animation industries.
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Title: Stop Motion Animation
Duration: 1 hour
Create a shortstop motion animation using armatures, cameras and studio lights.
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Title: Storytelling in animation
Duration: 1.5 hours
Students explore some of the origins of storytelling related to the basic story process used in animation. The 90-minute workshop has two parts - an audio-visual presentation and a group exercise. Part one introduces ideas and script development, character design, storyboarding, the animation bible and animatics, finishing with an example of an animation production. In part two, students take part in a fun ideas workshop, developing an original story that would be suitable for animation. An ideal session for anybody interested in a future in storytelling or animation.
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Title: Strike a pose: animation by design
Duration: 1 hour
Animation is an acting profession and relevant to design for film, TV and computer games. Animators need to be able to capture a character in a single pose. A short lecture outlines posing for animation and how to set about creating a thinking character. Small teams then work together, using their design skills to create a character profile, generate reference material using iPads or phones. Then, using pencil and paper, students create an image that could be applied to an animated character using 2D and 3D processes.
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Title: Write a movie in five minutes
Duration: 1 hour
Students learn about the classic structure of a story and learn how to break it down into its component parts. Using examples from film and television, small teams work together to create their own story in five minutes using the classic structure and then present it to the other teams. This is a lively and fun session with lots of audience participation.
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Title: Games programming and beyond
Duration: 1 hour
This session looks at what it takes to become a games developer - ideal for those students who enjoy playing games or have ever wondered what it takes to make them. Students apply their current knowledge of the fundamentals of programming, and also develop a wide range of skills by looking at what is required to design, programme, perfect and market their first game for a smartphone. Working together and thinking creatively we generate a game idea, build some graphics and audio, code it, and finally play it.
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Title: Pixels! Getting into computer games
Duration: 1 hour
This talk covers the diverse range of jobs in the computer games industry, and how to best prepare students for a career in this area. If your students are interested in studying games, the related courses available, or would like to go into games in the future, this talk outlines the options available.
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Title: A day in the life of a computer digital forensics expert
Duration: 1 hour
Hear from an industry expert about the exciting career opportunities in this area. We discuss flying around the world in private jets, getting paid over half-a-million pounds a year, and being a hacker for the government. Our expert gives real life examples from their career and we introduce you to previous Teesside graduates who have gone on to lead parts of the industry. This session highlights digital forensics as an exciting and novel application of computing skills.
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Title: Automating life in a digital world
Duration: 1 hour
Imagine a world where a computer chip makes decisions for you, keeps you safe, monitors your health and reports back to your doctor. This talk assesses the consequences of using computing and what it is like to live in an ever-increasing digital world influenced by computer science. It questions its influence and involvement, and predicts the future of automation.
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Title: Cybercrime and cyberwar
Duration: 1 hour
A member of intelligence personnel conducts a scenario-based talk about the real battles that take place online. The talk explores what it's like to work in the intelligence services, what sort of work you can do in this field and the exotic locations you can do it in. We outline some of the common threats the British public face and discuss how students can help combat these dangers.
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Title: Did you read that?
Duration: 1 hour
An interactive session looking at how local news organisations can access a younger audience through understanding their needs, motivations, language and culture.
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Title: Digital forensics and capturing the crime scene
Place: Teesside University
Duration: 1 hour
What do digital devices know about you? What information do they give away about you? We examine a crime scene in our crime scene house, record and capture the potential evidence and identify opportunities for information gathering from digital devices such as gaming machines and iPhones. Please note this session can only be delivered on campus on request.
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Title: Is it legal?
Duration: 1 hour
IT law is an often overlooked area but as the internet touches more and more of our lives so the law is evolving and changes. This session takes the form of a seminar with students debating key and topical points of IT law in a tutor-led discussion.
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Title: Level that playing field
Duration: 1 hour
Ensuring that your web products are open to all is not only ethically right but it is a legal requirement. This session looks at how accessibility should be considered from idea inception and reconsidered at all stages of the design life cycle.
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Title: MARVEL-lous prototyping
Duration: 1 hour
This session looks at the benefits of prototyping and how students can use online tools to bring their ideas to life cheaply and quickly.
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Title: Pitch perfect
Duration: 1 hour
Students learn how to pitch their design or solution to a client to maximise their chances of securing a contract.
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Title: Social networking: under the hood
Duration: 1 hour
TSocial networks as you have never seen them before. Where are you, how are you stored, how do others see you, and what keeps you safe? Your online persona is a major part of your life. Learn about the data and technologies needed to keep our virtual presences alive and well. Students learn about the roles of Data Scientists, Information Visualisation Analysts, Security Analysts and Network Specialists - all roles that provide us with the means to interact and communicate in ways essential for modern life. Discover how Teesside University courses prepares students for these roles, not only in social networking but across the computing spectrum.
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Title: Welcome to web concepts
Duration: 1 hour
This talk examines key web concepts, including: what is HTML, creating web pages, defining the style in CSS, HTML5 in context, why HTML5, and responsive design.
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Title: What ARE you wearing?
Duration: 1 hour
This session explores wearable tech with some demonstrations with gadgets such as Google Glass and a discussion of where we think it is heading.
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Title: WWW - wonderful web writing
Duration: 1 hour
A website can look great with fantastic graphics, animation, sound and video but without good copy it won't retain a customer base. Writing for the web is a vastly overlooked skill and designing text content is almost never considered in as much detail as how more visual or interactive content. This session looks at how to improve the design of a website through designing text - whether that text is for blogging, selling, informing or entertaining.
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Title: Crime and deviance
Duration: 1 hour
This is an excellent opportunity for students to gain insight into some of the main issues surrounding crime, deviance, victims, social control and order. How do we identify and explain crime? Why do we imprison offenders? What is the role of the police? What is the impact of crime, deviance and harm on communities and individuals? What role do victims play in the criminal justice process? Students learn about criminological issues and discuss the impact of crime and deviance on society.
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Title: Culture and identity
Duration: 1 hour
Discussion of different conceptions of culture and identity in society stimulates debate on sociological issues including gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class, religion, consumerism and globalisation. To what extent is identity socially constructed? How does culture influence our sense of self? Some of these issues are explored in detail and students think critically about everyday issues with deeper implications than they might expect.
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Title: Global challenges
Duration: 1 hour
How do we explain climate change? Is terrorism global and how has it spread? What is the impact of migration and immigration? This workshop explores some of the challenges facing society and the planet. Considering issues including globalisation, inequality, population change, migration, urban and rural life, climate change, tourism and terrorism, students think critically about social causes and consequences.
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Title: Poverty and welfare
Duration: 1 hour
The issues of work, poverty and welfare are complicated. What are the myths and realities behind media portrayals and social policy on unemployment, social welfare and poverty? Do we live in a benefits culture? We explore the distribution of poverty and wealth across location, class, and other social groups and consider the governmental response to inequality.
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Title: Research in practice
Duration: 1 hour
What is the best way to research active criminals? Is it ethical to conduct covert observation? Can more than one method be used? The practical issues faced by researchers are worth considering. Using real case studies, students explore different research methods and the ethical considerations and potential problems of each.
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Title: Children's early language development
Duration: 1 hour
Traditionally a story sack is a large cloth bag containing a favourite book and supporting material to stimulate language activities. Story sacks can enhance literacy teaching in any setting and contribute to a lifelong love of books and reading. This workshop uses story sacks developed by our students as part of their studies to stimulate discussion and ideas around how they can be used in early years settings.
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Title: Dyslexia in children and young people
Duration: 1 hour
An opportunity to discuss ways of including learners with dyslexia, this session facilitates an exploration of some of the characteristics and features of the disability in children and young people.
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Title: Lifelong learning
Duration: 1 hour
This workshop encourages debate on inclusive practices across different educational settings and ages. By exploring real scenarios, students reflect on their learning experiences and consider approaches to working inclusively with others.
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Title: Aerospace engineering
Duration: 1 hour
Playing a crucial role in the design and maintenance of aircraft and space vehicles, aerospace engineers are multi-skilled problem solvers with a good understanding of science and maths. We explore careers in this field including environmental engineering (wind turbines), transport engineering (aerodynamic vehicle design), business and management and consultancy.
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Title: Chemical engineering
Duration: 1 hour
Chemical engineers work across a variety of sectors including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, energy, water, food and drink, materials, oil and gas, biotechnology, business and management, and also consultancy - this session explores how students can get in to this exciting field.
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Title: Electrical and electronic engineers - from deep space to deep sea, and everything in between
Duration: 1 hour
Students explore the applications that electrical and electronic engineers work with and discuss the impact on communications from space, the process of laying cables in the deepest oceans and how to harness renewable energies. Graduates can enjoy a range of roles including research, design, consultancy and management.
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Title: From cathedrals to carbon critically shaping the future with civil engineering
Duration: 1 hour
Students discover how civil and structural engineering shapes the world we live in. The session demonstrates how every journey we make, every destination, town and building, and every activity we undertake in our built environment has been conceived and enabled by sustainable engineering thinking.
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Title: From polymers to potatoes
Duration: 1 hour
Most plastics are made from oil, a natural resource that's running out. With plastics being so widely used in our lives, we explore what is next and ask ourselves how bad plastic is for the environment. Your students might think twice about taking a plastic bag after this session.
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Title: Mechanical engineering
Duration: 1 hour
The broadest of all of the engineering disciplines, mechanical engineering, uses the principles of energy, materials and mechanics to design and manufacture machines and devices. Students explore and look into how mechanical engineers create the processes and systems that drive technology and industry across the world. This session covers areas including engineering design, automotive and aerospace design, computational analysis, robotics, manufacturing and mechatronics.
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Title: Arundhati Roy's history house: reading The God of Small Things as gothic text
Duration: 1 hour
9 This session explores the gothic themes of haunting, the uncanny and doubles in relation to The God of Small Things. Focusing in particular on the history house, we consider how the novel's gothic themes relate to its postcolonial politics, considering how the house comes to represent the lingering effects of the British Empire in India. During the session, students critically explore the history house idea using exercises and discussions. By the end of the session, students will have developed a detailed understanding of some key gothic and postcolonial concepts. This session is linked to the gothic and reading as a writer/writing as a reader sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: Beautiful beasts and beastly beauties: feminism, fairy tales and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber
Duration: 1 hour
From Beauty and the Beast to Little Red Riding Hood, animals play a prominent role in traditional fairy tales - sometimes representing what we most fear or desire. This workshop considers the role of animals in Angela Carter's rewritings of classic fairy tales in her collection, The Bloody Chamber. We discuss these tales in the context of feminism and discuss how Carter challenges traditional gender ideas. This workshop helps students place this text in its historical context and develop their critical thinking skills. This session is linked to the prose fiction, post-1900 and gothic sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: Developing an argument - what is an argument?
Duration: 1 hour
How can we communicate our ideas in the most effective way? This practical workshop focuses on a key essay writing skill - developing an argument. Working with examples from the curriculum, it explores the essential steps to take when preparing a coherent and persuasive argument. This session is linked to the study skills sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: Mad, bad, or misunderstood?
Duration: 1 hour
Victorian madwomen in Jane Eyre and Great Expectations. In the nineteenth century it was believed that women were particularly prone to mental illness. In this session students explore attitudes towards gender and madness in Victorian literature and culture. We consider how so called madwomen are represented in the characters of Bertha Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. We examine these characters and try to decide whether these women were mad, bad or misunderstood. This session is linked to pre-1900 sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: Making monsters - the afterlives of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Duration: 1 hour
This session explores the lasting legacy of Mary Shelley's celebrated gothic novel, Frankenstein. We look at the ways this famous story has entered popular culture, with a focus on its adaptations for the screen. This session is linked to the pre-1900 and gothic sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: Oh! What a literary war
Duration: 1 hour
From Goodbye to All That to Oh! What a Lovely War and Blackadder Goes Forth, World War One has had a profound effect on our culture. And poets, novelists and memoirists have played a major role in shaping our understanding of the war and its effects. This session examines war poets such as Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas and considers how modernist writers such as Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf responded to the conflict. This session is linked to the post-1900, women in society, and war/conflict themed sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: Safie's story - representations of women in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Duration: 1 hour
Frankenstein is told through a number of male voices - Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein and the creature. The female characters play an important role but seem to occupy the margins of the narrative. This workshop explores the representation of women in this novel, examining attitudes to gender. We focus on the often overlooked character of Safie, bringing in discussion of non-western cultures in the story. This workshop consolidates your students' knowledge of the text and provides fresh perspectives on gender and culture. This session is linked to the pre-1900 and gothic sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: The book is dead. Long live the book!
Duration: 1 hour
Can the book survive in the age of the internet? What’s the point of reading novels when there are so many other claims on our attention? Why read something hundreds or even thousands of years old when millions of new things were written yesterday? Who decides what counts as good writing? What do stories do for us and why do we need them? This session addresses these questions and examines why words continue to matter and why literature is so important. This session is linked to prose fiction sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: The reluctant fundamentalist and the dramatic monologue tradition?
Duration: 1 hour
Guilty or not guilty? This session explores the role of the reader-as-judge in Mohsin Hamid's novella. Analysing the second-person address that is directed beyond the pages of the novel, we consider this text alongside the literary tradition of the dramatic monologue. Students critically and creatively analyse their position as readers of the text, using exercises and group discussion. By the end of this session, students will have gained a higher-level awareness of the relationship between the novel and dramatic monologue forms as signified in this text. This session is linked to the immigrant experience section of the A level curriculum.
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Title: Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness
Duration: 1 hour
Why does Chinua Achebe accuse Joseph Conrad of being a 'thoroughgoing racist'? How does Heart of Darkness represent Africa and Africans in comparison with Things Fall Apart? This session introduces the colonial context of Conrad's writing and considers some of the stereotypes that Achebe engages and tries to dispel through his own novel. Students take part in critical exercises and discussions using examples from the texts. By the end of this session, students will have gained comparative reading skills and awareness of the texts' political contexts. This session is linked to colonisation and its aftermath and the reading as a writer/writing as a reader sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: Things Fall Apart debate: why does Achebe write in English?
Duration: 1 hour
This session introduces the context of British colonialism in Nigeria and considers Chinua Achebe’s choice to write in English in comparison with his contemporaries who preferred to write in native languages. During this session, students are encouraged to consider pros and cons of Achebe’s decision to write in English, culminating in a debate. At the end of this session, students will have gained an awareness of the political issues surrounding this text. This session is linked to colonisation and its aftermath and the reading as a writer/writing as a reader sections of the A level curriculum.
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Title: Call the midwife!
Duration: 1 hour
Midwives provide high quality care to mothers, babies and their families. They are autonomous practitioners able to co-ordinate the care of women from pregnancy to labour and following delivery. This session explores Teesside University's midwifery course and prepares students to become part of this rewarding profession.
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Title: Child nursing
Duration: 1 hour
Children's nurses work in a variety of hospital and community settings, providing care and education to children and their families. Concerns about child health are high profile and result in new and exciting challenges for nurses. Students gain an insight into the role of the children’s nurse enabling them to consider their potential in this rewarding profession.
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Title: How clean is your mouth?
Duration: 1 hour
Dental nurses, hygienists and dental therapists promote oral health. This role of these professionals is increasingly important following a decline in nationwide oral health. Students find out how dental professionals work, who benefits from their skills and why oral health is so important.
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Title: Making the impossible, possible
Duration: 1 hour
Occupational therapists help people who are recovering from a trauma, or who have a limiting inherited condition, to carry out the everyday activities that others may take for granted. Students learn about the methods, techniques and tools used to enable people to live independently.
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Title: Move your body!
Duration: 1 hour
Are your students fascinated by the human body? Do they want to know how and why our bodies move and operate as they do? Here, they can find out how physiotherapists help patients move and perform to their optimum capacity through rehabilitation.
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Title: Not just being nice
Duration: 1 hour
Social work is perhaps the most misunderstood caring profession in the popular media. Social workers combine their significant legal authority with trained skills in investigating, assessing and intervening with individuals and families. This talk explores social work in detail and will suit emotionally robust students seeking a challenge.
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Title: Nursing in the 21st century
Duration: 1 hour
What is nursing today? Modern nurses have an increasing range of duties and responsibilities in today's health provision. Through this session students find out about the various paths and opportunities for graduate nurses and learn about the courses available with specialisms in child, adult, mental health and learning disabilities.
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Title: Scrub up!
Duration: 1 hour
This session looks at a career in Operating Department Practice (ODP) working alongside nurses, surgeons and anaesthetists in a surgical environment. As well as learning about the role of an ODP, students will have the opportunity to see and handle surgical instruments, monitoring and intubation equipment.
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Title: The purest form of nursing
Duration: 1 hour
Learning disabilities nursing has been described as ‘the purest form of nursing’. Nursing people with learning disabilities requires effective clinical skills that have to be combined with excellent communication and therapeutic skills. Learning disability nurses support the person and their families/carers in lots of different situations, and the role is varied and dynamic. This talk helps students to explore if they want to be part of this specialised and exciting field of nursing.
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Title: Who you going to call? Paramedics on duty
Duration: 1 hour
In a medical emergency a paramedic is usually the first on the scene. This talk covers the role of the paramedic and highlights what students can expect from our paramedic course, including entry requirements, personal statements and the applicant interview process.
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Title: X-ray vision
Duration: 1 hour
Medical professionals can diagnose conditions through less invasive methods than ever before. Students find out how today's medical professionals use technology to diagnose and treat many medical conditions.
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Title: Hitler Youth
Duration: 1 hour
Before Hitler Youth became mandatory in 1939, more than 90% of German children were already members. What did children do in the Hitler Youth and what were the values that they developed? This presentation looks at the Hitler Youth over three stages:

• the years before the Nazi seizure of power in 1933
• the 'peacetime' years of the Third Reich until the end of the 1930s
• the five following years when the Hitler Youth served in World War Two.

Title: Justinian and the Nika riots
Duration: 1 hour
This session explores the Nika riots which broke out in AD 532 in Constantinople. It was the most violent revolt in Constantinople's history and led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. The riots were started by fans of rival sports teams but also had a political dimension. According to historians, the riots came close to overthrowing of the government. The revolt left Justinian in charge and cleared the way for a significant building programme, including the restoration of the famous Hagia Sophia mosque.
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Title: The collapse of communism
Duration: 1 hour
The sudden ending of the Cold War dominates the second half of the 20th century and continues to be one of the most dramatic events of contemporary history. This talk considers the condition of the Soviet economy and the influence of Gorbachev's policies on the Cold War. Contemporary radio and television broadcasts from Britain are examined to explore the domestic reaction to the collapse of communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe.
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Title: The mythology of Alexander the Great
Duration: 1 hour
As well as being a real historical figure who dramatically affected the course of European, African and Asian history, Alexander the Great has become the subject of numerous legends and myths. This session explores this historically interesting and entertaining mythology.
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Title: The Norman Conquest
Duration: 1 hour
This lecture examines the launch of the Norman Conquest of Anglo-Saxon England at the Battle of Hastings. We question why the battle was fought, untangle the complicated political situation in the early eleventh century and discuss the political, administrative and religious consequences of its outcome from the perspective of Anglo-Saxon and Norman commentators.
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Title: The Pilgrimage of Grace
Duration: 1 hour
The Pilgrimage of Grace began in 1536 and was the most serious challenge to the Tudor regime by a force of thousands of commons, gentry and nobles from the north of England. This talk introduces a narrative of events and considers the religious, political and economic motives of those joining the rebellion and how these motives are presented in historiography.
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Title: Mental illness and the criminal law
Duration: 1 hour
This interactive session takes participants on a tour of the mental condition defences to see how well the criminal law deals with offenders who are mentally ill.
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Title: Street Law
Duration: 1 hour
Get a real taste of law in these interactive workshops delivered pro bono by exceptional law students from Teesside University. We provide hour-long session’s on a topic that interests you. Street law runs between November and April and we’ll come to you. Suggested focus areas include:

• consumer rights
• murder
• employment issues
• Police and Criminal Evidence Act
• defence of property
• tenancies
• self defence
• your rights

Title: The effects of perception on investigation
Duration: 1 hour
Witnesses are a vital part of the investigative process, but can their evidence be relied upon? This session explores how perception can affect recall, the impact it can have on an investigation and how we can attempt to deal with it to achieve the best evidence.
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Title: The legal responses to domestic abuse
Duration: 1 hour
Students learn about how psychology influences practice and the decision making of the jury in a courtroom.
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Title: Brit flicks: the UK on film
Duration: 1 hour
From early Hitchcock, through to the surreal magic of Powell and Pressburger, the horror of Hammer, the kitchen sink and Swinging London films, to the current social realism and heritage movies, the British cinema stands up against any national film culture. But what does it say about us to ourselves and the rest of the world? WJEC A Level Film Studies: FM2: British and American Film
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Title: Journalism in the Facebook era
Duration: 1 hour
Journalists have been the subject of many of their own headlines in recent years. From public outrage over phone hacking to fears over the existence of some traditional media, the future of the profession has never seemed more uncertain. In this session, however, journalist Jonathan Brown argues that the role of the trained journalist is more vital than ever.
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Title: Reality radio: the night that panicked America!
Duration: 1 hour
A presentation based around the notorious 1938 Orson Welles, War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which led people to believe that an alien invasion was taking place. Students will explore the cultural and social contexts of the event, listen to clips from the show and examine first hand responses from people who thought the world was experiencing a real invasion from Mars. Could we be fooled in the same way today? Links to OCR Media Studies: G323: Key Media Concepts (Radio Drama)
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Title: Seeking inspiration - how BBC programmes are made
Duration: 1 hour
Ever wondered how ideas get turned into stories that are published in newspapers or made into programmes that are broadcast on the BBC? Broadcaster and journalist, Hannah McMahon explains where ideas come from and how they are developed, pitched, commissioned and broadcast.
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Title: The media under fire: Issues and debates in the media industries
Duration: 1 hour
With the Jimmy Savile scandal, the Leveson inquiry, the future of the BBC, celebrity culture and the rise of social media, the media is under intense scrutiny. Huge changes in regulation, funding, censorship and production are predicted. Let us know what you would like to focus on and we'll deliver a lively debate for students to take part in. Links to OCR Media Studies: G325: Critical Perspectives in Media
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Title: Watching us watching them: representation in the media
Duration: 1 hour
How groups, individuals and institutions are portrayed in the media is crucial to how we understand them. The Channel 4 shows, Skint! and Benefits Street are excellent examples of how TV can be dangerous and unhelpful in debates about ourselves. During this session students will look to explore whether programmes such as Educating Yorkshire go some way to temper the image of young people portrayed in the tabloids. Links to AQA Unit 3 MEST3 Critical Perspectives
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Title: Why journalism matters - what do journalists do all day?
Duration: 1 hour
Journalist, Jonathon Brown explains what being a journalist is like and how new technology and the globalised, 24/7 news cycle has transformed how stories are told. Students will explore the ethics of journalism after the Leveson inquiry investigated phone hacking by tabloid journalists and understand why journalism has a vital role to play in speaking truth to power.
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Title: Auditions for actors
Duration: 1 hour
Do your students want to apply for an acting or performing arts degree, or go to drama school? This lecture covers audition techniques, etiquette and preparation. Giving students the opportunity to understand what to expect from auditions for drama school, university, television and theatre. At the end of this session students will have sufficient knowledge to prepare for an audition.
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Title: Performance careers
Duration: 1 hour
Associate lecturer, Pete Wilkinson, discusses the growth of the creative industries and the expansion of associated career paths. Drawing on his own route from drama school to filmmaking, Pete illustrates how careers on stage or in front of the camera are only the start of the opportunities available to performance, drama and acting students.
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Title: What's your real job?
Duration: 1 hour
What's the reality of a career in performing arts? We examine the sort of training that students need and how they can enter the industry. This session includes practical demonstrations and participatory elements.
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Title: Counselling psychology
Duration: 1 hour
Counselling psychology applies psychological theory and research to therapeutic practice. It is particularly useful in helping to treat depression, anxiety, phobias and relationship difficulties. Students discuss some principles of the counselling process and consider how these principles apply to groups and individuals. We also explore careers opportunities for students of this field.
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Title: Introduction to psychology
Duration: 1 hour
Psychology studies human thoughts, feelings, motivations and behaviour using scientific methods. In this session we examine how psychology can be applied to a range of settings to help people cope with mental health conditions, apprehend offenders, improve workplace satisfaction and help athletes perform better. We also discuss careers available to psychology students.
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Title: Qualitative psychology
Duration: 1 hour
Psychology is often described as the fourth science but qualitative psychological research plays an increasingly important role in extending our understanding psychology and evaluating psychological services. We introduce the growing recognition of qualitative research methods in psychology and the application of language-based methods to enhance our understanding of those living with physical and mental health conditions.
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Title: Stress
Duration: 1 hour
Introducing the biological basis of stress and considering different coping strategies, we review different ways of measuring stress and experiment with some of the physiological recording equipment used to measure stress indicators.
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Title: The psychology of memory
Duration: 1 hour
Memory is the term used to describe the structures and processes involved in the storage and retrieval of information. It is essential in our lives. We introduce some of the most influential research findings in the field of memory and engage students in interactive activities to test their own memories.
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Title: The psychology of time
Duration: 1 hour
Setting humans apart from all other species is their ability to mentally time travel. Humans are able to draw on past memories, experience the present, and project their hopes and aspirations into the future. How easily we travel back and forth can make a crucial difference to our subjective well-being. In this session, we examine the five time perspectives (past positive, past negative, present fatalistic, present hedonistic, and future oriented) and discuss how these interventions can help us to modify our behaviour.
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Title: What can you do with a psychology degree?
Duration: 1 hour
The graduate marketplace is diverse. It requires academic and social skills as well as relevant experience. Not all psychology students go onto a career in psychology. This talk considers the alternative career options available to psychology students and demonstrates the various career paths of psychology graduates.
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Title: What is forensic psychology?
Duration: 1 hour
Explore how a forensic psychology degree can be used to work with victims, witnesses and defendants throughout the criminal justice process (police interview, court, prison and probation).
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Title: Biological, biomedical science and human biology
Duration: 1 hour
These exciting subjects are rapidly changing the way we live. This talk explores how understanding genetic, cellular, organism, ecological and evolutionary biology can be employed to benefit humankind and improve our environment.
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Title: Biology solves crime
Duration: 1 hour
It's not all about DNA - the location, recovery and identification of biological material plays an essential part in crime investigation. This session uses case studies to illustrate the contribution that biologists make to forensic investigation.
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Title: Bugs, blood and bones - biology in the crime scene
Duration: 1 hour
We explore human identification and the tools that forensic anthropologists and forensic biologists use to investigate a crime scene. We also discuss why professionals don't even need a body to work out what has happened.
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Title: Environmental science/climate change
Duration: 1 hour
What controls the complexity of the earth system? From storms to the man-made impact on our planet, students discover the importance of climate change and we explore what scientists are doing to predict, protect and live with our ever changing planet.
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Title: Food Science, nutrition and technology
Duration: 1 hour
Why do some foods help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer? Are we making any progress against fighting obesity? How can we best supply healthy food and meet the needs of a growing population? We examine the key areas in food science and look at technological advances in food production.
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Title: What the forensic scientists don't tell you
Duration: 1 hour
Forensic science covers a vast expanse of scientific disciplines. This session examines the exciting, challenging and rewarding work of a forensic scientist and the weird, wonderful and unexpected contributions that science can make to solving a crime.
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Title: Who do you think you are?
Duration: 1 hour
A talk about how the human body can be studies to reveal information about you - from your sex, to your age and what you like to eat.
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Title: You can run but you can’t hide - investigating murder in the 21st century
Duration: 1 hour
An experienced forensic investigator conducts an interactive role play relating to a violent crime. Students play the parts of offender, victim, witness and police officer and are invited to suggest possible actions. Motives and behaviours of offender are discussed and methods of detecting crime are explored. The session concludes with a debate about trials and sentencing. Aspects of the investigation will be illustrated by reference to real-life cases.
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Title: Health promotion
Duration: 1 hour
Obesity and diabetes are preventable health problems. We know physical activity is important for good health but reducing obesity and other health problems by promoting physical activity is a challenge. In this session we discuss the physiological, psychological and social benefits of physical activity. We also explore ways we can promote physical activity such as through the use of mobile apps.
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Title: Reaction time
Duration: 1 hour
Being able to respond quickly is a crucial skill for many athletes. In this session we will examine the role of reaction time in various sports and will explore ways in which we can improve an athlete's reaction time. Students will be given the opportunity to test their own reaction times using our high-technology timing gates.
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Title: Sports performance
Duration: 1 hour
To improve athlete or player performance a sport scientist needs a good understanding of human physiology. We discuss how to make the human body more efficient to improve performance and consider the use of supplements and the effects of different environments on performance.
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Title: Sports therapy
Duration: 1 hour
The human body is an amazing machine but sometimes imbalances or external factors can cause injury and reduce performance. In this workshop we explore the testing of imbalances and injuries and the ways we can correct them, focusing on the use of hydrotherapy. This is an ideal opportunity for students with an interest in health, biology or physical education.
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Title: The impact of sport on society
Duration: 1 hour
Sport impacts health and influences society. This session focuses on the role of sport in society, using football as a case study. We address issues including deviance in sport, hooliganism and the role of the media. Structured in a debate format, students discuss the societal influences of sport and how sport can be used as a tool to improve society.
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